Liverpool news LIVE: Reds to complete signing; Jurgen Klopp won't budge on £27m valuation
LIVERPOOL news, transfer gossip and updates are coming thick and fast after Jurgen Klopp’s 100 percent start to the Premier League campaign. Express Sport is on hand to bring you all the very latest from Anfield.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp’s decision to axe Alberto Moreno and start Andy Robertson has made the Reds title contenders, Dean Saunders claims.
“I’ve been impressed with Robertson’s choice of pass when he’s travelling forward with the ball.
“When he’s travelling up the pitch with the ball, his choice of pass, his decision making. Whether to put it down the line or chop it inside or turn back out and start again, or those diagonal balls.
“I like his distribution of the ball - I would like to play with him as a striker and he’s made a difference because I think Moreno was costing them.
“Until Robertson’s got in the team, that’s when they started keeping clean sheets.”
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Wanted: Divock Origi
Borussia Dortmund and Valencia were both interested in signing Liverpool striker Divock Origi during the transfer window.
That’s according to the player’s father Mike Okoth, who claims both clubs were unable to reach Liverpool's ambitious valuation.
The Liverpool Echo claim the Reds wouldn’t budge on their £27million price-tag and Origi refused another season-long loan having spent time with Lille and Wolfsburg.
“Dortmund and Valencia showed good interest but they couldn't match what Liverpool wanted and there was no way Divock was going out on loan again so he will have to fight for his place," Okoth said.
“Three months in football is a long time and Divock is already doing well in training and the coach is happy. Let's wait and see what will happen between now and the winter window."
Borussia Dortmund and Valencia were both interested in signing Liverpool striker Divock Origi (Image: GETTY)
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Honour for Robertson
Andy Robertson has been named as the new permanent Scotland captain by boss Alex McLeish.
The Liverpool left-back will wear the armband against Belgium in the friendly match at Hampden Park on Friday which precedes the Nations League game against Albania the following Monday.
Robertson made his Scotland debut in a 1-0 win over Poland in 2014 and has scored two goals in 22 appearances.
Andy Robertson has been named as the new permanent Scotland captain (Image: GETTY)
Reds in advanced talks
Liverpool are on the verge of signing Sunderland teenager Luca Stephenson, reports claim.
The 15-year-old midfielder is considered to be one of Sunderland’s brightest youth prospects.
And Jurgen Klopp and Co are eager to snap up his services after monitoring the youngster’s progress on Wearside.
Initial reports suggested that Liverpool would need to pay a £500,000 compensation fee.
But the Chronicle now say the League One club will have to settle for considerably less - around the £200,000 mark.
Stephenson has been compared with fellow Wearsider and former Black Cat Jordan Henderson, who arrived at Anfield for £16million in 2011.
Liverpool Transfer News: Liverpool are on the verge of signing Sunderland teenager Luca Stephenson (Image: GETTY)
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has backed Alisson Becker after his blunder against Leicester (Image: GETTY)
Confident, not arrogant…
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has backed Alisson Becker after his blunder against Leicester and insisted the goalkeeper is not arrogant.
The Brazil international gifted Rachid Ghezzal a goal after he was dispossessed by Kelechi Iheanacho in the Reds' 2-1 win on Saturday.
Alisson was robbed of the ball as he tried to beat Iheanacho to concede his first goal of the season.
“Alisson is 0.0 per cent arrogant, but he's confident and he can do it. It's like when our centre-halves play passes,” Klopp said.
"They have to play passes and defend and all that stuff. I don't look for anyone responsible, the final one was Alisson but we should have cleared the situation before.
"It wasn't a situation where you pass the ball back. We make decisions in a second and in a second you realise, 'That was the wrong one'.
"I think that was this situation. To be 100 per cent honest I am really happy it happened, because we don't have to wait for it now."
Alan Shearer believes Liverpool will win a trophy this season (Image: GETTY)
Silverware will happen - Shearer
Liverpool will win a trophy this season, and it could well be the Premier League.
That’s the view of former striker and current pundit Alan Shearer, who has seen Liverpool win their opening four Premier League matches.
“We are told four games is too early to judge the title credentials of any side,” Shearer wrote for The Sun.
“But I disagree because Liverpool are already showing theirs. It is a hell of an ask to beat City to the title but I can see a really exciting two-horse race going to the wire.
“Let’s not forget, Liverpool showed at home last season and in the Champions League that they can take City on head-to-head and beat them if it comes down to a clash between the two.
“Klopp is yet to win anything with Liverpool, despite reaching three finals. The club itself has one League Cup to celebrate for all their efforts over the last 12 years.
“I believe they will change that this season as they head towards a new and exciting era. And with this team they certainly should.”