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[From left to right: Xabi Alonso, Virgil van Dijk and Darwin Nunez and Michael Edwards]

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Today’s top stories:

• What Xabi Alonso accomplished recently screamed of a future Liverpool boss…

• Concerns around a multi-club ownership model…

• And further updates on the title race, Bayer Leverkusen, Michael Edwards and more!

Manchester United review

Similarly to the league game at the Emirates, you could look at the defeat as being a bit self-inflicted. The game was in their hands, wasn’t it? I know United had good chances and could have won it in the 90 minutes with Marcus Rashford’s big chance. Also, when you score four goals, you probably feel that you’ve earned your victory. That said, I do feel that if Liverpool had been closer to their real top level - especially in the final third - they would have won the game relatively comfortably. I think that will have been the frustration.

Virgil van Dijk posted on social media and said we’ve ‘only got ourselves to blame’, didn’t he? That was the feeling I took away from it really. I watched it in a very different setting to normal; I wasn’t in the press box, I wasn’t watching it at home on TV, I was out and about on a weekend away. I think everyone who was watching it around me pretty much took the same thing out of it: Liverpool missed their opportunity to kill that game off, certainly in the second-half.