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🚨 EOTK Insider with Neil Jones: Schmadtke Liverpool's long-term sporting director? BIG contract worry, Villa review, Academy flourishing and much more!
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🚨 EOTK Insider with Neil Jones: Schmadtke Liverpool's long-term sporting director? BIG contract worry, Villa review, Academy flourishing and much more!

Join Neil Jones for his weekly column with EOTK Insider, exploring all the latest and greatest transfer stories around Liverpool Football Club

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Sep 04, 2023
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[From left to right: Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch and Jorg Schmadtke]

Hello and welcome to my column with Empire of the Kop! You can read about all the latest updates around Liverpool Football Club and its forays into the transfer market right here, every week, with EOTK Insider. Thanks for giving this a read and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Today’s top stories:

  • Liverpool’s have major contract worry they must solve soon…

  • One Liverpool player inspired memories of Xabi Alonso and Thiago Alcantara

  • And further updates on Kaide Gordon, Jorg Schmadtke, Darwin Nunez and more!

Assessing Liverpool’s summer window

I think it was tough and turbulent. A lot of the things that happened you wouldn’t have anticipated! Liverpool knew they were losing players on free transfers in James Milner, Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. I thought there might have been some more departures… potentially Joel Matip, maybe Thiago Alcantara… and then you see Jordan Henderson and Fabinho actually end up going! It’s obviously a big upheaval but you look at Liverpool now and how they’ve come out of the window and I don’t think they’re that far away from having a very, very good squad.

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