LFC notebook – Henderson removed from training ground as Salah feared
All the latest Reds news out of the diary as Paul Gorst brings you the Anfield areas of his Liverpool notebook.
Liverpool train at the AXA Training Center on September 14, 2023. It’s fair to say the mood in Liverpool is upbeat at the moment, having made it seven wins in a row on Wednesday night. The Reds’ 3-1 win against Leicester City in the third round of the Carabao Cup was their fifth of the season and Jurgen Klopp’s side are now unbeaten after beating Manchester City on April 1, 19- at all.
Ahead of Saturday’s huge visit to Tottenham Hotspur, ECHO LFC Correspondent Paul Gorst brings you all the latest Extra Diary details in our latest Liverpool Notebook. For those advocating Liverpool’s new look, there is one very specific change at the Reds’ training ground that pretty much sums it up. Liverpool’s AXA training center is decorated with pictures and quotes from the best nights of the Jurgen Klopp era, but one former captain, Jordan Henderson, has now been dropped as he left for Al-Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia in the summer. . Henderson previously pictured lifting the Premier League trophy in 2020 has now been replaced by Trent Alexander-Arnold holding the Champions League with the quote: “I’m just an ordinary boy from Liverpool whose dreams come true.”
With Alexander-Arnold now officially appointed as the club’s vice-captain, the recognition of his achievements at the age of 24 is a nice touch for the club as they continue to breathe new life into and out of the place. dam
Eagle-eyed Liverpool supporters have noticed that Mohamed Salah has recently been wearing a protective strap around his right wrist. The Egyptian’s arm was bandaged in the recent win against LASK in Austria before he packed on again for the Premier League success against West Ham United.
The seriousness of the issue has been questioned, but that didn’t stop Salah from being at his influential best when he featured against the Austrians and the Hammers last week. Salah is understood to have landed on his wrist during a recent training session at the AXA Centre, but the Reds striker laughed off the matter when speaking to reporters after the West Ham game, revealing he was not too concerned about it. Don’t miss it
Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai after the win over Leicester
How long he will continue to play with extra padding around his arm is unclear, but the No 11 was in good spirits when he spoke briefly about the injury after the match at the weekend.
The news that Fenway Sports Group has brought Dynasty Equity to Liverpool means their search for overseas investment is over. The owners of the club in Boston have long researched the market and made a sales call to serious interested parties last year after appointing Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to help with the process. Almost a year after the first report suggested that FSG was open to an outright sale, the American group has now struck a deal with New York Dynasty worth between $100 million and $200 million.
The deal was agreed to pay off the club’s bank debt and it was stressed that the funds would not be used to service massive moves in the January transfer market or beyond. The news may cause many to roll their eyes, but in an era when many state-funded clubs face serious and deep-rooted ownership difficulties, it feels like a step forward for Fenway to bring Liverpool back. back to the heights of recent years.
The deal is not seen as the first step towards a sale and it was clear that FSG are fully committed to the Anfield cause as they approach their 13th anniversary.