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Steven Gerrard ‘plotting double Liverpool raid’ after Jordan Henderson tears up Saudi deal
Liverpool could be raided once again by club icon Steven Gerrard and his Al-Etiffaq side.
By TOM PARSONS
13:16, Wed, Jan 17, 2024 | UPDATED: 13:16, Wed, Jan 17, 2024
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Liverpool icon Steven Gerrard is reportedly plotting to raid his former employers to sign two stars (Image: GETTY)
Liverpool icon Steven Gerrard is reportedly plotting to raid his former employers to sign midfielder Thiago and centre-back Joel Matip in the summer. Gerrard is currently in charge of Al-Etiffaq and wants to take the duo to Saudi Arabia as Jordan Henderson prepares to return to Europe.

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Henderson moved to the Middle East in the summer following a 12-year spell with Liverpool and has featured 17 times for Al-Etiffaq. But the blockbuster star, who was heavily criticised for the transfer, has failed to hit the heights he displayed during his time in the Premier League and is set to join Ajax in the coming days.

According to transfer expert Ben Jacobs, Al-Etiffaq have freed up £8million to spend in the market after terminating Henderson’s contract and are considering loan moves for former Reds player Roberto Firmino and ex-Celtic star Jota, who are both currently plying their trade in Saudi Arabia. But the club will also look at Thiago and Matip in the summer.

Thiago is yet to feature this season after undergoing surgery on a hip injury at the end of the last campaign, with Liverpool assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders recently saying the Spain international would “not be ready for the end of this month.” The 32-year-old, who joined the Reds from Bayern Munich in 2020, has featured 97 times for Jurgen Klopp’s team but is out of contract at the end of the season.

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Matip, meanwhile, started nine Premier League matches during the first half of the campaign but suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury during his side’s clash with Fulham at the start of December. He then underwent a successful operation and is currently recovering from the setback.

Matip has been at Liverpool since the summer of 2016 after joining the club on a free transfer from Schalke. He has racked up 201 appearances for the Merseyside giants and is also out of contract in the summer.

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Liverpool duo Joel Matip (left) and Thiago could join Steven Gerrard in Saudi Arabia (Image: GETTY)
Gerrard took on the top job at Al-Etiffaq last summer but has underwhelmed in the Middle East, with his team winning just six of their first 19 Saudi Pro League matches of the campaign. The former midfielder was sacked by Aston Villa in October 2022 but previously led Rangers to the Scottish Premiership title.

Gerrard spent almost his entire playing career at Liverpool and helped them win the Champions League in 2005. The former England star hung up his boots in 2017 following an 18-month spell with Los Angeles.

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‘World class’ injured Liverpool player finally spotted back at the AXA Training Centre today
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Jurgen Klopp at the moment, is having to contend with a fair few injuries. On top of that two key players are also competing in an international tournament this month.

With the absence of Mohamed Salah at the African Cup of Nations and Wataru Endo competing for Japan at the Asian Cup – Klopp’s options are running thin.

On top of that several key players like Joel Matip, Dominik Szoboszlai, Andy Robertson, Kostas Tsimikas and Trent Alexander-Arnold are still out injured. It’s a long list, however, today the Liverpool boss may finally have been given some positive news.

It seems one play could be on his way back to recovery.

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Andy Robertson has been injured for several months now. He sustained a shoulder injury while on international duty back in October. Recently, he was spotted doing recovery work away from the club.

However, now it seems that he has returned to Liverpool and he is back at the AXA training centre today.

Liverpool’s official channel released a short clip of Liverpool players arriving in training today, and Robertson appeared on the clip in full training gear. Whether he will participate in training remains to be seen, but the fact that he is back in the training ground is a good sign.

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It means the Scotland captain must now be close to a full recovery. And that would be a huge boost for Liverpool. The sooner he is on the pitch, the better it will be for Jurgen Klopp’s side.

As Stan Collymore said last year, the Liverpool full-back is ‘world class’ [CaughtOffside].

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Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Liverpool have made contact with the agents of some centre-back targets, asking to be kept ‘informed’ of their situations.

The Italian stated earlier this week that the Reds are ‘looking at some opportunities’ for that part of Jurgen Klopp’s squad in the January transfer window, but talked down the probability of deals being concluded this month.

The reporter provided an update on the affairs of the Anfield giants in his latest Daily Briefing for CaughtOffside on Wednesday morning.

Romano wrote: “As mentioned yesterday, Liverpool are exploring the market for potential new signings at centre-back, though it’s not something urgent or guaranteed to happen this January, as we know Liverpool generally prefer to do their business in the summer.

“I don’t have any concrete name yet at this stage, but I was just told that Liverpool have made some calls to some centre-backs’ agents to be informed on situations – it hasn’t become a concrete negotiation as of now. It’s not easy to find top players in the January window, that’s the problem.”

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As updates go, this is admittedly a tentative one – you’d expect all clubs to be putting some feelers out during the January transfer window at the very least.

Liverpool have tended to be sensible with their market dealings under FSG’s stewardship, which has often been to the annoyance of many supporters but may ultimately be the best approach, in the wake of the Premier League’s recent clampdown on (most) clubs who breach their Profitability and Sustainability Rules.

It’s common knowledge that the Reds don’t sign players merely for the sake of it, but rather when the perfect candidate presents itself and the opportunity is there to acquire them for a reasonable sum.

There’s just over a fortnight left in the January transfer window, so the clock is definitely ticking for LFC if they’re to strengthen Klopp’s squad this month, but hope springs eternal until that 11pm deadline on 1st February is reached.

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Liverpool have £171m transfer bonus not even Manchester United can match
Liverpool have been among the top earners regards Academy sales in the Premier League over the last decade

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And then there were two. The departure of Paul Glatzel to League Two side Swindon Town may not have been the most eye-catching January transfer for Liverpool, but it did mark the further severing of ties with the Reds’ last successful FA Youth Cup side.

Glatzel had scored the winning penalty in May 2019 as Manchester City were beaten on spot-kicks after a dramatic 1-1 draw. Now, less than five years later, only Vitezslav Jaros and Rhys Williams remain, both currently out on loan with only the latter having broken into the first team at Liverpool, although his last appearance was way back in May 2021.

The remainder of the players involved have had wildly contrasting fortunes since, ranging from Neco Williams and Yasser Larouci now featuring in the Premier League with Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United respectively to Fidel O’Rourke and Bobby Duncan, scorer of Liverpool’s equaliser against City, being without a club.

Liverpool made around £20million from sales of that Youth Cup-winning team, the vast majority comprised of the £17m Forest paid for Williams 18 months ago. And the difficulties of gaining sizeable fees for often largely unproven talent – no matter what the obvious potential – can be evidenced by scrutiny of the beaten City squad that evening.

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The Etihad side have accrued just over £52m from sales from their squad, with almost the entire total consisting of Cole Palmer (£40m) and goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu (£12m). Jeremie Frimpong, now much sought-after at Bayer Leverkusen, left for Celtic for less than £400,000, while Felix Nchema (now at Borussia Dortmund) and Eric Garcia (on loan at Spanish league leaders Girona from Barcelona) departed for nothing. City, though, have placed buy options on Taylor Harwood-Bellis (£20m) and Tommy Doyle (£4.3m) should their respective loan moves at Southampton and Wolves become permanent.

The advantages City’s huge financial clout can offer go some way to explaining why their Academy has been one of the most profitable in world football over the last decade, despite not having the same pressure to sell as almost any other club.

And the boffins at the CIES Football Observatory have calculated Liverpool have generated the fifth-highest revenue from their Academy among English clubs over the same period, a total of £171m that sees them scrape into the overall top 20.

Leading the way by some distance are Benfica on £443m, with Ajax next on £323m and Lyon third with £318m. Intriguingly, Real Madrid are next on £313m, with Chelsea the highest-placed Premier League team in fifth on £298m, a whopping 88% of which was brought in during the last five years when first FFP regulations and later the scattergun lavish spending of owner Todd Boehly have forced them to shift a considerable number of players.

The sales of the other two English teams above Liverpool in the rankings, Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa, have been bumped up considerably in recent years by the £100m departures of Harry Kane and Jack Grealish respectively.

Liverpool’s sales have by contrast been consistent, their last five years totalling 46% of the overall 10-year total. And, compared to Tottenham and Villa, they have been in a better position to keep hold of the best of their homegrown talent. Were, for example, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Curtis Jones, Caoimhin Kelleher and breakthrough stars Jarell Quansah and Conor Bradley moved on, their Academy revenue would rocket exponentially. The £23.5m deal struck with Sheffield United for Rhian Brewster remains the most profitable sale of an Academy player in recent times.

Loan spells away from Liverpool can often be a shop window to assess the true value of younger players. However, as has been witnessed with a succession of such agreements being terminated early this month, it is not an exact science. Sometimes values can diminish rather than increase.

Furthermore, football is cyclical and there can be periods when young talent doesn’t emerge in certain regions or at particular clubs. For example, City’s power has hampered neighbours United, so often the standard bearer for homegrown talent. United’s Academy sales over the last decade register an income of £150m, seventh in the English rankings.

And a more local example would be how Everton were once regarded the better choice for youngsters to be given first-team opportunities, only for the balance to tilt towards Liverpool given Jurgen Klopp’s willingness to utilise the Academy, which has been further increased with the first team moving to the same site in recent years.

Of course, part of the money generated by sales of young talent helps maintain and improve the Liverpool Academy itself, for whom strict budgets are set. Preparing players for the first team, though, remains the priority – even if ensuring a steady revenue stream can benefit both present and future generations.

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