Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Monday, March28.
Henderson stunned by what Maguire did in England training
Anyone who has ever watched clips from the Liverpool training ground will be very familiar with the 'rondo' exercise. It's a drill where a circle of players pass the ball around, usually taking only one touch, while a couple of team-mates attempt to press them and win possession.
Rondos are a key - and often very competitive - part of Reds sessions. But it seems as though that attitude might not always be the case elsewhere.
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Yesterday the England football team released an 'inside training' video onto its official Youtube account, showing preparations ahead of the friendly against Switzerland which took place last night.
And one short snippet from the footage is going viral on social media. It shows members of the squad during a rondo, with Jack Grealish and Nick Pope in the middle trying to stop them.
Sean Bradbury has the full story here.
Liverpool nearly banked unexpected transfer windfall
Liverpool have been scoring goals for fun this season as they go in search of an unprecedented quadruple. The leading scorers in the Premier League ahead of Manchester City with 75 goals, they boast the division’s top three marksmen in Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota and Sadio Mane.
Registering 114 goals in all competitions, 19 different players have scored for the Reds this season with the Egyptian leading the way with 28 goals. Meanwhile, the Portuguese and Senegalese stand on 19 and 14 respectively, with Roberto Firmino and Takumi Minamino following behind on nine apiece at the top of the club’s scoring charts.
With Divock Origi and Luis Diaz also in his ranks, boasting five and two goals respectively, Jurgen Klopp is well-stocked when it comes to senior attacking talent ahead of the final months of the season. Yet Liverpool did let one forward move on in the summer who has gone on to enjoy a prolific season himself and catch the eye in a major European league.
Taiwo Awoniyi joined the Reds in 2015 in a £400,000 deal, but the majority of his time at Anfield was spent out on loan, in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, as he failed to get a work permit to play for the club. Yet while he was finally granted a permit last year, Liverpool took the decision to sell Awoniyi to Union Berlin in a £6.5m deal.
