Your morning Liverpool digest for Monday, May 29
Jurgen Klopp drops transfer hint as Liverpool summer plans take shape
Jurgen Klopp has declared himself ready for a “pretty busy period” as Liverpool turn their attention to strengthening their squad in the summer.
The Reds ended a rollercoaster campaign in fitting fashion with a remarkable 4-4 draw at relegated Southampton on Sunday afternoon to conclude the season unbeaten in 11 games.
Liverpool already knew they would finish in fifth place having failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in seven years.
With Roberto Firmino and James Milner both having now played their final game for the club to join Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Naby Keita and on-loan Arthur Melo in leaving, the Reds are expected to sign several new players in the forthcoming transfer market.
At least two new midfielders are anticipated, with Liverpool now preparing to ramp up their efforts to capture Brighton’s World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister, who dropped a major hint he was set leave the Seagulls having been in tears following their final fixture at Aston Villa.
And Klopp is eager to press on with transfer business, and said: “I don’t feel like I need a break, not at all. Honestly I’m completely fine. If you’d have asked me 11 games ago if you want to have a break, then I’d have thought about it, to be honest! But I’m absolutely fine, full of energy.
"I have a break – I don’t have training and those kind of things – but a pretty busy period hopefully starts now as well in a different area of the game and I’m more than happy to do that. I will find time to re-energise and then we start again in July.”
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Having regularly flitted between the sublime and the ridiculous across the last nine months, it was only fitting Liverpool did it one last time here at Southampton.
A remarkable game that ebbed and flowed until the very last seconds ended in a 4-4 draw that, despite its ultimately meaningless nature, acted as a microcosm for much of what has been a difficult campaign at Anfield, but one that was still spliced with enough memorable moments to sustain plenty of optimism in the coming months.
It was the season of Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United and of defeats at Brentford and Brighton and Wolves; a season of Liverpool 9-0 Bournemouth and of losses to Leeds United and Nottingham Forest; a season where Manchester City were slain at Anfield and one that saw Brighton run amok at the Amex.
Such wildly fluctuating fortunes make it a hard task to properly analyse it all but that the sum of their efforts is qualification to the Europa League surely gives you the definitive answer.
In what was a great advertisement for last-day games with nothing riding on them, those at St Mary's were treated to eight goals in total with both teams fighting back from two-goal deficits in each half.
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