Antoine Semenyo release clause reported with Liverpool “big admirers” – Latest LFC News
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More rumours linking Antoine Semenyo to Liverpool have emerged, with the Bournemouth forward’s contract now reportedly including a release clause. Only Erling Haaland has scored more goals than Semenyo this season, who has kicked on again after an impressive campaign up front for Bournemouth last time around.
After being loosely linked to the 25-year-old over the summer, talkSPORT‘s chief football correspondent, Alex Crook, has added to the rumours saying Liverpool are “big admirers” of Semenyo. Read more here Today’s Liverpool FC News • Wataru Endo and Alisson were pictured in the gym of the AXA Training Centre watching their respective nations, Japan and Brazil, play each other in a friendly on the tele – Endo’s Japan came from two down to win 3-2, with former Red Takumi Minamino scoring! • Young midfielder Tommy Pilling has revealed that he will “hopefully” go on loan soon as part of his development • It has been confirmed that Liverpool Women‘s Marie Hobinger suffered an ACL injury against Man City and will “have a surgical review in the coming days,” said club doctor Amelia Woodhouse More from This Is Anfield Liverpool have long been deemed among the Premier League‘s best pressing teams, but this season they haven’t been as strong in this area.
James Nalton asks why that is: “Last season Liverpool’s pressing was – perhaps unsurprisingly in the post-Klopp era – slightly down on previous years, but it was sometimes still effective when deployed. Teams appear to be getting through Liverpool’s defensive structure earlier and are finding it easier (not necessarily easy) to play over or around the press.” READ: Liverpool FC: The pressing problems for Arne Slot’s rebuild Elsewhere in the football world today • Cape Verde have become the second-smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup – Iceland are the only nation with a smaller population to have played at the finals • Alexander Isak‘s Sweden manager, Jon Dahl Tomasson, has been sacked – not a surprise given how poor their qualifying campaign has been compared to the quality of the squad • Former referee David Coote has pleaded guilty to making an indecent image of a child, a category A video offence which is the most serious kind – he will be sentenced in December Liverpool FC: On this day October 13, 1961 saw Liverpool beat Walsall 6-1 at Anfield, as they won the 11th game of their opening 13 league fixtures on their way to winning the Second Division title.