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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Star playmaker now looks LIKELY to join Liverpool
Liverpool look certain to add some magic this summer. Big changes could well happen. Liverpool have a major summer ahead as they try and improve the Premier League champions. That's an incredibly difficult thing to do, of course. Shop the LFC Store The new LFC x Air Max range 🔥 Nike x Air Max LFC Retro Shirts LFC Retro Shirts Advertisement Buy Now Home Jersey LFC Kits Buy Now LFC Nike Training LFC Nike Training Buy Now In fact, we think it's an incredible statement to the rest of the Premier League that Liverpool are even going to try. There's absolutely zero resting on their laurels - several players will leave and the style of play likely changes, too. One of those ways it might change is with a shift in playmaking. Liverpool's no.10, Dominik Szoboszlai, hasn't been a 'creator' as such. He's instead focused on being a bit of a pivot player, finding spaces for other players to move the ball into. In terms of creating chances, it just hasn't been his strength. We're getting the impression that Liverpool wan that to change. But not necessarily by asking Szoboszlai to change - instead, the Reds are aiming for a new playmaker. Liverpool eye playmaker So who will the playmaker be? We're not sure. But there is a clear favourite for the job in Florian Wirtz. Advertisement The Reds are in the race for the German, somewhat surprisingly. That's only because everyone thought he was destined for Bayern Munich but it appears that's not the case. Wirtz was in England last week in order to discuss a move to Liverpool. That doesn't happen unless the club believe it's a move that could happen. Now, that's not to say it does happen - we think it's very unlikely, in all honesty. Not that we'll stop holding our collective breath. What's particularly interesting, though, is that Wirtz is not the only no.10 with strong links to Liverpool. There's also plenty of talk around Rayan Cherki, with Le Parisien claiming the Reds have asked about him. It all suggests that Liverpool want to upgrade on creativity in the final third. And that's a major step, asking questions of Szoboszlai and Mo Salah and several other key components in the Reds' attack. Advertisement Wirtz is of a different class and it could well be that Liverpool view him as a 'must sign' player that you buy and then adapt to. It's the interest in Cherki - long-standing interest at that - which has us believing this is more about wanting a certain style of play. It also says that Liverpool will push to sign one of them. If they end up with neither, we expect a different name will pop up either this summer or the next.
Times
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Times
Danny Care bows out as winner in final game at Twickenham Stoop
Marcus Smith conjured a moment of individual magic to beat Exeter Chiefs and ensure Danny Care's final game at the Twickenham Stoop ended in a celebration. The England playmaker, delaying his arrival at the British & Irish Lions' first meet-up to turn out alongside his mate at home one last time, feared the worst when Exeter led heading into the final quarter. One sublime passage of play from a player whose faltering season has been re-energised by his Lions selection changed all that: 30 metres out, and with no space to work in, he somehow weaved his way through a posse of defenders to score. It was a moment worthy of winning any game and for it to have been one which meant so much
