I’m worry about what Man City did and they shouldn’t have been allowed, but Liverpool won’t be surprised

John Aldridge discusses the Premier League title race and the Europa League draw in part two of his weekly Liverpool column.

This weekend’s Premier League results couldn’t have been very favorable to Liverpool.

Manchester United suffered defeat at Arsenal and lost to Chelsea and Newcastle.

It gave us the opportunity to capitalize on what can be crucial at this stage of the season and we did it in style at Anfield.

One team that did not lose, however, is Manchester City. Pep Guardiola’s side are the only team in the division to have won all four games and that’s a concern no matter who they face.

City set the trend again, Erling Haaland scored another hat-trick and one wonders what it will take before Guardiola’s team lose their way.

Whoever manages to finish above Manchester City this season will have to be exceptional.
It takes something special to knock them out of first place.

While I’m sure City fans appreciate their team’s success, the powers that be in English football have allowed this dominance to happen and ruin the best league in the world.

John Adridge

If a team won the league back-to-back ten years ago, it was considered a remarkable achievement.
City spins for the fourth time. What they have done from a purely footballing point of view is admirable, with brilliant players and a good coach, but they shouldn’t have done this.

Now it’s too late to do anything, that ship has left and that means it will be very difficult to capture them.

It’s likely they’ll fall out of place once Pep leaves, but it’s hard to imagine that happening right now.

Liverpool have to look after themselves for now.
Ten points out of a possible twelve is a respectable return.

We now have Gravenberch to throw into the mix and it can only help our aim of challenging City this season.

Europa League draw positive in more ways than one

We discovered our opponents for the Europa League group stage at the end of last week and I was pleasantly surprised to see how it went. With all due respect to the teams we face, Liverpool should finish top of their group.

The draw is favorable in the sense that you are looking for opportunities for players like Bajcetic, Jones, Elliott, Doak and Quansah.
For them, it will be an invaluable experience.

Another bonus is that each of our opponents is only a few hours away and Jurgen will be delighted. There are kick-off times at 5:45 p.m. which will also make it easier to recover before Premier League games. It couldn’t have gone better for us.

More news……..

Liverpool plan to sign £42.2m star late – report

Liverpool have already agreed a deal to sign Ryan Gravenberch from Bayern Munich and are said to be considering poaching Leroy Sane from Bayern first.

The Reds have rejected a mammoth offer worth £150m to sell Mohamed Salah.

However, Sky’s Paul Merson believes the Al-Ittihad threat is not over and a £200million offer would be too big to turn down.

There would be no point in selling arguably the best player when there are only a few hours left in the summer transfer window because it will be difficult to replace him.

However, the Reds are said to be looking for ways to replace the Egyptian and Leroy Sane’s name would be in the spotlight.

According to an exclusive report from Football Insider, Liverpool are considering a late signing of the Germany international who shone for Manchester City in the Premier League.

The news source mentioned that the Anfield club are looking for a replacement for Salah and are keeping a close eye on 27-year-old Kaiser.

Sane won every major domestic league title with Sky Blues, including two Premier League titles, under manager Pep Guardiola.

Moreover, the 53-time national player has already won three Bundesliga titles since joining the Allianz Arena.

The quick and tricky winger contributed 24 goals for Bayern last season and has already netted twice in three appearances this term.

Almost two weeks ago, Football Transfers spoke about Liverpool’s interest in Leroy Sane, saying his expected transfer value was around £42.2m (€49.3m).

Do you think the German is good enough to replace Mohamed Salah at Liverpool?