Your Liverpool morning digest for Monday, July 31.
Darwin Nunez left outraged
Liverpool laid down an early marker for the new season with a rousing Community Shield victory over Manchester City on Saturday.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and new signing Darwin Nunez all notched as the Reds earned a 3-1 triumph. The result means Jurgen Klopp’s side have now won every domestic honour available to them during his tenure.
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But there was plenty that went unnoticed or under the radar during the 90 minutes at the King Power Stadium.
Read the full story from Ian Doyle here.
Liverpool record transfer left in tears after 'self destructing'
For all the adulation given to the club’s great goalscorers and creators, Liverpudlians have always loved a top-class centre half.
From Bill Shankly’s ‘Colossus’ Ron Yeats, who provided the backbone to the legendary Scottish manager’s awakening of the sleeping giant which was Liverpool in the early 1960s, to the sublime elegance of Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson in the 80s, right through to modern-day defensive totem Virgil van Dijk, Anfield has been blessed with numerous talented stoppers who were able to provide the platform at the back for their attacking colleagues to flourish.
Identifying those with the ability and talent to fulfil such a role, however, is often something of a gamble however and over the years there have been those who arrived with great hopes of being the Reds' next bedrock at the back only to fall way below expectations.
And few have plumbed the depths more than Neil Ruddock, whose abilities saw the Reds break the world transfer record for a defender to bring him to Anfield, but ultimately came to be in many ways the poster boy for a frustratingly disappointing era, with the tales of his misdemeanours highlighting just how far standards had slipped in the 1990s as the club’s agonising 30-year wait for a league title took hold.
Read the full story from Dan Kay here.
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