Your morning Liverpool headlines for Wednesday, December 7.
What David Beckham told Trent Alexander-Arnold as England talk caught on camera
David Beckham has told Trent Alexander-Arnold to "keep doing what you're doing" after a visit to England's training base in Qatar.
The former England captain was spotted in conversation with the Liverpool star as he offered advice on taking free-kicks and crossing the ball.
Alexander-Arnold made his only appearance at the World Cup when coming on as a second half substitute in the 3-0 win over Wales.
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The 24-year-old is likely to be on the bench on Saturday night as Gareth Southgate's side take on defending champions France in the World Cup quarter-finals.
"When I was at United, Ferguson used to [help]," Beckham said to Alexander-Arnold. "The moment he saw me off a little bit with either my run up or the smoothness of kicking it - he'd pull me back in. He'd know exactly what I was doing wrong. So I just kept doing the same thing over and over again, never changed it."
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Jurgen Klopp phone call left Liverpool target 'upset' as full story of failed transfer emerges
If you think back to Liverpool’s 2018/19 Champions League-winning season, it’s easy to forget that Barcelona, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur-slayer Divock Origi was not meant to still be a Reds player.
Having spent the 2017/18 season narrowly avoiding relegation on loan at VfL Wolfsburg, the Belgian had been expected to leave Anfield that summer only for Liverpool ’s asking price to not be met. Instead, he would enter the final year of his contract and feature sporadically before writing his name into Reds folklore forever.
He wouldn't make his first appearance of the season until a late substitute appearance in a 2-0 loss away at Red Star Belgrade in November 2018, before marking his first Premier League outing of the season with that famous last-minute winner against Everton a month later. The rest, as they say, is history.
Come 2019, he was a matchday squad regular once again as he emerged as ever the man for the big occasion, with his decisive goals against Barcelona, Newcastle United and Tottenham in the Champions League final essentially earning him a new three-year deal against the odds.
And while he’d leave at the end of that contract to join AC Milan on a Bosman transfer last summer, such efforts ensure he remains one of the Kop's most favourite modern players. Even during the 2022 World Cup, some supporters have repeatedly pointed to the absence of the striker as the reason behind Belgium’s dismal failings. Football without Origi is nothing, don’t you know.
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