Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Saturday, June 11.
Aymeric Laporte struggles to stay silent as Mohamed Salah wins silverware
If the Premier League champions aren't too careful, they're going to become known as Moan City.
Just witness the response to a PFA Premier League Team of the Year that was dominated by Liverpool, with Jurgen Klopp's side taking six of the available 11 places compared to just three for Manchester City.
Aymeric Laporte was particularly aggrieved at his oversight, posting on Twitter the celebrated image of Jose Mourinho declaring "I prefer really not to speak" but then over on Instagram posting a series of statistics that underline the City centre-back having had a rather good season. Rarely has being silent actually said so much.
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Laporte was perhaps a bit unlucky, although there was strong opposition for the two central defensive roles in the PFA team. Certainly, few could overly argue with the inclusion of both Virgil van Dijk and departing Chelsea man Antonio Rudiger.
But the Spaniard's sourness continued a theme that has been seeping out of the Etihad for some time which claims City aren't sufficiently loved. That Liverpool - a team City boss Pep Guardiola infamously, before backtracking, claimed everyone in England supported - had twice as many players in the PFA team despite being beaten into second place in the Premier League title race will surely only intensify the irk.
Then there's the fact Mohamed Salah - the Premier League Golden Boot winner and top assist provider, don't forget - beat City talisman Kevin De Bruyne to both the PFA Player of the Year and Footballer of the Year awards.
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Liverpool could profit from Jose Mourinho mistake
Tottenham Hotspur and Jose Mourinho could be left with regrets as Darwin Nunez edges closer to Liverpool - after the Portuguese tactician seemingly turned down a move for the 22-year-old when in charge of Spurs.
Nunez fired 26 goals in 28 league games this season taking his tally at the club to 47 goals in 84 appearances. If all goes to plan and Liverpool push forward with their interest, he looks set to be a marquee signing at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp has already spoken highly of the prospective forward after the skirmishes with Benfica in the Champions League last season.
"Extremely good-looking boy, eh? And a decent player as well! Really good, really good, you have to say," the German said of Nunez. "I knew before, of course, but he played pretty much in front of me with his tough battles with Ibou Konate.
"Physically strong, quick, plus calm around his finish, when he finished the goal off he was really calm. Good, really, really good. How we say in these situations, if he stays healthy it’s a big career ahead of him."
Klopp has an impressive record with traditional strikers, orchestrating Borussia Dortmund's Bundesliga triumphs with Robert Lewandowski and German Cup success with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as frontmen, but signing Nunez would see Mourinho left ruing his 2020 decision.
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