It’s always fun to speculate how a team might look several years down the line. It’s impossible to predict accurately, of course, but how might the Liverpool team line up for the 2026/27 season?
As things stand, that will be their first campaign in the post-Jurgen Klopp era. Nine of the current first team squad are currently under contract for that season, and the players are well spread throughout the team. From Alisson Becker in goal through to Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez up front, the bones of a Reds side for the next five years are already in place.
But if we want to imagine the midfield of 2026, we may need to look backwards rather than forwards. The smattering of spectators at the Pinatar Arena in Murcia, Spain for an under-17 international between England and France in 2019 might have unexpectedly glimpsed the future of Liverpool.
