In addition to heralding the beginning of the brand new Premier League marketing campaign, August will likely be stuffed with switch exercise, pleasant matches and an uncommon Champions League draw.
August will likely be a severely busy interval that may get progressively extra packed because the month involves an in depth.
With all the things nonetheless to do within the switch market and a minimum of two extra friendlies to play forward of the Premier League starting, we’ve put all the important thing dates in a single place.
Listed here are the important thing dates to your diary in August.
August 3 – Man United (Columbia)
Liverpool tackle Man United in entrance of an anticipated 77,00 followers on the Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday evening.
For UK viewers, the final match of the Reds’ USA tour will kick off at 12.45am on August 4.
With Diogo Jota having returned to motion towards Arsenal, we will anticipate to see Ibrahima Konate and Ryan Gravenberch make their first look of pre-season earlier than Liverpool fly residence.
August 4 – again to Liverpool
The Reds’ squad will fly residence to Merseyside quickly after their match towards Man United, bringing to an finish their 11 days within the USA.
Upon their return to the AXA Coaching Centre, the remainder of the squad will be part of their teammates.
Meaning a return for Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo, Alisson, Luis Diaz, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez and Alexis Mac Allister.
August 10 – attainable pleasant vs. Las Palmas
This fixture hasn’t been confirmed but, however experiences emerged lately that Liverpool are in discussions about enjoying Spanish facet Las Palmas.
Not like their match the next day, although, this match can be a behind-closed-doors affair.
It isn’t uncommon for groups to play on consecutive days in pre-season. The final time Liverpool did so was in 2021, when the Reds had the same state of affairs, drawing with Athletic Bilbao earlier than beating Osasuna at Anfield.
August 11 – Sevilla (Anfield)
Liverpool host Sevilla of their closing pre-season pleasant as a warm-up for his or her fixture towards Ipswich precisely six days later.
Slot even had this sport rescheduled to kick off at 12.30pm to be able to mirror the time of day at which Liverpool will play their Premier League opener.
After followers within the east of the USA had their likelihood to see Slot’s Reds in particular person, this acts as the primary alternative for locals and it is going to be a youthful crowd at Anfield, with costs lowered for the match.
August 17 – Ipswich (A)
That is the place all the things actually will get going.
Whereas pre-season may give an indicator of which gamers are trying sharpest, we received’t actually know the way Liverpool are shaping up till they’ve taken to the Portman Highway pitch on August 17.
Barring subsequent accidents, Liverpool may have a full complement of gamers for this one, although we may see some sit it out having had far fewer pre-season minutes than others.
August 25 – Brentford (H)
Whereas Slot may have been at Anfield for the pleasant towards Sevilla, this would be the first time he correctly experiences the house crowd from the dugout.
It received’t be the primary time he has been at Anfield for a aggressive sport, although – he attended Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Tottenham in February, 2017 as a visitor of Pep Lijnders.
August 29 – UCL draw
Liverpool are again within the Champions League after final season’s third-place end and they’re going to discover out their league-stage opponents on August 29.
We received’t know the total lineup for the league stage till the evening earlier than the draw, when the final play-off match is determined, however we do know the Reds will likely be favourably positioned.
Liverpool will likely be in a ‘league’ with the 35 different golf equipment concerned, however will play solely eight of them. We are saying solely nevertheless it’s two extra opponents than the previous Champions League group stage format; ties are randomly chosen for residence or away.
The Reds ought to be ranked as a ‘Pot One’ membership because of their excessive UEFA coefficient rating. The primary matches of the newly expanded competitors will then be performed on September 17, 18 and 19.
August 30 – Switch deadline day
Whereas we hope Liverpool’s enterprise will likely be concluded by the point switch deadline day comes round, in the intervening time it does appear the Reds will go away their offers till late within the window, each when it comes to incomings and outgoings.
The deadline for registering new gamers for Liverpool is 11pm (BST) on August 30, and it’s the identical for promoting gamers to the vast majority of large footballing nations in Europe.
Nonetheless, they may have till September 2 to promote gamers to the Netherlands and Portugal.
Final summer season, Liverpool accomplished the signing of Ryan Gravenberch on the final day of the window, although the deal had already been just about wrapped up, that means they averted a last-minute scramble.
