Your Liverpool morning digest on Friday, June 18.
Erling Haaland breaks silence
Borussia Dortmund forward Erling Braut Haaland has revealed he wants to achieve his 'big dream' of winning the Champions League.
Haaland has been strongly linked with a move to Chelsea this summer while Liverpool have also been tipped for a move.
The 20-year-old goalscoring sensation has netted 57 goals in 59 appearances for Dortmund since joining from RB Salzburg in January 2020 and was the leading goalscorer in the Champions League this term.
Haaland also achieved the extraordinary feat of bagging 20 goals in his first 14 Champions League games; more than Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe combined and the best start in competition history.
Now, the current FIFA Golden Boy winner has been speaking about his hopes for the future.
Sam Carroll has the full story here
Mark Clattenburg admits Merseyside derby 'nightmare'
Mark Clattenburg admits he was out of his depth when officiating the controversial Goodison derby that still outrages Everton fans almost 14 years later.
Clattenburg awarded Liverpool two penalties and sent off Tony Hibbert and Phil Neville with the visitors earning a dramatic 2-1 Premier League triumph in October 2007.
The referee further upset Everton by failing to send off Dirk Kuyt for a high challenge on Neville and, in the final minute of injury time, choosing not to award the Blues a spot kick after Jamie Carragher tangled with Joleon Lescott.
Clattenburg didn't officiate another Everton game for more than four years and then had to wait another two before taking charge of a game at Goodison.
And the former whistle-blower accepts he was taken aback by the intensity of the Merseyside derby.
"I was out of my depth," said Clattenburg. "I don't know why I was refereeing it. I'd just done the Manchester derby and the London derby, so it was my third derby in three or four weeks.
"I had underestimated it - the working-class derby. The other two were different derbies, this one was brutal."
