Your morning digest for Saturday, August 14.
Player sold by Liverpool for £4.5m scores first goal of Premier League season
Sergi Canos wrote his name into the Premier League records books on Friday evening by becoming the first player to score in the 2021-22 campaign.
The former Liverpool winger netted in Brentford’s maiden Premier League match against Arsenal to put the newly-promoted Bees ahead after 22 minutes.
Canos spent a season on loan at Griffin Park in 2015 before leaving Anfield for Norwich in a deal worth up to £4.5m in the summer of 2016.
However, after failing to make an impact at Carrow Road, he re-joined Brentford on a permanent deal in January 2017.
Though the decision to leave Liverpool irked his granddad, Canos knew he had to make a move in order to progress in his career.
Speaking to Brentford’s YouTube channel this week, the 24-year-old admitted: “For me, when I left Liverpool I knew I had to go two steps backwards to make a big step forwards and my grandad didn’t like it, my grandad didn’t want it.
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Jurgen Klopp breaks silence over Jordan Henderson future with 'important' Liverpool claim
Jurgen Klopp says he has "no doubt" that Jordan Henderson's Liverpool future will be resolved by a new contract.
The Reds captain has reportedly been interesting both Atletico Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain this summer and speculation continues to swirl around his Anfield future.
Henderson has two years left on his current contract and initial discussions on an extension yielded little progress earlier this year.
Liverpool continued their summer strategy of tying down key men to longer deals on Friday when Virgil van Dijk signed on until 2025, becoming the fourth high-profile member of the squad to do so following similar contracts for Trent Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho and Alisson Becker in recent weeks.
However, Henderson's representatives are yet to make a breakthrough so far.
Klopp, though, dismissed concerns of an immediate future without the long-serving skipper and says he has no worries about Henderson departing just yet.
"It is important but it will happen," Klopp said. "We will sort it, however it will be. We will sort it out, no doubt about that."
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