{"id":1030602,"date":"2026-06-16T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1030602\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:19:22","slug":"liverpool-transfer-news-recap-iraola-demands-rayan-darwin-nunez-return-curtis-jones-exit-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1030602\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool transfer news recap: Iraola &#8216;demands&#8217; Rayan, Darwin Nunez return, Curtis Jones exit update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Xabi Alonso may be managing Chelsea next season, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped him from being voted as the 54th-best Liverpool player of all time. The club have also paid him a mighty compliment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Fans, former players, journalists and a club panel were asked to rank their top 100 Reds players in history based on ability, impact, legacy and success of a player while at Anfield. Roughly 1.4 million picks were submitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Alonso, who spent five seasons as a Red, has come in at 54th and in their write-up on the official club website, he was described as &#8220;one of the best passers of a football to ever wear the Liverpool shirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Find the countdown of the top 100 <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.com\/info\/liverpools-greatest-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xabi Alonso with the European Cup\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2_JS64116023.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Xabi Alonso with the European Cup\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Xabi Alonso with the European Cup(Image: Colin Lane)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso may be managing Chelsea next season, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped him from being voted as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1030603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,8904,393,4884,179,763,1596,16,15],"class_list":["post-1030602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-britain","tag-darwin-nunez","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116760935610744080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}