{"id":278069,"date":"2025-07-20T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278069\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:05:11","slug":"liverpool-confirm-29-man-squad-for-asia-tour-as-federico-chiesa-absence-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278069\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool confirm 29-man squad for Asia tour as Federico Chiesa absence explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have confirmed the squad travelling to Asia for games in Hong Kong and Japan<\/p>\n

19:29, 20 Jul 2025Updated 19:33, 20 Jul 2025<\/p>\n

\"FedericoFederico Chiesa of Liverpool(Image: Catherine Ivill – AMA\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Liverpool have confirmed their squad for the pre-season tour to Asia with Federico Chiesa the most notable absentee. The Reds have named a 29-man squad that boarded the plane on Sunday evening to jet out to Hong Kong for the first leg of their Far East sojourn.<\/p>\n

And Chiesa<\/a> has been left behind on Merseyside while a minor issue is assessed, despite scoring in the 5-0 behind-closed-doors friendly win over Championship side Stoke City at the AXA Training Centre earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

It’s another setback for the Italian forward, whose future has been called into question in recent months having struggled for minutes under Arne Slot<\/a> since arriving from Juventus last August.<\/p>\n

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Alexis Mac Allister,<\/a> who hasn’t featured in a senior game since mid-May, is among the travelling party along with Alisson Becker<\/a> and Luis Diaz,<\/a> who are both yet to play during the warm-up programme.<\/p>\n

New signings Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez, Giorgi Mamardashvili and Freddie Woodman are all included.<\/p>\n

Harvey Elliott and Tyler Morton, each given an extended break after helping England retain the UEFA European Under-21 Championship last month, are also in the squad. Stefan Bajcetic, though, continues to recover from a hamstring operation in May.<\/p>\n

Liverpool take on AC Milan in Hong Kong next Saturday before moving on to Japan where they will face Yokohama F Marinos the following Wednesday.<\/p>\n

With no senior international tournaments this summer, Liverpool<\/a> have an almost full-strength squad from which to choose meaning that, unlike in previous years, there are limited slots for Academy players.<\/p>\n

Rio Ngumoha, Ben Doak, Trey Nyoni and Luca Stephenson are among those to make the trip, along with new 20-year-old goalkeeper arrival Armin Pecsi and Academy shot-stopper Kornel Misciur.<\/p>\n

James McConnell, though, misses out with a small injury niggle.<\/p>\n

Jayden Danns is absent despite being fit, fuelling speculation he could make a loan move away from Liverpool this summer with Sunderland once again interested after the striker’s scheduled temporary stay in the North East earlier this year was scuppered by injury.<\/p>\n

LIVERPOOL SQUAD FOR ASIA TOUR: <\/strong>Alisson, Gomez, Endo, Van Dijk, Konate, Diaz, Szoboszlai, Nunez, Mac Allister, Salah, Jones, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Robertson, Gravenberch, Doak, Woodman, Mamardashvili, Kerkez, Wirtz, Frimpong, Pecsi, Ngumoha, Misciur, Morton, Bradley, Stephenson, Nyoni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have confirmed the squad travelling to Asia for games in Hong Kong and Japan 19:29, 20 Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-278069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-fc","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887126172750698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278069","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=278069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}