{"id":364524,"date":"2025-08-22T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:35:13","slug":"arne-slot-facing-call-to-cut-3-players-for-liverpool-squad-vs-newcastle-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364524\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot facing call to cut 3 players for Liverpool squad vs. Newcastle – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot<\/a> worked with a 26-man squad ahead of Liverpool\u2019s trip to Newcastle<\/a>, with the head coach facing a decision over which players to leave out.<\/b><\/p>\n

Of those 26 players working at the AXA Training Centre on Thursday, it is already known that bar any late issues goalkeepers Freddie Woodman<\/a> and Armin Pecsi<\/a> will not be in the matchday squad.<\/p>\n

The same applies to Conor Bradley<\/a>, who warmed up with the first team before training separately with head of physical performance Conall Murtagh as he works his way back from injury.<\/p>\n

That means Slot still must decide which three players to cut from the remaining group to form his 20-man squad to face Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It comes with Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> not involved in training having picked up a hamstring, but with new centre-back Giovanni Leoni<\/a> available along with Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> following the midfielder\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Gravenberch will effectively take Frimpong\u2019s place in the squad with Slot to select from one of Joe Gomez<\/a>, Wataru Endo<\/a> or Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> to start at right-back.<\/p>\n

The most likely candidates to be left out of the matchday group are Kostas Tsimikas<\/a>, Trey Nyoni<\/a> and James McConnell<\/a>, though Slot could also consider omitting Leoni or even Rio Ngumoha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite being without both of his right-backs, Slot has a strong squad available to him for what promises to be a fiery clash on Tyneside.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a>, Virgil van Dijk<\/a>, Ibrahima Konate<\/a>, Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>, Florian Wirtz<\/a>, Mohamed Salah<\/a>, Cody Gakpo<\/a> and Hugo Ekitike<\/a> all trained along with Gravenberch ahead of expected starting roles against Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Slot will then have a decision to make over which of his standby options to choose at right-back, as well as which of Andy Robertson<\/a> or Milos Kerkez<\/a> starts at left-back.<\/p>\n

That would leave the likes of Curtis Jones<\/a>, Harvey Elliott<\/a> and Federico Chiesa<\/a> \u2013 the match-winner last time out against Bournemouth<\/a> \u2013 as options from the bench.<\/p>\n

Leoni is likely to join the substitutes given Liverpool have been short of natural centre-back cover, and Slot revealed that Gomez has not trained properly throughout the week following his return from injury against Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liverpool will be given time off over the weekend before preparations resume ahead of the 8pm kickoff on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Liverpool squad training for Newcastle<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers:<\/b> Alisson<\/a>, Mamardashvili, Woodman, Pecsi<\/p>\n

Defenders:<\/b> Van Dijk, Konate, Gomez, Leoni, Robertson, Kerkez, Tsimikas, Bradley*<\/p>\n

Midfielders:<\/b> Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Jones, Endo, Elliott, Nyoni, McConnell<\/p>\n

Forwards:<\/b> Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike, Chiesa, Ngumoha<\/p>\n

* Bradley worked separately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot worked with a 26-man squad ahead of Liverpool\u2019s trip to Newcastle, with the head coach facing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364525,"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-364524","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\/115072213244909018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364524","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=364524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}