The World Cup final was brilliant. Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe were phenomenal. But it is all about Liverpool because their transfers obviously Mean More.
It’s all about us
That front page from The Sun is absolutely sterling work. It wouldn’t be right if there wasn’t a sub-headline of ‘GREATEST WORLD CUP FINAL…SINCE 1966’ after that remarkable game. Because England should always be the story. Especially old England.
It’s all about us, baby
Unless, of course, you are the Liverpool Echo. Then there is only one thing to do after Argentina beat France in the World Cup final, with Ibrahima Konate the only Reds representative for either country.
Here is a selection of their Liverpool FC homepage headlines:
‘Enzo Fernandez proves Liverpool right as Luis Diaz sends message to Lionel Messi’ – Liverpool have been proven right by very good midfielder Enzo Fernandez being very good, while Luis Diaz congratulates Lionel Messi.
‘Argentina World Cup winning manager once made team-mates furious for mistake against Liverpool’ – Lionel Scaloni made an error during a game against Liverpool 16 years ago.
‘Enzo Fernandez has already proved Liverpool’s transfer instincts right as World Cup final looms’ – again, Liverpool are geniuses for noticing that an Argentina international who has impressed in the Champions League, has a €120m release clause and has been linked with Manchester City among numerous other clubs, might actually be quite good.
‘Lionel Messi speech backfired when Liverpool left Argentina superstar sad, hurting and ‘really screwed up” – you might be a world champion and perhaps the greatest player ever, Leo, but Liverpool beat you three years ago, pal.
It really is a shameless Echo chamber.
Challenge accepted
But the worst of all those Liverpool-centric headlines to a game that had nothing to do with Liverpool whatsoever is this absolute doozy:
‘Lionel Messi has one last big career challenge and Liverpool are one of the few teams that can stop him’
Long and pretty dreadful story short: Messi would quite like to win another Champions League and that is a competition Liverpool – mentioned a whole twice in 30 paragraphs – are still in.
That is literally it. The story is that Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool are still in the Champions League. Along with 14 other teams, of course. But then the Manchester Evening News, the London Evening Standard, L’Equipe, Marca, Bild and everyone else somehow…
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