The Reds have revealed who they will release this summer, with the Belgian forward and German goalkeeper among those leaving.
Liverpool announced their retained list at the end of the 2021-22 campaign, confirming that Divock Origi and Loris Karius would be among those released by the Reds as free agents.
The Premier League heavyweights are indulgent seven players to move on in total, with four senior stars departing alongside three from the academy ranks.
Origi and Karius are the more notable names to be heading through the exits, with Belgium forward who netted in the Reds’ triumphant 2019 Champions League final and the German goalkeeper who flopped in the European showpiece 12 months before that now looking to land contracts elsewhere.
Announcing Origi’s decision to leave the club at the end of June 8 years after joining Anfield from Lille, the Reds said on their official website: “Divock Origi’s contract will expire at the end of June.”.
“The striker began his Reds career in earnest in 2015 – has remained in France for a season-long loan with Lille – and would go on to be involved in some of the most iconic and essential moments in the club’s modern history.
“There was Origi’s collection of Merseyside derby goals, six in total, including the 96th-minute Kop-end winner of December 2018 and, fittingly, his final strike for Liverpool to seal victory over Everton in April.
“His contributions to Jurgen Klopp’s team’s Champions League triumph in 2019, meanwhile, have a guaranteed place in club legend.”
It is expected that Origi will join Italian champions AC Milan ahead of the 2022-23 campaign.
Karius, what do you think?
The 28-year-old shot-stopper fluffed his lines badly in a 2018 Champions League final clash with Real Madrid, but Liverpool has said of him: “Karius joined Liverpool from FSV Mainz 05 in the summer of 2016 and went on to play 49 games under Klopp during his first two seasons on Merseyside.
He started every match of the Champions League in 2017-18 as the club’s men advanced to the Kiev final, although it would end in personal and collective frustration with a 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid.
“The German then spent time on loan with Besiktas and Union Berlin before being part of the Reds’ goalkeeping group at the AXA Training Centre during 2021-22.”
Has Liverpool released anyone else?
The other members of Jurgen Klopp’s senior ranks to have been shown the door at Anfield are Sheyi Ojo and Ben Woodburn.
Despite making 13 appearances and scoring one goal for the Reds since joining from MK Dons in November 2011, Woodburn, 22, has made 11 first-team appearances before being loaned to Sheffield United, Blackpool, and Hearts.
Allowing Lewis Longstaff and Shawn Wilson to move forward at the academy level, Liverpool’s Eliza Dixon-Bonner.
