Divock Origi and Loris Karius will be among players released as free agents by Liverpool at the end of the 2021-22 season, according to the club’s retained list.
The Premier League giants are allowing seven players to leave in total, with four senior players and three academy graduates leaving.
The most famous players to leave are Origi and Karius, with the Belgian attacker who scored in the Reds’ successful 2019 Champions League final and the German goalkeeper who flopped in the European showpiece 12 months earlier now searching for contracts elsewhere.
Will Liverpool Remember Origi?
Liverpool have confirmed on their official website of the man who attained cult hero status on the strength of European and derby day heroics: “Eight years after agreeing a move to Anfield from Lille, Divock Origi will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of June.
“The striker began his Reds career in earnest in 2015 – having remained in France for a season-long loan with Lille – and would go on to be involved in some of the most iconic and important 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.”
Origi is likely to join Italian champions AC Milan in time for the 2022-23 season.
What about Karius?
“Karius joined Liverpool from FSV Mainz 05 in the summer of 2016 and went on to play 49 games under Klopp throughout his first two seasons on Merseyside,” Liverpool announced of the 28-year-old shot-stopper.
“He started every Champions League match in 2017-18 as Klopp’s men surged to the final in Kyiv, though it would end in personal and collective disappointment with a 3-1 defeat by 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.”
Who else Have Liverpool Let Go?
Sheyi Ojo and Ben Woodburn are the other members of Jurgen Klopp’s senior ranks who have been discharged at Anfield.
Ojo, who joined the Reds from MK Dons in November 2011, has made 13 appearances and scored one goal, while Woodburn, the club’s youngest ever goalscorer, has made 11 first-team appearances before being loaned out to Sheffield United, Blackpool, and Hearts.
Liverpool is allowing Elijah Dixon-Bonner, Luis Longstaff, and Sean Wilson to progress through the ranks of their academy.
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