Luis Diaz could have been lining up against Liverpool had events of January 2022 panned out differently
If Daniel Levy's plan had come to fruition in January 2022, Liverpool's preparations for Saturday's trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium would have looked considerably different.
Indeed, as Tottenham aimed to iron out the fine details of a swoop for the then Porto wideman, it was while on a mid-season skiing holiday with his wife that Lijnders was given a five-minute warning by the former sporting director Julian Ward that he and Klopp would be tasked with selling the Anfield dream to Diaz.
Around 18 months after signing on the dotted lines, Diaz is looking to replicate the blistering start he made to life on English shores in the final months of the 2021/22 campaign, in which he was quick to satisfy Ward's earlier wishes when he helped deliver a League Cup and an FA Cup double to Anfield.
“I’ve felt a bit more of a reference maybe, down to the way the guys in the squad and the coaching staff tend to treat me now, I guess,” said Diaz earlier this month. “For all that I feel it a little more nowadays, I take it in my stride really and I don’t feel any extra responsibility. I think that is something that we all share equally between us from back to front in this side.
“On a personal front, it has been a good, even excellent start,” added Diaz. “I’ve really picked up of late, really improved after the injury. I think all the work I did throughout the time I was out was good for me.
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