Man Utd transfer news LIVE: Mbeumo CHOOSES United over Spurs, Gyokeres BOOST, Ndidi eyed as clause emerges
Red alert
Liverpool claim they now rival Manchester United with one billion fans worldwide while becoming the most watched club in the Premier League.
Old Trafford part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe boasted that the Red Devils were followed by that staggering global number as he launched plans to build a new £2billion stadium in March.
But Anfield chairman Tom Werner has the figures to prove that his 'relentless' club not only finished top in the title race last season but also left their bitter rivals for dead in the TV viewing stakes as well.
He insisted: 'We are very aware of the global power of Liverpool. The club's reach around the world is by far the strongest in the Premier League.
'We're the only Premier League club to surpass 500million views on television [by March 2025 from August last season].
'Last season on social media we generated 1.7 billion engagements. That's not unique engagements, but it's still a huge number.
'Many Americans still don't appreciate the global power of football but over the next ten years I think the Premier League is going to be huge in the US.
'We think there could now be as many as a billion people around the world who follow Liverpool.
'There is a special connection with the fans. You feel it at the games at Anfield, when they start to sing You'll Never Walk Alone. It's deep and emotional.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
BBC News
an hour ago
- BBC News
England retain Euro U21s title with extra-time win over Germany
Update: Date: 23:30 BST Title: Over to you, Tuchel Content: England 3-2 Germany It's official. England's Young Lions have won back-to-back European Under-21 Championships - an impressive achievement. And all in front of Three Lions boss Thomas Tuchel. This time next year Tuchel's England are expected to be competing at the World Cup. Will he be taking any of Lee Carsley's Class of 2025 with him? Goodnight. Update: Date: 23:27 BST Title: 'Carsley believed in his squad' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany Nigel Reo-CokerFormer England U21 captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Lee Carsley believed in the squad that he assembled, to give the players that don't have as much experience the chance to go and get the job done. And they stood up to the mark. Update: Date: 23:26 BST Title: 'What an achievement for Elliott and Cresswell' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany Conor CoadyFormer England defender on Channel 4 It's incredible. These players will remember this moment forever. I think it is something that will stay with them forever in their future careers - no matter what they do or what clubs they go on to play for. But for them two boys [Harvey Elliott and Charlie Cresswell], to have experienced it twice, what an achievement. To win anything once is remarkable. To go and do it twice at a tournament of that size is absolutely sensational. Update: Date: 23:24 BST Title: Post Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England This was Lee Carsley's reaction at full time. Update: Date: 23:22 BST Title: 'A great achievement' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England England boss Lee Carsley, speaking to Channel 4: "I'm so proud, not of myself but of the players and the commitment that they have shown the last 28 days. All the instruction we have tried to give to them, they have taken in on board so quickly. They have so much belief, this squad believe that they can win. And that is the kind of players we need. "To be European champions for a second time is a great achievement and I supposed the challenge now is to do it again in two years." On the challenges during the tournament: "Yes any setback that has come they have just got on with it. I told them that the longer we stay in the tournament, the better we play. I don't think we played great tonight. We sat a little too deep and didn't have as much control as we wanted but we won't remember that in a couple of days." Update: Date: 23:20 BST Title: Champions of Europe Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England Update: Date: 23:18 BST Title: 'An even bigger feat than last time' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany Conor CoadyFormer England defender on Channel 4 What might Lee Carsley be feeling now? This is an even bigger achievement than last time. That team had many players who went on to play for the senior team. But this group has gone onto become a team during this tournament. That's a fantastic feeling. Update: Date: 23:15 BST Title: 'Now let's celebrate' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England England's Jonathan Rowe, speaking to Channel 4: "Everyone has been exceptional. The minute I came into the camp, everyone had the same mindset. Everyone wanted to win. And we have done that now." On scoring the winning goal: "I am happy to make a difference tonight and get the team over the line. And I am happy to have done that in front of some important people tonight. Now let's celebrate." Update: Date: 23:13 BST Title: Post Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany Qualifying for the 2027 tournament starts in September. The likes of James Beadle, Archie Gray, Jack Hinshelwood and Ethan Nwaneri will be eligible to take part. England's opponents in qualifying include Kazakhstan, Moldova, Andorra, the Republic of Ireland and Slovakia. Update: Date: 23:10 BST Title: 'England found what they needed' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany Stephen WarnockFormer England defender on BBC Radio 5 Live at Stadion Tehelne pole Wow. Just brilliant from England. They were poor in the group stages, they struggled and then found their feet. They have managed to find their rhythm at the right time and managed to find what they needed as a team and a unit. Lee Carsley tinkered back and forth and found the solution. Update: Date: 23:08 BST Title: Get Involved Content: #bbcfootball, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) It's just so great. Unbelievably grit, borne out of St George's park. Believe in the process - it'll happen Russell, Haringey Update: Date: 23:07 BST Title: 'Well done England' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany John MurrayBBC football correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live at Stadion Tehelne pole The players on the pitch almost disappear from sight as they lift the trophy because there is so much white and blue confetti out there. Well done England. Update: Date: 23:06 BST Title: Get Involved Content: #bbcfootball, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) In this decade so far the men's, women's and u21 games have seen eight major finals, and England have been involved in six of them: won 3 and lost 3. For all the criticism we level ourselves as a nation, no decade previous even comes close. Our last final of any kind was in 1984. We should celebrate where we are going as a nation, and that the 2020's are only half way through. Lee, London Update: Date: 23:05 BST Title: 'I love this job' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England England boss Lee Carsley, speaking to Channel 4 about his recent contract extension and what is next: "I'm not sure. I'm going to try to enjoy tonight. I love the job I do and I love working with the players. I've had a chance with the senior team as well and loved that and the best thing I can do is to try and help the pathway to the senior team." On celebrations: "We go back to the hotel for a couple of hours and then we fly back to Birmingham at 03:30, so a quick turnaround. The players will be on holiday tomorrow, their time off is very important too. It is important that they maybe have a shandy or two tonight." Update: Date: 23:03 BST Title: Post Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England Remember, Lee Carsley recently signed a new contract with the Football Association to run until 2027. England's young guns are in safe hands. Update: Date: 22:59 BST Title: Get Involved - Sir Lee Carsley? Content: #bbcfootball, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Knighthood for Carsley! Results AND entertainment! What else!? Stan Incredible job by Carsley. So pleased for him. He's got to be next in line for the top job, surely Ben, Canada Update: Date: 22:59 BST Title: Champions of Europe Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England It's approaching midnight in Bratislava and England's players are still celebrating on the pitch. Update: Date: 22:55 BST Title: 'What a night! What an effort!' Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany Joe HartFormer England goalkeeper on Channel 4 What a night! What an effort form these Young Lions. They should be so proud of themselves. It's been an excellent performance. They started really well. They ebbed and flowed against a good German side. They had their backs against the wall in the closing stages but they need to be proud of this performance. Update: Date: 22:53 BST Title: History makers Content: England 3-2 Germany England James McAtee lifts the trophy into the Bratislava night sky. Blue and white ticker tape fills the air. There's a decent number of England fans who have travelled to Slovakia for this final and they're giving the players a standing ovation. Update: Date: 22:51 BST Title: Elliott named player of the tournament Content: FT: England 3-2 Germany England Harvey Elliott has just been named player of the tournament - and not just for his five goals. He's been such an important presence. I don't think anyone is going to argue with that.
Times
an hour ago
- Times
Chris Hoy phoned after my diagnosis. If only I'd listened to him earlier
Last year, like millions of people, I read with astonishment the news that Sir Chris Hoy, one of our most decorated Olympians, had been diagnosed with cancer. A few months later, Hoy revealed that it was advanced stage 4 prostate cancer, that it had spread to his bones and was incurable. The common thought I suspect so many of us had was — blimey, how can one of the fittest people on the planet get that? I'd been lucky enough to be in the front row at the Olympic Velodrome in 2012 when two mountainous men on bikes exoceted towards the finish line at 50mph — Hoy getting across the line almost by sheer force of will to beat his opponent and claim his sixth Olympic gold. Superhuman. • Jeremy Clarkson: I don't mind prostate checks — beats being dead On hearing Sir Chris's devastating statement, the males among us, particularly those aged 67 like me, probably also thought, if he can get it, we ought to get ourselves checked. I certainly intended to. But I never did. Seeing friends, football matches, even walking the dog, simply life itself, just seemed to intervene and, anyway I felt fine — no symptoms. Then just two months later, numb with shock, pretty much unable to speak, I found myself listening to a calm, mellifluous Scottish brogue talking me through my own identical diagnosis, based on his experience. Chris was on the phone. He called me after hearing through a mutual contact. It was a mental lifeline. It's impossible to describe the devastation any stage 4 cancer diagnosis causes — unless you are one of the thousands who receive one. Exact figures for stage 4 prostate are a bit sketchy, but it's approaching 10,000 men every year. Including their wider families, that's a heck of a lot of annual shock. And the numbers are increasing. My own physical problems began during one of those trips I'd long planned after stepping back from daily news-reading duties in February 2023. I was on a long-anticipated trip to southeast Asia with my wife when I started to feel distinctly weird. As the days went on, I could hardly get out of bed, and by the time we made it to the flight home I was in agony. I felt like I'd been shot in the back. So, it was straight off the flight — a taxi to A&E and five hours later my world was upended. The cancer was spreading fast, and I needed immediate surgery to keep me alive. After the numbness and shock of diagnosis, the negative thoughts come flooding in. Firstly, of course, how long have I got? Then, 'Why, oh why, didn't I get that check?' hard on its heels. And perhaps the worst, 'You bloody fool, what have you done to your family?' There have been positives too, though, plenty of them, believe it or not. First, let what has happened to us be a wake-up call to other men. I'd write this next sentence in 6in-high capital letters, like some demented world leader on his own social-media platform, if the sub-editors would allow it. If you're over 50, in a high-risk group or have a family history, get yourself checked. Do it and do it this week. And if your GP thinks it's not worth doing, you have a right to insist. So insist. • My night with the prostate vigilantes offering tests the NHS won't It's a simple prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. It only costs a few quid. It can cause false alarm in some cases, but surely if it picked up more cases in their early, easily treatable phase, it would save the NHS millions? Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in males in the UK, accounting for 14 per cent of all cancer deaths in men. Testing is particularly pertinent for me personally because, as part of my job as an interviewer, I sat on TV sofas and in studios for decades hearing clinicians, medics and researchers saying get tested when you pass 50. I listened but didn't act. The only crumb of comfort I have from the reasons for my procrastination is that I never had any obvious symptoms — increased night-time peeing, blood in the urine, uncontrollable urges to go. So be aware this disease is insidious and can spread silently and rapidly. There are even positives for members of the stage 4 club. A lot of the headlines about Chris Hoy's news and now mine screamed that we have terminal cancer. Well, yes and no. Life itself is terminal ultimately, after all, and so often for those with prostate cancer, some other condition gets you first. • Chris Hoy: I'm busy proving life doesn't have to stop Doctors have to put a number of years on how long you've got, because it's usually the first question they get asked. But everyone responds to the medicines differently, and prostate cancer is heterogenous. So, I prefer to say, sure, it's incurable, but it is treatable, and becoming increasingly so, with the myriad discoveries, repurposed drugs and new combinations coming down the track. Is there a chance, cutting-edge researchers such as Sir Chris Evans, founder of the Cancer Awareness Trust, are asking, that we're not too far away from it becoming like HIV — once a death sentence, but now manageable? And I'm not just saying that because I want it to happen. But the greatest positives? They are obvious life-lessons really, but too many of us forget about them. Family, friends and living in the moment. I couldn't get through this without my wife, children and wider family backing me up so resolutely. Emotional support, hospital trips, banter — even breakfast in bed! I think about them more than I do the cancer — and I'm sure that goes for all of us with stage 4. Friends — as the saying goes, you learn who the real ones are. So many people I lost touch with over the years have been getting back in contact, leading to more of those damn regrets — why didn't I give them a ring years ago? And fundamentally you appreciate precisely how many minutes there are in each day and how to use them wisely. In my case, some of those minutes are allocated to training for Chris Hoy's wonderful charity initiative, the Tour de 4 bike ride in Glasgow in September. I've got an inkling I might not be able to keep up with him. Dermot Murnaghan hosts Legends of News, a new podcast available on all platforms. He is riding the Tour de 4 to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. You can donate here.
Times
an hour ago
- Times
Ban asbestos giant from government contracts, MPs and peers say
A construction company whose asbestos products were used in schools, hospitals, public buildings and offices should be banned from government contracts, MPs and peers have said. Altrad — which bought Cape, one of Britain's biggest manufacturers of asbestos products, in 2017 — should be excluded from all public sector work unless it donates £10 million towards research into the cancers caused by the building material, a report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on occupational safety and health found. Asbestos is Britain's biggest workplace killer, responsible for 5,000 deaths a year. It causes asbestosis and mesothelioma cancer, both incurable. Earlier this year, a public hearing heard evidence from 11 witnesses of the 'disastrous legacy' of Cape. On Tuesday the APPG will publish a report on Cape describing its 'corporate denial, suppression of vital health information, and a refusal to accept responsibility' and recommending a government ban on awarding contracts to Altrad, which made £4.5 billion in revenue last year.
