25th August

Wilkommen Christian
2000 - Christian Ziege completed his protracted signing from Middlesbrough for £5.5m. He had spent one successful season at the Riverside, netting seven times in 34 appearances. Ziege made 32 appearances whilst at Anfield, including coming off the bench in Cardiff for the first leg of the treble, before moving on again to Tottenham Hotspur. He retired from playing in October 2005 after a spell back in his native land with Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Heading off
2018 – German keeper Loris Karius joined Turkish side Besiktas JK on a two-year loan. He joined the reds for £4.7m from 1. FSV Mainz 05 in July 2016, taking over the number one shirt. He made 49 first-team appearances before his contract expired in June 2022, keeping 22 clean sheets but making several high-profile errors.
1925 – Inside-left Hector Lawson left the reds to join Airdrieonians. He had signed from Rangers in January 1924, failing to score in sixteen outings.
1898 – Inside-forward Willie Walker re-joined Leith Athletic on a free transfer, having struck three times in twelve reds games since arriving in May 1897.

Solo Momo
2007 - Momo Sissoko struck his only reds goal, our 7,000th in League football, with Andriy Voronin also notching as we won 2-0 at Sunderland, with Sami Hyypiä forced off after just a quarter of an hour with a broken nose and Jamie Carragher also breaking a rib and having to be replaced.

Getting off to a great start in front of a new Kop
1928 - Two debutants scored in our 3-0 defeat of Bury at Anfield, as the newly-roofed Kop was opened for the first match of the season. Forward Billy Miller scored his only two goals for the club as centre-forward Albert Whitehurst added the other. Centre-half David Davidson and left-half Jimmy McDougall also made their reds bows that day. This was the last time that two debutants struck in the same match until Craig Bellamy and Mark González repeated the feat against Maccabi Haifa in August 2006.

Recent moves
2010 – Midfielder Alberto Aquilani returned to his native land to join Juventus on loan, after two goals in 28 reds outings. He notched twice in 34 games for the Old Lady that season. On the same day, young Hungarian forward Krisztián Németh joined Olympiacos for £1m after a successful loan spell in Greece with A.E.K Athens. He played just four League games for them, spending much of his time out on loan.
2012 – Turkish midfielder Nuri Şahin joined on loan from Real Madrid. However, he only struck three times in twelve outings before returning to Borussia Dortmund in January 2013.
2016 – Right-back Javier Manquillo joined Sunderland on loan from Club Atlético de Madrid, netting once in 22 games as the Mackems were relegated to the Championship. On the dame day, left-back Sam Hart joined Port Vale on loan. He struck once in sixteen outings for the Valiants.

Roy’s solitary strike
1956 - Right-half Roy Saunders, Dean’s dad, scored his only reds goal in our 2-0 Second Division win at Bury’s Gigg Lane in what was his hundredth League game for us. Louis Bimpson grabbed the other with Geoff Twentyman reaching a century of League outings.

Mølby makes his mark in East Anglia
1992 - Jan Mølby scored our first Premier League penalty as we held Ipswich Town to a 2-2 draw at Portman Road, with Mark Walters nabbing our other goal. Jason Dozzell and then Chris Kiwomya equalised for the home side.
1984 - Jan made his first-class reds debut in our 3-3 draw at Norwich City. A Steve Bruce own goal put us ahead, the hundredth we had benefited from in all competitions to date, with our other goals coming from Kenny Dalglish and a Phil Neal penalty. Mick Channon scored the last of his seven goals past us, with Peter Mendham and Keith Bertschin also on target.

Most recently
2018 – Mohamed Salah bagged the only goal of Brighton & Hove Albion’s League visit to Anfield.
2020 – We came from two goals down to draw a behind closed doors friendly 2-2 at Red Bull Salzburg with Rhian Brewster netting twice.

Benvenuto Mario
2014 - Mario Balotelli signed from AC Milan for £16m, going on to score just four times in 28 outings, although half of these came from the bench. He left for Nice on a free transfer two years later after a season on loan at AC Milan. On the same day, the reds lost 3-1 at Manchester City as Emre Can, Lazar Marković and Alberto Moreno all made their debuts. Stevan Jovetić struck twice, the most recent of his four goals past us, with Sergio Agüero also scoring, one of his six against us to date. Our goal came when Pablo Zabaleta put through his own net.
1986 – We were held to a goalless draw at Anfield by Manchester City. Ian Rush was sent off for ‘foul or abusive language’ as he was leaving the pitch at the end of the game, although this was later rescinded.

Another debutant
1979 - Centre-half Colin Irwin made his reds bow as we saw off West Bromwich Albion 3-1 at Anfield, thanks to Terry McDermott and a David Johnson brace, with Peter Barnes netting for the Baggies. This was our 1,500th home League game.
1976 - We also won at The Hawthorns, with John Toshack nabbing the only goal of the game.
1923 - Our first game on this day in history was also played there, but we went down 2-0 as we started off the season badly. Forward Dick Johnson seriously injured his knee, not making his comeback until the following April. Stan Davies netted one of his four strikes against the reds, with Arthur Fitton also netting.

Keeping crisis
1990 - Sheffield United’s goalkeeper Simon Tracey had to go off injured in only the fourteenth minute at Bramall Lane, to be replaced by defender John Pemberton. We went on to win 3-1, with goals from Ray Houghton, Ian Rush and John Barnes. Brian Deane was on target for the home side with the first of his eight goals against us.

We have also played the Blades twice more on this day in history.
1965 - We lost 1-0 at Anfield as Mick Jones bagged the first of his seven strikes past the reds.
1948 – We drew 3-3 in L4, with Jack Balmer nabbing a brace and Billy Liddell also on target for the reds. Jimmy Hagan scored one of his four goals against us, with George Jones and Colin Collindridge also scoring.

Mixed fortunes against Rovers
1934 - We kicked off the season with a 2-0 defeat of Blackburn Rovers at Anfield, thanks to a Vic Wright brace.
1962 - We lost 1-0 at Ewood Park thanks to a Bryan Douglas goal.

Another good start
1973 - Steve Heighway bagged the only goal of our season opener at home to Stoke City as Ian Callaghan played his 600th reds game. Bill Shankly was presented with Bell’s Manager of the Year trophy for the previous season, also parading the recently-retired Gordon Banks around Anfield before the match.

Happy birthdays
1909 - Goalkeeper Andrew Aitken was born in Newcastle. He signed from Wallsend in March 1930 but only ever made one senior reds appearance, in our 3-3 draw at Blackburn Rovers in December of that year, returning to amateur football with Mickley in April 1931.
1969 – Ex-reserves forward Tony Cousins was born in The Liberties, Dublin. He won the PFAI Young Player of the Year in 1989/90 before joining the reds. He moved to Middlesbrough on a free transfer in the summer of 1993 having failed to make the breakthrough at Anfield.

Other reds games
1993 – Tottenham Hotspur won 2-1 at Anfield. Nigel Clough put us in front, but Teddy Sheringham struck two of his seven goals against the reds, including a penalty.
1970 – Bobby Graham was on target as Crystal Palace held us to a 1-1 draw in L4.
1951 – We came from behind to win 3-1 at Chelsea with Kevin Baron, Billy Liddell and Albert Stubbins all on the scoresheet.

Stevie’s award
2005 - Steven Gerrard was presented with the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award in Monaco, having led us to Champions League glory earlier that year.

Champion Roy
1973 - Reds reserves left-back and future boss Roy Evans played for the Philadelphia Atoms as they beat Dallas Tornado 2-0 in the NASL Final in Dallas.

Internationals in action
2022 – Future red Trey Nyoni bagged his only goal while winning his first cap for England Under-16’s as they won a friendly 3-2 in Italy, with Carter Pinnington also featuring.
2016 – Ex-Academy Manager Steve Cooper was in charge as England Under-17’s played two games against Belgium at St. George’s Park on this day, with Rhian Brewster on target while winning his first cap in a 3-1 victory before a 6-0 thumping.
2010 – Matty Regan netted on his debut for England Under-17’s, with Raheem Sterling also making his bow at this level in their 2-2 friendly draw with Turkey at Sincil Bank. Adam Morgan also featured.

2007 – Future red Mamadou Sakho featured as France Under-17’s beat Japan 2-1 in a World Championships Finals group game in South Korea.
2001 - Anthony Le Tallec made his League debut for Le Havre in their 4-0 defeat of Grenoble at the Stade Jules Deschaseaux.
1993 – Future red Jari Litmanen played as Finland lost a World Cup qualifier 3-0 to Austria in Vienna.