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Ian Copestake has been in touch: “The nature of much that has been written about this game seems to have turned it into a symbol rather than a physical event. Them overtaking us, the old ways dying, can a new spring occur? Klopp even calls it a derby, which it isn’t. But it is ‘like’ a derby and so may as well be called one.”
Will Unwin on Casemiro, a player who must be seen as the signing of the season, unless you prefer the shock and awe of Erling Haaland.
“When you go to recruitment in the summer, we were looking for players with character, with personality,” Ten Hag says. “It was not only about signing players. A lot of players in the world have great skills from a technical approach, or they can run really fast, but we were looking for players who have character, who have personality, who have leadership, take responsibility, who are resilient. That is the type of players I was looking for after I analysed the squad.”
