{"id":8810,"date":"2022-06-09T20:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8810"},"modified":"2022-06-09T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:28:02","slug":"liverpool-confirm-departure-of-origi-karius-five-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8810","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Confirm Departure Of Origi, Karius, Five Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Liverpool have confirmed the departure of seven players, including striker Divock Origi, when their contracts expire at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Goalkeeper Loris Karius and former first-team players Sheyi Ojo and Ben Woodburn have also been released, along with three members of the club\u2019s academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Origi spent eight years at Merseyside and sealed the Reds\u2019 stunning second-leg comeback to sink Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate in the UEFA Champions League semi-final in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Announcing the Belgian\u2019s departure, Liverpool wrote, \u201cDivock Origi will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThank you for an incredible eight years of service and leaving us with so many special memories. [Divock Origi], Liverpool legend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Karius became notorious for his error-strewn performance in the 2018 UEFA Champions League final against Real Madrid, and spent much of his subsequent Anfield career on loan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ojo made 13 senior appearances, scoring in the FA Cup win over Exeter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Woodburn became the club\u2019s youngest goalscorer \u2014 a title he still holds \u2014 when he scored in the League Cup match against Leeds United at the age of 17.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have confirmed the departure of seven players, including striker Divock Origi, when their contracts expire at the end of this month. Goalkeeper Loris Karius and former first-team players Sheyi Ojo and Ben Woodburn have also been released, along with three members of the club\u2019s academy. Origi spent eight years at Merseyside and sealed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5118,828,5117,812],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-karius","tag-liverpool","tag-origi","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}