{"id":569236,"date":"2026-07-26T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:31:09","slug":"federico-chiesa-italian-forward-happy-at-liverpool-amid-speculation-over-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569236\/","title":{"rendered":"Federico Chiesa: Italian forward ‘happy’ at Liverpool amid speculation over future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federico Chiesa insists he is only “thinking about Liverpool<\/a>” amid continued speculation over his future.<\/p>\n

Across two seasons at Anfield under Arne Slot, the Italian forward has started one Premier League game and scored just five times in 50 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old, who joined from Juventus in a deal worth \u00a312.5m in 2024 and is contracted until 2028, told La Gazzetta dello Sport, external<\/a> in June: “If I don’t find consistency in the Premier League, I’ll have to look elsewhere.”<\/p>\n

But after scoring in the first friendly of the Andoni Iraola era on Saturday where Liverpool beat Sunderland 4-2,<\/a> Chiesa told reporters: “Right now, at the moment, I am happy here at Liverpool<\/a>. I love the club, I love the fans, I love everything.<\/p>\n

“I am doing the best I can to have a chance here – and then we will see.<\/p>\n

“At the minute, the only thing I am thinking about is Liverpool<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether it was a fresh start under new boss Iraola – appointed in June after Slot’s dismissal – Chiesa added: “I don’t know – it is difficult to say. It is always a fresh start at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n

“Maybe there have been too many fresh starts. But I don’t care, I am trying to do my best for this new manager. Last season under Arne Slot, I was trying to do my best too.<\/p>\n

“Last year, I felt ready for a bigger role, then it depended on the coach whether he wanted me to play or not. Of course I wanted to play more but it is what it is.<\/p>\n

“The gaffer decided to do so, he had his gameplans, he took his decisions, I have nothing to say about that. It is football. This year, let us say it is a new chapter. There is a new manager and I have to focus on that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federico Chiesa insists he is only “thinking about Liverpool” amid continued speculation over his future. Across two seasons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-569236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}