Liverpool’s Great Gesture Has Chester In The Money Again!

The Premier League Reds visit the Deva Stadium in a weeks’ time.

Jurgen Klopp is expected to play all the Champions League finalists’ stars who haven’t been at the World Cup.

A 4,500 sell out is expected - and Liverpool have done away with the tradition of taking home half the takings from their pre-season schedule.

It’s a further boost to the Blues after a £1m donation over three years was rubber stamped a fortnight ago.

“It is a great gesture from Liverpool and we will receive 100 per cent of the gate receipts,” Chester chairman David Harrington-Wright said in an interview with the Chester Chronicle.

“We have hosted their under-23s and women’s team and have a great relationship with them and they have been absolutely first class.

“Liverpool also know they will be playing on a superb surface and that has been a major plus in them wanting to use us time and again, and we are grateful for the support we have received from them over this and the gesture of allowing us to keep the profits.”

Chester’s new joint management team of Antony Johnson and Bernard Morley are piecing together a side who they hope can challenge for a return to the National League.

“It will be a hugely exciting day,” Harrington-Wright added. “Liverpool have told us they will be bringing a strong squad of first teamers, those who haven’t been at the World Cup.”

You can read the full interview with the Chester Chronicle's Dave Powell here