Brendan Rodgers Happy For Liverpool to Embrace Fair Play Route to Europe: The Nightly EPL

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is such a joker. The other day, he said Liverpool didn’t want a place in the Europa League via the UEFA Fair Play league. Now it seems he said he was just joking, and that he would welcome Liverpool playing in the Europa League next season by any means necessary.

It’s amazing how a conversation with one of Liverpool’s top executives can get someone to change his mind.

Here are tonight’s Premier League news headlines:

• Brendan Rodgers happy for Liverpool to embrace Fair Play route to Europe — The Independent
• Hip surgery in August means Fergie may miss beginning of United’s title defense — Telegraph
• Merseyside derby used to have a say in where title went – but not now — The Guardian
• Manchester United – Higher than the sun — The Swiss Ramble
• Everton: How the Blues made good, according to Simon Kuper — The Financial Times
• Bacary Sagna could be set to stay at Arsenal after a possible move to PSG fails — The Mail
• Stoke City let go of chief scout following interview criticising manager Tony Pulis — Telegraph
• Martin Jol says EPL is still the best in the world, that’s why Mourinho wants to return — The Mail
• Jim Boyce will block Sepp Blatter move to reduce European clubs in World Cup — The Independent
• Stephen Carr retires after 400-game career with Birmingham, Newcastle and Spurs — The Mail
• Chelsea FC want to enter the pantheon of clubs that have won all three UEFA majors — UEFA
• Manchester City ramp up bid to sign Isco from Malaga — The Mail
• Tom Huddlestone set to be fit for Spurs’ Champions League chase — The Independent
• Wolves’ Roger Johnson set to suffer relegation three years in a row — The Mail
• Bishop of Wolverhampton puts prayer in paper to deliver Wolves from relegation — Pies
• QPR chairman says it’s taken him £50m to find out football is immoral — The Mail
• Fulham are the perfect EPL blueprint for Reading to follow — Sky Sports
• Michel Platini wants talks between officials in Europe to be recorded from next season — BBC Sport
• Now you see it, now you don’t… How the EPL makes £150m prize disappear — Independent
• Manchester United tried to sign Gareth Bale but Southampton never replied — The Mail
• Newcastle will be relegated unless the dressing room is united, warns Kevin Nolan — Telegraph
• Gianfranco Zola is one game from glory at Watford — The Mail

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