Manchester United forward officially confirms move to Liverpool
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Image Credits: Imago ImagesLiverpool’s summer is already taking shape — and not entirely by their own choosing.The 3-2 defeat at Old Trafford last Sunday, in which Manchester United completed a league double over the Reds for the first time since 2016, has cast a long shadow over the final weeks of the season.Arne Slot’s side sit fourth in the Premier League on 58 points heading into Matchday 36, fighting to secure Champions League football while the noise around the club grows louder by the day.The departures, meanwhile, are piling up.Andy Robertson looks set to leave.Mohamed Salah is heading for the exit.Virgil van Dijk is reportedly being targeted by Galatasaray this summer, with Turkish publication FotoMac claiming the Dutch international is “ready to leave” Anfield, potentially terminating his contract early to facilitate a move.It is a lot for supporters to process.A club that was lifting the Premier League title just twelve months ago is now staring at a summer of significant reconstruction.And yet, amid the uncertainty, there is movement in the other direction too.Players want to come to Liverpool.The badge still means something.The project, however turbulent the season has been, still attracts.Which brings us to the latest confirmed arrival at the club.Manchester United academy product, Summer Hadfield, who spent eight years at Old Trafford working their way through the ranks — has officially announced they are leaving United to join Liverpool ahead of the 2026/27 season.The move was confirmed directly by the player on social media, closing the door on a long and formative chapter to begin what they described simply as their “next chapter” at Anfield.The young English forward who spent seven seasons developing within the Manchester United academy, most recently featuring for their Women’s Under-16 side across the 2024/25 and 2025/26 campaigns.Hadfield has signed with Liverpool Women’s Under-21 squad for the upcoming season, completing a move that is as symbolically loaded as it is personally significant.Her journey to this point has not been straightforward.The 2025/26 season brought a concussion layoff and time away for school exams — disruptions that would have derailed lesser competitors.They did not derail Hadfield.Despite those interruptions, she finished the campaign with 25 goals — a tally she was understandably proud of, and rightly so.United did not offer her a U21 contract.Liverpool did.Announcing the move on Instagram, Hadfield wrote: “7 seasons, 8 years at Manchester United, just wanna thank all the staff for these amazing years I will never forget where it started.”“On to my next chapter @ Liverpool U21s. Bring on preseason.”“Went out on 25 goals this season considering multiple injuries.”For Liverpool, whose Women’s setup has been steadily growing in ambition, Hadfield is exactly the kind of hungry, proven goalscorer you want walking through the door.For United, it is another uncomfortable headline in what has already been a difficult week involving their rivals from Merseyside.Some transfers hurt more than others.This one stings quietly.
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