Beyonce plaudits and Lucas has a Chinese
Two remarkably different people dominated the Twitter conversation for Reds stars past and present this week – pop singer Beyonce and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher.
On Sunday the Reds were unfortunate to only draw 2-2 at Manchester City in the Barclays Premier League, with full-back Jose Enrique insistent post-match that his team deserved three points...
Former Liverpool midfielder Terry McDermott agreed and singled out one player in particular for praise...
The annual sporting extravaganza that is the Superbowl took place later that day and several Liverpool stars stayed up late to follow the action - including Jon Flanagan, Glen Johnson and Lucas Leiva.
Beyonce took centre stage for the traditional half-time show and clearly made an impression on the watching footballers...
Jonjo Shelvey was among the 15 first-team players to head out on international duty midweek, and the midfielder added his name to the scoresheet as England U21s thrashed Sweden before posting his delight on Twitter...
The biggest news of the week undoubtedly arrived on Thursday, when veteran defender Carragher announced that he will retire from football and leave Anfield at the end of the season.
As well as trending on the social media site in the aftermath of the statement, former colleagues and current teammates used Twitter to document their tributes, thoughts and memories of the No.23...
In other news, Lucas Leiva announced on Friday that he'd become the first Liverpool player to set up a Sina Weibo account - giving him a social media presence in China. At the time of writing he already had 17,000 followers...
And finally, new signing Philippe Coutinho posted a special message for Liverpool supporters on Twitter...
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