Former Liverpool and Spainish midfielder, Thiago Alcantara has decided to retire from professional football at the age of 33.
The one-time Spain international has struggled with injuries for more than a year and played just five minutes of Liverpool’s 23/24 campaign, as a late substitute in a 3-1 loss at Arsenal in February.
Thiago underwent surgery in May, 2023 in an effort to help get himself up to the speed for the pre-season period of last summer but was sidelined almost throughout the campaign.
Liverpool signed Thiago in September of 2020 for £20m weeks after he had helped Bayern win the Champions League in Portugal.
Across four years with the Reds, Thiago featured less than 100 times and his last start as a Liverpool player came in February of 2023, in a 3-0 defeat to Wolves at Molinuex.
He was forced to withdraw from the team that won the League Cup against Chelsea at Wembley in February of 2022 after picking up an injury in the warm-up and he required pain-killing injections to get through the Champions League final against Real Madrid three months later in Paris after again hurting himself prior to kick-off.
Interest from the Saudi Pro League was present last summer and it had been speculated that the one-time Barca star would move to the Middle East for the last few years of a glittering career.
However, it looks as though Thiago has now decided to retire from football with a formal statement expected imminently.
