Liverpool loan watch: How every player is faring in 2025/26 away from Anfield

Liverpool have 10 players out on loan during the 2025/26 season and we’re keeping track of how all of them are getting on over their spells away from Anfield.

All but one of Liverpool’s loanees are aged 24 or under, so will be hoping to make the most of the chance of better gametime this season. After all, only three of the 10 loanees have double figures of appearances for Liverpool to their name by this stage.

Dropping down into the EFL or moving abroad has opened up new horizons for these Liverpool players, but who will have the most fruitful time out on loan? And, on the flipside, who will this be the beginning of the end for?

Here, TEAMtalk will be guiding you through the form of each Liverpool loanee throughout the 2025/26 season.

Harvey Davies

• Position: Goalkeeper
• Club: Crawley Town
• Appearances: 11
• Goals conceded: 20

After signing a new contract with Liverpool on the back of a loan spell with Crewe Alexandra, Davies is back in League Two with Crawley Town this season.

He’s played 11 times for Crawley so far but missed the weekend loss to Cambridge United after suffering a finger injury in training.

He did impress in the Carabao Cup defeat to Swansea City, with Crawley boss Scott Lindsey summarising: “I thought he was excellent. He’s a very good goalkeeper and he made some good saves. I  thought he was very good with his kicking and his distribution.”

Davies is being encouraged by Lindsey to help bring the ball out from the back and build possession, which remains a work in progress.

Vitezslav Jaros

• Position: Goalkeeper
• Club: Ajax
• Appearances: 10
• Goals conceded: 16

Like fellow goalkeeper Davies, Jaros signed a new contract with Liverpool before heading out on loan for the season.

Having taken the no.1 shirt at Ajax upon his loan move, which has seen him follow former Liverpool assistant coach John Heitinga, Jaros started their Eredivisie opener against Telstar and kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win.

He conceded twice in their next game, a draw with Go Ahead Eagles, but was still described as making a ‘strong impression’ by Dutch paper De Telegraaf and duly got another clean sheet on his third appearance against Heracles.

Jaros conceded once each in the next two games but was unable to keep Inter Milan at bay in Ajax’s Champions League opener, with the Serie A side winning 2-0. He also conceded twice in a 2-2 league draw with bitter rivals PSV and once to NAC Breda.

The last two outings for Jaros have also seen him concede seven times, including a 4-0 Champions League loss to Marseille and a 3-3 draw with NAC Breda in the league.

Kostas Tsimikas

• Position: Left-back
• Club: Roma
• Appearances: 5
• Goals: 0

Pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of Milos Kerkez, coupled with Andy Robertson staying at the club, Tsimikas left Liverpool to join Roma in late August.

The Greece international made his debut for the club off the bench in the 1-0 derby win over Lazio, coming on with nine minutes remaining, before gaining his first start in the Europa League against Nice and providing an assist.

Tsimikas has started Roma’s last two games, although he was taken off at half-time of the Champions League defeat to Lille.

Owen Beck

• Position: Left-back
• Club: Derby County
• Appearances: 0
• Goals: 0

Beck was on the bench for Derby’s first friendly after completing his loan move, but didn’t come on and hasn’t yet been able to feature since the season began due to a minor muscle strain.

“It’s important that we don’t rush them because we don’t want them to break down any further,” Derby boss John Eustace said about Beck and new teammate Matt Clarke ahead of their Championship opener.

Isaac Mabaya

• Position: Right-back
• Club: Wigan Athletic
• Appearances: 3
• Goals: 0

Mabaya came on as a substitute in both of Wigan’s first League One matches of the season. He started as a wing-back in their EFL Cup game against Notts County next, but was taken off on a stretcher after getting injured in the first half.

“We’ll speak to Liverpool in the morning and we’ll see what’s best for him,” Wigan boss Ryan Lowe said after the game.

“But I’m just gutted for the kid, he’s a fantastic lad, he’s a great human being. I’ve monitored him for many years now, when I was at Preston; he’s had his ups and downs with injuries.

“We thought this might be the year he can kick on, us and Liverpool thought that.

“I don’t really know what it is at the moment, to be honest, I know it’s to do with his lower limb.

“I’m just gutted for him, he’s come here wanting to work hard, get in the team, I gave him an opportunity tonight and lo and behold after 20-odd minutes it’s not worked out.

“He’s been coming on the pitch for that type of time, so we just felt it was the right time to get maybe 45 minutes, maybe 60, but just disappointed for him.

“We’ll be there with him through thick and thin and I’m sure everyone at Liverpool will. We’ll see how he is, but it’s probably not looking good.”

Mabaya will undergo his recuperation with Liverpool and Lowe has been asked if his loan spell could be terminated to free up another loan slot for the Latics.

“Well he can’t remain our loan player if he’s not going to be able to play,” he said.

“I’ll leave all that to Gregor (Rioch, sporting director) who will sort that out with Liverpool, they’ll have that conversation and fix the nitty gritty bits.

“But for me as a head coach, he’s obviously not going to be available to me any time soon, if any this season, for anyone.”

Luca Stephenson

• Position: Midfielder
• Club: Dundee United
• Appearances: 6
• Goals: 2

After featuring for Liverpool in pre-season, Stephenson signed a new contract before setting out on a second loan spell with Dundee United.

He spent last season in the Scottish Premiership with them too and his manager Jim Goodwin said: “He’s come back stronger, fully fit, and hungry to pick up where he left off.

“He’s had a brilliant summer working under Arne Slot and alongside some of the best players in the world – that experience will serve him and us incredibly well this season.”

Stephenson’s second debut for Dundee United came on August 17, as he played the entirety of their Scottish League Cup defeat to Kilmarnock as a right wing-back.

Since then, he has been impactful in the league from the same position, notching an assist in the Dundee derby and then scoring a brace against Hibernian.

“Luca deserves a huge amount of credit for the goals he scored, and he was really unlucky at the end there [not to get a third],” said Goodwin.

Stephenson’s latest appearance saw him play the full 90 minutes in a 1-1 draw with Livingston.

James McConnell

• Position: Midfielder
• Club: Ajax
• Appearances: 3
• Goals: 0

McConnell followed Jaros to Ajax to work with Heitinga throughout the 2025/26 season after signing a long-term new deal with Liverpool in late August.

The midfielder made his debut by coming on for the last 23 minutes of Ajax’s 3-1 win over PEC Zwolle upon their return from the international break in September.

The 21-year-old made his Champions League debut when he came off with 27 minutes to go in the 2-0 defeat to Inter Milan.

McConnell returned from injury to come on as a late substitute in a 3-3 draw with Sparta Rotterdam on October 4.

James Balagizi

• Position: Midfielder
• Club: Forest Green Rovers
• Appearances: 7
• Goals: 1

Dropping into the National League with Forest Green, Balagizi has only featured as a substitute so far but scored on his second appearance off the bench, grabbing a 98th-minute equaliser against Scunthorpe United on September 13.

Balagizi started the 0-0 draw with Boston at the start of October before coming on as a late substitute in a 1-0 loss to Rochdale on October 4.

Harvey Elliott

• Position: Attacking midfielder
• Club: Aston Villa
• Appearances: 5
• Goals: 1

Elliott, whose loan move will become permanent depending on an appearance threshold, made his Villa debut upon the return from the international break.

He came on for the last 20 minutes or so of Villa’s goalless draw on Merseyside against Everton and was used from the bench again as Unai Emery’s strugglers drew 1-1 at Sunderland on September 21.

In between, he scored his first goal for Villa in an EFL Cup match against Brentford.

Elliott made a late cameo off the bench in the Europa League win at Feyenoord but was an unused substitute as Villa beat Burnley in the Premier League on October 5.

Lewis Koumas

• Position: Winger
• Club: Birmingham City
• Appearances: 7
• Goals: 0

Koumas completed a loan move to Birmingham City on August 22, not in time to feature in their next Championship match against Oxford United.

“Lewis is obviously coming from a great club, a great education development he’s had there,” manager Chris Davies said after the game.

His debut followed on August 29 against Leicester City, playing as part of a strike partnership and lasting 77 minutes.

He had to make do with a spot on the bench after the international break, though, coming on for the last half an hour of a loss to his former loan club Stoke City.

Koumas was handed a start, however, in the 1-0 win over Swansea, playing 67 minutes before being withdrawn. He is getting game time on the left wing now and his most recent appearance came off the bench in the 1-1 draw against Wrexham on October 3.

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