{"id":8495,"date":"2026-06-12T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:08:50","slug":"calum-scanlon-interview-rollercoaster-year-cardiff-loan-and-pre-season-aims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8495","title":{"rendered":"Calum Scanlon interview: &#8216;Rollercoaster&#8217; year, Cardiff loan and pre-season aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I waited 11 months for that,&#8221; Scanlon points out. &#8220;It&#8217;s been very disrupted but it did feel amazing just to get out on the pitch again in front of fans because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;d love to do every week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was brilliant to be back in a men&#8217;s environment \u2013 I think that&#8217;s what I need now. I learned a lot at Cardiff and I was very grateful for them bringing me in. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being around good players as well, such an amazing team, who I&#8217;m sure will do very good in the Championship, (with) a good manager, good fans, it was good for my development. I did learn a lot and it was a great experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A summer holiday with a few Liverpool teammates is next on the agenda, before Scanlon returns from the off-season refreshed with renewed motivation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For pre-season I&#8217;d love to show what I can do,&#8221; he says. &#8220;My eyes are set on playing for Liverpool \u2013 it always has been. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So whatever opportunity I get, I&#8217;m sure to do my bit, I&#8217;ll work hard and whatever happens, happens. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m just ready for whatever&#8217;s thrown at me, and then I&#8217;ll try to do what&#8217;s best for me and my development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Scanlon, who joined Liverpool&#8217;s Academy in 2021 from Birmingham City, has already represented the Reds&#8217; senior team in competitive matches on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>He debuted at Anfield in a Europa League meeting with Toulouse in October 2024 and was then given another opportunity by <strong><u>Jurgen Klopp<\/u><\/strong>  against Union SG when the group stage wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p>His half-hour run-out in L4 is never too far from mind as his boots and shirt from that night take pride of place in the living room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I waited 11 months for that,&#8221; Scanlon points out. &#8220;It&#8217;s been very disrupted but it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}