Thiago Alcantara announces retirement from football – Liverpool FC

Thiago embarked on a new chapter in 2013 by moving to Bayern Munich, where collective success – and his influence upon it – continued to flow.

Indeed, he and the Bavarians lifted the Bundesliga championship in each of his seven campaigns with the club, as well as four German cups and another Club World Cup.

His time in Munich concluded at the top, with Thiago hugely impactful throughout Bayern’s run to Champions League success at the end of a protracted 2019-20 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Growing speculation linking him with Liverpool subsequently materialised in September 2020 as a transfer to Anfield was sealed and he took the No.6 jersey.

Though the next four years would be affected by injuries, Thiago’s 98 appearances for the Reds were brimming with his trademark class and quality.

Not least during an exhilarating 2021-22 campaign that saw Jürgen Klopp’s team challenge for a sensational quadruple and clinch the Carabao Cup and Emirates FA Cup.