When England open their Euros tournament this summer, a couple of Liverpool players will be reunited with an old friend.

England kickstart Euro 2024 on June 16 at the Veltins-Arena, the usual home ground of Schalke, where they will face Serbia in the first game of the group stage.

Gareth Southgate's men have been tipped as one of the favourites to go on and win the competition this summer in Germany.

But they must first make it past Serbia, Slovenia and Denmark in Group C - with the top two going through with the third having to potentially progress via play-offs.

One man who looks set to stand in England's way is Marko Grujic, who might be best remembered for his time at Liverpool, though he hardly lit up the place.

The midfielder joined Liverpool in January 2016, becoming Jurgen Klopp's first signing after the German arrived at Anfield in October 2015.

Klopp was desperate to bring in Grujic, too, making it his personal mission to sign him.

While at Red Star Belgrade, several top European teams were interested in Grujic, who was just 19 at the time.

Inter Milan, AC Milan, Chelsea and Juventus were all interested in the Serbian but Liverpool were the frontrunners with Klopp even personally calling Grujic to try get a deal done.

However, there was one man deadset against a move to Merseyside - Grujic's father.