Friday saw Liverpool’s fixtures for the Christmas period finally confirmed while Arne Slot provided a positive injury update on Ryan Gravenberch.Liverpool’s festive fixturesDespite fans needing as much time to prepare as possible, the Premier League and its broadcasters have waited until just seven weeks out from Christmas Day to finalise the festive fixtures.They are now out, thankfully, and Liverpool have had it confirmed that they won’t play on Boxing Day for the first time since 2021.The Reds’ final match leading up to Christmas is away at Tottenham on December 20, before they host Wolves at 3pm (GMT) on December 27 and Leeds on New Year’s Day.The game against Wolves won’t be on UK televsion, but the subsequent three matches have all been selected for broadcast by Sky Sports.Two trips to London follow the Leeds game, against Fulham and Arsenal on Sunday, January 4 and Thursday, January 8 respectively.• Tottenham (A) – PL – Sat, Dec 20, 5.30pm• Wolves (H) – PL – Sat, Dec 27, 3pm• Leeds (H) – PL – Thur, Jan 1, 5.30pm• Fulham (A) – PL – Sun, Jan 4, 3pm• Arsenal (A) – PL – Thur, Jan 8, 8pmRead more hereToday’s Liverpool FC News • Slot has revealed that Gravenberch could play on Saturday night having returned to team training on Thursday – he is “99.9 percent sure” that Curtis Jones and Alexander Isak won’t feature, though• Unai Emery is without four players for Aston Villa‘s trip to Liverpool – Harvey Elliott is ineligible while Emi Buendia, Youri Tielemans and Andres Garcia are injured• Slot shut down suggestions that Joe Gomez could play right-back vs. Villa but did say he ‘was open to adapting’ to a more defensive style in certain games• According to common Egyptian football source winwin, Mo Salah is not likely to join up with the Egypt squad for their training camp ahead of AFCON – that means he probably won’t leave Merseyside until after playing Brighton on December 13Elsewhere in the football world today• Man United‘s home match against Newcastle at 8pm will be the only top-flight match on Boxing Day this year – the Premier League are blaming “the expansion of European club competitions”• With more likely to come forward, three parties have given the administrators of Sheffield Wednesday proof of £50 million in funds to take over the club (BBC Sport)• Craig Bellamy has committed to seeing out Wales’ World Cup qualifying campaign amid links to the vacant Celtic manager’s job