Curtis Jones’ cheeky five-word message as he proposes to Liverpool teammate in tunnel

Curtis Jones couldn’t resist making a cheeky joke at Liverpool team-mate Alexis McAllister during the Argentine’s return to Brighton in the League Cup.

Curtis Jones joked that Brighton could bring back Alexis McAllister(Image: X/@OfficialBHAFC)

Curtis Jones joked that Brighton and Hove Albion “could Alexis Mac Allister back” before Liverpool the midfielder faced his former club. The Reds visited the Amex Stadium last week. Carabao Cup a clash in which Mac Allister came off the bench Arne Slot’st side.

Jones played the full 90 minutes in Liverpool’s 3–2 win. And the England Under-21 sensation was in good spirits even before the game as he took a lighthearted dig at teammate Mac Allister.

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As the Liverpool team emerged from the tunnel to begin their pre-match warm-up, Mac Allister ran into two familiar faces from Brighton’s staff.

The Argentine shared hugs and pleasantries, and one of the ladies said: “Nice to see you, we missed you!” Mac Allister blushed, much to his teammate’s amusement. Darwin Nunez.

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Jones, having overheard the conversation, jokingly replied with a straight face: “You can give it back.” Brighton didn’t have to wait long to see their former star again as they headed to Enfield last Saturday on Premier League A match that ended in a 2-1 defeat after a decisive comeback from Liverpool.

Despite the jokes from Jones, the 23-year-old praised the arrival of Mac Allister last season following his £35million move in the summer of 2023, saying he had learned a very useful trick from the World Cup winner. Jones specifically pointed out how Mac Allister used his body, especially his backside, while maintaining possession of the ball.

Asked what he learned from his new teammates, Jones responded to Yaya Toure, who regularly discussed the benefits of using the back, by saying: “Mac Allister, I’ll talk about him. He comes and how he protects.” a ball I’ve never seen before.

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“He can take the ball and do those things where he sticks his butt out a little bit and you can’t take the ball away from him. So I think just his experience, he knows when he’s going to be pressured and how he moves.”

Slot was delighted with the win over Brighton, saying after the game: “I think a lot happens in a season. Sometimes you need to defend a lead, sometimes you need to come back from a 1-0 deficit. So, this is a win that you also need in a season where you want to be competitive because you can’t always be the best team on the field from the first to the last second.

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“Sometimes you go through a difficult period and then you need to fight back and that’s what we did. I didn’t ask them – I wish they would have done it, and in the end they did – but I didn’t ask them to score two goals, I just asked them to play differently in the second half than we did against Nottingham Forest with a different mentality.

“So if things go against you, you have to show up. Winners always do that, and fortunately we have a lot of winners in our team that came in the second half.”