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Xabi Alonso Will be Liverpool Manager As Bayer Leverkusen march towards the 2023/24 Bundesliga title, their manager, Xabi Alonso, took it upon himself to declare his intention to remain their next season, which is superb news for the German league leaders. Following the bombshell news earlier in the year, that Jürgen Klopp would be stepping […]
Liverpool’s Pursuit of Lavia In the ever-evolving world of football transfers, Liverpool have taken a decisive step forward. The Merseyside giants have tabled a £60m bid for Southampton’s prodigious talent, Roméo Lavia. But with Chelsea hot on their heels, the race for Lavia’s signature is far from over. Liverpool have agreed a £60m deal to […]
The Champions League group stage draw took place in Monaco last Friday. Champions Liverpool were drawn in group E alongside Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli, KRC Genk of Belgium and Austria’s Red Bull Salzburg. Each tie will be interesting for the Reds but in different ways. Napoli presents a familiarity for Jurgen Klopp and his team. Liverpool […]
The Champions League final has just finished. Loris Karius walks to Liverpool supporters in tears and apologises for a catastrophic performance, in the last 45 minutes his mistakes allowed Real Madrid to comfortably beat Jurgen Klopp’s side. The dream of conquering Europe is over. For many Liverpool supporters, these scenes seem to still define German […]
One team were busy booking a date with destiny in the newly named ‘Sadio Olimpico’ on Wednesday night. The other? Well, they enjoyed a week of preparation with all their eggs in domestic baskets after crashing out the competition earlier in the campaign. Inhibited by ongoing injury issues within the squad, Jurgen Klopp had little choice […]
“We’re defending really well at the moment, we’ve been solid.” – Simon Mignolet, 20th December 2017. Hubris: noun – excessive pride or self-confidence. – the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Mignolet played his 199th game for Liverpool on Friday at the Emirates Stadium and was largely responsible for the Gunners securing a draw when Liverpool were […]
That crushing inevitability is the worst feeling. Perhaps Liverpool fans are simply making their way through the stages of grief, and are trying to bargain with themselves the potential loss of Emre Can will be less grievous than reality will dictate. But fear not, for here in the land of perpetual posturing and theoretical deals, […]
What defines world-class? Every football supporter has a different way of seeing it. To some, it is only those truly elite players like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Suarez and Neymar, while others could name 100 who fit into that bracket. For me, it is someone in and around the top 10 players in the […]
Read Part 1: ‘What Makes a Goalkeeper a Keeper?” here. The One Who Currently Rules with Velvet Gloves – Simon Mignolet If there ever was a player who exhibited traits of Jekyll and Hyde so clearly over a season, it has to be Liverpool’s goalkeeper Simon Mignolet. It’s fair to say that Mignolet would be […]
