Liverpool FC Opinion
There’s no guide out there on how to use stats in football. Maybe there should be. After all, a stat without context is just a number. Mainstream media has been forced into embracing this part of the sport over recent seasons. They initially resisted, but it quickly became a case of adapt or perish. As […]
Naby Keita joined Liverpool with much fanfare in the summer of 2018. The Reds pursued the Guinean for the entirety of the summer of 2017, but with his club Red Bull Leipzig, reluctant to sell, a compromise was reached that the English club would pay a £10M premium and sign the midfielder the following summer. […]
Virgil, Joe Gomez & Joel Matip represent a core defensive unit of players that have for the most part been unavailable this season. The ramifications of not signing a Dejan Lovren replacement, in the form of Wesley Fofana or an earlier acquisition of Kabak to add required depth now looks foolish. The system, the counter […]
The Super League, a revolutionary idea that was shunned by the masses, ill prepared for public consumption by the instigators and put back into its box for normality to resume within the elite football corridors throughout Europe. UEFA are no shining light with their failures, short comings and inability to implement Financial Fair Play did […]
After a couple of days of speculation, the plug was officially pulled on the half-baked European Super League idea last Tuesday. With thermonuclear levels of furore — from managers, players, politicians and sponsors alike — the architects of the proposed replacement of the Champions League, Andrea Agnelli of Juventus and Florentino Perez of Real Madrid, […]
It seems almost counter-intuitive to be writing about anything other than the colossal fallout from the crumbling of the Super League, but here I am trying to pull a semblance of logic into my brain. Did I dream it or was there a football match that Liverpool were involved in recently? The 1-1 draw at […]
Liverpool’s prospects of qualifying for next season’s Champions League took a hit after a 1-1 draw with Leeds United at Elland Road. Sadio Mane’s first-half goal gave the visitors a deserved 1-0 lead at the interval, but after a meek and insipid second-half display from the Reds, Leeds — through Diego Llorente’s header — deservedly […]
The Super League… It’s literally the same process that saw the Premier League breakaway from FA so they could make their own deals and build a marketable enterprise. The rebranding of the Champions League from the European Cup format was for similar financial gain and a now theres a move (that was never a secret) […]
So, a trophy-less season it is then. Liverpool’s Champions League dream ended in all-too-predictable fashion on Wednesday night, with poor finishing yet again proving fatal against Real Madrid. While much of the focus has understandably been on the Reds’ centre-back woes, with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all absent, their struggles in […]
For a while now, it has felt as though Liverpool have been assembling what could best be described as a Swiss Army midfield. Jurgen Klopp has referenced it recently. Firstly, against Chelsea, he implied that James Milner got the nod ahead of Naby Keita for his leadership qualities and not for footballing reasons. Then, ahead […]
