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Amadou Koné To Liverpool: Would He Fit In Tactically? | Player Analysis Breakdown!

Amadou Koné To Liverpool: Would He Fit In Tactically? | Player Analysis Breakdown!

Transfer Market Metrics podcast with Dave Davis & Dr Phil Barter crunching the numbers on Amadou Koné's potential Summer moves to Liverpool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jonathan Northcroft's Expert Insight Into Liverpool's Potential Transfer Strategy: LB & ST Priority?

Jonathan Northcroft's Expert Insight Into Liverpool's Potential Transfer Strategy: LB & ST Priority?

In the latest episode of Media Matters, Dave Davis speaks to Jonathan Northcroft, the Chief Football Writer for The Sunday Times. They discuss Liverpool's potential summer transfer business this coming season. Could Isak & Kerkez feature on Liverpool's list this summer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FA Ban Transgender Women: Two Footed Extra Time

FA Ban Transgender Women: Two Footed Extra Time

Dave looks at today's news & gossip as the English FA ban transgender women from women's football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jonathan Northcroft Reveals Just How Exactly Jurgen Klopp Laid The Foundation For Arne Slot Success

Jonathan Northcroft Reveals Just How Exactly Jurgen Klopp Laid The Foundation For Arne Slot Success

In the latest episode of Media Matters, Dave Davis speaks to Jonathan Northcroft, the Chief Football Writer for The Sunday Times, to talk all things Jürgen Klopp and how exactly he set the building blocks for Arne Slot and how this will set up the club post his departure! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave's Brazil Team: The Two Footed Podcast

Dave's Brazil Team: The Two Footed Podcast

Dave looks at the European action from last night and tonight. He then answers questions on a variety of topics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Match Preview | Liverpool vs Stoke City

Liverpool welcome Stoke City to Anfield on Sunday afternoon, hoping to gain three points to close the gap on the top four. A win would push them above Stoke in the table, and could see them rise to 7th. Jurgen Klopp faced his old club on Thursday night as Liverpool came away with a 1-1...

Analysing Origi’s big performance against Dortmund

When Liverpool's starting XI for their quarter-final was announced the first thing many journalists looked at was the fact star forward Daniel Sturridge was on the bench. You could hear them furiously bashing on their keyboard as they raced against one another to announce that Sturridge was dropped. If a player drops down to...

Functionality is key as Liverpool look to improve this summer

Liverpool fans were infamous for their 'next year will be our year' statement. However, for the past decade, the phrase associated with the fans has slowly morphed into 'Liverpool's summer transfer window is their biggest in years'. The two phrases are of course linked. Fans of the Reds are forever harbouring the belief that...

Joe Gomez – Remember me?

An Unfamiliar Face Last summer I heard we were buying a young, quality defender from Charlton Athletic.  Admittedly, I had never heard of Joe Gomez.  I dug a little deeper to find out who this kid was.  I wanted to know why Liverpool had swooped early to acquire Gomez, reportedly from under the noses of...

Dortmund 1 Liverpool 1: Player Ratings

Liverpool put in a great defensive effort against Dortmund to share the spoils and keep the tie alive. The Reds definitely had the better share of clear cut chances which bodes well for the return leg. This is how they fared. Simon Mignolet (7) - A solid night for the Liverpool keeper as he was at...

Welcome back, Liverpool FC

If one is to type the word, ‘Liverpool’ into a google search, said one will be met with a definition telling you that it’s “a historic maritime city in northwest England, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea” - allow me to tell you that this definition is wrong. In reality, a ‘Liverpool’...

The Mad Science of Dr. Franken-Klopp – It’s Alive! … Sort Of

You can see the images now. A slightly disheveled, sleep-deprived, Jürgen Klopp emerges from his office in the middle of the night. The dim lights cast shadows on his maniacal face as His assistant, Mr. Buvac, silently stalks in the background. They both watch on, as lightning strikes and thunder crashes. There in the darkness...

Illustrating Liverpool’s Pressing vs Tottenham

We've been collecting Pressing Stats since 2013 on Anfield Index and after watching Liverpool draw with Spurs at Anfield I expected a really rough time when manually collecting these pressing stats. I wasn't wrong as Liverpool pressed the Londoners 239 times which is the second highest ever collected on AnfieldIndex. Whilst Liverpool will always miss Roberto...

The Three Dortmund Players Liverpool Need to Stop

Borussia Dortmund are up there with the best teams in Europe this season. They're currently only five points behind Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. That may sound like a big gap but given just how good Bayern have been this season it's some achievement for Dortmund to even be within touching distance as the...

Dortmund vs Liverpool – Europa League Preview

Liverpool travel to Germany to face Borussia Dortmund on Thursday night in the first leg of the quarter finals of the Europa League. Thursday's game promises to be quite the spectacle with a return to Germany for Jurgen Klopp making all the headlines in the build up to the crucial tie. Both sides will be...

The Sakho and Lovren Bias

It's ingrained in every single one of us from birth. It's second nature. It's inbuilt. Bias. No matter how fair we all try to be we look at things with rose tinted glasses from time to time and it can't be helped. If you see a nice pair of trainers in a colour you dislike they're...

Scouting LFC Target Lucas Alario – Who Is He & What’s He Like at Football?

Liverpool need an Argentine, but no one was expecting this one. Last week it emerged that the club were in serious talks with River Plate to bring striker Lucas Alario to Anfield in time for next season. The fact (according to Transfermarkt) he holds an Italian passport, which would help bypass any work permit issues, may...

Jürgen Klopp – Under the Spell of a Madman

Why the optimism? Maybe it's because we wrote this season off when Rodgers was sacked in October.  A new manager, whoever it was, would need time to affect change and instill their vision within our club.  Then it happened… Klopp-mania.  The question is not “why did we expect immediate miracles?” but “how could we have...

Liverpool’s Defensive Midfield Search – Part 2

A few weeks ago, this writer published his ideal choices for a midfielder, shopping outside of the Bundesliga (which can be found here). Here, encompassing the homeland of Liverpool’s new manager, are this writer’s four picks from the Bundesliga to strengthen Liverpool’s midfield, in part two of our search for a defensive midfielder. Granit Xhaka Though...

Another Summer of Change ahead for Liverpool

Everybody is for sale, kind of. There are bounties on the heads of the majority of Liverpool players as we head into open season also known as the Summer transfer window. Every single player has a price. Chairmen may talk a big game but at the end of the day they're just like every other salesman in...

Observations From Liverpool’s Draw Against Spurs

A draw at home to Spurs. It's not the worst result but given how the game progressed, Liverpool fans must be disappointed not to be walking away with three points. Both teams went for the win and although Liverpool tried their very best to give the ball away to Spurs on many occasions, it...

Liverpool 1 Tottenham 1: Player Ratings

A slow, error filled first-half was followed by an entertaining second-half as both teams fought hard and ultimately walked away with the share of the spoils. Let's see how the Reds fared tonight.. Simon Mignolet (6.5) - A relatively safe first-half for Mignolet, but for the usual indecisiveness which put the team in bother on at...

Can You Have Too Many Attacking Midfielders?

"Liverpool don't need Götze, they've already got too many attacking midfielders" This comment isn't just exclusive to fans of the opposition, sadly, but actual Liverpool supporters. Yes you're reading this correctly, there are Reds fans that believe Liverpool, a Europa League team as things stand, don't need Germany's World Cup winning hero Mario Götze because they've...

Liverpool vs Tottenham Match Preview

Liverpool welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Anfield on Saturday evening, hoping to detail their title attempts and keep up the pressure on the Premier League's top five. Jurgen Klopp's side have had a mixed bag of results this season, and there is no doubt that there are a number of issues that need to be looked...

Captaincy Candidates – Part Two: Emre Can

We are back with the second part of this series looking at the potential candidates to be Liverpool's captain next season. After assessing Jordan Henderson in the first part, this time we turn our attention to Henderson's midfield partner, Emre Can. I'll say this: If Emre Can stays at the club for the next 4...

Why Liverpool Dare Not Fail Next Season

Behind us lie the ashes of the false dawns. Scattered across the landscape of the nineties when illustrious and God gifted Liverpool men such as Fowler and McManaman weren’t enough to steady a ship ran from its course under the guidance of Souness. Haunting us through the opening acts of the new century, as...

Top Four Is On For Liverpool, People

For those of you who took the time to click on an article so shamelessly titled in such an abhorrent manner, fear not: I am not deluded. Though many have mused that very possibility, and while there have been times when that may have been the case, this is not one of those times....

Firmino: The Bobby Dazzler

The story is familiar.  Poor kid from South America, family makes sacrifices to help him on his way, makes breakthrough in his home-country before transferring to a middle-of-the-road European club, performs highly in Europe, earns big-money deal to Premier League. Most of us are familiar with the tale of Luis Suarez’s career journey and ambition,...

Player Comparison: Joe Allen vs Jordan Henderson

Two of the most pertinent issues surrounding the Liverpool squad at this moment in time involve the Welsh midfielder Joe Allen. The diminutive Welsh international has found his role in the squad somewhat limited at times under new manager Jürgen Klopp whilst, puzzlingly, still finding himself at the centre of some good talking points...

Daniel Sturridge: Keep or Sell?

With the summer drawing ever closer, rumours have been circulating about a number of Liverpool players, including the future of Daniel Sturridge. The England striker has struggled with injury in the last few seasons, causing many fans to want the club to wipe their hands with the 26 year old, who could command a...

Four Horsemen of the AKLOPPalypse – Gotze, Sturridge, Firmino and Coutinho

Who wouldn't be proud of that headline? Paul Joyce and Tony Barrett had Liverpool fans a euphoric mess on Monday evening by stating Bayern Munich's Mario Gotze wants to link up with Reds manager Jurgen Klopp once again. If Liverpool were to sign the World Cup winner it would be considered a coup for the...

Keep or Sell? Does Joe Allen Deserve Hero Status?

When he arrived in the summer of 2012, Joe Allen was something of a statement signing for Brendan Rodgers; he was the player he desperately wanted. The two had worked well together at Swansea and Rodgers saw Allen as a vital cog, a key component in how he envisaged his Liverpool team playing. Many...

Liverpool Vs Spurs: The Key Battles this Weekend

Liverpool play Spurs this weekend, with each club in pursuance of varying ambitions in the league this season. Spurs are in the chase for the title, and hence this game becomes a must-win for Spurs. Liverpool are faintly in contention for a top 4 place, which took a beating after the 'defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory' against Southampton....

Mario Götze, a Perfect Reunion?

As soon as Jürgen Klopp arrived at Liverpool FC, various newspapers posed the question, 'Which former players from Klopp's Dortmund team would he attempt to sign?', Liverpool have been linked with Ílkay Gündogan, Marco Reus and Neven Subotić, but most recently there have been reports of a summer move for Mario Götze on the cards;...

A Look at the Liverpool Defence

After yet another Liverpool capitulation, this time a 3-2 loss against Southampton, there has been copious amounts of finger pointing with regards to what went wrong and who is at fault for the result. Martin Skrtel was a standout performer for the home side as they turned around a 2-0 half time deficit. He gifted...