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Liverpool Have 'Held Talks' to Sign £52m Chelsea Star This Summer - Report

Liverpool Eye Chelsea’s £52m Nkunku After Palmer Blow As Liverpool begin plotting their title defence, a new name has emerged on their transfer radar: …

20-year-old Liverpool Star to be Handed 'Huge Opportunity' by Arne Slot - Journalist

Stefan Bajcetic: Liverpool’s Forgotten Gem Set for Crucial Summer Audition Liverpool loanee Stefan Bajcetic is turning heads in Spain with a string of composed, …

Journalist Reveals Eight Liverpool Stars That Could Leave This Summer

Liverpool Summer Transfer Window: Who's In, Who's Out? As Liverpool bask in the glow of their second Premier League title in five years – …

Liverpool 'Definitely Keen' on Signing £50m Premier League Star - Journalist

Liverpool Eye Bournemouth Starlet Huijsen Amid Fierce Transfer Battle With the summer transfer window fast approaching, Liverpool are intensifying their scouting activity – and …

Journalist Confirms Liverpool 'Wouldn't be in a Rush' to Sell £30m Forward

Liverpool’s Clear Stance on Ben Doak Amid Transfer Window Buzz Liverpool’s preparations for the 2025 summer transfer window are already in full swing, with …

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Liverpool Have 'Held Talks' to Sign £52m Chelsea Star This Summer - Report

Liverpool Eye Chelsea’s £52m Nkunku After Palmer Blow As Liverpool begin plotting their title defence, a new name has emerged on their transfer radar: …

Chelsea Set to Honour Champions Liverpool Ahead of Stamford Bridge Clash

Chelsea vs Liverpool: Premier League Preview Date: Sunday, 4th May 2025 Venue: Stamford Bridge Kick-off: 16:30 BST Liverpool head to Stamford Bridge with the …

Alisson Becker Remains Liverpool’s Undisputed No.1 as Future Plans Take Shape

Alisson Becker: Still the Number One in Liverpool’s Stable of Stoppers As Liverpool closes out a glorious Premier League-winning season, one figure remains quietly …

Why Liverpool’s Chiesa Will Be Medalled Despite Just Four League Appearances

Federico Chiesa's Medal Moment: More Than Just Appearances Liverpool’s Premier League title win under Arne Slot has been celebrated as a symbol of smooth …

Liverpool Face £200,000-per-week Contract Dilemma as Transfer Rumours Persist

Should Luis Díaz Get an Elite Level Contract? As Liverpool lifts their 20th English league title and Arne Slot celebrates a remarkable debut season …

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Liverpool Could 'Dominate for Years' After Winning the Premier League Title - Claims Former Man City Star

Exclusive: Former Man City Defender Claims Liverpool Could 'Dominate for Years' After Winning 20th League Title After 35 years of waiting, Liverpool finally got …

How Liverpool Stacks Up Against Top Premier League Clubs

Over the past ten years, Liverpool has undergone an extraordinary transformation. From a club that once struggled to get into the top 4, the …

Exclusive: Former Midfielder Hails Liverpool Star as 'The Best the Premier League Has Ever Seen'

Exclusive: Former Liverpool Midfielder Makes Huge Virgil Van Dijk Claim After Premier League Title Victory Reality is slowly starting to sink in as Liverpool …

"10 out of 10" - Former Liverpool Midfielder Rates Arne Slot's Debut Season

Exclusive: Former Liverpool Midfielder Heaps Praise on Arne Slot After Premier League Title Victory Sunday was a historic day for Liverpool as they secured …

From Kirkby to the Kop: How Liverpool’s Academy Became a Talent Factory

Over the past decade, Liverpool Football Club has experienced a renaissance—not just at the senior level, but deep within its youth ranks. Tucked away …

When Dalglish pursued and finally signed a young Jordan Henderson, a few days shy of turning 21 years of age on the 9th of June 2011, many amongst the Liverpool faithful were very hopeful. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Liverpool had only just emerged from the toxic...

Liverpool, Consistency and the Pecking Order

During this season I’ve written quite a bit about its seemingly endless twists and turns, the high points, and on the back of the latest bump in the road that sent the Liverpool wagon spinning off the rails, the occasional lows. It’s to be expected of course. New manager, new tactical masterplan, players signed for...

Jurgen Klopp’s tactical tweaks

As stated before kick-off, a 2-0 score line is a dangerous one. It's one that could cause a lot of teams, and managers, a limbo like problem. Should you attack or defend? Stick or twist? It's a favourable position to be in but potentially one of the worst ones to have psychologically. At 1-0...

Could West Ham save Christian Benteke from nightmare at Liverpool?

With rumours swirling that West Ham United are interested in signing Christian Benteke during the transfer window in the summer. If the rumours are true the Hammers are looking to offload injury prone Andy Carroll and replace him with the Belgian forward. One major stumbling block that will need to be resolved is the huge wages he...

Illustrating Liverpool’s Pressing vs Southampton

We've been collecting Pressing Stats since 2013 on Anfield Index and after watching Southampton beat Liverpool at St Mary's I expected an easier time when manually collecting these pressing stats. It was a close run thing Liverpool pressed more than they did against Crystal Palace but Southampton had much more of the ball than Palace...

Tactical Autopsy of the loss to Southampton

Liverpool's disappointing loss to Southampton was the definition of a game of two halves. The first half was a Jurgen Klopp masterclass. The Reds were like a Duracell bunny in the first half; first to second balls, pressing Southampton before they reached the Liverpool half and devastating when transitioning defence into attack. The second...

The Case for Alberto Moreno

It wasn’t too long ago that Alberto Moreno was plying his trade in his native homeland, winning battles on Sevilla’s left flank as they stormed their way to a Europa League championship. Highly regarded during season 2013/14, Brendan Rodgers’ most prominent, and important season at the helm of a Luis Suarez-less Liverpool FC would...

Captaincy Candidates – Part One: Jordan Henderson

For 12 years, the presence of Steven Gerrard ensured that, of all the problems that Liverpool faced, finding a captain was never an issue. Add to that the presence of stalwarts like Jamie Carragher, Sami Hyypia and Xabi Alonso, and it is not difficult to understand why leadership was never an issue. But when Gerrard...

Observations from the bottle job against Southampton

Liverpool's first loss inside of 90 minutes since the start of February was hard to swallow. It's hard to really put into words how disappointing that second half performance was after such an impressive first half. The second half was shit. A big pile of steaming shit with a Martin Skrtel on top. For Liverpool fans...

It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… No! It’s Super Can

Emre Can put in a man of the match performance under the lights of Old Trafford on Thursday night and in doing so cemented his place in the hearts and minds of the Liverpool faithful. Our very own Turkish delight dominated the midfield with a brilliant performance entrenched with power, pace and technical quality...

Liverpool v Dortmund: A Dream Draw

It was written in the stars, with an almost certain inevitability to it, that Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund would be drawn together in the Europa League quarter-finals. For Jürgen Klopp and everyone associated with Dortmund it is a very emotional tie; you only have to look back at his final game at the Westfalenstadion...

Getting the League title to Anfield: a £200m project?

“You could say they need to spend £ 100m, but where does that get you in today’s market? If they are going to have a real go it needs to be more like £ 200m….” Alan Hansen I admire Hansen for what he helped the club achieve but he will find that even Klopp for...

A Comprehensive Analysis of Ian Ayre’s Liverpool Legacy

On Monday, Ian Ayre announced that he will step down as Liverpool’s CEO at the end of the 2016/17 season. The reaction amongst Liverpool fans was understandably uncertain: Ian Ayre manages to simultaneously give off the aura of a childish buffoon and a competent professional. Given the announcement and the emotional ambiguity felt towards...

All Aboard The Lovren Bandwagon

Hands up if you were one of the fans who jumped feet first on to the "Lovren is shit" bandwagon? Hands up if you are one of the fans who would be at the front of the bandwagon organising the Lovren is shit chorus? Who could blame you right? For nearly eighteen months of...

Observations from Liverpool’s draw against Manchester United

A 1-1 draw was enough to see Liverpool progress to the quarter-finals of the Europa League. There was so much talk pre-match from Manchester United boss, Louis Van Gaal, that they only needed two goals and missing midfielder, Ander Herrera, mentioned how the grass was better at Old Trafford, therefore you would see a...

Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1 – LIVE Post Match Call In (Audio)

Hello and welcome to the another LIVE post match call in on the AnfieldIndex Channel - following the 2nd Leg of the Europa League tie at Old Trafford where Liverpool played Manchester United! Today on the Nina Kauser Show, Nina welcomes Gags Tandon and Dave Hendrick to discuss all the major events on the game at Old...

Man United v Liverpool: Key Battles to look out for

Liverpool take a healthy two goal lead into the Europa League second leg against Manchester United, but can be rest assured that things won't be easy at Old Trafford, as the Old Enemy will look to pull all straps to ensure that they knock the Reds out of contention for their last piece of...

Liverpool FC – Make me a Believer

There’s this word that I’ve always liked called schadenfreude; it’s a German word that has become quite popularly recognised amongst English speakers. The word essentially means sour grapes, but schadenfreude sounds so much better than sour grapes and I’ll admit feeling schadenfreude towards Manchester United. As a Liverpool fan of over 30 years, it...

The 2nd Leg – Is This Liverpool’s Biggest Game in Ten Years?

Manchester United fans seem to think the tie is over. Liverpool fans are spending their time debating how many goals they'll win by. It's a surreal scenario if you're of a certain age. The first thought is to assume the pressure is on Manchester United ahead of the match on Thursday but if anything...

Manchester United vs Liverpool: Europa League Preview

It could be said that taking a 2-0 home lead into the away leg of any European tie can give a team great confidence. However, the same might not be said of a fanbase, as Liverpool supporters pray that their side doesn't let their impressive Anfield performance slip, as they visit Old Trafford to...

Tactical decisions for Klopp ahead of the United game

"A 2-0 lead is a dangerous score line." It may be a cliche statement but it's correct. It's the score line that gives a team a sense of security. It's this sense of security that means teams instinctively sit back and invite pressure onto them hoping to hit them on the counter and sealing the...

Liverpool Squad Analysis, Part Three: The Forwards

Public perception over Liverpool's forward line has changed drastically from the start of the season; Danny Ings and Christian Benteke started fairly well, whilst Divock Origi and Roberto Firmino struggled, as Daniel Sturridge looked on from the sidelines. Fast forward to late October, where Ings had been ruled out for the season, Benteke was...

Are pundits and the media now realising Sakho’s talent?

When it comes to Sakho everyone is eager to be proven right. The media that strenuously tag him awkward and for whom he is a representation of the ills of the transfer committee cannot stress enough how poor and overrated he is at any opportunity that comes their way. On the flip-side the fans that...

A Response to Jürgen Klopp’s Critics

Imagine, it’s August 2016. The anticipation has been building since the end of May, long gone are the summer internationals and the boredom of the long, empty summer weekends. The forward thinking clubs have done their business early, but the rumour mill has halted this past week, all that remains is that first whistle. Anfield's...

Adding Mettle & Metal to Klopp’s Rote Maschine

Some parts of Jurgen Klopp’s Rote Maschine are still on the production line, but during the past few weeks there have been signs that some of the components are finally coming together. Devils in the Detail Following a run of games which saw Liverpool regularly playing twice a week, the week break between the two Europa...

Luis Alberto: Option or Auction?

For many Luis Alberto Romero is one of the personifications of the failings of Liverpool’s transfer committee. He was acquired as Brendan Rodgers put it back then because he had the “correct football profile and mentality to be a Liverpool player”. However, together with Iago Aspas, they became one of the pointless transfers for...

Can Origi be Liverpool’s Lewandowski?

When Jurgen Klopp was appointed as Liverpool manager at the beginning of October many fans took to social media to give their thoughts on how the current squad could replicate how the mentalist German set up his successful Dortmund side. One of the favourite comparisons was that £32.5 million man Christian Benteke would be Liverpool's...

Top 4? It’s the hope that kills you!

Top 4? It's the hope that kills you! I watched something happen to this Liverpool team over the past week. They went to Wembley and after a slow start and falling behind, ended up running Manchester City down to the wire. But sadly, it was not to be. The Liverpool performance in the Final, whilst better,...

Liverpool’s Attack Back On Track

The general consensus is that Liverpool need to sign another striker this summer. A guaranteed goal-getter to get the pulses racing inside Anfield and leave opposition defences quaking with fear. However, the Reds currently have four international strikers fully fit for the first time this season and the upturn in goalscoring form makes for good...

Oddities and Aggression Reignite Liverpool’s Season

From its opening shots back in Summer 2015, this season has been one of the most unpredictable ever seen. Even now, as we roll through March, nothing is certain. Oh, unless you’re a Villa fan that is. As a supporter I’ve never experienced anything like it. I mean we’ve all seen blips in the usually predictable...

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Liverpool Have 'Held Talks' to Sign £52m Chelsea Star This Summer - Report

Chelsea Set to Honour Champions Liverpool Ahead of Stamford Bridge Clash

Alisson Becker Remains Liverpool’s Undisputed No.1 as Future Plans Take Shape

Why Liverpool’s Chiesa Will Be Medalled Despite Just Four League Appearances

Liverpool Face £200,000-per-week Contract Dilemma as Transfer Rumours Persist

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Liverpool Have 'Held Talks' to Sign £52m Chelsea Star This Summer - Report

20-year-old Liverpool Star to be Handed 'Huge Opportunity' by Arne Slot - Journalist

Journalist Reveals Eight Liverpool Stars That Could Leave This Summer

Liverpool 'Definitely Keen' on Signing £50m Premier League Star - Journalist

Journalist Confirms Liverpool 'Wouldn't be in a Rush' to Sell £30m Forward

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Liverpool Have 'Held Talks' to Sign £52m Chelsea Star This Summer - Report

Chelsea Set to Honour Champions Liverpool Ahead of Stamford Bridge Clash

Alisson Becker Remains Liverpool’s Undisputed No.1 as Future Plans Take Shape

Why Liverpool’s Chiesa Will Be Medalled Despite Just Four League Appearances

Liverpool Face £200,000-per-week Contract Dilemma as Transfer Rumours Persist

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Liverpool Could 'Dominate for Years' After Winning the Premier League Title - Claims Former Man City Star

How Liverpool Stacks Up Against Top Premier League Clubs

Exclusive: Former Midfielder Hails Liverpool Star as 'The Best the Premier League Has Ever Seen'

"10 out of 10" - Former Liverpool Midfielder Rates Arne Slot's Debut Season

From Kirkby to the Kop: How Liverpool’s Academy Became a Talent Factory

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