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Report: Liverpool still in talks over deal for defender

Konate contract uncertainty frames defensive planning Liverpool’s contract talks with Ibrahima Konate continue to hover over a season that has otherwise leaned heavily on …

Major 'red flags' showing over record-breaking Liverpool signing

Red Flags Starting to Show Over Liverpool's Record-Breaking Signing Big money signings always come with big scrutiny, especially at a club that has just …

'Really special' star set to lead Liverpool into new era

Hugo Ekitike and Liverpool’s Evolving Attack Under Arne Slot Liverpool’s title winning debut season under Arne Slot has already produced plenty of talking points, …

Fabrizio Romano confirms Liverpool's interest in January move for Premier League star

Liverpool Transfer Interest Grows Around Antoine Semenyo Liverpool’s forward planning continues to attract attention, with Give Me Sport reporting fresh insight into the club’s …

Alan Shearer heaps praise on 'brilliant' Liverpool star

Alan Shearer raises doubts over Liverpool striker strategy Liverpool’s summer business delivered firepower and intrigue in equal measure, yet questions remain about whether the …

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Thomas Frank What's Going On?: Two Footed Extra Time

Dave looks at the news & gossip as Thomas Frank's at Spurs has started to receive criticism and pressure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A Strange Weekend: The Two Footed Podcast

Dave looks at the weekend of Premier League action with some strange results such as Forest v Spurs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Semenyo Deal Close & Ederson The Midfield Missing Link | Liverpool Transfer Latest!

On the latest Fan Focus podcast, Dave Davis examines recent reactions to the latest Liverpool FC transfer news from journalists and fans around the world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Daily Red Podcast: WINS IN A ROW

Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the win over Brighton as the reds do consecutive wins! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Rise Of Hugo Ekitike & Curtis Jones: Undroppable At The Moment!

On the latest Fan Focus podcast, Dave Davis examines recent reactions to Liverpool's players from the Brighton game, with journalists and fans alike unpacking the star performers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Liverpool FC Transfers

Fabrizio Romano confirms Liverpool's interest in January move for Premier League star

Liverpool Transfer Interest Grows Around Antoine Semenyo Liverpool’s forward planning continues to attract attention, with Give Me Sport reporting fresh insight into the club’s …

€20m defender breaks silence on potential Liverpool move

Italian Defender Responds to Reported Liverpool Transfer Interest Liverpool Transfer News continues to swirl around Marco Palestra, a name that has moved quickly from …

Liverpool tipped to sign defender with 'huge potential' in January

Jeremy Jacquet Emerges as Liverpool Monitor Centre-Back Options Liverpool’s search for defensive reinforcement is intensifying as the January transfer window approaches, and one name …

Liverpool star could be off for as little as €15m

Konate transfer latest: Liverpool weigh £15m Inter Milan deal amid contract uncertainty Liverpool are considering a decisive move in the January transfer window as …

Davis: Liverpool expected to make January move for Premier League star

Liverpool Assess Semenyo as January Options Take Shape Liverpool’s planning for the January transfer window is beginning to sharpen, and emerging interest in Antoine …

Opinion

Major 'red flags' showing over record-breaking Liverpool signing

Red Flags Starting to Show Over Liverpool's Record-Breaking Signing Big money signings always come with big scrutiny, especially at a club that has just …

'Really special' star set to lead Liverpool into new era

Hugo Ekitike and Liverpool’s Evolving Attack Under Arne Slot Liverpool’s title winning debut season under Arne Slot has already produced plenty of talking points, …

Alan Shearer heaps praise on 'brilliant' Liverpool star

Alan Shearer raises doubts over Liverpool striker strategy Liverpool’s summer business delivered firepower and intrigue in equal measure, yet questions remain about whether the …

Final Thoughts: Hugo Ekitike shines as Liverpool beat Brighton

Liverpool 2 – 0 Brighton – Premier League Postmortem Liverpool Inter and this return to domestic competition were seen as the true test of …

Liverpool star performing like £100m player and cost nothing

Liverpool transfer news: Reds secure £100m midfielder for nothing Liverpool have quietly achieved something that most elite clubs spend years chasing and hundreds of …

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How Liverpool Players Could Foot the Bill for Champions League Failure

Salah vs Carragher: What Liverpool’s Inter Milan Win Really Says About Their Season

22Ricky Review For Australian Players

Liverpool Fans Angry At Jordan Henderson For His Reaction To The Salah Situation

Assessing Liverpool's Chances of Champions League Progress

Sadio Mane and Mo Salah’s 2019 Role-Reversal

Sadio Mané has taken the Premier League by storm in 2019, scoring eight goals in Liverpool’s ten league games this calendar, including seven in his last five at Anfield. However, on the other hand, Liverpool’s top scorer and attacking talisman Mo Salah has slowed the scoring stakes, scoring just four goals in his last...

Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool are good enough to progress in Champions League

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believes his team is "experienced enough and good enough" to progress past Bayern Munich in the Champions League this week. Klopp's team travels to face FC Bayern in the Allianz Arena this Wednesday night with the tie nicely poised at 0-0 after the first leg at Anfield three weeks ago. Speaking to...

Liverpool vs Bayern Second Leg Preview – Potential Key Battles

Liverpool travel to the Allianz Arena with their Champions League hopes well and truly in the balance. It’s harder to imagine a fixture that could be harder to call, with just about every conceivable measuring stick suggesting that this is a 50/50 game. After the 0-0 draw at Anfield, Liverpool have the advantage of...

Liverpool Must Take Bayern Seriously to Maintain Title Momentum

Having successfully dispatched of Burnley 4-2 at Anfield, Liverpool continue their Champions League quest against Bayern Munich on Wednesday in the decisive second leg. The tie is delicately poised at 0-0 from the first leg which could be seen as an advantage to Bayern that they avoided defeat away from home, or a positive for...

Bayern Munich v Liverpool Preview – All to play for as Liverpool chase away goal in Munich

The Details Venue - Allianz Arena, Munich Referee - Daniele Orsato (ITA) Date & Time - Wednesday, March 13th 2019 @ 20:00 Current Odds - FC Bayern 11/10, Draw 27/10, Liverpool 13/5 Form FC Bayern Form Bayern Munich have clawed their way back to the top of the Bundesliga at the expense of Borussia Dortmund. The 0-0 draw at Anfield was the only one of...

Lallana discusses tackle Klopp referred to as a ‘fantastic counter-pressing block’

Adam Lallana explained the method behind his brilliant sliding challenge on Phil Bardsley which created the goal to put Liverpool in front on Sunday. There's nothing Jurgen Klopp loves more than effective counter-pressing in the opposition's defensive third of the pitch. Klopp referred to Lallana's challenge as a "game-changer" and a "fantastic counter-pressing block". Lallana pounced...

Observations as Liverpool Show Tenacity to Dismiss Talk of Losing Their Bottle

Liverpool ensured they remain hot on the tails of title rivals Manchester City with a 4-2 win against Burnley on Sunday afternoon. Despite the blistering conditions, the wind wouldn’t impede Jurgen Klopp’s side this time out, with braces from Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino enough to overturn the early deficit. Indeed, it was hardly the...

Key Stats As Liverpool Keep The Pressure On Against Burnley

Liverpool saw off a poor but spirited Burnley side thanks to doubles from Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino. But what were the key stats from a pulsating 4-2 win on Sunday lunchtime at Anfield? Sadio Strikes Again If it seems like I’m doing a section on Sadio Mané every single week, but he’s very quickly become...

Liverpool’s double brace bests Burnley

As the early kickoff time neared, Reds supporters were concerned about two things, that dastardly wind our manager keeps going on about and the refs who seem by their recent actions to be party to Manchester City's slush fund bonanza. We'll come on to those refs in a bit, but when the line-up card...

Player ratings as Liverpool edge past Burnley

I’ll be honest with you, about 10 minutes in I thought this was going to be a foul mouthed rant about officials with some ‘5/10: Didn’t do enough to break Burnley down’ for good measure. Alas, the Reds did their job and close the gap on City to one. Get past Bayern, see off Fulham...

Naby Keita: The key to a good performance against Burnley

Let's cast our minds back to a cold, dark Wednesday night at Turf Moor in December. Jürgen Klopp took his Liverpool team to take on Sean Dyche's Burnley and selected Naby Keita in central midfield for the second consecutive match after an injury lay-off had seen him reduced to watching his team mates from the...

Klopp’s PlayStation Midfield

You know, I’d already got this article in my brain long before I saw this tweet from Michael Caley, the brain behind Caley Graphics xG maps. Caley is a brilliant football analyst and the insight that he offers in this tweet backs up other data that I’ve seen in other places, but the simple...

Predicted Liverpool lineup after Klopp’s Burnley press conference

Jurgen Klopp gave Liverpool fans an injury update today ahead of Burnley's visit to Anfield in the Premier League on Sunday. As expected, judging from Klopp's quotes, Dejan Lovren can only hope for a place on the bench, at most, while the aim with Joe Gomez seems to be a return after the international break,...

Liverpool vs Burnley Preview – Potential Key Battles

Liverpool are off the top of the Premier League following a 0-0 draw against Everton at Goodison Park. But with nine games to go, it’s still all to play, and the Reds will be hoping to bounce back from their fourth draw in six league games with a home fixture against Burnley. So what...

Liverpool v Burnley Preview – Reds can’t allow another draw at home to Burnley

The Details Venue - Anfield, Liverpool Referee - Andre Marriner Date & Time - Sunday, March 10th @ 12:00 Current Odds - Liverpool 7/50, Draw 13/2, Burnley 16/1 Form Liverpool Form Liverpool have drawn five of their last seven games in all competitions. While the defence is still doing its job, goals have been hard to come by at the other end (unless we play...

Sadio Mane insists there is no rivalry among Reds strikers

Liverpool's Sadio Mané has said there is no rivalry whatsoever between himself and The Reds' other star striker Mohamed Salah. Salah has won the CAF African Footballer of the Year award ahead of Mané for the last two years running. However, Mané is giving no time to the notion that a rivalry has developed between the Liverpool...

Positive Thoughts & Taiwo Awoniyi | Reflecting on Liverpool’s Transfer Nous

In the midst of trying to wrap up an abysmal Bundesliga campaign, reports from German sports outlet Spox indicate that Schalke 04 have lodged preliminary interest with Liverpool in bringing youth forward Taiwo Awoniyi into their ranks over the summer. But this article, while dancing around the topic, concerns something broader than that simple fact. Moving...

Majestic Van Dijk has Produced a Season of Greatness

Even when Liverpool leave you tearing your hair out, Virgil van Dijk still manages to come away blameless. At Everton, the Reds played with the kind of intensity on show at Goodison Park last season, when thoughts were more on Champions League duty rather than derby affairs, as a drab 0-0 draw was played out. Last...

Liverpool need a win on Sunday – will this be Klopp’s starting eleven?

Liverpool welcome Burnley to Anfield for a hugely important Premier League encounter this Sunday. We take a look at the starting eleven Jurgen Klopp is likely to go with for this game. With The Reds having slipped to a point behind Manchester City in the title race, every one of the remaining nine league games...

Liverpool’s magnificent full-backs

The Liverpool full backs put on a show at Anfield before an uninspiring team performance at the Goodison made the fan base collectively go into panic mode and forget about it. So maybe this article is a week at late, at least in from a narrative standpoint. Some trends are not dependent on the...

Jurgen Klopp insists his Liverpool team will not be giving up on title dream

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says that his team will not be giving up on their Premier League title dream just yet, despite Manchester City's return to the top of the table last weekend. Sunday's 0-0 draw with Everton left many of us Reds fans desolate as we saw our team overtaken by Pep Guardiola's side....

Liverpool’s Mersey Misery Shows How Much We Miss Oxlade-Chamberlain

It was a frustrating afternoon at Goodison Park in the second Merseyside derby of the season as Liverpool stuttered to a goalless draw in what could turn out to be a pivotal result in the title race. The second half, in particular, was a bit of a cause for concern as the Reds struggled to...

Carragher feels Klopp should have introduced more of an attacking threat during draw at Everton

Jamie Carragher felt that Jurgen Klopp should have made more changes and introduced extra creativity in the attacking third for The Reds as they struggled to break Everton down on Sunday. Carragher was one of the pundits on Sky Sports' Super Sunday coverage from Goodison Park for the 0-0 draw in the Merseyside derby. Liverpool's former...

Key Stats As Liverpool Draw Another Blank – Liverpool 0-0 Everton

Liverpool were held to a frustrating 0-0 draw by Everton that dented their title hopes further and saw them slip behind City in the table. But what were the key stats from a disappointing performance at Goodison Park? Goodison Blues Whilst Liverpool’s unbeaten record over the Blues remains intact, with Liverpool having not lost since Roy...

Observations as Liverpool Drop To Second in Merseyside Stalemate

Although extending their unbeaten record against local rivals Everton, Liverpool missed the opportunity to return to the top of the Premier League table with another 0-0 stalemate, marking their third draw in the last five games in an afternoon marked by frustration. Much like their performance against Manchester United last weekend, this wasn't ninety minutes...

Everton 0-0 Liverpool: What went wrong?

A goalless draw at Old Trafford last weekend meant Liverpool's once-comfortable lead at the top of the Premier League table had been whittled down to nothing. They no longer had any margin for error. But it was a case of mistakes aplenty in the Merseyside Derby, and now the title race is out of...

Klopp’s Liverpool Can Look Beyond May For Success

The panic has started to set in. The nerves of a proper title race are jangling. Liverpool had a four-point lead at the top of the table, which could have been extended to seven, but instead, four draws in six games see it now as a deficit by a single point, leaving the title...

Liverpool Slip Up Again – Liverpool 0-0 Everton

Liverpool’s grip on the Premier League title loosened again, as their fourth draw in six league games saw them slip behind Manchester City in the table with nine games left to play after another insipid performance saw them draw 0-0 with Everton at Goodison Park. Klopp’s side controlled the first half, with the midfield selection...

Player Ratings as Klopp keeps his balls off the table

Training's cancelled on Tuesday, sorry lads. Klopp's got to go and attend a maths lesson, in order to learn that 1 win and 1 loss = 3 points, whereas 2 draws = 2 points. Honestly, I understand the conservatism to an extent but we had Everton. We had them. Forget the second half for a...

Joel Matip Can Stay | On Consistency and Squad Depth in the Premier League

During Wednesday’s 5-0 victory against Watford, there was a moment that could’ve easily changed the course of the match for Liverpool had Joel Matip not stepped in front of Troy Deeney at the last moment Simple, yet effective A Gerard Deulofeu low cross whipped in towards the penalty spot meant Liverpool’s goalkeeper Alisson needed a saviour,...

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