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James Pearce: Liverpool 'in talks' to sign highly-rated defender

Liverpool in talks to sign 17-year-old defender Liverpool are working on another youth recruitment play that could pay off in seasons to come. As …

Journalist rules out potential £35m Liverpool signing despite latest reports

Journalist Rules Out Liverpool Move for £35m Defender Liverpool’s defensive recruitment is under the microscope again, with the club sitting 4th in the Premier …

Journalist: Liverpool considering move to sign 19-year-old Bundesliga forward

Liverpool Transfer Update: 19-year-old Forward on the Reds' Radar Liverpool have made a habit of planning two windows ahead, and under Arne Slot that …

Report: Liverpool close to signing €40m defender in January

Joel Ordóñez Closing in on Liverpool Move as Salary and Valuation Come Into Focus Liverpool’s interest in Joel Ordóñez has moved from background noise …

Journalist: Liverpool submit offer to sign defender

Liverpool Target Yisa Alao: Young Left-Back Set For Big Move? Liverpool’s January transfer strategy has taken an intriguing turn with interest in teenage left-back …

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Journalist: Liverpool were right to sack coach after recent performances

Liverpool Set Pieces Under Arne Slot: Why Aaron Briggs Paid the Price Liverpool’s season has been defined by set pieces, and not in a …

"It's boring!" - Liverpool slammed for performance vs Leeds United

Liverpool Frustrated as Leeds Execute Defensive Plan at Anfield Liverpool were held to a goalless draw by newly promoted Leeds United at Anfield, a …

Final Thoughts: Liverpool start 2026 with a missed opportunity against Leeds United

Liverpool 0 – 0 Leeds – Premier League Postmortem With Liverpool entering 2026 inside the Premier League top four, this felt like an opportunity …

Post Match RAW: Liverpool Lack Identity As They Draw With Leeds

Liverpool Stumble to Goalless Draw as Leeds Expose Ongoing Questions Under Arne Slot Liverpool’s 0-0 draw with Leeds United offered little in spectacle but …

Man of the Match: Dominik Szoboszlai shines despite Liverpool's struggles against Leeds

Liverpool 0 – 0 Leeds – Premier League Man of the Match Dominik Szoboszlai The Only Player Trying to Break the Pattern There was …

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Standout Performers of the 2025/26 So Far and Where the Reds Need to Improve

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Liverpool told not to sell 'absolute legend' in January

Liverpool told not to sell star player in January The transfer window finally opens tomorrow and there's plenty of speculation expected around Liverpool. None …

Liverpool: A Detailed Review of Recent Matches and the Players Setting the Tone

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The Cult of Endurance: Why Athletes Train the Brain More Than Muscles

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Liverpool could already have their Mo Salah replacement at the club

Liverpool Urged to Hand More Minutes to Potential Mo Salah Replacement When Liverpool won the Premier League title back in May, not many would've …

Injecting Forward Passing Into Liverpool’s Midfield

In his first ever press conference as Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp was asked about the style of play we should expect to see the team play during his tenure, ‘Umschaltspiel’, he replied. This is a German footballing term but it roughly translates to ‘shift game’, which essentially means ‘transition game’ in England. Two full...

The Strange Case of Liverpool Fans Enjoying the Summer

Jurgen Klopp has done it - he made us (most of us, including me) believers. For the first time in ages, I was able to enjoy my summer without worrying about Liverpool football club. And I have to admit it was strange. I didn't feel the need to read rumours, I didn't F5, didn't...

Alisson, Van Dijk & Keita: Liverpool’s New Game-Changing Spine

This time just over a year ago, imagine being told Liverpool would sign Alisson, Virgil van Dijk and Naby Keita in the 12 months that followed. It would have felt like the most beautiful of pipe dreams, even if Alisson wasn’t the world-renowned goalkeeper he speedily blossomed into at Roma. Great teams have great spines and...

How FSG Found Their Perfect Formula

May 2010: The Royal Bank of Scotland takes Hicks and Gillett to court in order to force the sale of Liverpool Football Club. October 2010, Fenway Sports Group purchase Liverpool Football Club for £300 million, after the club was perilously teetering above the jaws of administration. Nearly eight years later, mistakes have been made, Liverpool did...

Sturridge and Lallana – What Next?

A lot has been made in pre-season of the form of Daniel Sturridge, who has played very well and made a good impact. Once again, we’re in July and Sturridge is still, now at the age of 28, a Liverpool player, despite almost constant speculation about his future at the club for the last...

Is YNWA Just a Song? Karius Deserves More

Every fanbase is made up of a majority of good people, and a noisy few that should be sacrificed to the volcano god in order to ensure a bountiful harvest. Liverpool are supposed to be different. We have a slogan, “this means more,” part of a campaign meant to show that we operate on...

Don’t Let The Gini Go

Some footballers will dazzle you, some will amaze you, some will flatter to deceive. Then there’s the underappreciated footballer; the man who does the ugly side of the game with little recognition for his efforts. Gini Wijnaldum falls into the latter category, quietly going about his business during his two years at the club, showing...

Faith and Football: Liverpool’s Muslim Men

What do Mo Salah, Sadio Mané, Xherdan Shaqiri and Naby Keïta have in common? Besides their football club, of course. The answer I'm looking for though is their religion, Islam. It's very rare in my writing that I stray away from tactics, statistics or areas in which I feel well-versed in, indeed, identity and faith...

What to Expect From Xherdan Shaqiri – A Statistical Analysis

The dust is starting to settle again following Liverpool's signing of Shaqiri. The transfer came as somewhat of a surprise for many and thus it is not surprising that many questions still remain unanswered. What position will he play? What does he do? How will that work at Liverpool? What is so magical about...

What next for Loris Karius?

The signing of Alisson was a huge statement of intent from the club. Having reportedly singled him out as far back as January, it was clear that Jürgen Klopp was after a new goalkeeper, even before the closing stages of the 2017-18 season. Until the Champions League final though, Loris Karius was doing a pretty...

Is centre-back still a problem position for Liverpool?

Over the last few transfer windows, Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool have significantly strengthened in a number of positions: the front line, the midfield and the defence. The costly addition of Virgil van Dijk in January was a much-needed remedy for the Reds’ leaky defence, and the big Dutchman has undoubtedly improved things at the back...

Why Julian Draxler Could be the Solution

Liverpool are back in action, and the transfer window’s closure is eerily inching closer by the day. Of course, there is still a month to conduct business, and it isn’t merely Liverpool – with a vacuum in the squad in the shape of Nabil Fekir still looming large – who are troubled by a lack...

Alisson, Klopp and FSG: The Signing That Reveals The Owners’ Hand

As this piece is being written, Brazilian number one Alisson Becker is being put through his paces for his medical ahead of his £66.8 million transfer from Roma to Liverpool, making him the most expensive goalkeeper in world football. He joins a squad full of big money names, particularly Virgil Van Dijk who is the...

Alisson: Liverpool Look Ready

Rafael Benitez once claimed that managing a small club was akin to owning a short blanket. In a chat following a match, he told the former West Brom manager Tony Mowbray, that a small blanket is of no use to anyone. You can cover your head to keep out the cold, but it will...

Is Alisson Becker the Final Piece of the Jigsaw?

The signing of Alisson Becker is a massive statement of intent by Liverpool Football Club. The goalkeeping position has long since been a weakness at Liverpool since Pepe Reina pre-2010. The club has, up until now, failed to replace who I believe was one of the best goalkeepers that Anfield has ever seen. The club...

Alisson Becker: A Statistical Analysis

Alisson is one of the most coveted goalkeepers in the world, but Liverpool's new number 1 is a relative newcomer to top-tier club football. What has set him apart from other top goalkeepers across the world? In AI's Transfer Committee podcast, @DanKennett collected and analysed a selection of goalkeeping statistics, illustrated in the graphic below. Whilst...

Alisson the latest addition for Big Money Reds

You awake on a secluded Sardinian beach to a warm Mediterranean breeze and gentle waves lapping at your feet. Your gorgeous wife flashes you a smile as she updates her Instagram. You glance out at your sailboat and notice a bottle has washed up on the shore. Shaking out the rolled up paper, you...

Jordan Henderson: Starter or Sub?

In the age of hot takes and constant critics, any player or team can divide opinion. So, when a player comes along who is given a central role at a big club but does not fit neatly into preconceived notions of what a star should do, then controversy instantly follows. Enter Jordan Henderson, Liverpool...

Pre-Season – What we’ve learned about Liverpool so far

With Liverpool's early group of pre-season matches drawing to a close, now is a good time to assess what we've seen from Jurgen Klopp's men so far. Although it's still early days, the first couple of weeks can go a long way to setting the tone for the forthcoming season. Uncertainty Remains Regarding the Number...

Is the Alisson transfer really a statement of intent from FSG?

NOPE. Simple. It's not. I am done here. You can move on now But wait, you say, how come? A world record fee bid for a keeper. Potentially getting in one of the best keepers in the Serie A and current Brazil #1. If there ever was a statement of intent, surely this is it? Well,...

International Football: Simplicity, flexibility and its lessons for Liverpool

International football has many joys. Whether its the carnival atmosphere at major international events, the seeming togetherness produced both intra-nationally and internationally, or just the chance to see teams and players you would never normally get the chance to watch, international football can be an enjoyable departure from the closer-to-home tribalism and intensity of...

Faux Forwards and False Expectations

Aside from the strange machinations of Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, otherwise known as Tite, we are all generally aware of the value of Roberto Firmino at this point. Brazil was boring with Jesus, boisterous with Bobby, and ultimately the exclusion of the Reds' frontman would prove to be their undoing. Back on Merseyside, Bobby Firmino has...

Why Liverpool Can Win The League (Redux)

Last summer I wrote a piece on how I thought it was possible Liverpool could win the Premier League title. I felt most of the points that I made in that article were largely valid, although of course things didn’t pan out the way we hoped. Overall, the lack of a centre-back signing, Phil...

Why Liverpool need to do the right thing and take Karius out of the spotlight

Martin Luther King once said that “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”. He could very well have been talking about Loris Karius after the Champions League final. It is the biggest games that will test the...

Has Klopp built a stronger back-up squad to the XI he inherited?

This summer's been a bit of a whirlwind, hasn't it? We've had the highs and lows of England's World Cup campaign, with ironic jeers of 'it's coming home' appearing more and more realistic as the Three Lions reached the semi-final. The dramatic use of VAR to keep pulses racing as modern technology enlarges its...

Errors – The Worst Currency for a Goalie

So I like stats. I’m an unabashed stats lover. Whenever I can I write using stats, about stats or using stats in my articles. One of the benefits of being in an LFC community is that there are people who are smarter than me on Twitter who occasionally post interesting stats. This is one...

The Karius Conundrum

Liverpool have made huge strides under Jurgen Klopp on and off the pitch; the German’s infectious touchline antics have fuelled a strong feeling of togetherness between the fans and players. Then there’s the enhanced decision making in the transfer window, the cohesion between Michael Edwards and Klopp and a surge of optimism that this...

Dejan Lovren: Chutzpah or Chump?

It’s Friday afternoon as I write this and the World Cup is all but over. On the whole, it’s been a triumph. The home nation’s journey to the quarter-finals have made it interesting domestically – ever the hallmark of a good World Cup – and the introduction of VAR have kept all but the usual...

Jürgen Klopp’s Midfield Minefield: Getting the Balance Right

Jürgen Klopp has a bit of a dilemma on his hands. And for once, it's not a bad one (well, at least not where his midfield is concerned). The arrivals of Keita, Fabinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Wijnaldum in the central midfield area, along with the stalwarts of Henderson and Milner have given the Reds boss a...

Dejan Lovren: Immense Self-Belief or Just Unnecessary Hubris?

"From my point of view, people said I had a difficult season but I don't agree. "I took Liverpool to the final of the Champions League. Now with my national team, we are in the final. "I think people should recognise that I am also one of the best defenders in the world and not just...

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James Pearce: Liverpool 'in talks' to sign highly-rated defender

Journalist rules out potential £35m Liverpool signing despite latest reports

Journalist: Liverpool considering move to sign 19-year-old Bundesliga forward

Report: Liverpool close to signing €40m defender in January

Journalist: Liverpool submit offer to sign defender

Opinion

Journalist: Liverpool were right to sack coach after recent performances

"It's boring!" - Liverpool slammed for performance vs Leeds United

Final Thoughts: Liverpool start 2026 with a missed opportunity against Leeds United

Post Match RAW: Liverpool Lack Identity As They Draw With Leeds

Man of the Match: Dominik Szoboszlai shines despite Liverpool's struggles against Leeds

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Standout Performers of the 2025/26 So Far and Where the Reds Need to Improve

Liverpool told not to sell 'absolute legend' in January

Liverpool: A Detailed Review of Recent Matches and the Players Setting the Tone

The Cult of Endurance: Why Athletes Train the Brain More Than Muscles

Liverpool could already have their Mo Salah replacement at the club

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