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Liverpool’s £15.5M Deal: Wataru Endo’s Contract Revealed

Liverpool's Latest Acquisition: Wataru Endo In the bustling world of football transfers, Liverpool is making headlines once again. The Merseyside club is on the brink of unveiling their latest signing, Wataru Endo, following a successful medical examination. A Strategic Move for Liverpool's Midfield Liverpool has reportedly settled on a fee in the ballpark of £15.5 million with...

Who Can Bolster Liverpool’s Defensive Ranks? Top Centre-Back Options

Liverpool's Defensive Alarm Bells "While everybody has been screaming about Liverpool’s midfield this summer, quietly another alarm has been going off at the back," notes Andy Jones. The Reds have been leaking goals in their pre-season, with 11 goals conceded in just five games. The defensive issues that haunted them last season seem to be...

Pavard on Klopp’s Radar as Summer Window Approaches

Liverpool Sets Sights on Benjamin Pavard As the mercury climbs and summer rears its head, Liverpool's preparations for the forthcoming season are already well under way. No longer is the focus solely on midfield reinforcements, as rumours have it that the World Cup-winning defender, Benjamin Pavard, might find himself trading his Bayern jersey for a...

Liverpool’s Search for the Next Van Dijk Begins

Liverpool's Search for a Centre-Back: Top Candidates to Reinforce the Reds' Defence Liverpool's summer transfer window plans aren't limited to midfield reinforcements; the club is also in need of a new centre-back as Joel Matip is likely to depart. With Joe Gomez experiencing a challenging season, Jurgen Klopp's team may require an additional defender. Neil...

Liverpool’s Centre-Back Crisis: Skipper the Solution?

‘I don't know exactly how it is at other clubs, but we have to be really cautious and very serious. So I don't know what we can and what we can't do’. Whether it’s smoke and mirrors or Jurgen Klopp keeping his powder dry, the likelihood of a centre-half being pulled out the hat appears...

Has Gomez Eliminated LFC’s Need For A Centre-Back?

One of the benefits of the transfer window ending before the season started is that you can draw a more precise delineation between the opinions at the end of the window and those opinions a few weeks later. In previous years, the form of Joe Gomez would have muddied the waters of opinion before...

Why Liverpool Need: Virgil Van Dijk

There are few clubs in the game at the moment with a better track record for developing players than Southampton. If they had been able to prevent their former young prodigies from leaving the club then they would currently be able to boast the likes of Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain...

Does Rodgers Know Liverpool’s Best Eleven?

Three games in six days represents a tough week for any team, even Liverpool. A midweek date with Ancelotti's "Galacticos Mark II" was never going to be plain sailing, and the distraction (albeit a welcome one) of playing the planet's biggest club, made team selection for Saturday's league match (against Hull) all the more...

Skrtel, Agger, Carragher | The Battle for the Centre

This time last year was a good time to be a Liverpool fan. Up until Saturday 8th January 2011 we had endured one of the most challenging times in terms of club form and morale, with the “Liverpool way” seemingly being eroded in front of our eyes. In recent times there had been the...

What Liverpool FC need (Part II) – The Centre Back.

    We could sit here all day, and debate what areas of our current squad needs strengthening. We could also discuss potential targets, and how realistic a chance of a certain team accepting a bid, and a certain player joining.   In fact, I have read many a debate on the the forums here...