Liverpool’s Search for a Right-Back Leads to Daniel Banjaqui
Liverpool’s relationship with the right-back position has, for the better part of a decade, been one of comfort and certainty. It was a role redefined, expanded and elevated into something closer to an organising principle than a simple defensive post. Replacing that influence was never going...
Liverpool on Alert as Vanderson Emerges as Right-Back Solution from Monaco
Liverpool’s season has taken on an unexpected subplot. Not one defined by silverware or tactical evolution, but by fragility. The right side of the defence, once a position of creative certainty and structural balance, has become a recurring concern. Injuries have intervened, plans have...
McConnell’s Ajax Detour Ends as Liverpool Reassess a Young Midfielder’s Path
James McConnell’s return to Liverpool from Ajax feels less like a transfer development and more like a pause for breath. A promising young midfielder, once spoken about with real warmth by Jurgen Klopp, is back at his parent club after a loan spell that...
Xabi Alonso, Liverpool and Man City: A Managerial Crossroads Taking Shape
There is something about Xabi Alonso that resists neat conclusions. As a player, he carried himself with an air of inevitability, a footballer who appeared to see patterns before others had noticed them forming. As a coach, that same sense of foresight has followed...
Liverpool, Federico Chiesa and a Window Defined by Inaction
Liverpool’s 4-1 FA Cup win over Barnsley should have been straightforward. As Dave Davis put it on Media Matters for Anfield Index, it had “three world class goals” and a comfortable scoreline. Yet, as the conversation with David Lynch unfolded, the sense of unease never lifted....
Liverpool progress, but questions linger around Cody Gakpo
Liverpool’s 4-1 FA Cup win over Barnsley moved Arne Slot’s side into the fourth round, yet the scoreline masked a performance that prompted sharp analysis on the Daily Red Podcast. Speaking in his familiar lunchtime slot, Dave Hendrick delivered a typically forensic breakdown, reserving his strongest criticism...
Fitness rebuild shaping Liverpool pathway
For Calvin Ramsay, time has moved in fits and starts since his arrival at Liverpool in 2022. Injuries, interrupted loans and long periods away from the spotlight have defined much of the journey. This season, though, there is a sense of momentum. A carefully judged summer plan, designed to address...
Alonso, Slot and Liverpool: A Familiar Name Returns to the Conversation
Liverpool are no strangers to nostalgia being mistaken for strategy, but the re-emergence of Xabi Alonso in conversations around the club feels different. It is not merely sentimentality or a longing for a familiar face from a gilded era. It is about timing, context...
Liverpool’s Long View on Joel Ordonez Reflects a Familiar Transfer Logic
Liverpool’s interest in Joel Ordonez has not disappeared. It has merely slowed, cooled, been set aside and placed back on the shelf marked “later”. In modern recruitment, this is not a retreat so much as a recalibration, and it says as much about Liverpool’s...
Federico Chiesa, Liverpool and Juventus: A Transfer Story Shaped by Time and Necessity
There is a particular rhythm to modern transfer sagas, a slow accumulation of hints, denials and strategic silences that eventually gives way to inevitability. The situation surrounding Federico Chiesa, Liverpool and Juventus has begun to feel like one of those stories, less...
