JANUARY was always going to be a month when loan moves were evaluated and assessed. While some moves for the likes of Lazar Markovic and Mario Balotelli were a year long with no backsies, for many of the youngsters the deals only took them to January — sensible...
THE death of hope. The January-February requiem for a season. So often the case. The ground hog campaign. It’s a very familiar cycle. August’s boundless optimism, yielding to September’s anxiety, making way to an October-November of expectation ebb...
HAS Jürgen Klopp ripped up Liverpool’s loan policy? A string of young players have recently returned to the club, with seven of the 17 put on borrowed time returning to Melwood since the manager arrived at the club in October. Are they back just so Jürgen can...
SIMON Mignolet isn’t a terrible keeper. I know that goes against the narrative a bit, but there you go. He really isn’t terrible. The problem is that he also isn’t all that great and that’s what’s causing us such never-ending problems at the back. The furore...
THE FA Cup is great, isn’t it? Dead romantic. “The Romance of the Cup” is accepted as standard and is lashed about all over the place. By journalists, by commentators and by the boring arse in everyone’s work who doesn’t really follow footie but...
WITH all of our games there was talk that a replay was the worst possible result. But this is fine. Send them out again at Anfield. See if they can learn things apparently they can’t learn in reserve football. Where many of these players find themselves bottom...
THE expectation and the reality there. Billed as a cup cracker, in theory it seemed at the very least intriguing. Even more so given the Frankenstein’s monster of a Liverpool team, thrown together from a pool of recent loanees, kids and a forgotten man that should...
ROBERTO Firmino is at school. He’s learning that he gets to keep the man-of-the-match champagne after adding his fizz to a game. Learning that he has to pay closer attention to what he posts on social media. Learning about the unabating, unforgiving nature of English...
THERE has been lots of talk this week of the dilemma facing Jürgen Klopp as Liverpool prepare to face Exeter City in the FA Cup third round tonight. The manager is in an almost impossible position with a squad down to the most calcium-deficient of bare bones. Amid a...
BLOODY football, eh? Makes complete mugs of us most of the time. Not to be complaining after the result at Stoke, but this was supposed to be about the lack of excitement generated by Liverpool over the course of the season so far. Then, at the Britannia, that...
