LAST night Alisson Becker had a big moment in a big week. Liverpool deserved the victory but they wouldn’t have got it had Alisson not spread himself wide and strong to deny Arkadiusz Milik from point-blank range in stoppage time. We’d be looking at the...
HERE we are again. The crucial Christmas period. When the games come thick and fast, and when every squad, no matter how strong or deep, is tested to the limit. It’s a time when some of the less-heralded traits of elite footballers come to the fore. How fast can they...
IT’S turning out to be a strange old season, this one. I genuinely don’t know how I feel about it. I mean, I’m happy, I think. Yeah, I must be. A good barometer of my football contentedness is my inclination to watch other teams play football. I’m watching any old...
I CAN’T lie to you, I’ve been thinking about Philippe Coutinho quite a bit. Like a relationship you’ve told yourself was completely over until you heard “your song” or smelt her perfume in a shop doorway somewhere, the abundant sense of melancholy around the little...
IT was a big weekend on Merseyside. The Giants from the French arts company Royal de Luxe were drawing the crowds in the city centre of Liverpool, while two giants of the Premier League were ready to clash at Anfield. The hostile welcome Manchester City were expecting...
THE realisation of having to feel defeat again has been a sobering one over the past week or so. I had rid myself of it, exorcised it from my very being, positively reinforced by the sight of Liverpool winning games of football. Sometimes at a canter, other times on a...
THE celebrations in those closing minutes at Stamford Bridge on Saturday tea time, were full blooded, defiant and maybe will come to be seen as disproportionate. We are apt to do this. I was part of an away end at Villa Park in Brendan Rogers last season that properly...
I AM currently reading, and very much enjoying, Damian Hughes’ new book The Barcelona Way, which is all about understanding the winning DNA built at Barcelona. Damian is a psychologist who specialises in the development of high-performance cultures, and has...
IT is the return of the UEFA Champions League. All the exciting nights, big games and Gazprom you can consume. What a ride it was last time out. Sure, the ending in Kyiv wasn’t ideal, but personally I wouldn’t swap those experiences with any other set of fans (apart...
Following Julien Lauren’s exclusive story linking PSG’s mercurial young midfielder Adrien Rabiot with Liverpool, Rob Gutmann speaks to the French football expert about Liverpool’s move for the 23 year-old French international. What is the likelihood...
How Balanced Is Liverpool’s Squad | The Gutter Transfer Show
Talking through the latest Liverpool transfer rumours and links and asking whether transfer priorities may have shifted due to the return to form of some players who the Reds were previously happy to replace in the Summer.
Rob Gutmann hosts Kieran Molyneux, Joel Penny and Adam Melia.
