IT’S been a strange old season for Sadio Mane. While the general perception has been that he isn’t quite performing with the same panache and potency which he demonstrated consistently during his first season at Liverpool, he remains an absolutely integral component...
JÜRGEN Klopp once described his grand strategy as being a process of “dragging teams down to our level, and then beating them”. He was modestly diminishing a much more sophisticated process. This is not what his Borussia Dortmund did and not what his...
“I have the self-confidence to say that my qualities are sufficient to play in a very big club next season.” Emre Can, Liverpool FC footballer, March 21, 2018. Say what you want about our handsome midfielder but, for all of his weaknesses, a lack of self-belief isn’t...
“Rafa, Rafa… “Rafa, Rafa… “Rafa Benitez… “Xabi Alonso, Garcia and Nunez.” Fucking Antonio Nunez. Remember him? The makeweight in the deal that took Michael Owen to Madrid. He scored a goal for Liverpool Football Club and...
THERE are occasionally times in the turbulent and relentless eye of a football season storm when the opportunity for rumination unexpectedly offers itself. Last weekend’s empty slot in the Liverpool FC calendar, due to their previous FA Cup exit at the hands of lowly...
ON the The Anfield Wrap’s “Review” show after the Southampton game, host Neil Atkinson said a few things that chimed with me. Developments in recent weeks had gotten me thinking, and Neil’s words on that show offered some corroboration. In amongst the...
IT’S a magnificent Liverpool victory. An historic one and one which signposts exactly where Liverpool stand in Europe’s current reckoning. Imagine this was Barcelona or Real Madrid or Bayern Munich going to somewhere like Porto and doing this. Imagine...
THERE’S a lot to discuss after Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham. Not all of it very cheery. From questioning why Jon Moss decided to give a penalty, despite admitting he had no idea what had just happened, to why The Reds decided to allow Spurs to dominate...
LIVERPOOL Football Club operates at its supreme best, from top to bottom, when it exerts controlled aggression in all aspects of its operations. The lack of controlled aggression in all parts of the club, from top to bottom, is, in my view, currently the difference...
I LOVE it when a plan comes together. I love it slightly less that many of you will be too young know where that line comes from, but I’ll take the negative with the positives at this point. Jürgen Klopp’s “Plan A” came together in spectacular fashion against...
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.
