by Michael Nevin | Jul 29, 2016 | Footie
HOW do we make sense of the phoney war? You can hardly compare pre-season friendlies to an extended period of inactivity on the Western Front, but there’s no doubt that drawing conclusions from glorified training sessions games can be misleading. I gave up attending...
by Ben Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Footie
I’M worried, Reds. I am worried about us. I’m not sure we are up to the mark — we have become distracted, fixated on the bollocks that is modern football and all that goes with it: the finance, the bottom line. We’re cry-arsing our way through...
by Adam Smith | Jul 28, 2016 | Footie
LET’S be blunt: Criticism of Liverpool’s much-maligned Transfer Committee has been bang on the money quite a lot of the time. Although most modern-day clubs have something similar to the set-up FSG put in place when they axed Damien Comolli in 2012, none of them...
by Karl Coppack | Jul 27, 2016 | Footie
IF there’s one thing that infuriates me about this club it’s the overwhelming affection. That’s sounds wrong, doesn’t it? Let’s try again. If there’s one thing that infuriates me about this club it’s the unconditional love and support for the manager and certain...
by Phil Blundell | Jul 27, 2016 | Footie
“THE loan system is something we need to look at in the summer — the best talents should be in their club so they can develop.” That’s a quote from Jürgen Klopp in January. The manager arrived at the club in October to find a considerable number of players not...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jul 24, 2016 | Footie
WHEN Jürgen Klopp joined Liverpool in October, it was the start of a new era, writes LUKE CHANDLEY. Under Brendan Rodgers, the football started poorly, moved on to a good patch, then an excellent patch and was soon followed by a from-bad-to-worse patch. That’s pretty...
by Ben Johnson | Jul 22, 2016 | Footie
EVERY year, without fail, I fall for the same trick. Three of four weeks without any football and come the first pre-season game I’m scratching for a glimpse of the new Reds — the champions elect in the new kits — so I can try to figure out how good we are...
by Phil Blundell | Jul 20, 2016 | Footie
AUGUST 4, 2006: Rafa Benitez’s Reds are five days away from the first game of their season — a Champions League qualifier at Anfield against Maccabi Haifa. They’re in Germany to face a little known Bundesliga side called Mainz in their final pre-season friendly....
by The Anfield Wrap | Jul 20, 2016 | Footie
AS a journalist once said to a famous footballer from Northern Ireland, where did it all go wrong? In the case of Christian Benteke, he’s certainly no George Best, writes Ian Ryan. In fact, there’s many a Red who will tell you they would rather have had his catwalk...
by Andy Heaton | Jul 18, 2016 | Footie
IN an interview with German newspaper Die Welt at the weekend, Jürgen Klopp was asked about Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea investing heavily in new players. José Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Antonio Conte “are not known to go shopping at...
