BEFORE a ball was kicked, I said Liverpool will win the league this season. As each game has passed — and Liverpool have responded to every obstacle put in front of them (Burnley aside) — I’m merely becoming more and more convinced. There are a number of...
SIGNING players because we need ‘someone’ has been something that Liverpool has specialised in in recent years. It has been maddening. On deadline day, the Prosecution’s number one piece of evidence made his way to the Cote D’Azur to sign for Nice after...
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...
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...
SADIO Mane is a Liverpool player then. Rumour has it that he was vetoed by Brendan Rodgers two years ago after his statistics were put through the committee’s algorithm and the results came out favourably. We’ll never know if this is true or not but it could be that...
WITH the footie season now over, transfer rumours in full swing and the countdown to Euro 2016 ticking away, we thought the time was right to ask Anfield Wrap contributors and friends what they made of the Liverpool season just gone. With two managers, two cup finals,...
ON Friday 20th May John Gibbons and Simon Hughes are in the TAW studio with their hands on the latest Liverpool news. Former LFC manager Brendan Rodgers has joined Glasgow Celtic as their new manager. We discuss whether we think it is a good move for him and how much...
BRENDAN Rodgers resisted the ray of warm sunshine that flashed through the window in front of him by wearing a long, grey coloured mac. Perching himself on a table he began to confidently explain how his Swansea City team had secured their Premier League future...
PICTURE the scene. Dawn breaks. A naked man lies alone on a heavily distressed bed — the duvet and pillows seem to be at once entwined with and yet almost scrambling to escape his clutches. Through the untouched, gaping curtains an inquisitive beam of light...
FROM a position of weakness, the first thing a manager usually tries to do is help the side he has inherited become tougher to beat than it was before. Brendan Rodgers attempted to make Liverpool more attractive to watch, so when the criticisms came — that...
Reflecting on Liverpool’s League Cup defeat against Crystal Palace before looking ahead towards their weekend fixture against Aston Villa at Anfield.Rob Gutmann is joined by Ian Salmon, Mo Stewart and Mike Kearney.
