JÜRGEN KLOPP has given Liverpool gravitas, reach and respectability. In one fell swoop, his appointment as manager made the football world take notice. It was a statement that Liverpool meant business again — no longer a project and instead aiming to be a...
NOW that I have a weekly article on these pages you’ll soon realise that I’m a fan of quotes. Mainly quotes to motivate me and quotes to remind me that nothing we’re experiencing is very new at all. My uncle said to me a few nights ago...
YET another international break and heightened irritation at not seeing the Mighty Reds light up our weekend. Of course, we’ve been here before – being the third occasion already this season – but in the wake of Liverpool’s dazzling, free-scoring shows since the last...
IT exists to win trophies. A bastion of invincibility, the league its bread and butter. A holy trinity made up of the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors? They don’t come into it. We’re part of a family. People who can hold our heads up high and say,...
45, 43, 13, 17, 17, 54, 20, 16, 27. ELEVEN games in, nine games in which Liverpool have scored, and eight times we have scored before half-time. Thirty goals at 2.72 per game, Jürgen Klopp’s Reds have been relentless and ruthless in their push to the summit of the...
WITH several of Liverpool’s stars leaving to join their compatriots on international duty, Jürgen Klopp has made the decision to give those remaining at Melwood a well deserved break. Sunday’s 6-1 demolition of Watford saw the Reds go top of the Premier...
JÜRGEN Klopp is excited by the confirmation of contract extensions for Kevin Stewart, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Ben Woodburn. The young trio have put pen to paper on new long-term deals at the club, a further statement of the faith the manager is showing in the youth...
REMEMBER the transfer committee? Remember how much we hated it and everything that it bought? Remember how we mistrusted all those shadowy figures that we had never really heard of and whose roles we didn’t really understand? Don’t seem quite so suspicious now that...
THE Brazilians have a football aphorism: “Quem nao faz toma.” If you don’t score when you’re on top you will lose. Kind of. Stating the obvious? Well, yes, but there’s nuance to it. There’s implication that the reverse is also true....
JÜRGEN Klopp spoke to the press at Melwood today ahead of the visit of Walter Mazzarri’s Watford, a game that the Reds really have to win, writes Peter Tscherewik. Liverpool managed to see off the Hornets with ease back in May, winning 2-0. That game meant...
