AS Mohamed Salah is announced as a Liverpool player, John Gibbons and Gareth Roberts get the lowdown on his considerable qualities from journalist and Italian football expert James Horncastle. James talks about Serie A on the BT Sport European Football Show as well as...
IT’S the middle of June and Liverpool have already managed to upset a good chunk of their supporter base by signing a kid who most have rarely seen play, being made to issue a public apology for tapping up their top target and dragging out negotiations over a couple...
THE summer should, ideally, be made up of long lazy days dreaming of how Liverpool will rip it up next season and gather some cups come May. Everything is possible and nothing is impossible at this stage. Without the hopes and dreams, what’s the point? They...
ROB Gutmann hosts Gareth Roberts, Mo Stewart and Paul Senior as the panel try to make sense of the latest transfer rumours around Liverpool. Could the Reds really, somehow, actually be in for Kylian Mbappé? Could the much-wanted teenage Monaco star end up at Anfield...
“THE truth, just like you, just like me, is never that simple.” Forgive me the indulgence of starting this with a quote from a friend’s debut album (Hightown Pirates’ ‘Dry and High’ out on June 16, trust me, you’ll love it) but it’s absolutely pertinent to what we’re...
THERE is something about doing shows that concentrates the mind. Yesterday we recorded our transfer show, The Gutter, and had a big chat about Virgil van Dijk, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mohamed Salah among others. The most bullish I got was about van Dijk. I’m...
HERE we are then. Knee deep in it. The summer. The silly season. Call it what you will. It’s that time we all wait and watch and hope. Checking the news and the gossip columns for signs of life. Hoping that Liverpool can do the deals that will create a buzz for...
AS with the appearance of Christmas pap in the shops in August, and Easter Eggs in January, the start of transfer rumour silly season seems to get earlier and earlier each year. It’s not even May yet and already people seem fairly certain they’ve got Jürgen Klopp’s...
I’VE got a real bee in my bonnet about something at the moment: the refusal to accept that nuance might be relevant when discussing football stories. Just because the sport that we all love seems to be edging towards entertainment more and more with each passing year...
IT may be the fact that the beginning of each of the last three weeks has been bright and spoken of warmer, sunnier days (other than that pre-derby biblical downpour); it may be because we have been mired in a pointless international break that has, yet again, served...
