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Liverpool and their captain Virgil van Dijk have made a supreme start to the new Premier League season. When Jurgen Klopp left Liverpool in the summer, there were many question marks over how his replacement Arne Slot would get on given the extra pressure on his shoulders. Why Doesn’t Monaco Have A National Football Team? When the German first took the Anfield job, the club was heading towards nearly three decades of not being champions of England and they hadn’t tasted European success since 2005. But with players like van Dijk signing, the club transformed, won the Champions League in…
Can John Textor Solve the Club’s Problems? The ongoing uncertainty surrounding the takeover of Everton Football Club has left fans and analysts wondering when a resolution will come. David Moyes is receiving a growing groundswell of support within the Everton boardroom to make a sensational return to the club. Everton could yet be docked further points by the Premier League. The Toffees will not need to pay the full £4.9million legal costs from last season’s Profit and Sustainability Rules case. Liverpool are reportedly eyeing Everton’s rising star, Jarrad Branthwaite, with a significant £70 million bid in the works. [EPL Index]…
Whenever Liverpool Football Club are in a knockout competition, particularly a European one, they are considered one of the strong favorites to lift the trophy when all is said and done. With Liverpool making their return to the UEFA Champions League after a one season pitstop in the Europa League, are those expectations fair and realistic this time around? Yes or no? In this piece I am going to take a closer look at the Reds squad under Arne Slot, analyze the competitors and hopefully we will come away with a truer outlook on what to expect from this club…
Ex-Arsenal striker Ian Wright says Liverpool head coach Arne Slot and his coaching staff would have been “pleasantly surprised” with how Ryan Gravenberch has seamlessly fitted into the No.6 role since the beginning of the campaign. The Dutchman has been outstanding in the opening three Premier League games, and Wright has pinpointed the player’s work out of possession as a particular highlight: “His defensive work in that particular game was something they would have looked at and thought ‘wow’ because he is not a natural No.6, he’s more of a No.8 who wants to get forward into the box and…
One Liverpool player is clearly full of self-confidence ahead of the 2024/25 UEFA Nations League commencing tonight. Northern Ireland are among the teams in action as the fourth edition of the tournament gets underway on Thursday, with Michael O’Neill’s side hosting Luxembourg in their League C opener. The national team’s official Instagram channel posted a video in which a variety of players in the squad gave their predictions as to who’d score the Ulstermen’s first goal of the campaign. When Conor Bradley approached the camera for his answer, he raised his hand and replied ‘Me!’. Interestingly, a few of his…
Ryan Gravenberch has started all three games for Liverpool this season. Ryan Gravenberch revealed he’s relished his switch of position at Liverpool. The midfielder has started the 2024-25 campaign in magnificent form for the Reds. Following the arrival of Arne Slot as new head coach, Gravenberch has been deployed in a No.6 role in the opening three games – having operated in a more advanced position last term. Liverpool have registered a 100% record so far, with the 22-year-old highly impressive in last Sunday’s 3-0 victory over fierce rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford. Certainly, Gravenberch has benefited from the…
Liverpool face a difficult decision about the future of their Egyptian superstar. Salah has begun the season in brilliant form and has set the Premier League alight yet again. However, he is now in the final year of his Liverpool contract and at 32-years-old he is at an age where players traditionally enter the twilight of their careers. Salah is no ordinary player, though. He’s proven time and time again what an extraordinary player he is, including at Old Trafford last Sunday. And his extraordinary capabilities might be enough to force Liverpool to pivot from their previous reluctance to hand…
There is little question that Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are two modern day Liverpool legends. The pair achieved amazing things together and individually while at the club, winning just about everything they possibly could. However, while Salah continues to remain at the top of his game, Mane has declined markedly since leaving Anfield in 2022. A move to Bayern Munich failed to go to plan and the Senegalese eventually left after just one season, joining Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia. And as Salah weighs up the possibility of leaving Liverpool at the end of the season, Mane is proving…
Liverpool have suffered an injury blow with a national team manager confirming that a player is struggling with a fitness problem. Arne Slot’s Liverpool have kicked off the new Premier League season in emphatic style with three straight wins in a row for the Merseyside club including a dominant 3-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford. Liverpool were dominant in that victory over Erik ten Hag’s United with Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah scoring the goals to hand the Merseyside club the victory. Despite Liverpool making one first-team signing in the form of Federico Chiesa, the Reds look to…
January will mark seven years since Philippe Coutinho traded Liverpool for Barcelona in a club record £142m deal. Yet Jurgen Klopp’s well-documented warning to the Brazilian remains still holds true to this day. “Stay here and they will end up building a statue in your honour,” the German declared. “Go somewhere else, to Barcelona, to Bayern Munich, to Real Madrid, and you will be just another player. Here you can be something more.” Coutinho would end up in both Barcelona and Munich. But while he won two La Liga titles and the Copa del Rey with the Catalans, and a…