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It’s an age-old debate in football – Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, or Paul Scholes – and it’s safe to say that most Liverpool fans will agree upon one similar answer. Asked to settle the argument on The Football Historian Podcast, Howard Gayle said: “Well, Stevie G carried the club for so many years, carried it. “It was a brilliant gesture when Benitez tried to sell him to Chelsea and he said no. That to me is a Liverpool player, he gets the club and he’s kind of like saying; ‘no one is selling me, I’ll go when I’m ready.’ “If…
Playing for a pressure cooker club like Liverpool can be tough on even the most proven of stars. There is a reason why Liverpool went 30 years without winning English football’s main crown. Not because all the teams weren’t good enough, some of them were, it’s just dealing with the intense pressure of having to be number one for English football’s biggest club was too much. And, as the Reds have shown before Jurgen Klopp’s departure, just one period of disappointing results and performances can spread like wildfire and derail your campaign. Only months ago, Liverpool fans, albeit ahead of…
The 2023/24 season is slowly coming to a tame end for Liverpool, as concentration now shifts to a huge summer for the club. The Reds will be preparing for the arrival of new boss Arne Slot and the possible additions he will make to the squad. After securing the Carabao Cup earlier in the year, the minds of the Liverpool fanbase drifted to dreams of a historic quadruple to mark Jürgen Klopp’s departure in style. Sadly, exits in the FA Cup and Europa League – as well as a drop in form within the Premier League – have ended all…
When Arne Slot takes over at Liverpool this summer, he will inherit a group of players that is ready to be moved to the next level. All across the team, there are stars ready to take the next step, from those who might change position (Trent Alexander-Arnold and Cody Gakpo) to those who are at the right age to propel forward (Jarell Quansah, Dominik Szoboszlai and more). Harvey Elliott falls into both categories. Despite him having now played more than 100 times for Liverpool, Elliott is still very young — and he would have played even more were it not…
This will be a summer of change at Liverpool FC, with manager Jurgen Klopp leaving the Premier League club having delivered eight major trophies in his nine-year stint. Klopp has also earned a reputation as one of world soccer’s greatest LGBTQ allies, regularly wearing Rainbow Laces on the touchline and engaging effectively with the club’s supporters group, Kop Outs! The German vocally backed Josh Cavallo when the Adelaide United defender came out publicly as gay, telling reporters that “the problem is the wider thing” (we’re seeing this again right now, with the sudden hype around gay and bi professional male…
Girona manager Michel has admitted he wants to take on Liverpool in the Champions League next season, but completely avoid Manchester City if possible. The Spanish boss has been speaking to Cadena SER about his plans for next season after Girona secured their place in the Champions League next season. His side currently sit second in La Liga after a superb campaign in which they have surpassed all expectations and at points challenged for the title with Real Madrid and Barcelona. Their title challenge eventually fell away as Madrid pushed out in front but qualifying for the Champions League remains…
NAVIGATING LIVERPOOL’S FUTURE: THE IMPENDING ARRIVAL OF ARNE SLOT As the curtain falls on Jurgen Klopp’s transformative era at Liverpool, a new chapter looms with the anticipated appointment of Arne Slot, a name now resonating through the corridors of Anfield with increasing frequency. This transition comes at a pivotal time for Liverpool, heralding a shift that could redefine their tactical and managerial approach. INSIGHT FROM ANFIELD’S PAST: SANDER WESTERVELD’S PERSPECTIVE Sander Westerveld, a figure synonymous with Liverpool’s treble-winning squad of 2001, has provided a unique insight into why Arne Slot’s formal unveiling might be on hold. With a shared history…
Jamie Carragher slammed the “embarrassing” behaviour of Antony and Mason Mount after Manchester United’s 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace on Monday evening. United were schooled by Oliver Glasner’s side at Selhurst Park, raising further questions over the future of Erik ten Hag after another dismal display during the current campaign. The Red Devils have now suffered a record-high 13 Premier League defeats and are some 13 points off the top four after what has been a disastrous second season for Ten Hag. Reacting to this latest setback in their season, Jamie Carragher was in attendance for Monday’s 4-0 drubbing and…
It is one of the mysteries of Jürgen Klopp’s final season at Liverpool that remains unsolved. Just how have the Reds played against Manchester United three times and failed to win even once? The Anfield stalemate in mid-December saw a deluge of shots somehow fail to beat André Onana before the FA Cup and Premier League double-header at Old Trafford in March and April respectively saw more chances missed and even more chaos. Liverpool should have won all three matches and somehow ended up without a victory in any of them. Manchester United, with three fixtures left to play this…
Jurgen Klopp will be reunited with referee Simon Hooper for the final time when he oversees Liverpool’s clash with Aston Villa on Monday, and he will not be overjoyed with the news! There are few referees that Klopp does not have history with considering he has spent nearly nine years in the Premier League, but he will not be forgetting Hooper once he leaves in the summer. Hooper, of course, was the referee for that fixture at Tottenham earlier in the season, when Diogo Jota and Luis Diaz were sent off and the catastrophic VAR error took place. He was…