UNWRAPPED goes hard and heavy on the processes of identifying and buying players within a football club. Who does what? Who should do what? Is scouting dead? What is the ideal model? Just some of the questions Rob Gutmann, Paul Senior, Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons...
ROB GUTMANN shares the gutter platform with Gareth Roberts, Neil Atkinson and Craig Rimmer to discuss the radio silence from the club, the speculation from the press as well as right backs, sub goalies and Jurgen Klopp. Gareth on his lap top. The rest on a mic. You...
NEIL ATKINSON has Sean Rogers to his left and Paul Cope to his right as they try and make sense of the departures of Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh. They discuss the type of personality who might replace them, and what it potentially means for Brendan Rodgers. Is he a...
NEIL ATKINSON is back on presenting duties, and is joined by Ian Salmon, Mike Girling and John Gibbons. They discuss the announcement, of sorts, of Danny Ings as well as the backroom merry-go-round and why footballers contracts are weird. There is even a winner takes...
BRENDAN Rodgers remains as Liverpool manager then; granted a fourth season after this week’s Liverpool get-together with Tom Werner and Mike Gordon. Initial assurance for Rodgers came in the shape of a Merseyside venue for talks, instead of the Boston offices where...
I REMEMBER one of the first appraisals that I ever had, back in the days when business moved from, ‘Look, you’re doing well, keep doing it’ or ‘You’re a bit shit at the moment, sort it out’ to actual targeted aims, KPIs and SMART...
NEGATIVITY — like love in the Wet Wet Wet song, is all around me, writes BEN McCAUSLAND. I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. It’s washing around the city, rampaging through the streets like a CGI tidal wave in an action movie. Every time you pick up a...
OUR host with the most Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, John Gibbons and Jay McKenna as they discuss recent events and news out of LFC. From Rodgers keeping his job, and the possible implications moving forward, to the signing of James Milner. In the...
SO Brendan Rodgers remains the manager of Liverpool Football Club. We wish him well, and cross our fingers. But me? I think he’s sunk. Before he starts, I mean — he’s sunk. “Why?”, I hear you ask. Well, if a manager is going to lead, he...
AS a Liverpool supporter I’m a little down and apathetic right now, and I dare say I’m not alone. It’s not because Brendan Rodgers is staying. Well, it’s not just because of that. I can’t deny that the news of the manager keeping his job (leaked to the press...
