THE signing of Mohamed Salah will no doubt bring another dimension to Jürgen Klopp’s frontline next season. While Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane all enjoyed stellar seasons, the absence of at least one proved damaging to the team —...
WITH a deal for Roma winger Mohamed Salah now confirmed by Liverpool at fee of an initial £34million possibly rising to £39m, we take a look at what the former Chelsea player is bringing to Anfield’s attacking armoury....
DOMINIC Solanke became Liverpool’s first signing of the summer this week, but who is he? The highly-rated 19-year-old turned down a new contract at Stamford Bridge before agreeing to make the move to Merseyside on July 1. Reaction to the acquisition has been mixed...
WHEN it comes to stealing a living, few people pull it off as well as certain football pundits. I’m not talking about the ones who make predictions about particular football matches that end up going spectacularly wrong — that can happen to the best of us. I’m...
LAST week Jürgen Klopp claimed the gap to Chelsea was not as large as the table suggests, it’s a comment that is always going to be met with howls of derision. I typed words along these lines in to Twitter to gauge the reaction and was met by an Evertonian accusing...
WHEN the cloak of darkness falls upon Madrid in the weeks before spring’s arrival, the temperature drops suddenly and gusts blow across the city. Yet over on the banks of the Manzanares River, at the Vicente Calderón Stadium, there is a flame that always burns. To...
THERE has been something distorting about what Chelsea have done so far this season. Something which has damaged perceptions across the division, especially within the other sides in the top six. The rate they have notched points up has left everyone else searching...
In this week’s show Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, Josh Sexton and Sam Walkerdine to have a look at the six teams battling for Champions League qualification. With 13 league games remaining, each team is assessed in terms of their run-in, squad size and...
LET me take you back to a painful day in our recent history. Sunday April 27, 2014. Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2. That one. I was low down on The Kop that day with my mate Tony. Front row, corner flag. We were so close to the action that we could have tapped Iago Aspas on...
IT happened, didn’t it? The thing you thought might not happen again, that you’d convinced yourself might be a thing of the past, that you thought had disappeared. Yeah, that’s right you thought that the brain-fart had been eliminated from Simon Mignolet’s game. But...
Press Conference Extra looks at the wider context around Arne Slot’s media briefing before Liverpool’s Champions League tie against Real Madrid at Anfield.
