EIGHTY-FOUR days. That’s the time between the last game of last season when we beat Middlesbrough at home and the first fixture of next season when the Reds head for Watford. It’s a long time that isn’t it? And with no major footie tournament to distract attention...
On this day 10 years ago, Lucas Leiva signed for Liverpool from Gremio for a fee of £5million. In a decade at Liverpool, the Brazilian has played under five different managers, clocking up 344 appearances for the Reds. Back in February, The Anfield Wrap spoke to the...
IF you’d have asked me a few weeks ago about who would be leaving the club this summer, I would have said, with a very heavy heart, that Lucas Leiva would be on the ‘definitely’ list. He appeared to have been relegated to a position in our squad as an auxiliary...
THERE’S a video doing the rounds on the internet at the minute showing Lucas Leiva’s absolute joy when greeting Player Liaison Officer Ray Haughan shortly after full-time on Saturday. He’s by an absolute country mile the most enthusiastic of the Liverpool players who...
SATURDAY was enjoyable, for obvious reasons. After days of questioning just how attached my head was following the announcement of Everton’s plans for the Joe-Max Moore stadium (or whatever it’s called), to beat the Toffees in a relatively simple fashion was sweet....
THERE’S a lot more to Lucas Leiva’s Liverpool career than the bare facts of 334 appearances in a red shirt. In many ways the Brazilian defines the struggle of the modern Liverpool player entwined in the complexity of supporters’ expectations. Only through seniority,...
LUCAS Leiva believes he has been a scapegoat for some bad Liverpool performances in the past. The Brazilian is approaching his 10th year at Anfield, the Reds’ longest serving current player, and has had to put up with his fair share of criticism and links with moves...
Lallana Signs THE club have today officially confirmed that Adam Lallana has signed a new three-year deal with the option of an additional 12 months which will see him earn £110,000-a-week. The England international has seven goals and seven assists this season and...
IN a TAW Player hour-long exclusive, Lucas Leiva speaks to Andy Heaton and Gareth Roberts about 10 years at Anfield. In an open and honest interview, the Brazilian, signed from Gremio for £5million in May 2007, talks first about his early problems settling in as a...
Oo Melwood Move THE Echo have exclusively revealed that Liverpool are set to leave Melwood in favour of merging the first team and academy training facilities at the current academy base in Kirkby. Jürgen Klopp is reported to be the driving force behind the move,...
