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Florian Wirtz Says All That Matters Is Three Points Against Sunderland

Liverpool are currently chasing Manchester United and Chelsea in the race to qualify for next the Champions League next season, and after the duo dropped points playing ahead of the Reds in the mid-week slate of fixtures, there’s a chance to close the gap a little. Currently, the Reds sit five points back of Chelsea […]

Alisson and Liverpool Know a Win is Desperately Needed at Sunderland

In isolation, a loss to Manchester City might be easier to take than some of Liverpool’s defeats this season, but dropping three points from a winning position over the weekend and then watching their rivals in the race to qualify for next season’s Champions League then slip up against bottom-half opposition is a blow. It […]

Jacquet’s Season Over After Shoulder Injury

In case you missed it, Liverpool FC signing Jeremy Jacquet suffered a shoulder injury over the weekend in Rennes’ 3-1 loss to Lens. The player is now facing the prospect of season-ending surgery. It’s been kind of a crazy week for the 20-year-old defender. Over the span of eight days, he finalised a £60 million […]

Sunderland vs. Liverpool: Premier League 2025-26 Preview & Team News

SUNDERLAND VS. LIVERPOOL | Wednesday, February 11th |Premier League | Stadium of Light8:15PM BST/3:15PM EST Sunderland are unbeaten at home, and are the only Premier League team able to claim such a record. Indeed, their unbeaten home record is the longest by a newly promoted side since Nottingham Forest’s 21-game-streak in the 1977-78 season (yes, […]

Slot Reflects on Toughest Season as Manager: “A Draw Feels like a Loss”

Liverpool currently look firmly headed towards a 60 point season, a total that would make Champions League qualification for next year nearly inconceivable. Coming off last season’s title triumph and a £450M summer spending spree, it’s a result that nobody expected. While there’s still games to play there’s always hope, of course, but to call […]

Carragher Sees Slot Keeping Job Even Without Champions League

With thirteen games left to play, defending champions Liverpool are currently sixth. Even if the top five qualify for the Champions League next season as expected, they would miss out. To make matters worse, on paper December and January looked their easiest run of league matches this season and the next few months appear far […]

Team News: Szoboszlai the Headline Absence for Sunderland

Dominik Szoboszlai showed his best and worst against Manchester City on Sunday, and his straight red means he will be unavailable due to suspension for Liverpool’s challenging midweek fixture against a Sunderland side who have shown themselves worth staying up this season. Jeremie frimpong and Conor Bradley are absent with injury, and Joe Gomez is […]

Ryan Gravenberch: “We Have to Start Winning Games”

When the 2025-26 season was released and everyone was focused on a potential title defence for Liverpool, most people looking at the fixture list saw a schedule setting up a more difficult start and finish while the easiest run would be through the months of December and January. Back to back fixtures against Newcastle United […]

Slot Talk: “The Improvement We Have Made Is Visible For Everyone”

What else is there to say? Liverpool failed to take any points from Manchester City this season, and the visitors won at Anfield for the first time in a long time. The Reds did well to keep City away from the goal for the majority of the match, but everything began to unravel after took […]

Liverpool FC Women 4, Aston Villa 1: Reds Climb Out Of The Basement

Liverpool: Enderby 9’, Thomas 14’, Fisk 84’. Csillag 97’ Aston Villa: Taylor 41’ Pre-Match The Liverpool FC Women have a legitimate chance to get out of the relegation zone today if they manage a win after Leicester City lost yesterday. The Reds had their first win of the season against Spurs in late January, and […]

Digging Deeper Into Liverpool’s Bizarre Loss To Manchester City

It started off pretty crap for Liverpool in the first half as they struggled to keep hold of the ball and move it up the pitch due to a combination of Manchester City’s press and some just plain poor passing. Despite the lack of possession, the visitors struggled to create much of anything outside of […]

Liverpool 1, Manchester City 2 – Match Recap: Slow Burn Heartbreak

LIVERPOOL 1 – 2 MANCHESTER CITY Liverpool: Szoboszlai 73’Manchester City: Silva 84’, Haaland 90+3’ Pre-Match The unbeaten streak has ended and we’ve started all over again. We’ve won our last two with ten goals to one after the disappointing loss to Bournemouth in stoppage time, but the real test is here with our rival in […]

Liverpool vs. Manchester City: Premier League 2025-26 Live Coverage & How to Watch

LIVERPOOL VS. MAN CITY | Saturday, February 8th |Premier League | Anfield4:30PM BST/11:30PM EST Have Liverpool turned a corner? Another solid performance today against Manchester City would go a long way toward assuaging fears of yet another false dawn. Hopefully The Reds can keep the good-ish times rolling with a win today against their former […]

Youth Watch: U18s Drop ‘Baby’ Merseyside Derby

A favorite maxim from me whenever I write about the Academy is: “progress matters more than wins.” And, well, it won’t take too long to sort out why I decided to lead this article with that tidbit: the Liverpool U18s lost in the “baby” Merseyside Derby against the Everton U18s, 2-1. It wasn’t a great […]

On Harvey Elliott, the Business of Sport, and Loyalty

Liverpool are a club that, for the big spending that took place over the summer, look a bit light given a string of injuries across different departments of the first team. While the biggest concerns are on the defensive end, with right-back and center-back being particularly light with injuries to Conor Bradley, Jeremie Frimpong, and […]

Liverpool vs. Manchester City: Premier League 2025-26 Preview & Team News

LIVERPOOL VS. MANCHESTER CITY | Sunday, February 8th |Premier League | Anfield4:30PM BST/11:30AM EST Liverpool welcome Manchester City to Anfield a week after one of their best performances of the season against Newcastle United. The Liverpool players, led by Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz, have remembered how to score goals again. The four they put […]

Slot Talk: Florian Wirtz’s Form was Worth the Wait

Arne Slot spoke to the press ahead of Sunday’s match against Manchester City, who currently sit six points behind league leaders Arenal. Slot faced some questions about Florian Wirtz’s recent showings, as the German has been central to Liverpool’s efforts. “It’s always credit to the player because he has to do the work, not only […]

Liverpool Team News: Gomez Possible

Joe Gomez is expected to train on Saturday, so has an outside chance of seeing some minutes should the team need him. Jeremie Frimpong, however, has not trained this week and so will be unavailable to face Manchester City, As such, expect to see a makeshift right back at the weekend, though Arne Slot did […]

Arne Slot on Man City Challenge: “It’s a Moment to See Where We Are”

Liverpool’s 2025-26 season hasn’t had very many bright spots to date, but following up a 6-0 demolition of Qarabag in the Champions League last week with a 4-1 victory over Newcastle in the league over the weekend certainly counts. In fact, it’s hard to think of a contender for brighter. The question now, though, as […]

Oxlade-Chamberlain to Sign with Celtic

Former Liverpool FC midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is set to resume his career by signing for Scottish giants Glasgow Celtic, according to reports. Word is it will be a six-month contract until the end of the season. Ox had been spotted training with the Arsenal first team in preparation for his next move, and it’s been […]

Tribunal Set Chelsea Compensation for Liverpool’s Ngumoha Signing

Having signed young winger Rio Ngumoha out of the Chelsea academy back in the summer of 2024, it’s been 18 months now waiting on the tribunal to rule on just what the Reds would owe to London’s Blues for the standout young talent and today that ruling has dropped. In total, the most Liverpool could […]

Slot on Jacquet Signing: “The Future of This Club Is in Very Good Place”

Liverpool’s new big money signing, 20-year-old French youth international centre half Jérémy Jacquet, won’t properly arrive at the club until the summer after the Reds agreed a £60M buy-and-loan-back January deadline day deal to sign the highly talented Rennes youngster. When he does arrive, though, the expectation will be for Jacquet to compete for starting […]

Rumour Mongering: Ancelotti Requested Mac Allister As Real Madrid Manager

The Athletic’s Real Madrid correspondent Mario Cortegana published a report summarising Real Madrid’s activity this winter window (it was none), and there are some tidbits worth knowing as a Liverpool FC fan. In the section that looks ahead to Madrid’s potential summer business, it is mentioned that while Carlo Ancelotti was still Real Madrid manager, […]