Salah Still Fits, Whatever The Shape
I’m struggling with this idea that Mohamed Salah doesn’t fit Liverpool anymore. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the...
📅 19 Dec 2025
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Salah, space, and the bigger problem at Liverpool
Let’s get the uncomfortable bit out first: if Mohamed Salah were to go in January, it wouldn’t feel like a football decision about minutes, for...
📅 18 Dec 2025
Pick the front two and keep it simple
If Arne Slot is serious about leaning into a two-up-top shape, then the conversation gets a lot less complicated for me. Pick the pair that gives y...
📅 18 Dec 2025
Not Decimated: Just Liverpool Getting On With It
There’s a point where “context” turns into excuse-making, and I think some of the chat around Liverpool lately has drifted into that territor...
📅 17 Dec 2025
On Guehi, Palace aren’t being ‘unrealistic’
There’s a slightly awkward truth in the noise around Marc Guehi: some of the frustration aimed at Crystal Palace is basically the same logic we�...
📅 17 Dec 2025
Slot Links and the Reality of Recruitment
There’s a habit in football chat where any player from a manager’s old club gets framed as “his lad”. Sometimes that’s true. Other times ...
📅 17 Dec 2025
Semenyo, Gakpo and the value of real competition
Semenyo was very good the other night, and Bournemouth were at it too. You can give a nod to Iraola there because his side looked like they knew ex...
📅 17 Dec 2025
You Don’t Win Titles Without Threat
There’s a point that gets lost every summer when people start ranking squads by who’s conceded the fewest. Defending well is obviously massive,...
📅 16 Dec 2025
Is Guehi Really A January Move?
Every January, Liverpool fans end up doing the same mental gymnastics: we spot the obvious squad need, we see the links, then we try to work out wh...
📅 16 Dec 2025
Sorting the Liverpool rumours from the noise
January always brings the same two things: football every three days, and a steady stream of names that may or may not exist outside a scout’s no...
📅 16 Dec 2025
Curtis Jones Has Captain Material In Him
I keep coming back to Curtis Jones and the same thought: he’s been judged on the wrong things. After the Everton derby last season, I found mysel...
📅 16 Dec 2025
Curtis Jones: nearly the main man
Curtis Jones is one of those Liverpool lads you can’t help but root for. Not just because he’s a Scouser, but because you can see the footballe...
📅 16 Dec 2025