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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

5 days ago | 1 read

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, […]

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Liverpool FC Women on Aston Villa Challenge: “We Owe Them One”

Hot off their first win of the Women’s Super League season against Tottenham on January 25th, Liverpool took on Manchester United last weekend knowing they faced a far tougher opponent but hopeful they could earn some kind of a result and perhaps drag themselves off the bottom of the table. That didn’t happen, with the […]

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Five More Liverpool Legends Confirmed for March Dortmund Friendly

Liverpool staging a legends match at Anfield during the first international break of the new year has become something of a tradition for the club, and 2026 is no exception with the Reds set to take on Borussia Dortmund on March 28th in a game that will be especially noteworthy for the return of Jürgen […]

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Liverpool Appoint Former PSG Coach Diakhaby as Youth Development Phase Coach

Liverpool FC continue to invest in their future, and their latest youth-related movie is appointing former Paris Saint-Germain youth coach Bafode Diakhaby as their new Youth Development Phase (YDP) coach at the academy, which will involve working with some of the club’s young players to help them reach their maximum potential. ︀︀The 36-year-old brings nearly […]

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Wirtz: You Can Really Celebrate Your Goals if the Team Wins

Liverpool demolished Newcastle at home to make it two dominant wins in two on the week, and Florian Wirtz left his mark on the occasion. Speaking to Liverpoolfc.com after the match, the German international indulged in cliché, though did make explicit that team success allows personal accomplishments to shine brighter: “I just enjoy it,” he […]

7 days ago | 1 read

Liverpool and Huges “Absolutely Convinced” Club Has Made Right Signings

Liverpool’s 2025-26 season hasn’t gone to plan so far, with last year’s Premier League champions struggling to consistently deliver both quality performances and results and currently sat sixth in the league table. Not all is lost just yet, though, and there have been shoots of promise in recent weeks. The question now is whether this […]

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Rafaela Borggräfe Leaves Liverpool FC Women On Loan

The tumultuous start to the Liverpool career of Rafaela Borggräfe has taken another turn. The German goalkeeper, who was brought in this summer with an expectation to being a long term replacement for Rachael Laws, has failed to have a positive impact in her opening half season with the club. Borggräfe was conspicuously absent in […]

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