#  @eddiegibbs Eddie Gibbs Eddie Gibbs posts on X about in the, football, wirtz, summer the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::211864374/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -51% - [--] Month [---------] +33% - [--] Months [----------] +25% - [--] Year [----------] +12,991% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::211864374/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +13% - [--] Month [---] +20% - [--] Months [---] +118% - [--] Year [---] +3,960% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::211864374/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.45% - [--] Month [------] +6% - [--] Months [------] +43% - [--] Year [------] +518% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::211864374/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [premier league](/list/premier-league) #4883 [champions league](/list/champions-league) 43.65% [finance](/list/finance) 7.94% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 7.14% [countries](/list/countries) 5.56% [la liga](/list/la-liga) 3.17% [bundesliga](/list/bundesliga) 1.59% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 1.59% [musicians](/list/musicians) 0.79% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 0.79% **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the) 11.9%, [football](/topic/football) 8.73%, [wirtz](/topic/wirtz) 7.94%, [summer](/topic/summer) 7.14%, [night](/topic/night) 6.35%, [salah](/topic/salah) 6.35%, [more than](/topic/more-than) 5.56%, [red](/topic/red) 4.76%, [squad](/topic/squad) 4.76%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 3.97% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@anfieldindex](/creator/undefined) [@jordandelurey](/creator/undefined) [@libshield](/creator/undefined) [@eplindex](/creator/undefined) [@talkingpj](/creator/undefined) [@keld728](/creator/undefined) [@sammcguire90](/creator/undefined) [@jamesgrayhound](/creator/undefined) [@simoneluvshan](/creator/undefined) [@liamlfc909](/creator/undefined) [@bbciplayer](/creator/undefined) [@barred321](/creator/undefined) [@bbcsportscot](/creator/undefined) [@bbcmotd](/creator/undefined) [@nffc](/creator/undefined) [@officialbarnesy](/creator/undefined) [@realaldo474](/creator/undefined) [@theforfs](/creator/undefined) [@cricketscotland](/creator/undefined) [@cricketneps](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "⚽ The Fine Line Between Control and Chaos #LFC #NUFC #PremierLeague Preview The 6-0 win on Wednesday was welcome cleansing even but it came in a competition and against opposition that allowed Liverpool space rhythm and comfort. Newcastle will offer none of that. This will be narrow physical attritional and demanding. It will ask questions of Liverpool that Qarabag never could. The league table makes the point for us. There is no breathing room no margin for error no luxury of false confidence. Win and Liverpool create daylight from tonight's visitors lose and the ground shifts beneath their" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2017520789747331238) 2026-01-31T08:50Z 13.8K followers, 10.4K engagements "Curtis Jones to Inter Milan and the unease behind the denials I can't claim certainty but I do trust patterns and the pattern around Curtis Jones has been troubling for a while now. On Monday I was sent a series of screenshots from someone close to the player heavy on cryptic emojis light on explanation. Make of that what you will. What followed mattered more. I was told on Tuesday by someone else that he would likely not feature against Qarabag and that illness would be cited as the reason whether it stood up to scrutiny or not. So when talk of a possible move surfaced last night it didn't" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2017530415527887001) 2026-01-31T09:28Z 13.8K followers, 106K engagements "Exactly Why Liverpool Are Looking at Lutsharel Geertruida When Arne Slot arrived there was an expectation that Lutsharel Geertruida might follow. It felt natural almost inevitable. Instead he joined RB Leipzig and the idea was shelved. Now it has returned not dressed up as a grand plan but as a clear urgent solution. Geertruida has been used largely as a centre back during his loan at Sunderland with spells at right-back and lately in defensive midfield. He has not started their last two matches and that detail sharpens the picture. Trusted to start with now parked useful but no longer" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2017886792037638568) 2026-02-01T09:04Z 13.8K followers, 102.1K engagements "Jrmy Jacquet - A bet on tomorrow paid for today I first saw Jacquet when France reached the U19 European final in [----]. He stood above every other defender there commanding fearless visibly born to play on the front foot. That promise has followed him into senior football at Rennes; his ceiling is unmistakably high even if the foundations are still being poured. He is raw he will make mistakes and that is not a criticism; it is simply the truth of a 20-year-old defender learning his trade. What frustrates is not the player but the timing. Liverpool appear to have quietly written this season" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2018258094199906407) 2026-02-02T09:40Z 13.8K followers, 54.3K engagements "🟥 Liverpools roundtable video was calm polished and tightly controlled. But for obvious reasons it avoided the questions fans actually want answered. Ive written a piece asking the questions Id like to have put to Slot and Hughes cutting through the PR and examining what this video really tells us about Liverpools direction. Bold hopefully balanced and unapologetically blunt. Read it on my Substack 👇 https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpools-roundtable-was-polite https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpools-roundtable-was-polite" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2019002170235044274) 2026-02-04T10:56Z 13.8K followers, 69.3K engagements "🙏 RIP John Virgo The voice that guided snooker home John Virgo has died and with him goes a voice that never talked down to the game or dressed it up. He understood snooker because he had lived it the long nights the lonely practice tables the thin line between nerve and noise. As a player he earned his place properly a UK champion but it was later that he became part of peoples lives. From TV's Big Break to snooker commentary he spoke as someone on your side alert to the tiny dramas that decide frames and fortunes. His commentary had urgency warmth and judgement never mistaking volume for" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2019008610567930362) 2026-02-04T11:22Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Night Manager - Merciless Messy Still Magnificent 8/10 ⚠ Spoiler Warning: This review discusses major plot points from The Night Manager S2 on @BBCiPlayer. Best read after watching the full season. Lets be honest it was never going to top the first series. That had the luxury of John le Carrs architecture beneath it every betrayal and double cross rooted in something painfully human and believable. This time the scaffolding was lighter the plotting looser and yet it still made for deeply watchable television. What carried it above all was the pull between Pine and Roper. Hugh Laurie" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2019312682114118065) 2026-02-05T07:30Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "Leoni ✅ Jacquet ✅ Liverpools future at CB is taking shape but the biggest question remains: who replaces Virgil van Dijk 🤔 Bastoni or Schlotterbeck - which one is closest to Liverpools needs The rebuild is underway. One massive decision still to come 🔴 New analysis piece on Substack please subscribe to support my work: https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/bastoni-or-schlotterbeck-liverpools https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/bastoni-or-schlotterbeck-liverpools" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2019792176499290328) 2026-02-06T15:15Z 13.8K followers, 58.1K engagements "@BarRed321 Despite his height his numbers in the air don't fit the profile" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2019801004489810297) 2026-02-06T15:51Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "⚫🔴 #OnThisDay in [----] football changed forever. ❄✈ Munich loss courage and the long road back for Manchester United. A story of promise grief and resolve told for today. ⚽🕯 Read it FREE on my history Substack please subscribe 🙏 https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1958-munich-manchester https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1958-munich-manchester" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2019806043333951615) 2026-02-06T16:11Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "🟥 Championship-level midfielder or the second coming of Pirlo with a postcode problem Curtis Jones has become Liverpools most polarising player in years. Under Arne Slot that debate might soon be settled the hard way. New piece on Substack today please subscribe to support my work https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/curtis-jones-and-liverpools-uncomfortable https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/curtis-jones-and-liverpools-uncomfortable" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2020056460512919645) 2026-02-07T08:46Z 13.8K followers, 30.7K engagements "I get that view but fight for [--] minutes after gifting control again isnt progress for Liverpool. Intensity after going behind or hanging on is the bare minimum not a positive. Bad luck and refs didnt cause the retreat at 1-0 thats a pattern. Standards have to be higher than we had a go" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2020645076838346901) 2026-02-08T23:45Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements "📊 Liverpool [--] Manchester City was decided by fine margins but the numbers tell a clear story. 📉 Shot quality expected threat and decision-making under pressure shaped the outcome at Anfield. Full statistical analysis on my Substack👇 https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-1-2-manchester-city-a-statistical https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-1-2-manchester-city-a-statistical" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2020886479585808431) 2026-02-09T15:44Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "On This Day in [----] David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust 👩🚀⚡ One night a small London stage and pop culture changed forever. My latest history blog is live now exploring how Bowie turned identity into art and rewrote fame. Read it FREE on my history Substack 📚 Please subscribe 🙏 #OnThisDay #DavidBowie #ZiggyStardust #MusicHistory https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1972-david-bowie-became https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1972-david-bowie-became" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021266167684567117) 2026-02-10T16:53Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "🟥 Harvey Elliott and the cold arithmetic of elite football Harvey Elliotts situation feels cruel but it's also brutally familiar. This is elite football at its most honest a business where judgement is final. Liverpool had already moved on in all but name. Last season told its own story. Arne Slot didn't trust Elliott with responsibility didn't lean on him when it mattered and didn't disguise it either. Managers rarely say a player is surplus; they simply behave as though he is. By the time Elliott left on loan the decision had effectively been taken. Aston Villa then applied their own cold" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2018727377707413608) 2026-02-03T16:44Z 13.8K followers, 139.7K engagements "Alexis Mac Allister - The quiet slide of a champion There is something oddly muffled about Alexis Mac Allisters season. Not outrage not scandal just a slow erosion of certainty. A footballer once central to rhythm and control now feels peripheral to both present without imprint trusted without conviction. He looks weary rather than careless busy rather than sharp. The running is still there the effort too but the moments that once defined him have thinned out. Duels go unfinished space closes before he can shape it and games drift past him. You sense a player operating on memory as much as" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021113156698018218) 2026-02-10T06:45Z 13.8K followers, 23.9K engagements "⚽ Travelling Without Conviction Sunderland #LFC #PremierLeague Preview There was a time when Liverpool set the tempo; now they endure it. This side drifts through matches like a team waiting for something to happen rather than making it happen. Any sort of early promise fades fast the intensity ebbs and the final quarter becomes an exercise in anxiety management. You can feel it in the stands you can see it in the body language you can sense it long before the opponents' late goal(s) arrive. Too many games now follow the same weary script. A bright spell a squandered chance a retreat into" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021506101351706855) 2026-02-11T08:46Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "⚽ So Tottenham have sacked Thomas Frank. Two wins in seventeen. Sixteenth in the table. Champions League last [--] and a relegation fight at home. This was more than a bad run. It was a misfit born of structural drift. Managers change. The same questions remain. My full analysis on Spurs ENIC and the identity crisis beneath the headlines. FREE on my football Substack #THFC #Tottenham #PremierLeague https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/tottenham-sack-thomas-frank-but-deeper https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/tottenham-sack-thomas-frank-but-deeper" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021552646772117997) 2026-02-11T11:51Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "Im no expert and dont have the first hand experiences like you do. That said my understanding is that Canadas housing crisis was driven largely by domestic speculation supply constraints and cheap credit over years. Foreign buyers were one factor not the sole cause and certainly not one nationality acting in concert. If you reduce everything to refugee scam and external takeover you let governments off the hook for planning failures and underbuilding. Yes supply and demand matters. But demand is shaped by policy too. Blaming migrants is simpler than fixing housing systems" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021880835360600313) 2026-02-12T09:35Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements "Im not saying its only certain schemes. Im saying the spike was largely driven by identifiable routes work visas students Ukraine Hong Kong. Thats in the data. Small boats make up a visible part of the debate but they are a minority of overall arrivals. Borders wide open suggests no system at all which simply isnt accurate. If the argument is about pace and capacity fine. Thats a legitimate discussion. But we have to start with what the numbers actually show not what feels most dramatic. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021909509606678843 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021909509606678843" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021909509606678843) 2026-02-12T11:29Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements "⚽ Liverpool . This is how you remind me #LFC 4-1 #NUFC #PremierLeague There is a line in that Nickelback song about forgetting who you are. It came on the radio as I walked the dog after the match last night quiet streets head still buzzing. Liverpool reminded us last night. Sharply. Loudly. When most of us likely least expected it especially when Anthony Gordon put Newcastle ahead. The first half hour was ugly and familiar. Loose rattled and pushed around the crowd was restless. Then the game turned on instinct. The ball moved quicker players stopped hiding and Anfield stopped waiting. Not" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2017881195997233411) 2026-02-01T08:42Z 13.8K followers, 20.5K engagements "⚽ Shadows of a Rivalry That Once Ruled England #LFC #MCFC #PremierLeague Preview There was a time when this fixture felt like the future arriving early. Liverpool and Man City pushing each other to extremes football played at a velocity and quality that felt unsustainable yet somehow was. From [----] to [----] this was the Premier League at its most demanding and most honest two sides daring each other to blink. That time has passed. What remains now are two heavyweight names still capable of moments still dangerous but no longer relentless. Both sides flatter both sides deceive both sides carry" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2020407270639825227) 2026-02-08T08:00Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Boy Who Grew Beyond the Creek 🙏 RIP James Van Der Beek James Van Der Beeks face belonged to the turn of the century. Even if you were a shade too old to follow Dawsons Creek with devotion you likely stumbled across it on a slow Sunday morning like I did nursing a hangover from the night before and found yourself watching young James alongside Katie and Joshua doing their thing. He carried the burden of sincerity at a time when sincerity was already falling out of fashion. As Dawson Leery he was asked to be the moral compass the dreamer the one who believed hardest. It's not the sort of" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021858689020571657) 2026-02-12T08:07Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "Net migration did spike post [----] largely driven by new visa routes students health and care workers and specific schemes like Ukraine and Hong Kong. That is factual. But unprecedented does not automatically mean catastrophic. Part of that rise followed Brexit which shifted flows from EU to non EU rather than simply adding a new layer on top. If poorer areas are feeling strain that points to uneven distribution and long term underinvestment not just raw numbers. Rapid change needs better planning housing supply and local funding. That's a governance issue. Ratcliffe could have made a case" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021902432758796758) 2026-02-12T11:01Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements "@BBCSportScot @BBCMOTD No contest between radio and TV commentators take a bow Alasdair Lamont 👏" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/1990929296295145869) 2025-11-18T23:45Z 13.8K followers, 19.7K engagements "Abysmal tactics and mentality after going 1-0 up. Complete loss of heads. But dont less us over reactive fan media ghouls dare criticise the roundtable duo. If you think this is good enough your bar is too low for this club. More words later" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2020567777845690846) 2026-02-08T18:37Z 13.8K followers, 37.8K engagements "⚽ Mentality Mice Meek Surrender at Anfield [--] points in the last [--] Premier League games for the Reds #LFC 1-2 #MCFC #PremierLeague #LIVMCI This collapse felt depressingly familiar because its become routine. Go ahead retreat into yourself stop playing stop thinking stop believing. Liverpool used to smell blood in moments like that. Now they smell fear and fear is cultural. It doesnt arrive by accident. Its learned tolerated then normalised. This team has a weak mentality that flows downhill. Arne Slot Richard Hughes and Fenway Sports Group are no longer abstract decision makers hiding behind" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2020602016297365996) 2026-02-08T20:53Z 13.8K followers, 45.3K engagements "🟥 Grit Over Glamour at the Stadium of Light There are grounds where three points carry more weight than the arithmetic suggests and Sunderland away has been one of those all season. To win there 1-0 against the last unbeaten home side in the league mattered. Liverpool controlled much of it [--] shots before the interval Wirtz lively and inventive Salah probing yet the familiar anxiety lingered when chances went begging. The captain settled it in the manner captains should rising with authority directing his header with conviction and restoring calm. What pleased me most was the steel. Konates" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021718369637126288) 2026-02-11T22:49Z 13.8K followers, 16.3K engagements "🌳 Dyche out. Pereira next. Same Marinakis circus. 🎪 Nottingham Forest are about to appoint a fourth manager of the season and the real problem is still sitting in the directors box. This isnt ambition. Its ego. Its chaos. And its dragging Forest towards relegation. Ive written about Marinakis the culture of fear at the City Ground and why sacking another coach wont save them. Free on my football Substack now. https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/dyche-out-pereira-in-as-marinakis https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/dyche-out-pereira-in-as-marinakis" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021852896556400862) 2026-02-12T07:44Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "Offshore Jim Lectures the Rest of Us (Again) He lives in Monaco shelters his fortune from the British taxman then lectures the country about being colonised. You couldn't script the arrogance. Jim Ratcliffe peers out from a gilded balcony and declares that Britain has been overrun that immigrants are the great burden that nine million idle hands drain the purse. The numbers are wrong the history is worse and the language reeks. Colonised he says as if the word were a toy. As if Britain had not carved its own brutal path across continents and called it glory. This is the co-owner of a football" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021862250525647311) 2026-02-12T08:21Z 13.8K followers, 10.3K engagements "Indians taking over the property market is a sweeping claim that blames an entire nationality for structural housing failures. Irelands housing crisis has been driven by supply shortages planning constraints investment flows and policy decisions over many years. Foreign buyers are a small slice of that picture. It is easier to point at a visible group than to untangle domestic policy mistakes. Globalisation is real. So are housing shortages. But turning economic frustration into ethnic accusation does not fix prices it just deepens resentment." [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2021878506976682122) 2026-02-12T09:26Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements "📊 #SUNLIV Statistical Analysis Liverpool controlled territory dominated the air and funnelled their threat down the left. The finishing was wasteful but the structure held firm. Set pieces decided it. Van Dijk delivered. Full analysis of Liverpool 1-0 Sunderland on my Substack now https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-edge-sunderland-as-27-xg https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-edge-sunderland-as-27-xg" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2022037164020957207) 2026-02-12T19:56Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "🟥 Liverpool have become predictable. Richard Hughes actually identified the issue early. Against deep blocks theres no chaos. No isolation threat. No winger who forces defenders to panic. Ive analysed why that profile is missing and the five players who could fix it this summer. Olise. Diomande. Nusa. Fofana. Toure. Full piece on my Substack please subscribe free to support my work. https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/breaking-the-block-why-liverpool https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/breaking-the-block-why-liverpool" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2022326184122724839) 2026-02-13T15:05Z 13.8K followers, 84.8K engagements "🙏 Couldnt agree more" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2022378830875238724) 2026-02-13T18:34Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trent leaving #LFC for personal reasons such as: - Generational wealth for him and his family especially his brother Tyler and his agency - Hearing a lot less can't defend as hell have to do far less of it. - Brand Trent Brand Trent and more Brand Trent - Hey Jude party time baby I wont be condoning or joining the rat shouts. Man fulfils contract of employment and moves on LFC fault its on a free. That said he should NOT play for the club again he has trashed his legacy to a worse level than McManaman and Owen. Plus you cant always want the club to win when we play his new club so often - hes" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1919334684409930076) 2025-05-05T10:13Z 13.8K followers, 106.2K engagements "@NFFC Player gets seriously injured. Owner throws a tantrum over not beating a relegated side. Club issues a love letter to his emotional investment. Give me a break" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/1922348158727708987) 2025-05-13T17:48Z 13.8K followers, 57K engagements "Wirtz to Liverpool: More Than a Statement Signing Florian Wirtz's potential arrival at #LFC is not about patching holes its about sculpting something finer from what is already formidable. In football the truly great sides dont wait to decline before they evolve. They anticipate and in doing so they intimidate. This is strengthening from a position of strength a manoeuvre steeped in the same instinct that saw @officialbarnesy Beardsley and @Realaldo474 arrive together in '87. Its also a trick straight from the Ferguson #MUFC playbook. Wirtz wouldnt be coming to wrestle the number [--] from Mac" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1926176858011242721) 2025-05-24T07:22Z 13.8K followers, 115.9K engagements "🟥 Klopp Remembers Trents Glory The Fans Remember His Fall Jurgen Klopp with the candour only time grants a man departed asked for grace. He reminded us of a boy who bent the world his way in Hoffenheim and bamboozled giants on an Anfield night that belonged to eternity. He asked us not to forget. But it is precisely because we remember that the booing rang out. We remember Trent the teenager yes but we also remember the man who scored against West Ham and turned to scouring the very people who raised him. We remember a farewell 'party' more befitting a popstar than a footballer curated not" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1926188278237016387) 2025-05-24T08:07Z 13.8K followers, 2M engagements "🙏 Heysel: The Shame We Cant Outrun Forty years on the blood on the terraces of the Heysel Stadium has dried but the shame remains stubbornly fresh. We speak of denial but denial implies ignorance. This was a wilful forgetting. A decision to bury guilt in the rubble of a collapsed wall and pretend the ghosts of Brussels dont still chant at us from the corners of history. Thirty-nine lives were lost that night. Not just numbers. Not just Italians. People who went to watch a football match and never came home. And in the years that followed how many Scousers lied to themselves and each other It" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1928030819790053635) 2025-05-29T10:09Z 13.8K followers, 95.4K engagements "Dear Caoimhin There is something profoundly dignified in how youve carried yourself through these years the understudy whose performances belied the prefix. In an era where patience is mislabelled as passivity you proved that waiting for your turn can be a triumph in itself. You arrived at #LFC as a boy one of those quiet investments that clubs hope might flourish but rarely depend upon. What followed was the emergence of a goalkeeper of such clarity and composure that Anfield grew comfortable in the silence you brought to your penalty area. You gave us clean sheets and clear consciences when" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1929263782427267074) 2025-06-01T19:48Z 13.8K followers, 403.3K engagements "🏏🏴 Nepals One-Wicket Win Wasnt a Shock It Was a Statement Associate cricket is not a charity case or a sideshow it is a fire lit under the complacency of the game's establishment. What happened today @the_forfs Nepals stunning one-wicket win over @CricketScotland sealed in chaos in tension in wild beating-heart theatre was no accident. The scorecard will show a wide ball and a runout that did not count. It will mention Karan KCs [--] not out from number nine but it cannot account for the spirit that drove it. That does not come from central contracts or packed stadiums. It comes from meaning." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1929607568693108896) 2025-06-02T18:34Z 13.8K followers, 55.2K engagements "Behind the Curtain of #LFC's Wirtz Deal The Wirtz deal feels less like a transfer and more like a slow burn epic. And Ill say this now. I think it gets done this week I feel like Ive barely been off the phone to German journalists for a fortnight. Every conversation ends in the same place. Both clubs want this and the player is already halfway to Merseyside in his mind. The numbers are the sticking point but were not talking chasms here. It is the usual scrap over add-ons and payment structures. The kind of details that feel like nothing until they are everything. What Liverpool are doing is" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1932140655876120611) 2025-06-09T18:20Z 13.8K followers, 176.7K engagements "🟥 Lost in Translation: How Germany Led the Wirtz Story This news did not break on Fleet Street. It did not come out of Kirkby and it certainly did not come from the usual suspects spoon-fed by #LFC. The Florian Wirtz story started and ended where it mattered in Germany. That is where the real temperature was taken. That is where the first credible flickers of truth emerged. For close on three weeks now the UK circuit has been chasing this story like it is in a foreign language. Because in many ways it was. Liverpool did not leak did not brief and did not need the noise. And so while the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1932698480910184808) 2025-06-11T07:16Z 13.8K followers, 254.9K engagements "🟥 He Was One of Us - Until He Wasnt I didnt expect to be writing about Trent Alexander-Arnold again. After four articles and more tweets than I care to count I thought that chapter was closed. But here we are. His exit shouldve been clean. He played his part gave us glory and shouldve been waved off with respect. But instead of owning his decision he masked it. Fluent in Spanish press conference gaffes choreographed goodbyes; all packaged like a brand launch not a farewell. This wasnt about leaving. Players move on. Its football. But the way he did it carefully managed and oddly hollow felt" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1933243831874465968) 2025-06-12T19:23Z 13.8K followers, 92K engagements "#FlorianFriday - Wirtz Turns the Tide Red 🟥 #Wirtz did not choose money he chose a challenge. Faced with the safe inevitability of Bayern and the uncertain allure of Guardiolas City he chose #LFC not out of romance but because it made footballing sense. Slot did not dazzle him with empty promises. He offered a stage a role a plan. Be the fulcrum the press-breaker the game-tilter. The boy who helped end Bayerns grip on the Bundesliga turned his back on them to help Liverpool rise again. Citys pitch had the gloss but not the guarantee. Guardiolas future is unclear and so is any young players" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1933482982683074590) 2025-06-13T11:14Z 13.8K followers, 87.6K engagements "🏴 If Robertson Goes Let It Be With Applause But Not Sentiment Atletico Madrid see what weve seen for nearly a decade a relentless snarling top-class left back who never let the standard drop. If they come calling for Andy Robertson theyre not just buying a player theyre trying to import the mentality that turned #LFC from nearly-men into champions. And if this is the moment he moves on we should meet it with respect not resistance. Hes [--] now entering the final year of his deal his body bearing the toll of a thousand sprints and tackles made in anger. The timing makes sense. Robertson has" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1933888566326595806) 2025-06-14T14:05Z 13.8K followers, 32.6K engagements "A Quiet Coaching Coup at Liverpool Giovanni van Bronckhorst joining Liverpools coaching staff might have flown under the radar but it is quietly one of the smartest moves the club has made this summer. This is not just a nod to his glittering CV including a Champions League title multiple domestic honours and a World Cup final appearance. It is about what he brings to a squad and coaching unit in transition. He understands elite environments having experienced them first-hand at Barcelona Arsenal and Feyenoord. His time at Rangers showed he can organise motivate and adapt. That experience" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/1934366138126721191) 2025-06-15T21:43Z 13.8K followers, 45.7K engagements "🔵⚪ [---] Charges No Verdict: How Much Longer Can This Farce Go On Theres something grotesque about watching #MCFC move freely through the gears of yet another lavish rebuild while [---] charges hang over their head like theyre nothing more than parking fines. Theyve overhauled their squad cleared out coaching staff retooled for another go at global dominance and no one in authority seems even remotely inclined to ask why a club under such scrutiny is still free to operate like this. Its the brazenness that stings most. They can spend tens of millions without blinking splash through loopholes" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1934880533885976808) 2025-06-17T07:47Z 13.8K followers, 30K engagements "🏴 Guehi Move Signals Ruthless Shift at #LFC Liverpool's move for Marc Guehi isnt just shrewd business; its a declaration. The club aren't nursing a squad back to health theyre carving out a new one with surgical precision. #Quansah will leave with promise and profit but #Guehi arrives with presence. A #PremierLeague tested defender homegrown international and hard-edged stepping in not to fill gaps but to raise standards. This isnt romanticism its realpolitik. If youre not elite now or clearly on your way youre not part of the plan. Konat stalling Sell. Squad players with resale value Shift." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1935807469869019532) 2025-06-19T21:10Z 13.8K followers, 416.7K engagements "@FPLFalse9 If it was ChatGPT Id have made it write three drafts add a Shakespeare quote and end with a Shankly metaphor. Sadly this was just me and too much coffee" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1935816836236431582) 2025-06-19T21:47Z 13.8K followers, 14.8K engagements "🚨 #LFC Now Speaking in ALL CAPS I thought Id rinsed it. Ive written about Florian Wirtz so much over the past few weeks that I wasnt sure I had another one in me. Then I saw the interview. Saw the look in his eyes. Heard those words. I didnt come here to have fun. Im here to win everything. That was it. That was the switch. It went from transfer hype to something else entirely. You dont often see that level of calm intensity in a lad of 22; hes here to own it. This was a reminder. This is a move clubs like United and Chelsea used to make. The kind that signals dominance scares rivals and" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936341809870905467) 2025-06-21T08:33Z 13.8K followers, 85.6K engagements "🟥 Strong Start But Liverpools Transfer Window Will Be Defined by Its Finish Liverpool are close. They are building something serious no doubt but the final leap depends on how well they play the selling game. Darwin Nez is on his way out that much is clear. Harvey Elliott might follow. Jota Cheisa Diaz Gomez even Andy Robertson; all may be moved if the bids are right. These are not fringe players they are made-men all international-class. But none are indispensable. That is the shift. Sentiment has been binned. The club are now dealing in trust and output not nostalgia. The funds from those" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936688347625201714) 2025-06-22T07:30Z 13.8K followers, 140.2K engagements "🟥 Quansah Out Clause In - But Liverpool Have Moved On Quansahs sale buyback clause or not tells you everything about Liverpools new approach. This was a chance to back a young centre-half with tools but no certainty. Instead theyve cashed in early and packed him off to the Bundesliga. 30m is decent money but the clause is a polite nod to the past not necessarily a plan for the future. He had a fine first season then faded. Thats the truth. Good on the ball yes but defensively unsure. Theres no aerial dominance no pace to recover and when he was asked to step up he couldn't. The fanbase" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1937052729681015205) 2025-06-23T07:38Z 13.8K followers, 49.3K engagements "When Torres Left I Learned To Love The Shirt Not the Name On The Back There was a time Id lose sleep over players leaving. Fernando Torres changed that. He wasnt just brilliant he was ours. The armband the song the gallop through defences with a glint in his eye he gave Liverpool fans a hero who felt like one of us. When he left for Chelsea it felt like betrayal. Not just the badge-swapping but the symbolism. Swapping values for vanity swapping belonging for Russian roubles. But time has a way of offering clarity. Torres didnt find himself in blue. He looked stiff subdued like hed left a part" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1937436904191901886) 2025-06-24T09:05Z 13.8K followers, 194.4K engagements "Darwin Nunez - Liverpool's Wildest Flame Flickers Out There is romance in persistence but folly in ignoring the evidence. Darwin Nunez came to Liverpool as a chaos merchant a whirlwind of limbs and energy a forward whose rawness was part of the appeal. For a time it felt like unpredictability might become unpredictably brilliant. But unpredictability without control is just waste and the fun has drained from the experiment. The goals never flowed with any consistency the decision-making rarely improved and by the end he looked more burdened than buoyant. Not even Anfields defiant optimism" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1937767717601165796) 2025-06-25T07:00Z 13.8K followers, 92.2K engagements "Eyes on Isak: Liverpools Next Move Could Redefine the Window Frimpong Mamardashvili Wirtz and now Kerkez; not just quality but cohesion. Not a spree but a strategy. This is a club that once stood accused of resting after glory. Now they rebuild from the summit. Speak to right people and one thing becomes abundantly clear Liverpool's window is not even close to being closed. Newcastle fans are openly in denial as Alexander Isaks name dances on the edge of reality and dream. Admired deeply by Liverpools hierarchy known to fit Slots tactical playbook and long-revered by Michael Edwards." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1938122706701918276) 2025-06-26T06:30Z 13.8K followers, 294.1K engagements "🏴 A Voice Returned A Heart Laid Bare 🎸 Here in Scotland true superstars are rare. This eveving one of our own stood again where it almost broke him before. #LewisCapaldi didnt just sing at #Glastonbury he thrived. And not in the chart-friendly social media sense but in the raw gut-deep soul-fractured way that only those whove walked through darkness and come back blinking into light can understand. Im f*****g back baby he cried and for once such a line didnt feel staged but sacred. You didnt need to love the music to feel it. You just had to be human. A man once silenced by the involuntary" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1938647386680598911) 2025-06-27T17:15Z 13.8K followers, 155.4K engagements "Taffarel exits #LFC quietly but his impact was anything but Claudio Taffarel leaves Liverpool with little fanfare but his absence will be felt more deeply than most realise. He didnt just coach Alisson he stabilised him. There was something in the way they worked not just Brazilian camaraderie but a deep mutual understanding. Taffarel knew what the position demanded not in theory but in blood and bone. Hed lived the pressure felt the weight of nations and brought that quiet authority to Kirkby every single day. In a world of over-analysis and tech obsession he kept things human. You never saw" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940368431351492781) 2025-07-02T11:14Z 13.8K followers, 304.5K engagements "🖤 Diogo Jota - The Whistle's Blown Far Too Soon Finding it hard to write these words fingers trembling as I type. Diogo Jota is gone. Just days after marrying the love of his life standing proudly in a church with his new wife Rute and their three young children he and his brother Andre are lost in a road accident in Spain. A family torn apart futures stolen in silence. Jota was [--]. A player in his prime a Premier League champion a Nations League winner an #LFC forward who played the game with bite and purpose. But thats not why this hurts so much. Its because he carried himself with quiet" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940709903334531372) 2025-07-03T09:51Z 13.8K followers, 316.7K engagements "🟥 How Liverpool Became the Premier League's Smartest Spenders Liverpools pursuit of Alexander Isak even at a fee nudging 130m is not fantasy but the product of precision. They have spent heavily this summer yes but what stands out is not the scale it is the structure. Over the last three transfer windows Liverpools net spend barely scratched 125m. In [----] alone they posted a net profit of nearly 18m. In that same period #MUFC burned through over 440m. #Chelsea somehow more than 850m. This summer's 171m outlay is not reckless its calculated. Florian Wirtz at 100m potentially rising to 116m" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1945759027775910309) 2025-07-17T08:14Z 13.8K followers, 83.6K engagements "BOTH Liverpools Swagger Signals a Forward Line Revolution Something significant is stirring at #LFC. The approach is calm measured and utterly relentless. The way Isaks absence from Newcastles squad was spoken about by Eddie Howe does not echo the certainty of a player considered untouchable and 'not for sale at any price'. If he's absolutely unavailable the lines would have been drawn without blur not danced around. Liverpools silence has been louder than most declarations their pursuit persisting beyond the reported informal enquiry. Then there is Ekitike whose technical qualities" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946845542132179252) 2025-07-20T08:12Z 13.8K followers, 44.3K engagements "Ekitike is not a gamble he's a gear change. Hugo Ekitike arrives as a necessity for a side reshaping their identity. In the nicest possible way #LFC lacked a true striker last season too often asking wide men or confidence-rattled forwards to carry a central burden they were never built for. Ekitike fills that void with intent. He's [--] stepping up from a good side where he showed more than just potential. His movement frightens defenders his press is relentless and his link-up play invites others in. He gives Salah something to play off opens space for Gakpo and sharpens the edge of a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946892179181301897) 2025-07-20T11:17Z 13.8K followers, 66.4K engagements "🏴 RIP Joey Jones: The People's Full-Back Joey Jones played football like it was personal because it was. He ran as if every blade of grass owed him money tackled like his life depended on it and smiled like a lad who never stopped counting his blessings. The fans didnt just sing his name they saw themselves in him. A Kop regular made real. At #LFC he lifted two European Cups a UEFA Cup and a league title but he never acted like a man who'd made it. He stayed #Wrexham at heart a boy from #Llandudno who played as if wearing the shirt was a sacred trust. He was never the flash one in the squad" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/1947600352372498926) 2025-07-22T10:11Z 13.8K followers, 47.5K engagements "#LFC 2-4 #ACMilan Those who see a pre-season result and believe theyve read the seasons script are the same who mistake warm-up stretches for a marathon. Liverpools 4-2 loss to AC Milan was no calamity nor was it a clue. It was a glimpse at conditioning chemistry and context far more than consequence. When a side reshapes its spine rests its teeth and still crafts moments of delight it deserves more than sneers from the gallery. Florian Wirtz slid passes like a man sketching plans for the months ahead. Szoboszlai glided through midfield with purpose and promise. And despite a patchwork" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949383617085358093) 2025-07-27T08:17Z 13.8K followers, 36.2K engagements "Dear Lucho So youre heading to Bayern now and no one can say you have not earned it. A short career demands big decisions and you have chosen one of Europes grandest stages rather than the Saudi bag a club that reveres South Americans and rewards ambition. #LFC could not match the contract offer nor did they try. They have pocketed a tidy fee gained two and a half years of hard running and are already reshaping the forward line. You were never an imitator of Man even if that was the role fate handed you. You carved your own path teeth clenched relentless stubborn in the best way. There were" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949736745559318620) 2025-07-28T07:40Z 13.8K followers, 364.2K engagements "Isaks Coming. Try and Stop It. Liverpool are about to take what they want. Alexander Isak one of Europes best strikers is on the table and the clubs ready to slap down the cash clear the space and walk out with him smiling in red. No fuss no flinch. While others moan about net spend and imagined humility quotas #LFC are playing a sharper game. Diaz goes others will follow and not a drop of PSR sweat is spilled. Thats how you do business when you know exactly who you are. Of course the noise has started. The usual names and faces telling Scousers to stay in their lane. The tired digs about" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949756727244857571) 2025-07-28T09:00Z 13.8K followers, 88.7K engagements "🟥 Solid up top shaky at the back - Liverpools warning sign in plain sight Pre-season is for tuning up not tearing down. But even with that in mind Liverpools defensive slackness in Japan wont sit easily with Arne Slot. This wasnt a cobbled-together back four finding its feet. Van Dijk and Konate anchored the middle flanked by Kerkez and Bradley. It should have been a base to build from. Instead Yokohama cut through them with the kind of ease that raises questions. Ren Kato had time to stroll in the pass Uenaka ghosted in untracked and Mamardashvili standing in for Alisson was beaten without" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1950823103845617788) 2025-07-31T07:37Z 13.8K followers, 30.3K engagements "🟥 The shirt matters less the business behind it more. #Adidas returning to #LFC should feel like a homecoming but the magic has dulled at least for me. The kits I wore threadbare in the eighties meant something. Now every new release feels like a global template made to sell not to inspire. They will still inspire some and they will most certainly sell. This deal is no small thing. If it really brings in around 1bn over 10-years then the commercial team deserves credit. That kind of money does not just balance books it builds squads. We are not choosing fabric anymore we are choosing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1951195689503039932) 2025-08-01T08:17Z 13.8K followers, 33.9K engagements "The Show Must Go On Isak Must Too Newcastles rejection of Liverpools 110m bid for Alexander Isak is no act of defiance. Its a charade. Carefully staged theatre sloppily scripted but ultimately going through the motions. This saga like so many is less negotiation and more performance. The price was never 150m not really. It was 120m before it was 150m and soon enough itll quietly drop again. #Newcastle are a club trying to preserve face to rewrite the optics of a departure already understood by all of the key protagonists. The message must be managed: Isak wanted out #LFC disrespected them and" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1951562619510276234) 2025-08-02T08:36Z 13.8K followers, 324.6K engagements "Tyler Morton - Proper Move For Proper Red #TylerMorton leaves #LFC without fanfare but with quiet vindication. A player whose composure and passing range always suggested more than he was allowed to show finally moves to a club that might give him the space to grow. #Lyon is no backwater and [--] million with add-ons reflects how well-regarded he remains across Europe. Liverpool lose a player with intelligence humility and balance in his game. But in truth the writing has been on the wall for some time. Morton has outgrown the academy but never got the rhythm of minutes to show if he could" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1951621178805702751) 2025-08-02T12:28Z 13.8K followers, 28.2K engagements "🟥 The Endings Written Newcastle Fans Just Dont Want to Read It . Yet My Twitter block button had another workout yesterday. Newcastle fans yet again in full voice to declare what suits them most; that Isak is happy not for sale and wouldnt dream of leaving. That's what they said the last time as well when the link first emerged in the press whilst calling into question my parentage and mental state using less than flattering language. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. Look beyond the decoys and the desperation. #Isak trained alone at his old club while Howes side toured Asia and" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1951922211079483650) 2025-08-03T08:24Z 13.8K followers, 64.6K engagements "🟥 #LFC 4-1 & 3-2 #AthleticClub The kids are ready the squad is stacked but centre-back roulette can't continue Liverpool look slick. Not hopeful not promising but already finely tuned. Two friendlies two wins and enough evidence to worry anyone hoping last season was a one-off. The new signings have slotted in like theyve been at Anfield for years but its the performances of two teenagers that truly demand attention. We can't really say anymore that Rio Ngumoha [--] is knocking on the door. He has walked straight through it. Another goal another assist and another afternoon spent making" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952492525433807350) 2025-08-04T22:11Z 13.8K followers, 28.4K engagements "🏴 Farewell Young Harvey - Let the Lad Go and Grow Harvey Elliott is too fine a footballer to be a luxury. Too clever to be boxed in too driven to idle on the margins. What he needs now is not more patience but a platform and RB Leipzig might just be offering one worth seizing. At [--] with nearly [---] games for #LFC and fresh from dragging England's U21s to another title he is no longer an apprentice. Yet [--] #PremierLeague starts last season both after the job was done speak louder than any declarations of faith. This is not a player out of form it is a player out of frame. #RBLeipzig see what" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/1953008410057748934) 2025-08-06T08:21Z 13.8K followers, 27.8K engagements "Forget The #LFC Depth Chart Szoboszlai Is Rewriting It Theres no mistaking it now Dominik Szoboszlai has the tools to dominate Liverpools midfield. The physicality the technique the presence. Against Athletic Club he didnt just show up he took over. He pressed passed surged and stitched it all together. He looked like a player born to lead. The Gerrard echoes arent lazy. Theyre about profile. Szoboszlai is powerful rangy quick across the ground and confident enough to play the game at his own tempo. Hes replaced Trents cross-field switches filled Van Dijks void in build-up and driven attacks" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953367770789253364) 2025-08-07T08:09Z 13.8K followers, 35.2K engagements "Isak For This Summer Not Next Every time I hear someone on a podcast say #LFC have set things up nicely to move for Isak again in January or next summer I wince. The forward line has been stripped to its core with Luis Diaz and Darwin Nez gone Chiesa likely to follow the irreplaceable Diogo Jota lost it leaves only Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah as senior starters. Hugo Ekitike has promise but promise alone will not always you win games and the demands of a title defence and Champions League campaign will arrive fast. I still believe #Isak will be signed this summer. He is not a player to park" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953713721869500846) 2025-08-08T07:03Z 13.8K followers, 53.1K engagements "🙏 The Summer Liverpool Will Carry Forever Jrgen Klopp famously said Football always seems the most important of the least important things. In #Liverpool that truth cuts deeper this summer than most would wish. What should have been a season crowned with unclouded joy has been shadowed by events that nobody saw coming. A title win in front of fans for the first time in a generation the streets thronged with colour and noise and then before the echoes had faded a car ploughed into the crowd on Water Street. Dozens hurt fear running through the city like a chilled wind the days glory replaced" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/1954081441995735529) 2025-08-09T07:24Z 13.8K followers, 36.1K engagements "🟥 #LFC poised to land Guhi as Palace look to cash in Liverpools pursuit of Marc Guhi has reached the decisive stage with #CPFC chairman Steve Parish conceding the inevitability of action. The England defender is in the final year of his contract a fact that leaves Palace in an awkward corner. For a club of their resources watching a player of his standing walk away for nothing would be more than a misstep it would be an avoidable wound. Parish was blunt it needs either a fresh contract or a definitive end. Liverpools interest has been constant though measured wary of overcommitting for a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1954797470807912649) 2025-08-11T06:50Z 13.8K followers, 29.4K engagements "🤬 Henry Winters false equivalence is a disgrace To compare #LFC supporters booing the national anthem with a handful of #CPFC fans disrupting a minutes silence for Diogo Jota and his brother is a lamentable failure of judgement. The two acts are rooted in entirely different impulses. One is a long-standing political protest an expression of deep anti-establishment sentiment forged through decades of grievance and neglect a stance well understood by anyone with a grasp of the citys history. The other is a needless intrusion into a moment of collective mourning cutting through a stadiums quiet" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1954830154032652753) 2025-08-11T09:00Z 13.8K followers, 78.5K engagements "Why Is Guehi Still at Palace #LFC have wanted Marc Guehi all summer. #CPFC have known that all summer. So why isnt he wearing red yet Its not the player as some reports claim. Hes ready. No fresh contract no talk of staying long-term. Hes made himself available without making a scene. Hes done everything right. The delay lies elsewhere. Palace know what theyve got: a premium English centre-back age-profiled homegrown and durable. They also know Liverpool arent the only ones looking. Spurs tried in January. Newcastle hovered. England pick him. The market warmed itself up nicely for Steve" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955947514735054956) 2025-08-14T11:00Z 13.8K followers, 39.4K engagements "Isak Standoff Just for Show This transfer has had the scent of inevitability from the start. Alexander Isak wants Liverpool. Liverpool want Isak. The problem as always is the bit in between. #NUFC have postured and played hardball leaking just enough to hint at flexibility without ever putting it in writing. They say they dont want to sell but theyre buying like they might. You dont stockpile forwards and midfielders on PSR red alert unless you're planning to let something big go. Theyve boxed themselves in. Sell now and it looks like surrender. Keep him and you spend the next [--] months" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955992810810638732) 2025-08-14T14:00Z 13.8K followers, 74.3K engagements "Isaks Fury Cuts Through Footballs Faade Alexander Isaks words last night revealed his discontent but also stripped the varnish off modern football. This wasnt petulance. It was precision. A statement loaded not with heat but with calculation every sentence a scalpel to the idea that his loyalty still lives at St James' Park a sharp dagger to the #NUFC boardroom and their PR fluff. Promises made trust broken a player who once sold a vision is pushing back against the fiction. Newcastles reply A bland rehearsal of control. The language of contracts cloaked in sentiment. Talk of family while" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958057021275541929) 2025-08-20T06:42Z 13.8K followers, 61.2K engagements "No Isak. No One. Following the #NUFC and Isak statements last night I've heard a lot of people talk about Liverpool's Plan-B today so who are their alternative striker targets If #LFC dont land Isak they wont sign anyone. No backup. No last-minute scramble. No sugar-coating. Hes the plan. Full stop. Its not about money. Its not about alternatives. Its about conviction. Theyve made their choice and if it doesnt happen theyll live with the consequences. The striker shortlist is one name long. Liverpool have tragically lost Jota. Sold Darwin. Sold Daz. They'll count Wirtz as a forward if it" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958237114929234253) 2025-08-20T18:38Z 13.8K followers, 124.8K engagements "Rodrygo Isnt Isak's Plan B Hes a Different Play Entirely Rodrygo was never part of the Isak plan. Liverpools pursuit of the Newcastle forward has always been singular structured and deliberate. When I said there was no plan B for Isak I meant it and that still stands. #Rodrygo is a separate move. Hes not a fallback hes not an alternative hes a strategic play for a different profile in a different role. Isak is a centre-forward who leads the line. Rodrygo is a multi-functional wide attacker who can cut in create and carry the load Salah has borne for years. Real Madrid have quietly frozen him" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958611517265322249) 2025-08-21T19:25Z 13.8K followers, 191.8K engagements "Eddie Howe and Isak: Truth Timing and What Happens Next This morning Eddie Howe did what few in his position ever do. He told the truth. Yes he and Isak spoke before last season ended. Yes the situation is regrettable. But no he does not deny the reality of what has unfolded. It should quiet some of the more poisonous voices who have made the situation personal on this platform who turned uncertainty into insult. The abuse has been loud and often misplaced. Footballers have careers to manage and futures to consider. That Isak may have explored his should never have invited the bile it did." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958831054325682507) 2025-08-22T09:58Z 13.8K followers, 43.8K engagements "🟥 Isak. Guehi. Trigger Time. The window narrows the noise grows and Liverpool stand firm. Yet another day passes with nothing clearer at least publicly on Isak and Guehi. One brings presence up top the other poise at the back. Both elevate the ceiling and thicken the spine. But still no deals. Not yet. Isak would change the conversation instantly. The hesitation feels like brinkmanship but the clock wont blink. When #NUFC wobble the Reds must be ready to pounce not ponder. Guehi is different quieter in profile but no less crucial. Hes not a glamour move but hes a winning one. If #CPFC are" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1960735881234362568) 2025-08-27T16:07Z 13.8K followers, 43.3K engagements "🔥 Time to start teeing up my Luke Edwards article 🧨" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1961118627219812793) 2025-08-28T17:28Z 13.8K followers, 23.9K engagements "Isak - The truth moves faster than the spin So a pathway for #Isak to #LFC at last. The signs have been there all summer for anyone with the sense to see them. Newcastles dash for Nick Woltemade yesterday didnt just open the door; it confirmed what many were still trying to deny: that Isak would leave and Liverpool was his destination. The reaction has been predictable. Some will rage others will pretend it was never on until now and a few now scramble to rewrite their timelines before Monday proves them wrong. One in particular who has made a habit of dressing hearsay as insight may finally" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1961330478193283145) 2025-08-29T07:30Z 13.8K followers, 147.1K engagements "Isak Joins Liverpool and Exposes Luke Edwards Summer of Spin #NUFC tried to bluff but #LFC were never going to fold "When fans questioned Edwards reporting he mocked them. When other journalists hinted there was more going on behind the scenes he dismissed it. When Liverpools interest became increasingly difficult to deny he doubled down. He used his platform to construct a narrative that matched exactly what Newcastles ownership wanted in the public domain." My in-depth appraisal of the #Isak deal and Luke Edwards' posturing on my Substack 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962460582864454138) 2025-09-01T10:20Z 13.8K followers, 59.9K engagements "⚫⚪ Luke Edwards and the Collapse of Credibility Text extract from my Isak to #LFC blog on Substack earlier today 👇 No one emerged from this saga with less credibility than Luke Edwards. As Newcastles man at The Telegraph and a regular contributor for BBC Sport Edwards held a position of influence. That influence was squandered across the summer in spectacular fashion. From the beginning he positioned himself as the authority on the Isak situation insisting the player was not for sale and that Liverpool had no realistic path to sign him. At every step he treated dissent with hostility. When" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962524163492507942) 2025-09-01T14:33Z 13.8K followers, 259.1K engagements "❌ GUEHI TO #LFC OFF So for all the talk mainly from ex-pros about #Isak and #Wissa being 🐀 and Guehi the model professional; [--] get their moves [--] didn't" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962589724482117888) 2025-09-01T18:53Z 13.8K followers, 31.1K engagements "🔴 Dont Blame Isak. Dont Pity Guehi. Look Deeper. So much noise about who behaves and who deserves what. Isak threw his toys out the pram Wissa postured Guehi stayed quiet like a good lad. Thats the line. But its a cartoon version of football. #Guehi was professional. He trained stayed ready said goodbye with class waited. It didnt matter. #CPFC didnt get their business done. Their manager threatened to walk. And so Guehi despite being willing and prepared stays put. No move no reward. #Isak #NUFC knew from February he wanted out. He told the club early didnt hide it didnt flinch. They knew" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962754497031094668) 2025-09-02T05:48Z 13.8K followers, 76.9K engagements "📈 While everyone was watching the window Liverpool slammed the door shut on Arsenal Deadline day blurred the lines between panic and ambition. But while inboxes were filling #LFC were solving a different kind of problem #Arsenal. A team that came to Anfield to disrupt rather than attack. In [--] minutes they managed just [----] xG didnt register a single big chance and ended with only two shots on target. Liverpools answer wasnt fluidity it was control. They didnt blow Arsenal away they simply outlasted them. And then they punished them. The winning goal A right-backs free-kick though only in" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962847979770957969) 2025-09-02T12:00Z 13.8K followers, 33.1K engagements "Why Isaks #LFC move mattered more than money Alexander Isaks arrival at Anfield was a confrontation between ambition and illusion. A player tired of promises that wilted under pressure a club that mistook loyalty for silence and another that understood timing is everything. For months he waited. He trained alone labelled a 'rat' and 'greedy bas***d' by supporters who forgot that contracts work both ways. He did not throw tantrum-shaped press conferences. He just refused to be complicit in his own stagnation. #NUFC mishandled him long before this summer's strike. He was offered new terms then" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1963150153885393299) 2025-09-03T08:00Z 13.8K followers, 24K engagements "🙏 From Trent to Isak - My Window's a Wrap From the moment Trents move to Madrid became real back in May Ive written on here almost every day through one of the most extraordinary windows #LFC have ever had. Im ready now to let the keys recover dust down the mouse and watch the football take over. Though it will have to wait as the international borefest just isn't my bag. Thank you to everyone whos read shared argued or messaged; it makes the hours worthwhile. This was a summer when Liverpool dominated. They operated like a heavyweight again. Not just in fees but in presence. Poaching Wirtz" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1963315867074044082) 2025-09-03T18:59Z 13.8K followers, 26.5K engagements "🔝 Nine Points No Mercy - Catch Them If You Can What #LFC are building is a culture thick with belief work and mutual respect. They've taken nine points from three games that could easily have delivered three and while its too early to declare anything theyve already reminded the rest of the #PremierLeague what it takes to finish above them: perfection. Last seasons title wasnt a fluke; it was a resurrection from the Anfield comeback against Brighton in November to being champions by April. That kind of relentlessness doesnt happen without soul-searching and humility. Now after a summer of" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1964237268417167539) 2025-09-06T08:00Z 13.8K followers, 26.1K engagements "🟥 Olise is not the next Salah he is the next idea If Michael Olise is to arrive at Anfield in future it will not be as a like-for-like replacement for Mo Salah. That idea flatters no one least of all Olise. Salah is a metronome of menace producing goals with ruthless efficiency and hardly ever deviating from his role. Olise is more elusive more fluid and far less bound to positional convention. Where Salah offered repetition and dominance Olise offers interpretation. He drifts links and creates pockets of doubt and space. He is not a winger in the classic sense nor a number ten in the old" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1964731001172897795) 2025-09-07T16:42Z 13.8K followers, 233.7K engagements "🟥 Aint nobody like Joe Gomez: Still Ours. Still Worth It. Losing out on Guehi was a blow. No question. He wouldve improved us. But there's a silver lining and it wears No. [--]. Joe Gomez stays. That matters. He's not the future and never quite became the player we thought hed be. Injuries wrecked his rhythm. But when he's fit he's not just solid he's composed quick and calm under pressure. Hes the kind of defender you dont panic over. Gomez has seen more than most at this club: titles surgeries false dawns. He stuck around when others bailed. He rebuilt quietly without complaint. If this is" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1965739581116186654) 2025-09-10T11:30Z 13.8K followers, 74.2K engagements "Grard Houllier gave everything to rebuild #LFC. He brought discipline belief and nearly lost his life doing it. His legacy deserves more. 🙏 Lets remember him properly Reds 🟥 New piece out now on my Substack 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966038391847375202) 2025-09-11T07:17Z 13.8K followers, 39.4K engagements "⚽ Burnley 0-1 #LFC Champions keep going thats the difference. Somewhere between the slog and the storm this Liverpool side has found the virtue of persistence. Four matches four wins four late winners. It is not coincidence it's character. At Turf Moor they faced a Burnley team that sat so deep they buried themselves. But Liverpool did not blink. They prodded pressed reloaded. The penalty came in the 94th minute but the victory was earned in the [--] before it. What defines this side is not slickness or rhythm not yet; there is still a roughness in the blend. New players are feeling their way" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1967280638899478603) 2025-09-14T17:33Z 13.8K followers, 24.9K engagements "🔴 Liverpool Are Top for a Reason - So Why Pretend Otherwise #LFC sit top of the league and still the knives are out. Four wins from four goals coming when needed a manager adjusting in real time and a team bedding in a reshaped spine while carrying the memory of a lost teammate. And yet what gets the airtime is when the goals go in not why they go in. Late goals dont expose a flaw; they confirm belief. This is a side that works through the match probes adapts and when it matters most finishes. Its not luck. Its not chaos. Its control. Control of rhythm of shape of game state. Critics focus" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1967563676866564322) 2025-09-15T12:18Z 13.8K followers, 30K engagements "⚽ #LFC 3-2 Atletico Madrid #ChampionsLeague Group Stage 🟥 They said it wouldnt last Liverpool were not tidy not controlled not safe. But they were alive. Furious flawed and full of intent. Again they left it late again they refused a draw. At 2-0 it looked easy. Salah sharp Isak a magnet for defenders Wirtz finding his feet the whole team playing with flow. Then they let go. Atletico all cynicism and ego grabbed at the gaps. Liverpool let them. Poor shape soft in midfield suddenly level. Simeone sneering. But this is where Liverpool live. When it is loud when it is wild when the game is" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968444762303905980) 2025-09-17T22:39Z 13.8K followers, 29.7K engagements "The Clock Ticks the Axe Falls 🪓 People say Liverpool keep leaving it too late. That they are riding their luck that this sort of drama cannot last. But if you're watching the games really watching it is not luck you are seeing it is inevitability. They are not nicking wins; they are suffocating opponents. The pressure builds then it breaks them. The goals come because they have been earned long before the net ripples. The numbers say it the rhythm of the games says it and the players also know it. That swagger is more assurance than it is arrogance. What makes it more remarkable is how" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968648714769080346) 2025-09-18T12:10Z 13.8K followers, 17.5K engagements "🔴 Liverpool Built to Solve Not Stroll #LFC arent running over teams theyre working them out. This isnt brute force its precision. Adaptable players rotating threats a system that shifts without losing shape. Slot hasnt built a machine; hes built a problem-solving unit. Different tools for different jobs. Van Dijk gives structure Salah exploits space and the midfield adjusts on the fly. Even without hitting top gear theyre managing games bending them deciding when to strike. Five games in and people want conclusions. Let them. The squads too clever too layered to be pinned down this early." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1970057985914282009) 2025-09-22T09:30Z 13.8K followers, 114.1K engagements "⚽ Stop Pretending the Ballon dOr Means Anything 👑 Salah Plays Football They Play Politics The #BallonDor has never stood for the best in football. It didnt when they gave it to Michael Owen in [----] the only #LFC player to ever win it and lost the plot entirely during the Messi-Ronaldo era. Its not an award for footballers. Its an industry handshake dressed up as prestige. Mohamed Salah was right not to show up. What does he owe them He gave the game [--] goal contributions in a title-winning season. Broke records in the most unforgiving league on the planet. Scored or assisted in more than" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1970426425334169899) 2025-09-23T09:54Z 13.8K followers, 139.3K engagements "🟥 Ekitike Made It All About Him and Paid the Price It wasnt the celebration that rankled; it was the waste. Hugo Ekitike had just scored his fifth goal in eight games for #LFC a late winner that should have been the final word. But instead of letting the moment settle he hijacked it. Shirt off arms wide eyes on the crowd. Second yellow then red. All for what. No one doubts what drives a proper No [--]. You need a bit of arrogance to fight off defenders to chase starts ahead of a 125m rival like Isak. But there is a line between self-belief and self-indulgence and Ekitike walked through it. His" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1970751694465040887) 2025-09-24T07:26Z 13.8K followers, 27.6K engagements "🟥 The cruel cost of time: Giovanni Leoni and the real ACL tax Giovanni Leoni was meant to be learning building growing. Instead hes staring down months of rehab after tearing his ACL at Anfield last night. Just [--] years old probably still unpacking his bags now facing one of the harshest lessons football delivers. Fans hear ACL and think out for the season sign a replacement in January. But for the player especially one this young its a shattering detour during the most critical stage of his development. At [--] every hour on the pitch is a masterclass in growth: absorbing the tempo learning" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1970890931025928320) 2025-09-24T16:39Z 13.8K followers, 128.2K engagements "🟥 Liverpool's Worst Performance Under Arne Slot ⚽ #CPFC 2-1 #LFC That may be the worst performance under this manager so far. Not simply bad in outcome but rotten at its core. A display that lacked urgency identity and the basic honour of representing a club at the summit of English football. There was no structure no soul and no sign that the players knew what they were meant to be doing. The first half wasnt chaotic or frantic or wild. It was slow hesitant lifeless. Crystal Palace didnt surprise anyone; they just executed with clarity and desire. Liverpool walked straight into it. The" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972013056755392760) 2025-09-27T18:58Z 13.8K followers, 55.3K engagements "🔍 The mystery of Florian Wirtz is the mystery of elite football itself I spent the summer watching Florian Wirtz with the sort of certainty that only hindsight can now ridicule. Frame after frame convinced me hed light a fuse in this Liverpool team from his first touch. He hasnt. And that truth should humble anyone who thinks they truly understand this game. Wirtz hasnt failed but he hasnt exploded either. Hes felt his way in rather than announced himself. The touches are there. The movement is intelligent. He works. But too often he looks like hes playing to someone elses tune and not yet" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972755416745464117) 2025-09-29T20:08Z 13.8K followers, 233.2K engagements "⚽ The noise was expected. The surrender wasnt. Galatasaray 1-0 Liverpool Champions League The referee was abysmal no question. He indulged Galatasarays cynicism let the ball disappear from the game for minutes on end and rewarded the theatre of contact. It was a farce of officiating the kind that poisons football and insults the occasion. But that is no shield for Liverpool. This performance in Istanbul was worse than the surrender at Palace. At least that had the look of a side out of rhythm. This felt like a team without memory. No recognition of what a tough European night demands. No" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973282868253082076) 2025-10-01T07:04Z 13.8K followers, 29.7K engagements "🙏 RIP Patricia Routledge (1929 to 2025) the woman who made us laugh wince and recognise ourselves Patricia Routledge has gone and with her goes one of the sharpest comedic creations British television ever gave us. Hyacinth Bucket who insisted it was pronounced Bouquet was no caricature. She was a living echo of every dinner party faux pas every awkward grasp at status every neighbour who mistook delusion for dignity. In her Routledge gave us a mirror we couldnt look away from. She didnt just play Hyacinth; she brought her to life. With every clipped syllable and affected wave she showed us" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1974059143720829023) 2025-10-03T10:29Z 13.8K followers, 42.2K engagements "I must have listened to at least [--] podcasts and read countless articles on how Slot should look to fix things. Yet he put his hands in ears and thought all was cool. Pathetic from Slot this one is on him. Will write more later too angry" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979963769611522316) 2025-10-19T17:32Z 13.8K followers, 25.9K engagements "Jurgen Klopp knew when to walk away. Thats why well always be grateful. Watching Jurgen Klopp open up in that conversation with @StevenBartlett today it hits you all over again what made him so extraordinary. Not just the trophies not just the football but the man himself. The clarity the warmth the refusal to pretend. There is something rare and uncommonly noble in knowing when to stop. Jurgen Klopp gave Liverpool more than football. He gave it an identity so steeped in togetherness and emotion that even now as he speaks with warmth and unvarnished honesty you feel what he built rather than" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980205100078363003) 2025-10-20T09:31Z 13.8K followers, 55.6K engagements "🟥 Seen some pushback on my criticism of Gakpo last night and my softer tone on Salah. Fair. Lets be honest: Gakpo should have had a hat-trick against United. He hit the post three times and scored but he also drifted in and out of the game lacked conviction in big moments and never took control. He was erratic. Some gave him man of the match including @StevLFC for @AnfieldIndex. But I thought he was a passenger when it really mattered. Hes not just any starter either hes Slots guy. Liverpool sold Luis Daz a proven wide forward and Gakpo is the one whos been trusted to fill that role on the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980224050560422066) 2025-10-20T10:46Z 13.8K followers, 135.1K engagements "👑 Salahs Legacy Deserves Better Than This - Respect the Past See the Present Mohamed Salah has given Liverpool more than most players ever could. Goals records trophies relentlessness. At his peak he was a force of nature draped in red terrorising defences with such unshakable regularity that his greatness became something we all began to expect rather than admire. He's a top five player in Liverpool history in the conversation with Dalglish and Gerrard for the best-ever the names in that company do not need any order. This is a difficult spell for Salah that's undeniable at this point. His" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981297117885861932) 2025-10-23T09:50Z 13.8K followers, 35.8K engagements "Liverpool fall again and the excuses are running out The conviction has drained from this team like heat from an open wound. What was once instinctive now feels laboured stitched together in hope rather than belief. Against Brentford Liverpool were exposed. Their physical inferiority was total. They were second to every loose ball shaken by every throw-in outthought at every moment of consequence. This wasn't misfortune. This was surrender. The collapse wasnt tactical it was spiritual. Set pieces werent just a weakness they were an inevitability. A side built on ferocity now recoils under" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982215966554771581) 2025-10-25T22:41Z 13.8K followers, 53.5K engagements "🟥 Slot Out Easy shout lazy answer My replies last night were full of people telling me to sack the manager. After watching Liverpool fold again I understand the fury. This side collapsed under a basic game plan bullied by long throws second balls and a team that simply wanted it more. That is a disgrace for a club with our resources. Slot is not helping himself. He has talked about long balls and deep blocks as if they are some sort of new and unfair invention. Everyone in the league can see Liverpool are soft in the air weak on second phases and mentally brittle when asked to defend. If you" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982364813117292798) 2025-10-26T08:32Z 13.8K followers, 108.7K engagements "🔴 Indecision is killing Liverpool not the opposition Theres no crime in losing matches. The real issue is not knowing what you're trying to be while youre losing them. Liverpool right now look like a side caught between three different ideas of themselves with none taking root. The shape changes every week sometimes multiple times mid-game. The personnel shuffle. The principles evaporate. You can't build rhythm when you're always starting over. Arne Slot looks spooked unsure whether to back his own plan or bend to each new problem. That hesitation spreads. The players look confused. One" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982732200983294423) 2025-10-27T08:52Z 13.8K followers, 176.9K engagements "🟥 Liverpools rebuild risks total collapse if they blink in January This morning Arne Slot claimed "nothing is missing" and he was "completely happy with his squad". Theres nothing inherently wrong with transition but there is danger in pretending youre not in one. Liverpool spent the summer pulling threads from a title-winning side then hoped the whole thing wouldnt unravel before the replacements bedded in. It has and I like most of you didn't see it coming. Not because the signings were wrong but because they were all shoved through at once. Isak Ekitike and Wirtz are not plug-and-play" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984238944687419794) 2025-10-31T12:40Z 13.8K followers, 65.7K engagements "🟥 We looked like Liverpool again #LFC 2-0 #AVFC At 2-0 something unfamiliar happened. Nothing. No chaos no collapse no invitation to drama. Liverpool stood still and strong. They let the clock run down and they closed the door. A team that has bent too easily lately didnt this time. They refused the noise and handled their business. This was a win built on the first principle of the game: get control keep it. They kept the ball they kept their nerve they kept each other honest. They fought for second balls they dug one another out of trouble they made each other's jobs easier. For a side" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984894211892597081) 2025-11-02T08:03Z 13.8K followers, 32.4K engagements "🟥 Trents Homecoming Will Not Be Warm Nor Should It Be There is honour in refusing to jeer your own and I have always held that line. I never joined the boos as Trent Alexander-Arnold drifted through those final few Liverpool appearances after announcing his exit from his boyhood club. For me though that dignity ends the moment a player decides his future is elsewhere and conducts his grand prolonged escape in silence polishing his departure like a luxury showroom floor. He didn't simply depart; he stage-managed the whole thing like a man auditioning for a new identity. Around [--] months" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985046576352329904) 2025-11-02T18:09Z 13.8K followers, 90.7K engagements "🟥 Wirtz on the wing finally worth the wait My mate @SamMcGuire90 said it best: Wirtz put in a serious shift and then some. He arrived for 116m with all fanfare and no patience but last night against Madrid playing off the left he looked like the player they thought they were signing. The touch was clean the decisions sharper and above all he worked. Hard. Created the most chances completed every dribble and still ran further than anyone on the pitch 11.37km before he was subbed with two minutes to go. The glamour has always been there but this was graft with grace. After weeks on the bench" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986070582140473658) 2025-11-05T13:58Z 13.8K followers, 41.7K engagements "#MCILIV . Liverpool were dismantled at Man City today both physically and ideologically. The aura of defiance that once defined this team has faded into a side that no longer knows how to suffer or how to strike back. This wasnt a title contender being edged out. It was a team outclassed out-thought and out of answers. As reactionary as it may seem its starting to look more like decline than transition. Slot will need more than ideas and fast. It's clear now that Liverpool's problems aren't only against long-ball direct opponents. Fourth place is no longer a floor. Its the ceiling. I'll write" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987591679381999843) 2025-11-09T18:42Z 13.8K followers, 116.1K engagements "If Bastoni is Liverpool's plan its a bold and brilliant one Im pretty sceptical about reported links to Alessandro Bastoni but if #LFC are genuinely pursuing him thats absolutely elite level. Not just in terms of quality but in what it would signal. This would not be a patch-up job or a panic buy; it would be a clear pivot towards a different kind of backline. Bastoni is not a Van Dijk replacement in the sentimental sense and he is not filling in for Konate either. He is something else entirely a progressive front-footed defender shaped by structure and intelligence. Left-footed experienced" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988193998553411755) 2025-11-11T10:36Z 13.8K followers, 217.3K engagements "🍕 A Clash of Crusts - The strategic divide that reshaped the pizza industry Pizza Hut Domino's 📚 FREE read serialised chapters from Samuel H. Vance's Corporate Clashes books check it out folks. https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/pizza-hut-vs-dominos-a-clash-of-crusts https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/pizza-hut-vs-dominos-a-clash-of-crusts" [X Link](https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2002016068882035032) 2025-12-19T14:00Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "Said it at the start of the season and will again the default position in every #PremierLeague season should be #MCFC winning it. If not for a gargantuan performance by #LFC in 19/20 this would be their 6th title in a row. Nobody should degrade the sporting effort but" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1657802829048709124) 2023-05-14T17:39Z 13.8K followers, 61.9K engagements "🔴 No Plan No Rhythm No Excuse #LFC 1-2 #MUFC Arne Slot is managing Liverpool like a man pretending nothing is wrong. Three defeats in a row before the international break and yet his response was to name the same eleven that lost at Chelsea. That is not faith in players that is managerial negligence. He looks paralysed. No tactical adjustments no accountability just endless recycling of failing ideas while the few in-form players he does have watch from the bench. Then theres Richard Hughes tasked with recruitment and who most of us me included would have given an A+ for his summer window." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980018708949893193) 2025-10-19T21:10Z 13.8K followers, 224K engagements Limited data mode. 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"⚽ The Fine Line Between Control and Chaos #LFC #NUFC #PremierLeague Preview The 6-0 win on Wednesday was welcome cleansing even but it came in a competition and against opposition that allowed Liverpool space rhythm and comfort. Newcastle will offer none of that. This will be narrow physical attritional and demanding. It will ask questions of Liverpool that Qarabag never could. The league table makes the point for us. There is no breathing room no margin for error no luxury of false confidence. Win and Liverpool create daylight from tonight's visitors lose and the ground shifts beneath their"
X Link 2026-01-31T08:50Z 13.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Curtis Jones to Inter Milan and the unease behind the denials I can't claim certainty but I do trust patterns and the pattern around Curtis Jones has been troubling for a while now. On Monday I was sent a series of screenshots from someone close to the player heavy on cryptic emojis light on explanation. Make of that what you will. What followed mattered more. I was told on Tuesday by someone else that he would likely not feature against Qarabag and that illness would be cited as the reason whether it stood up to scrutiny or not. So when talk of a possible move surfaced last night it didn't"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:28Z 13.8K followers, 106K engagements
"Exactly Why Liverpool Are Looking at Lutsharel Geertruida When Arne Slot arrived there was an expectation that Lutsharel Geertruida might follow. It felt natural almost inevitable. Instead he joined RB Leipzig and the idea was shelved. Now it has returned not dressed up as a grand plan but as a clear urgent solution. Geertruida has been used largely as a centre back during his loan at Sunderland with spells at right-back and lately in defensive midfield. He has not started their last two matches and that detail sharpens the picture. Trusted to start with now parked useful but no longer"
X Link 2026-02-01T09:04Z 13.8K followers, 102.1K engagements
"Jrmy Jacquet - A bet on tomorrow paid for today I first saw Jacquet when France reached the U19 European final in [----]. He stood above every other defender there commanding fearless visibly born to play on the front foot. That promise has followed him into senior football at Rennes; his ceiling is unmistakably high even if the foundations are still being poured. He is raw he will make mistakes and that is not a criticism; it is simply the truth of a 20-year-old defender learning his trade. What frustrates is not the player but the timing. Liverpool appear to have quietly written this season"
X Link 2026-02-02T09:40Z 13.8K followers, 54.3K engagements
"🟥 Liverpools roundtable video was calm polished and tightly controlled. But for obvious reasons it avoided the questions fans actually want answered. Ive written a piece asking the questions Id like to have put to Slot and Hughes cutting through the PR and examining what this video really tells us about Liverpools direction. Bold hopefully balanced and unapologetically blunt. Read it on my Substack 👇 https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpools-roundtable-was-polite https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpools-roundtable-was-polite"
X Link 2026-02-04T10:56Z 13.8K followers, 69.3K engagements
"🙏 RIP John Virgo The voice that guided snooker home John Virgo has died and with him goes a voice that never talked down to the game or dressed it up. He understood snooker because he had lived it the long nights the lonely practice tables the thin line between nerve and noise. As a player he earned his place properly a UK champion but it was later that he became part of peoples lives. From TV's Big Break to snooker commentary he spoke as someone on your side alert to the tiny dramas that decide frames and fortunes. His commentary had urgency warmth and judgement never mistaking volume for"
X Link 2026-02-04T11:22Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Night Manager - Merciless Messy Still Magnificent 8/10 ⚠ Spoiler Warning: This review discusses major plot points from The Night Manager S2 on @BBCiPlayer. Best read after watching the full season. Lets be honest it was never going to top the first series. That had the luxury of John le Carrs architecture beneath it every betrayal and double cross rooted in something painfully human and believable. This time the scaffolding was lighter the plotting looser and yet it still made for deeply watchable television. What carried it above all was the pull between Pine and Roper. Hugh Laurie"
X Link 2026-02-05T07:30Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Leoni ✅ Jacquet ✅ Liverpools future at CB is taking shape but the biggest question remains: who replaces Virgil van Dijk 🤔 Bastoni or Schlotterbeck - which one is closest to Liverpools needs The rebuild is underway. One massive decision still to come 🔴 New analysis piece on Substack please subscribe to support my work: https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/bastoni-or-schlotterbeck-liverpools https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/bastoni-or-schlotterbeck-liverpools"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:15Z 13.8K followers, 58.1K engagements
"@BarRed321 Despite his height his numbers in the air don't fit the profile"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:51Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"⚫🔴 #OnThisDay in [----] football changed forever. ❄✈ Munich loss courage and the long road back for Manchester United. A story of promise grief and resolve told for today. ⚽🕯 Read it FREE on my history Substack please subscribe 🙏 https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1958-munich-manchester https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1958-munich-manchester"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:11Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🟥 Championship-level midfielder or the second coming of Pirlo with a postcode problem Curtis Jones has become Liverpools most polarising player in years. Under Arne Slot that debate might soon be settled the hard way. New piece on Substack today please subscribe to support my work https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/curtis-jones-and-liverpools-uncomfortable https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/curtis-jones-and-liverpools-uncomfortable"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:46Z 13.8K followers, 30.7K engagements
"I get that view but fight for [--] minutes after gifting control again isnt progress for Liverpool. Intensity after going behind or hanging on is the bare minimum not a positive. Bad luck and refs didnt cause the retreat at 1-0 thats a pattern. Standards have to be higher than we had a go"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:45Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"📊 Liverpool [--] Manchester City was decided by fine margins but the numbers tell a clear story. 📉 Shot quality expected threat and decision-making under pressure shaped the outcome at Anfield. Full statistical analysis on my Substack👇 https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-1-2-manchester-city-a-statistical https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-1-2-manchester-city-a-statistical"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:44Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"On This Day in [----] David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust 👩🚀⚡ One night a small London stage and pop culture changed forever. My latest history blog is live now exploring how Bowie turned identity into art and rewrote fame. Read it FREE on my history Substack 📚 Please subscribe 🙏 #OnThisDay #DavidBowie #ZiggyStardust #MusicHistory https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1972-david-bowie-became https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/on-this-day-1972-david-bowie-became"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:53Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🟥 Harvey Elliott and the cold arithmetic of elite football Harvey Elliotts situation feels cruel but it's also brutally familiar. This is elite football at its most honest a business where judgement is final. Liverpool had already moved on in all but name. Last season told its own story. Arne Slot didn't trust Elliott with responsibility didn't lean on him when it mattered and didn't disguise it either. Managers rarely say a player is surplus; they simply behave as though he is. By the time Elliott left on loan the decision had effectively been taken. Aston Villa then applied their own cold"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:44Z 13.8K followers, 139.7K engagements
"Alexis Mac Allister - The quiet slide of a champion There is something oddly muffled about Alexis Mac Allisters season. Not outrage not scandal just a slow erosion of certainty. A footballer once central to rhythm and control now feels peripheral to both present without imprint trusted without conviction. He looks weary rather than careless busy rather than sharp. The running is still there the effort too but the moments that once defined him have thinned out. Duels go unfinished space closes before he can shape it and games drift past him. You sense a player operating on memory as much as"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:45Z 13.8K followers, 23.9K engagements
"⚽ Travelling Without Conviction Sunderland #LFC #PremierLeague Preview There was a time when Liverpool set the tempo; now they endure it. This side drifts through matches like a team waiting for something to happen rather than making it happen. Any sort of early promise fades fast the intensity ebbs and the final quarter becomes an exercise in anxiety management. You can feel it in the stands you can see it in the body language you can sense it long before the opponents' late goal(s) arrive. Too many games now follow the same weary script. A bright spell a squandered chance a retreat into"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:46Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"⚽ So Tottenham have sacked Thomas Frank. Two wins in seventeen. Sixteenth in the table. Champions League last [--] and a relegation fight at home. This was more than a bad run. It was a misfit born of structural drift. Managers change. The same questions remain. My full analysis on Spurs ENIC and the identity crisis beneath the headlines. FREE on my football Substack #THFC #Tottenham #PremierLeague https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/tottenham-sack-thomas-frank-but-deeper https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/tottenham-sack-thomas-frank-but-deeper"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:51Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Im no expert and dont have the first hand experiences like you do. That said my understanding is that Canadas housing crisis was driven largely by domestic speculation supply constraints and cheap credit over years. Foreign buyers were one factor not the sole cause and certainly not one nationality acting in concert. If you reduce everything to refugee scam and external takeover you let governments off the hook for planning failures and underbuilding. Yes supply and demand matters. But demand is shaped by policy too. Blaming migrants is simpler than fixing housing systems"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:35Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Im not saying its only certain schemes. Im saying the spike was largely driven by identifiable routes work visas students Ukraine Hong Kong. Thats in the data. Small boats make up a visible part of the debate but they are a minority of overall arrivals. Borders wide open suggests no system at all which simply isnt accurate. If the argument is about pace and capacity fine. Thats a legitimate discussion. But we have to start with what the numbers actually show not what feels most dramatic. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021909509606678843 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021909509606678843"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:29Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements
"⚽ Liverpool . This is how you remind me #LFC 4-1 #NUFC #PremierLeague There is a line in that Nickelback song about forgetting who you are. It came on the radio as I walked the dog after the match last night quiet streets head still buzzing. Liverpool reminded us last night. Sharply. Loudly. When most of us likely least expected it especially when Anthony Gordon put Newcastle ahead. The first half hour was ugly and familiar. Loose rattled and pushed around the crowd was restless. Then the game turned on instinct. The ball moved quicker players stopped hiding and Anfield stopped waiting. Not"
X Link 2026-02-01T08:42Z 13.8K followers, 20.5K engagements
"⚽ Shadows of a Rivalry That Once Ruled England #LFC #MCFC #PremierLeague Preview There was a time when this fixture felt like the future arriving early. Liverpool and Man City pushing each other to extremes football played at a velocity and quality that felt unsustainable yet somehow was. From [----] to [----] this was the Premier League at its most demanding and most honest two sides daring each other to blink. That time has passed. What remains now are two heavyweight names still capable of moments still dangerous but no longer relentless. Both sides flatter both sides deceive both sides carry"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:00Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Boy Who Grew Beyond the Creek 🙏 RIP James Van Der Beek James Van Der Beeks face belonged to the turn of the century. Even if you were a shade too old to follow Dawsons Creek with devotion you likely stumbled across it on a slow Sunday morning like I did nursing a hangover from the night before and found yourself watching young James alongside Katie and Joshua doing their thing. He carried the burden of sincerity at a time when sincerity was already falling out of fashion. As Dawson Leery he was asked to be the moral compass the dreamer the one who believed hardest. It's not the sort of"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:07Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Net migration did spike post [----] largely driven by new visa routes students health and care workers and specific schemes like Ukraine and Hong Kong. That is factual. But unprecedented does not automatically mean catastrophic. Part of that rise followed Brexit which shifted flows from EU to non EU rather than simply adding a new layer on top. If poorer areas are feeling strain that points to uneven distribution and long term underinvestment not just raw numbers. Rapid change needs better planning housing supply and local funding. That's a governance issue. Ratcliffe could have made a case"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:01Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@BBCSportScot @BBCMOTD No contest between radio and TV commentators take a bow Alasdair Lamont 👏"
X Link 2025-11-18T23:45Z 13.8K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Abysmal tactics and mentality after going 1-0 up. Complete loss of heads. But dont less us over reactive fan media ghouls dare criticise the roundtable duo. If you think this is good enough your bar is too low for this club. More words later"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:37Z 13.8K followers, 37.8K engagements
"⚽ Mentality Mice Meek Surrender at Anfield [--] points in the last [--] Premier League games for the Reds #LFC 1-2 #MCFC #PremierLeague #LIVMCI This collapse felt depressingly familiar because its become routine. Go ahead retreat into yourself stop playing stop thinking stop believing. Liverpool used to smell blood in moments like that. Now they smell fear and fear is cultural. It doesnt arrive by accident. Its learned tolerated then normalised. This team has a weak mentality that flows downhill. Arne Slot Richard Hughes and Fenway Sports Group are no longer abstract decision makers hiding behind"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:53Z 13.8K followers, 45.3K engagements
"🟥 Grit Over Glamour at the Stadium of Light There are grounds where three points carry more weight than the arithmetic suggests and Sunderland away has been one of those all season. To win there 1-0 against the last unbeaten home side in the league mattered. Liverpool controlled much of it [--] shots before the interval Wirtz lively and inventive Salah probing yet the familiar anxiety lingered when chances went begging. The captain settled it in the manner captains should rising with authority directing his header with conviction and restoring calm. What pleased me most was the steel. Konates"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:49Z 13.8K followers, 16.3K engagements
"🌳 Dyche out. Pereira next. Same Marinakis circus. 🎪 Nottingham Forest are about to appoint a fourth manager of the season and the real problem is still sitting in the directors box. This isnt ambition. Its ego. Its chaos. And its dragging Forest towards relegation. Ive written about Marinakis the culture of fear at the City Ground and why sacking another coach wont save them. Free on my football Substack now. https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/dyche-out-pereira-in-as-marinakis https://www.itwasalwaysfootball.com/p/dyche-out-pereira-in-as-marinakis"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:44Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Offshore Jim Lectures the Rest of Us (Again) He lives in Monaco shelters his fortune from the British taxman then lectures the country about being colonised. You couldn't script the arrogance. Jim Ratcliffe peers out from a gilded balcony and declares that Britain has been overrun that immigrants are the great burden that nine million idle hands drain the purse. The numbers are wrong the history is worse and the language reeks. Colonised he says as if the word were a toy. As if Britain had not carved its own brutal path across continents and called it glory. This is the co-owner of a football"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:21Z 13.8K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Indians taking over the property market is a sweeping claim that blames an entire nationality for structural housing failures. Irelands housing crisis has been driven by supply shortages planning constraints investment flows and policy decisions over many years. Foreign buyers are a small slice of that picture. It is easier to point at a visible group than to untangle domestic policy mistakes. Globalisation is real. So are housing shortages. But turning economic frustration into ethnic accusation does not fix prices it just deepens resentment."
X Link 2026-02-12T09:26Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"📊 #SUNLIV Statistical Analysis Liverpool controlled territory dominated the air and funnelled their threat down the left. The finishing was wasteful but the structure held firm. Set pieces decided it. Van Dijk delivered. Full analysis of Liverpool 1-0 Sunderland on my Substack now https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-edge-sunderland-as-27-xg https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/liverpool-edge-sunderland-as-27-xg"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:56Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"🟥 Liverpool have become predictable. Richard Hughes actually identified the issue early. Against deep blocks theres no chaos. No isolation threat. No winger who forces defenders to panic. Ive analysed why that profile is missing and the five players who could fix it this summer. Olise. Diomande. Nusa. Fofana. Toure. Full piece on my Substack please subscribe free to support my work. https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/breaking-the-block-why-liverpool https://www.itwasalwaysliverpool.com/p/breaking-the-block-why-liverpool"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:05Z 13.8K followers, 84.8K engagements
"🙏 Couldnt agree more"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:34Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trent leaving #LFC for personal reasons such as: - Generational wealth for him and his family especially his brother Tyler and his agency - Hearing a lot less can't defend as hell have to do far less of it. - Brand Trent Brand Trent and more Brand Trent - Hey Jude party time baby I wont be condoning or joining the rat shouts. Man fulfils contract of employment and moves on LFC fault its on a free. That said he should NOT play for the club again he has trashed his legacy to a worse level than McManaman and Owen. Plus you cant always want the club to win when we play his new club so often - hes"
X Link 2025-05-05T10:13Z 13.8K followers, 106.2K engagements
"@NFFC Player gets seriously injured. Owner throws a tantrum over not beating a relegated side. Club issues a love letter to his emotional investment. Give me a break"
X Link 2025-05-13T17:48Z 13.8K followers, 57K engagements
"Wirtz to Liverpool: More Than a Statement Signing Florian Wirtz's potential arrival at #LFC is not about patching holes its about sculpting something finer from what is already formidable. In football the truly great sides dont wait to decline before they evolve. They anticipate and in doing so they intimidate. This is strengthening from a position of strength a manoeuvre steeped in the same instinct that saw @officialbarnesy Beardsley and @Realaldo474 arrive together in '87. Its also a trick straight from the Ferguson #MUFC playbook. Wirtz wouldnt be coming to wrestle the number [--] from Mac"
X Link 2025-05-24T07:22Z 13.8K followers, 115.9K engagements
"🟥 Klopp Remembers Trents Glory The Fans Remember His Fall Jurgen Klopp with the candour only time grants a man departed asked for grace. He reminded us of a boy who bent the world his way in Hoffenheim and bamboozled giants on an Anfield night that belonged to eternity. He asked us not to forget. But it is precisely because we remember that the booing rang out. We remember Trent the teenager yes but we also remember the man who scored against West Ham and turned to scouring the very people who raised him. We remember a farewell 'party' more befitting a popstar than a footballer curated not"
X Link 2025-05-24T08:07Z 13.8K followers, 2M engagements
"🙏 Heysel: The Shame We Cant Outrun Forty years on the blood on the terraces of the Heysel Stadium has dried but the shame remains stubbornly fresh. We speak of denial but denial implies ignorance. This was a wilful forgetting. A decision to bury guilt in the rubble of a collapsed wall and pretend the ghosts of Brussels dont still chant at us from the corners of history. Thirty-nine lives were lost that night. Not just numbers. Not just Italians. People who went to watch a football match and never came home. And in the years that followed how many Scousers lied to themselves and each other It"
X Link 2025-05-29T10:09Z 13.8K followers, 95.4K engagements
"Dear Caoimhin There is something profoundly dignified in how youve carried yourself through these years the understudy whose performances belied the prefix. In an era where patience is mislabelled as passivity you proved that waiting for your turn can be a triumph in itself. You arrived at #LFC as a boy one of those quiet investments that clubs hope might flourish but rarely depend upon. What followed was the emergence of a goalkeeper of such clarity and composure that Anfield grew comfortable in the silence you brought to your penalty area. You gave us clean sheets and clear consciences when"
X Link 2025-06-01T19:48Z 13.8K followers, 403.3K engagements
"🏏🏴 Nepals One-Wicket Win Wasnt a Shock It Was a Statement Associate cricket is not a charity case or a sideshow it is a fire lit under the complacency of the game's establishment. What happened today @the_forfs Nepals stunning one-wicket win over @CricketScotland sealed in chaos in tension in wild beating-heart theatre was no accident. The scorecard will show a wide ball and a runout that did not count. It will mention Karan KCs [--] not out from number nine but it cannot account for the spirit that drove it. That does not come from central contracts or packed stadiums. It comes from meaning."
X Link 2025-06-02T18:34Z 13.8K followers, 55.2K engagements
"Behind the Curtain of #LFC's Wirtz Deal The Wirtz deal feels less like a transfer and more like a slow burn epic. And Ill say this now. I think it gets done this week I feel like Ive barely been off the phone to German journalists for a fortnight. Every conversation ends in the same place. Both clubs want this and the player is already halfway to Merseyside in his mind. The numbers are the sticking point but were not talking chasms here. It is the usual scrap over add-ons and payment structures. The kind of details that feel like nothing until they are everything. What Liverpool are doing is"
X Link 2025-06-09T18:20Z 13.8K followers, 176.7K engagements
"🟥 Lost in Translation: How Germany Led the Wirtz Story This news did not break on Fleet Street. It did not come out of Kirkby and it certainly did not come from the usual suspects spoon-fed by #LFC. The Florian Wirtz story started and ended where it mattered in Germany. That is where the real temperature was taken. That is where the first credible flickers of truth emerged. For close on three weeks now the UK circuit has been chasing this story like it is in a foreign language. Because in many ways it was. Liverpool did not leak did not brief and did not need the noise. And so while the"
X Link 2025-06-11T07:16Z 13.8K followers, 254.9K engagements
"🟥 He Was One of Us - Until He Wasnt I didnt expect to be writing about Trent Alexander-Arnold again. After four articles and more tweets than I care to count I thought that chapter was closed. But here we are. His exit shouldve been clean. He played his part gave us glory and shouldve been waved off with respect. But instead of owning his decision he masked it. Fluent in Spanish press conference gaffes choreographed goodbyes; all packaged like a brand launch not a farewell. This wasnt about leaving. Players move on. Its football. But the way he did it carefully managed and oddly hollow felt"
X Link 2025-06-12T19:23Z 13.8K followers, 92K engagements
"#FlorianFriday - Wirtz Turns the Tide Red 🟥 #Wirtz did not choose money he chose a challenge. Faced with the safe inevitability of Bayern and the uncertain allure of Guardiolas City he chose #LFC not out of romance but because it made footballing sense. Slot did not dazzle him with empty promises. He offered a stage a role a plan. Be the fulcrum the press-breaker the game-tilter. The boy who helped end Bayerns grip on the Bundesliga turned his back on them to help Liverpool rise again. Citys pitch had the gloss but not the guarantee. Guardiolas future is unclear and so is any young players"
X Link 2025-06-13T11:14Z 13.8K followers, 87.6K engagements
"🏴 If Robertson Goes Let It Be With Applause But Not Sentiment Atletico Madrid see what weve seen for nearly a decade a relentless snarling top-class left back who never let the standard drop. If they come calling for Andy Robertson theyre not just buying a player theyre trying to import the mentality that turned #LFC from nearly-men into champions. And if this is the moment he moves on we should meet it with respect not resistance. Hes [--] now entering the final year of his deal his body bearing the toll of a thousand sprints and tackles made in anger. The timing makes sense. Robertson has"
X Link 2025-06-14T14:05Z 13.8K followers, 32.6K engagements
"A Quiet Coaching Coup at Liverpool Giovanni van Bronckhorst joining Liverpools coaching staff might have flown under the radar but it is quietly one of the smartest moves the club has made this summer. This is not just a nod to his glittering CV including a Champions League title multiple domestic honours and a World Cup final appearance. It is about what he brings to a squad and coaching unit in transition. He understands elite environments having experienced them first-hand at Barcelona Arsenal and Feyenoord. His time at Rangers showed he can organise motivate and adapt. That experience"
X Link 2025-06-15T21:43Z 13.8K followers, 45.7K engagements
"🔵⚪ [---] Charges No Verdict: How Much Longer Can This Farce Go On Theres something grotesque about watching #MCFC move freely through the gears of yet another lavish rebuild while [---] charges hang over their head like theyre nothing more than parking fines. Theyve overhauled their squad cleared out coaching staff retooled for another go at global dominance and no one in authority seems even remotely inclined to ask why a club under such scrutiny is still free to operate like this. Its the brazenness that stings most. They can spend tens of millions without blinking splash through loopholes"
X Link 2025-06-17T07:47Z 13.8K followers, 30K engagements
"🏴 Guehi Move Signals Ruthless Shift at #LFC Liverpool's move for Marc Guehi isnt just shrewd business; its a declaration. The club aren't nursing a squad back to health theyre carving out a new one with surgical precision. #Quansah will leave with promise and profit but #Guehi arrives with presence. A #PremierLeague tested defender homegrown international and hard-edged stepping in not to fill gaps but to raise standards. This isnt romanticism its realpolitik. If youre not elite now or clearly on your way youre not part of the plan. Konat stalling Sell. Squad players with resale value Shift."
X Link 2025-06-19T21:10Z 13.8K followers, 416.7K engagements
"@FPLFalse9 If it was ChatGPT Id have made it write three drafts add a Shakespeare quote and end with a Shankly metaphor. Sadly this was just me and too much coffee"
X Link 2025-06-19T21:47Z 13.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"🚨 #LFC Now Speaking in ALL CAPS I thought Id rinsed it. Ive written about Florian Wirtz so much over the past few weeks that I wasnt sure I had another one in me. Then I saw the interview. Saw the look in his eyes. Heard those words. I didnt come here to have fun. Im here to win everything. That was it. That was the switch. It went from transfer hype to something else entirely. You dont often see that level of calm intensity in a lad of 22; hes here to own it. This was a reminder. This is a move clubs like United and Chelsea used to make. The kind that signals dominance scares rivals and"
X Link 2025-06-21T08:33Z 13.8K followers, 85.6K engagements
"🟥 Strong Start But Liverpools Transfer Window Will Be Defined by Its Finish Liverpool are close. They are building something serious no doubt but the final leap depends on how well they play the selling game. Darwin Nez is on his way out that much is clear. Harvey Elliott might follow. Jota Cheisa Diaz Gomez even Andy Robertson; all may be moved if the bids are right. These are not fringe players they are made-men all international-class. But none are indispensable. That is the shift. Sentiment has been binned. The club are now dealing in trust and output not nostalgia. The funds from those"
X Link 2025-06-22T07:30Z 13.8K followers, 140.2K engagements
"🟥 Quansah Out Clause In - But Liverpool Have Moved On Quansahs sale buyback clause or not tells you everything about Liverpools new approach. This was a chance to back a young centre-half with tools but no certainty. Instead theyve cashed in early and packed him off to the Bundesliga. 30m is decent money but the clause is a polite nod to the past not necessarily a plan for the future. He had a fine first season then faded. Thats the truth. Good on the ball yes but defensively unsure. Theres no aerial dominance no pace to recover and when he was asked to step up he couldn't. The fanbase"
X Link 2025-06-23T07:38Z 13.8K followers, 49.3K engagements
"When Torres Left I Learned To Love The Shirt Not the Name On The Back There was a time Id lose sleep over players leaving. Fernando Torres changed that. He wasnt just brilliant he was ours. The armband the song the gallop through defences with a glint in his eye he gave Liverpool fans a hero who felt like one of us. When he left for Chelsea it felt like betrayal. Not just the badge-swapping but the symbolism. Swapping values for vanity swapping belonging for Russian roubles. But time has a way of offering clarity. Torres didnt find himself in blue. He looked stiff subdued like hed left a part"
X Link 2025-06-24T09:05Z 13.8K followers, 194.4K engagements
"Darwin Nunez - Liverpool's Wildest Flame Flickers Out There is romance in persistence but folly in ignoring the evidence. Darwin Nunez came to Liverpool as a chaos merchant a whirlwind of limbs and energy a forward whose rawness was part of the appeal. For a time it felt like unpredictability might become unpredictably brilliant. But unpredictability without control is just waste and the fun has drained from the experiment. The goals never flowed with any consistency the decision-making rarely improved and by the end he looked more burdened than buoyant. Not even Anfields defiant optimism"
X Link 2025-06-25T07:00Z 13.8K followers, 92.2K engagements
"Eyes on Isak: Liverpools Next Move Could Redefine the Window Frimpong Mamardashvili Wirtz and now Kerkez; not just quality but cohesion. Not a spree but a strategy. This is a club that once stood accused of resting after glory. Now they rebuild from the summit. Speak to right people and one thing becomes abundantly clear Liverpool's window is not even close to being closed. Newcastle fans are openly in denial as Alexander Isaks name dances on the edge of reality and dream. Admired deeply by Liverpools hierarchy known to fit Slots tactical playbook and long-revered by Michael Edwards."
X Link 2025-06-26T06:30Z 13.8K followers, 294.1K engagements
"🏴 A Voice Returned A Heart Laid Bare 🎸 Here in Scotland true superstars are rare. This eveving one of our own stood again where it almost broke him before. #LewisCapaldi didnt just sing at #Glastonbury he thrived. And not in the chart-friendly social media sense but in the raw gut-deep soul-fractured way that only those whove walked through darkness and come back blinking into light can understand. Im f*****g back baby he cried and for once such a line didnt feel staged but sacred. You didnt need to love the music to feel it. You just had to be human. A man once silenced by the involuntary"
X Link 2025-06-27T17:15Z 13.8K followers, 155.4K engagements
"Taffarel exits #LFC quietly but his impact was anything but Claudio Taffarel leaves Liverpool with little fanfare but his absence will be felt more deeply than most realise. He didnt just coach Alisson he stabilised him. There was something in the way they worked not just Brazilian camaraderie but a deep mutual understanding. Taffarel knew what the position demanded not in theory but in blood and bone. Hed lived the pressure felt the weight of nations and brought that quiet authority to Kirkby every single day. In a world of over-analysis and tech obsession he kept things human. You never saw"
X Link 2025-07-02T11:14Z 13.8K followers, 304.5K engagements
"🖤 Diogo Jota - The Whistle's Blown Far Too Soon Finding it hard to write these words fingers trembling as I type. Diogo Jota is gone. Just days after marrying the love of his life standing proudly in a church with his new wife Rute and their three young children he and his brother Andre are lost in a road accident in Spain. A family torn apart futures stolen in silence. Jota was [--]. A player in his prime a Premier League champion a Nations League winner an #LFC forward who played the game with bite and purpose. But thats not why this hurts so much. Its because he carried himself with quiet"
X Link 2025-07-03T09:51Z 13.8K followers, 316.7K engagements
"🟥 How Liverpool Became the Premier League's Smartest Spenders Liverpools pursuit of Alexander Isak even at a fee nudging 130m is not fantasy but the product of precision. They have spent heavily this summer yes but what stands out is not the scale it is the structure. Over the last three transfer windows Liverpools net spend barely scratched 125m. In [----] alone they posted a net profit of nearly 18m. In that same period #MUFC burned through over 440m. #Chelsea somehow more than 850m. This summer's 171m outlay is not reckless its calculated. Florian Wirtz at 100m potentially rising to 116m"
X Link 2025-07-17T08:14Z 13.8K followers, 83.6K engagements
"BOTH Liverpools Swagger Signals a Forward Line Revolution Something significant is stirring at #LFC. The approach is calm measured and utterly relentless. The way Isaks absence from Newcastles squad was spoken about by Eddie Howe does not echo the certainty of a player considered untouchable and 'not for sale at any price'. If he's absolutely unavailable the lines would have been drawn without blur not danced around. Liverpools silence has been louder than most declarations their pursuit persisting beyond the reported informal enquiry. Then there is Ekitike whose technical qualities"
X Link 2025-07-20T08:12Z 13.8K followers, 44.3K engagements
"Ekitike is not a gamble he's a gear change. Hugo Ekitike arrives as a necessity for a side reshaping their identity. In the nicest possible way #LFC lacked a true striker last season too often asking wide men or confidence-rattled forwards to carry a central burden they were never built for. Ekitike fills that void with intent. He's [--] stepping up from a good side where he showed more than just potential. His movement frightens defenders his press is relentless and his link-up play invites others in. He gives Salah something to play off opens space for Gakpo and sharpens the edge of a"
X Link 2025-07-20T11:17Z 13.8K followers, 66.4K engagements
"🏴 RIP Joey Jones: The People's Full-Back Joey Jones played football like it was personal because it was. He ran as if every blade of grass owed him money tackled like his life depended on it and smiled like a lad who never stopped counting his blessings. The fans didnt just sing his name they saw themselves in him. A Kop regular made real. At #LFC he lifted two European Cups a UEFA Cup and a league title but he never acted like a man who'd made it. He stayed #Wrexham at heart a boy from #Llandudno who played as if wearing the shirt was a sacred trust. He was never the flash one in the squad"
X Link 2025-07-22T10:11Z 13.8K followers, 47.5K engagements
"#LFC 2-4 #ACMilan Those who see a pre-season result and believe theyve read the seasons script are the same who mistake warm-up stretches for a marathon. Liverpools 4-2 loss to AC Milan was no calamity nor was it a clue. It was a glimpse at conditioning chemistry and context far more than consequence. When a side reshapes its spine rests its teeth and still crafts moments of delight it deserves more than sneers from the gallery. Florian Wirtz slid passes like a man sketching plans for the months ahead. Szoboszlai glided through midfield with purpose and promise. And despite a patchwork"
X Link 2025-07-27T08:17Z 13.8K followers, 36.2K engagements
"Dear Lucho So youre heading to Bayern now and no one can say you have not earned it. A short career demands big decisions and you have chosen one of Europes grandest stages rather than the Saudi bag a club that reveres South Americans and rewards ambition. #LFC could not match the contract offer nor did they try. They have pocketed a tidy fee gained two and a half years of hard running and are already reshaping the forward line. You were never an imitator of Man even if that was the role fate handed you. You carved your own path teeth clenched relentless stubborn in the best way. There were"
X Link 2025-07-28T07:40Z 13.8K followers, 364.2K engagements
"Isaks Coming. Try and Stop It. Liverpool are about to take what they want. Alexander Isak one of Europes best strikers is on the table and the clubs ready to slap down the cash clear the space and walk out with him smiling in red. No fuss no flinch. While others moan about net spend and imagined humility quotas #LFC are playing a sharper game. Diaz goes others will follow and not a drop of PSR sweat is spilled. Thats how you do business when you know exactly who you are. Of course the noise has started. The usual names and faces telling Scousers to stay in their lane. The tired digs about"
X Link 2025-07-28T09:00Z 13.8K followers, 88.7K engagements
"🟥 Solid up top shaky at the back - Liverpools warning sign in plain sight Pre-season is for tuning up not tearing down. But even with that in mind Liverpools defensive slackness in Japan wont sit easily with Arne Slot. This wasnt a cobbled-together back four finding its feet. Van Dijk and Konate anchored the middle flanked by Kerkez and Bradley. It should have been a base to build from. Instead Yokohama cut through them with the kind of ease that raises questions. Ren Kato had time to stroll in the pass Uenaka ghosted in untracked and Mamardashvili standing in for Alisson was beaten without"
X Link 2025-07-31T07:37Z 13.8K followers, 30.3K engagements
"🟥 The shirt matters less the business behind it more. #Adidas returning to #LFC should feel like a homecoming but the magic has dulled at least for me. The kits I wore threadbare in the eighties meant something. Now every new release feels like a global template made to sell not to inspire. They will still inspire some and they will most certainly sell. This deal is no small thing. If it really brings in around 1bn over 10-years then the commercial team deserves credit. That kind of money does not just balance books it builds squads. We are not choosing fabric anymore we are choosing"
X Link 2025-08-01T08:17Z 13.8K followers, 33.9K engagements
"The Show Must Go On Isak Must Too Newcastles rejection of Liverpools 110m bid for Alexander Isak is no act of defiance. Its a charade. Carefully staged theatre sloppily scripted but ultimately going through the motions. This saga like so many is less negotiation and more performance. The price was never 150m not really. It was 120m before it was 150m and soon enough itll quietly drop again. #Newcastle are a club trying to preserve face to rewrite the optics of a departure already understood by all of the key protagonists. The message must be managed: Isak wanted out #LFC disrespected them and"
X Link 2025-08-02T08:36Z 13.8K followers, 324.6K engagements
"Tyler Morton - Proper Move For Proper Red #TylerMorton leaves #LFC without fanfare but with quiet vindication. A player whose composure and passing range always suggested more than he was allowed to show finally moves to a club that might give him the space to grow. #Lyon is no backwater and [--] million with add-ons reflects how well-regarded he remains across Europe. Liverpool lose a player with intelligence humility and balance in his game. But in truth the writing has been on the wall for some time. Morton has outgrown the academy but never got the rhythm of minutes to show if he could"
X Link 2025-08-02T12:28Z 13.8K followers, 28.2K engagements
"🟥 The Endings Written Newcastle Fans Just Dont Want to Read It . Yet My Twitter block button had another workout yesterday. Newcastle fans yet again in full voice to declare what suits them most; that Isak is happy not for sale and wouldnt dream of leaving. That's what they said the last time as well when the link first emerged in the press whilst calling into question my parentage and mental state using less than flattering language. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. Look beyond the decoys and the desperation. #Isak trained alone at his old club while Howes side toured Asia and"
X Link 2025-08-03T08:24Z 13.8K followers, 64.6K engagements
"🟥 #LFC 4-1 & 3-2 #AthleticClub The kids are ready the squad is stacked but centre-back roulette can't continue Liverpool look slick. Not hopeful not promising but already finely tuned. Two friendlies two wins and enough evidence to worry anyone hoping last season was a one-off. The new signings have slotted in like theyve been at Anfield for years but its the performances of two teenagers that truly demand attention. We can't really say anymore that Rio Ngumoha [--] is knocking on the door. He has walked straight through it. Another goal another assist and another afternoon spent making"
X Link 2025-08-04T22:11Z 13.8K followers, 28.4K engagements
"🏴 Farewell Young Harvey - Let the Lad Go and Grow Harvey Elliott is too fine a footballer to be a luxury. Too clever to be boxed in too driven to idle on the margins. What he needs now is not more patience but a platform and RB Leipzig might just be offering one worth seizing. At [--] with nearly [---] games for #LFC and fresh from dragging England's U21s to another title he is no longer an apprentice. Yet [--] #PremierLeague starts last season both after the job was done speak louder than any declarations of faith. This is not a player out of form it is a player out of frame. #RBLeipzig see what"
X Link 2025-08-06T08:21Z 13.8K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Forget The #LFC Depth Chart Szoboszlai Is Rewriting It Theres no mistaking it now Dominik Szoboszlai has the tools to dominate Liverpools midfield. The physicality the technique the presence. Against Athletic Club he didnt just show up he took over. He pressed passed surged and stitched it all together. He looked like a player born to lead. The Gerrard echoes arent lazy. Theyre about profile. Szoboszlai is powerful rangy quick across the ground and confident enough to play the game at his own tempo. Hes replaced Trents cross-field switches filled Van Dijks void in build-up and driven attacks"
X Link 2025-08-07T08:09Z 13.8K followers, 35.2K engagements
"Isak For This Summer Not Next Every time I hear someone on a podcast say #LFC have set things up nicely to move for Isak again in January or next summer I wince. The forward line has been stripped to its core with Luis Diaz and Darwin Nez gone Chiesa likely to follow the irreplaceable Diogo Jota lost it leaves only Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah as senior starters. Hugo Ekitike has promise but promise alone will not always you win games and the demands of a title defence and Champions League campaign will arrive fast. I still believe #Isak will be signed this summer. He is not a player to park"
X Link 2025-08-08T07:03Z 13.8K followers, 53.1K engagements
"🙏 The Summer Liverpool Will Carry Forever Jrgen Klopp famously said Football always seems the most important of the least important things. In #Liverpool that truth cuts deeper this summer than most would wish. What should have been a season crowned with unclouded joy has been shadowed by events that nobody saw coming. A title win in front of fans for the first time in a generation the streets thronged with colour and noise and then before the echoes had faded a car ploughed into the crowd on Water Street. Dozens hurt fear running through the city like a chilled wind the days glory replaced"
X Link 2025-08-09T07:24Z 13.8K followers, 36.1K engagements
"🟥 #LFC poised to land Guhi as Palace look to cash in Liverpools pursuit of Marc Guhi has reached the decisive stage with #CPFC chairman Steve Parish conceding the inevitability of action. The England defender is in the final year of his contract a fact that leaves Palace in an awkward corner. For a club of their resources watching a player of his standing walk away for nothing would be more than a misstep it would be an avoidable wound. Parish was blunt it needs either a fresh contract or a definitive end. Liverpools interest has been constant though measured wary of overcommitting for a"
X Link 2025-08-11T06:50Z 13.8K followers, 29.4K engagements
"🤬 Henry Winters false equivalence is a disgrace To compare #LFC supporters booing the national anthem with a handful of #CPFC fans disrupting a minutes silence for Diogo Jota and his brother is a lamentable failure of judgement. The two acts are rooted in entirely different impulses. One is a long-standing political protest an expression of deep anti-establishment sentiment forged through decades of grievance and neglect a stance well understood by anyone with a grasp of the citys history. The other is a needless intrusion into a moment of collective mourning cutting through a stadiums quiet"
X Link 2025-08-11T09:00Z 13.8K followers, 78.5K engagements
"Why Is Guehi Still at Palace #LFC have wanted Marc Guehi all summer. #CPFC have known that all summer. So why isnt he wearing red yet Its not the player as some reports claim. Hes ready. No fresh contract no talk of staying long-term. Hes made himself available without making a scene. Hes done everything right. The delay lies elsewhere. Palace know what theyve got: a premium English centre-back age-profiled homegrown and durable. They also know Liverpool arent the only ones looking. Spurs tried in January. Newcastle hovered. England pick him. The market warmed itself up nicely for Steve"
X Link 2025-08-14T11:00Z 13.8K followers, 39.4K engagements
"Isak Standoff Just for Show This transfer has had the scent of inevitability from the start. Alexander Isak wants Liverpool. Liverpool want Isak. The problem as always is the bit in between. #NUFC have postured and played hardball leaking just enough to hint at flexibility without ever putting it in writing. They say they dont want to sell but theyre buying like they might. You dont stockpile forwards and midfielders on PSR red alert unless you're planning to let something big go. Theyve boxed themselves in. Sell now and it looks like surrender. Keep him and you spend the next [--] months"
X Link 2025-08-14T14:00Z 13.8K followers, 74.3K engagements
"Isaks Fury Cuts Through Footballs Faade Alexander Isaks words last night revealed his discontent but also stripped the varnish off modern football. This wasnt petulance. It was precision. A statement loaded not with heat but with calculation every sentence a scalpel to the idea that his loyalty still lives at St James' Park a sharp dagger to the #NUFC boardroom and their PR fluff. Promises made trust broken a player who once sold a vision is pushing back against the fiction. Newcastles reply A bland rehearsal of control. The language of contracts cloaked in sentiment. Talk of family while"
X Link 2025-08-20T06:42Z 13.8K followers, 61.2K engagements
"No Isak. No One. Following the #NUFC and Isak statements last night I've heard a lot of people talk about Liverpool's Plan-B today so who are their alternative striker targets If #LFC dont land Isak they wont sign anyone. No backup. No last-minute scramble. No sugar-coating. Hes the plan. Full stop. Its not about money. Its not about alternatives. Its about conviction. Theyve made their choice and if it doesnt happen theyll live with the consequences. The striker shortlist is one name long. Liverpool have tragically lost Jota. Sold Darwin. Sold Daz. They'll count Wirtz as a forward if it"
X Link 2025-08-20T18:38Z 13.8K followers, 124.8K engagements
"Rodrygo Isnt Isak's Plan B Hes a Different Play Entirely Rodrygo was never part of the Isak plan. Liverpools pursuit of the Newcastle forward has always been singular structured and deliberate. When I said there was no plan B for Isak I meant it and that still stands. #Rodrygo is a separate move. Hes not a fallback hes not an alternative hes a strategic play for a different profile in a different role. Isak is a centre-forward who leads the line. Rodrygo is a multi-functional wide attacker who can cut in create and carry the load Salah has borne for years. Real Madrid have quietly frozen him"
X Link 2025-08-21T19:25Z 13.8K followers, 191.8K engagements
"Eddie Howe and Isak: Truth Timing and What Happens Next This morning Eddie Howe did what few in his position ever do. He told the truth. Yes he and Isak spoke before last season ended. Yes the situation is regrettable. But no he does not deny the reality of what has unfolded. It should quiet some of the more poisonous voices who have made the situation personal on this platform who turned uncertainty into insult. The abuse has been loud and often misplaced. Footballers have careers to manage and futures to consider. That Isak may have explored his should never have invited the bile it did."
X Link 2025-08-22T09:58Z 13.8K followers, 43.8K engagements
"🟥 Isak. Guehi. Trigger Time. The window narrows the noise grows and Liverpool stand firm. Yet another day passes with nothing clearer at least publicly on Isak and Guehi. One brings presence up top the other poise at the back. Both elevate the ceiling and thicken the spine. But still no deals. Not yet. Isak would change the conversation instantly. The hesitation feels like brinkmanship but the clock wont blink. When #NUFC wobble the Reds must be ready to pounce not ponder. Guehi is different quieter in profile but no less crucial. Hes not a glamour move but hes a winning one. If #CPFC are"
X Link 2025-08-27T16:07Z 13.8K followers, 43.3K engagements
"🔥 Time to start teeing up my Luke Edwards article 🧨"
X Link 2025-08-28T17:28Z 13.8K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Isak - The truth moves faster than the spin So a pathway for #Isak to #LFC at last. The signs have been there all summer for anyone with the sense to see them. Newcastles dash for Nick Woltemade yesterday didnt just open the door; it confirmed what many were still trying to deny: that Isak would leave and Liverpool was his destination. The reaction has been predictable. Some will rage others will pretend it was never on until now and a few now scramble to rewrite their timelines before Monday proves them wrong. One in particular who has made a habit of dressing hearsay as insight may finally"
X Link 2025-08-29T07:30Z 13.8K followers, 147.1K engagements
"Isak Joins Liverpool and Exposes Luke Edwards Summer of Spin #NUFC tried to bluff but #LFC were never going to fold "When fans questioned Edwards reporting he mocked them. When other journalists hinted there was more going on behind the scenes he dismissed it. When Liverpools interest became increasingly difficult to deny he doubled down. He used his platform to construct a narrative that matched exactly what Newcastles ownership wanted in the public domain." My in-depth appraisal of the #Isak deal and Luke Edwards' posturing on my Substack 👇"
X Link 2025-09-01T10:20Z 13.8K followers, 59.9K engagements
"⚫⚪ Luke Edwards and the Collapse of Credibility Text extract from my Isak to #LFC blog on Substack earlier today 👇 No one emerged from this saga with less credibility than Luke Edwards. As Newcastles man at The Telegraph and a regular contributor for BBC Sport Edwards held a position of influence. That influence was squandered across the summer in spectacular fashion. From the beginning he positioned himself as the authority on the Isak situation insisting the player was not for sale and that Liverpool had no realistic path to sign him. At every step he treated dissent with hostility. When"
X Link 2025-09-01T14:33Z 13.8K followers, 259.1K engagements
"❌ GUEHI TO #LFC OFF So for all the talk mainly from ex-pros about #Isak and #Wissa being 🐀 and Guehi the model professional; [--] get their moves [--] didn't"
X Link 2025-09-01T18:53Z 13.8K followers, 31.1K engagements
"🔴 Dont Blame Isak. Dont Pity Guehi. Look Deeper. So much noise about who behaves and who deserves what. Isak threw his toys out the pram Wissa postured Guehi stayed quiet like a good lad. Thats the line. But its a cartoon version of football. #Guehi was professional. He trained stayed ready said goodbye with class waited. It didnt matter. #CPFC didnt get their business done. Their manager threatened to walk. And so Guehi despite being willing and prepared stays put. No move no reward. #Isak #NUFC knew from February he wanted out. He told the club early didnt hide it didnt flinch. They knew"
X Link 2025-09-02T05:48Z 13.8K followers, 76.9K engagements
"📈 While everyone was watching the window Liverpool slammed the door shut on Arsenal Deadline day blurred the lines between panic and ambition. But while inboxes were filling #LFC were solving a different kind of problem #Arsenal. A team that came to Anfield to disrupt rather than attack. In [--] minutes they managed just [----] xG didnt register a single big chance and ended with only two shots on target. Liverpools answer wasnt fluidity it was control. They didnt blow Arsenal away they simply outlasted them. And then they punished them. The winning goal A right-backs free-kick though only in"
X Link 2025-09-02T12:00Z 13.8K followers, 33.1K engagements
"Why Isaks #LFC move mattered more than money Alexander Isaks arrival at Anfield was a confrontation between ambition and illusion. A player tired of promises that wilted under pressure a club that mistook loyalty for silence and another that understood timing is everything. For months he waited. He trained alone labelled a 'rat' and 'greedy bas***d' by supporters who forgot that contracts work both ways. He did not throw tantrum-shaped press conferences. He just refused to be complicit in his own stagnation. #NUFC mishandled him long before this summer's strike. He was offered new terms then"
X Link 2025-09-03T08:00Z 13.8K followers, 24K engagements
"🙏 From Trent to Isak - My Window's a Wrap From the moment Trents move to Madrid became real back in May Ive written on here almost every day through one of the most extraordinary windows #LFC have ever had. Im ready now to let the keys recover dust down the mouse and watch the football take over. Though it will have to wait as the international borefest just isn't my bag. Thank you to everyone whos read shared argued or messaged; it makes the hours worthwhile. This was a summer when Liverpool dominated. They operated like a heavyweight again. Not just in fees but in presence. Poaching Wirtz"
X Link 2025-09-03T18:59Z 13.8K followers, 26.5K engagements
"🔝 Nine Points No Mercy - Catch Them If You Can What #LFC are building is a culture thick with belief work and mutual respect. They've taken nine points from three games that could easily have delivered three and while its too early to declare anything theyve already reminded the rest of the #PremierLeague what it takes to finish above them: perfection. Last seasons title wasnt a fluke; it was a resurrection from the Anfield comeback against Brighton in November to being champions by April. That kind of relentlessness doesnt happen without soul-searching and humility. Now after a summer of"
X Link 2025-09-06T08:00Z 13.8K followers, 26.1K engagements
"🟥 Olise is not the next Salah he is the next idea If Michael Olise is to arrive at Anfield in future it will not be as a like-for-like replacement for Mo Salah. That idea flatters no one least of all Olise. Salah is a metronome of menace producing goals with ruthless efficiency and hardly ever deviating from his role. Olise is more elusive more fluid and far less bound to positional convention. Where Salah offered repetition and dominance Olise offers interpretation. He drifts links and creates pockets of doubt and space. He is not a winger in the classic sense nor a number ten in the old"
X Link 2025-09-07T16:42Z 13.8K followers, 233.7K engagements
"🟥 Aint nobody like Joe Gomez: Still Ours. Still Worth It. Losing out on Guehi was a blow. No question. He wouldve improved us. But there's a silver lining and it wears No. [--]. Joe Gomez stays. That matters. He's not the future and never quite became the player we thought hed be. Injuries wrecked his rhythm. But when he's fit he's not just solid he's composed quick and calm under pressure. Hes the kind of defender you dont panic over. Gomez has seen more than most at this club: titles surgeries false dawns. He stuck around when others bailed. He rebuilt quietly without complaint. If this is"
X Link 2025-09-10T11:30Z 13.8K followers, 74.2K engagements
"Grard Houllier gave everything to rebuild #LFC. He brought discipline belief and nearly lost his life doing it. His legacy deserves more. 🙏 Lets remember him properly Reds 🟥 New piece out now on my Substack 👇"
X Link 2025-09-11T07:17Z 13.8K followers, 39.4K engagements
"⚽ Burnley 0-1 #LFC Champions keep going thats the difference. Somewhere between the slog and the storm this Liverpool side has found the virtue of persistence. Four matches four wins four late winners. It is not coincidence it's character. At Turf Moor they faced a Burnley team that sat so deep they buried themselves. But Liverpool did not blink. They prodded pressed reloaded. The penalty came in the 94th minute but the victory was earned in the [--] before it. What defines this side is not slickness or rhythm not yet; there is still a roughness in the blend. New players are feeling their way"
X Link 2025-09-14T17:33Z 13.8K followers, 24.9K engagements
"🔴 Liverpool Are Top for a Reason - So Why Pretend Otherwise #LFC sit top of the league and still the knives are out. Four wins from four goals coming when needed a manager adjusting in real time and a team bedding in a reshaped spine while carrying the memory of a lost teammate. And yet what gets the airtime is when the goals go in not why they go in. Late goals dont expose a flaw; they confirm belief. This is a side that works through the match probes adapts and when it matters most finishes. Its not luck. Its not chaos. Its control. Control of rhythm of shape of game state. Critics focus"
X Link 2025-09-15T12:18Z 13.8K followers, 30K engagements
"⚽ #LFC 3-2 Atletico Madrid #ChampionsLeague Group Stage 🟥 They said it wouldnt last Liverpool were not tidy not controlled not safe. But they were alive. Furious flawed and full of intent. Again they left it late again they refused a draw. At 2-0 it looked easy. Salah sharp Isak a magnet for defenders Wirtz finding his feet the whole team playing with flow. Then they let go. Atletico all cynicism and ego grabbed at the gaps. Liverpool let them. Poor shape soft in midfield suddenly level. Simeone sneering. But this is where Liverpool live. When it is loud when it is wild when the game is"
X Link 2025-09-17T22:39Z 13.8K followers, 29.7K engagements
"The Clock Ticks the Axe Falls 🪓 People say Liverpool keep leaving it too late. That they are riding their luck that this sort of drama cannot last. But if you're watching the games really watching it is not luck you are seeing it is inevitability. They are not nicking wins; they are suffocating opponents. The pressure builds then it breaks them. The goals come because they have been earned long before the net ripples. The numbers say it the rhythm of the games says it and the players also know it. That swagger is more assurance than it is arrogance. What makes it more remarkable is how"
X Link 2025-09-18T12:10Z 13.8K followers, 17.5K engagements
"🔴 Liverpool Built to Solve Not Stroll #LFC arent running over teams theyre working them out. This isnt brute force its precision. Adaptable players rotating threats a system that shifts without losing shape. Slot hasnt built a machine; hes built a problem-solving unit. Different tools for different jobs. Van Dijk gives structure Salah exploits space and the midfield adjusts on the fly. Even without hitting top gear theyre managing games bending them deciding when to strike. Five games in and people want conclusions. Let them. The squads too clever too layered to be pinned down this early."
X Link 2025-09-22T09:30Z 13.8K followers, 114.1K engagements
"⚽ Stop Pretending the Ballon dOr Means Anything 👑 Salah Plays Football They Play Politics The #BallonDor has never stood for the best in football. It didnt when they gave it to Michael Owen in [----] the only #LFC player to ever win it and lost the plot entirely during the Messi-Ronaldo era. Its not an award for footballers. Its an industry handshake dressed up as prestige. Mohamed Salah was right not to show up. What does he owe them He gave the game [--] goal contributions in a title-winning season. Broke records in the most unforgiving league on the planet. Scored or assisted in more than"
X Link 2025-09-23T09:54Z 13.8K followers, 139.3K engagements
"🟥 Ekitike Made It All About Him and Paid the Price It wasnt the celebration that rankled; it was the waste. Hugo Ekitike had just scored his fifth goal in eight games for #LFC a late winner that should have been the final word. But instead of letting the moment settle he hijacked it. Shirt off arms wide eyes on the crowd. Second yellow then red. All for what. No one doubts what drives a proper No [--]. You need a bit of arrogance to fight off defenders to chase starts ahead of a 125m rival like Isak. But there is a line between self-belief and self-indulgence and Ekitike walked through it. His"
X Link 2025-09-24T07:26Z 13.8K followers, 27.6K engagements
"🟥 The cruel cost of time: Giovanni Leoni and the real ACL tax Giovanni Leoni was meant to be learning building growing. Instead hes staring down months of rehab after tearing his ACL at Anfield last night. Just [--] years old probably still unpacking his bags now facing one of the harshest lessons football delivers. Fans hear ACL and think out for the season sign a replacement in January. But for the player especially one this young its a shattering detour during the most critical stage of his development. At [--] every hour on the pitch is a masterclass in growth: absorbing the tempo learning"
X Link 2025-09-24T16:39Z 13.8K followers, 128.2K engagements
"🟥 Liverpool's Worst Performance Under Arne Slot ⚽ #CPFC 2-1 #LFC That may be the worst performance under this manager so far. Not simply bad in outcome but rotten at its core. A display that lacked urgency identity and the basic honour of representing a club at the summit of English football. There was no structure no soul and no sign that the players knew what they were meant to be doing. The first half wasnt chaotic or frantic or wild. It was slow hesitant lifeless. Crystal Palace didnt surprise anyone; they just executed with clarity and desire. Liverpool walked straight into it. The"
X Link 2025-09-27T18:58Z 13.8K followers, 55.3K engagements
"🔍 The mystery of Florian Wirtz is the mystery of elite football itself I spent the summer watching Florian Wirtz with the sort of certainty that only hindsight can now ridicule. Frame after frame convinced me hed light a fuse in this Liverpool team from his first touch. He hasnt. And that truth should humble anyone who thinks they truly understand this game. Wirtz hasnt failed but he hasnt exploded either. Hes felt his way in rather than announced himself. The touches are there. The movement is intelligent. He works. But too often he looks like hes playing to someone elses tune and not yet"
X Link 2025-09-29T20:08Z 13.8K followers, 233.2K engagements
"⚽ The noise was expected. The surrender wasnt. Galatasaray 1-0 Liverpool Champions League The referee was abysmal no question. He indulged Galatasarays cynicism let the ball disappear from the game for minutes on end and rewarded the theatre of contact. It was a farce of officiating the kind that poisons football and insults the occasion. But that is no shield for Liverpool. This performance in Istanbul was worse than the surrender at Palace. At least that had the look of a side out of rhythm. This felt like a team without memory. No recognition of what a tough European night demands. No"
X Link 2025-10-01T07:04Z 13.8K followers, 29.7K engagements
"🙏 RIP Patricia Routledge (1929 to 2025) the woman who made us laugh wince and recognise ourselves Patricia Routledge has gone and with her goes one of the sharpest comedic creations British television ever gave us. Hyacinth Bucket who insisted it was pronounced Bouquet was no caricature. She was a living echo of every dinner party faux pas every awkward grasp at status every neighbour who mistook delusion for dignity. In her Routledge gave us a mirror we couldnt look away from. She didnt just play Hyacinth; she brought her to life. With every clipped syllable and affected wave she showed us"
X Link 2025-10-03T10:29Z 13.8K followers, 42.2K engagements
"I must have listened to at least [--] podcasts and read countless articles on how Slot should look to fix things. Yet he put his hands in ears and thought all was cool. Pathetic from Slot this one is on him. Will write more later too angry"
X Link 2025-10-19T17:32Z 13.8K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Jurgen Klopp knew when to walk away. Thats why well always be grateful. Watching Jurgen Klopp open up in that conversation with @StevenBartlett today it hits you all over again what made him so extraordinary. Not just the trophies not just the football but the man himself. The clarity the warmth the refusal to pretend. There is something rare and uncommonly noble in knowing when to stop. Jurgen Klopp gave Liverpool more than football. He gave it an identity so steeped in togetherness and emotion that even now as he speaks with warmth and unvarnished honesty you feel what he built rather than"
X Link 2025-10-20T09:31Z 13.8K followers, 55.6K engagements
"🟥 Seen some pushback on my criticism of Gakpo last night and my softer tone on Salah. Fair. Lets be honest: Gakpo should have had a hat-trick against United. He hit the post three times and scored but he also drifted in and out of the game lacked conviction in big moments and never took control. He was erratic. Some gave him man of the match including @StevLFC for @AnfieldIndex. But I thought he was a passenger when it really mattered. Hes not just any starter either hes Slots guy. Liverpool sold Luis Daz a proven wide forward and Gakpo is the one whos been trusted to fill that role on the"
X Link 2025-10-20T10:46Z 13.8K followers, 135.1K engagements
"👑 Salahs Legacy Deserves Better Than This - Respect the Past See the Present Mohamed Salah has given Liverpool more than most players ever could. Goals records trophies relentlessness. At his peak he was a force of nature draped in red terrorising defences with such unshakable regularity that his greatness became something we all began to expect rather than admire. He's a top five player in Liverpool history in the conversation with Dalglish and Gerrard for the best-ever the names in that company do not need any order. This is a difficult spell for Salah that's undeniable at this point. His"
X Link 2025-10-23T09:50Z 13.8K followers, 35.8K engagements
"Liverpool fall again and the excuses are running out The conviction has drained from this team like heat from an open wound. What was once instinctive now feels laboured stitched together in hope rather than belief. Against Brentford Liverpool were exposed. Their physical inferiority was total. They were second to every loose ball shaken by every throw-in outthought at every moment of consequence. This wasn't misfortune. This was surrender. The collapse wasnt tactical it was spiritual. Set pieces werent just a weakness they were an inevitability. A side built on ferocity now recoils under"
X Link 2025-10-25T22:41Z 13.8K followers, 53.5K engagements
"🟥 Slot Out Easy shout lazy answer My replies last night were full of people telling me to sack the manager. After watching Liverpool fold again I understand the fury. This side collapsed under a basic game plan bullied by long throws second balls and a team that simply wanted it more. That is a disgrace for a club with our resources. Slot is not helping himself. He has talked about long balls and deep blocks as if they are some sort of new and unfair invention. Everyone in the league can see Liverpool are soft in the air weak on second phases and mentally brittle when asked to defend. If you"
X Link 2025-10-26T08:32Z 13.8K followers, 108.7K engagements
"🔴 Indecision is killing Liverpool not the opposition Theres no crime in losing matches. The real issue is not knowing what you're trying to be while youre losing them. Liverpool right now look like a side caught between three different ideas of themselves with none taking root. The shape changes every week sometimes multiple times mid-game. The personnel shuffle. The principles evaporate. You can't build rhythm when you're always starting over. Arne Slot looks spooked unsure whether to back his own plan or bend to each new problem. That hesitation spreads. The players look confused. One"
X Link 2025-10-27T08:52Z 13.8K followers, 176.9K engagements
"🟥 Liverpools rebuild risks total collapse if they blink in January This morning Arne Slot claimed "nothing is missing" and he was "completely happy with his squad". Theres nothing inherently wrong with transition but there is danger in pretending youre not in one. Liverpool spent the summer pulling threads from a title-winning side then hoped the whole thing wouldnt unravel before the replacements bedded in. It has and I like most of you didn't see it coming. Not because the signings were wrong but because they were all shoved through at once. Isak Ekitike and Wirtz are not plug-and-play"
X Link 2025-10-31T12:40Z 13.8K followers, 65.7K engagements
"🟥 We looked like Liverpool again #LFC 2-0 #AVFC At 2-0 something unfamiliar happened. Nothing. No chaos no collapse no invitation to drama. Liverpool stood still and strong. They let the clock run down and they closed the door. A team that has bent too easily lately didnt this time. They refused the noise and handled their business. This was a win built on the first principle of the game: get control keep it. They kept the ball they kept their nerve they kept each other honest. They fought for second balls they dug one another out of trouble they made each other's jobs easier. For a side"
X Link 2025-11-02T08:03Z 13.8K followers, 32.4K engagements
"🟥 Trents Homecoming Will Not Be Warm Nor Should It Be There is honour in refusing to jeer your own and I have always held that line. I never joined the boos as Trent Alexander-Arnold drifted through those final few Liverpool appearances after announcing his exit from his boyhood club. For me though that dignity ends the moment a player decides his future is elsewhere and conducts his grand prolonged escape in silence polishing his departure like a luxury showroom floor. He didn't simply depart; he stage-managed the whole thing like a man auditioning for a new identity. Around [--] months"
X Link 2025-11-02T18:09Z 13.8K followers, 90.7K engagements
"🟥 Wirtz on the wing finally worth the wait My mate @SamMcGuire90 said it best: Wirtz put in a serious shift and then some. He arrived for 116m with all fanfare and no patience but last night against Madrid playing off the left he looked like the player they thought they were signing. The touch was clean the decisions sharper and above all he worked. Hard. Created the most chances completed every dribble and still ran further than anyone on the pitch 11.37km before he was subbed with two minutes to go. The glamour has always been there but this was graft with grace. After weeks on the bench"
X Link 2025-11-05T13:58Z 13.8K followers, 41.7K engagements
"#MCILIV . Liverpool were dismantled at Man City today both physically and ideologically. The aura of defiance that once defined this team has faded into a side that no longer knows how to suffer or how to strike back. This wasnt a title contender being edged out. It was a team outclassed out-thought and out of answers. As reactionary as it may seem its starting to look more like decline than transition. Slot will need more than ideas and fast. It's clear now that Liverpool's problems aren't only against long-ball direct opponents. Fourth place is no longer a floor. Its the ceiling. I'll write"
X Link 2025-11-09T18:42Z 13.8K followers, 116.1K engagements
"If Bastoni is Liverpool's plan its a bold and brilliant one Im pretty sceptical about reported links to Alessandro Bastoni but if #LFC are genuinely pursuing him thats absolutely elite level. Not just in terms of quality but in what it would signal. This would not be a patch-up job or a panic buy; it would be a clear pivot towards a different kind of backline. Bastoni is not a Van Dijk replacement in the sentimental sense and he is not filling in for Konate either. He is something else entirely a progressive front-footed defender shaped by structure and intelligence. Left-footed experienced"
X Link 2025-11-11T10:36Z 13.8K followers, 217.3K engagements
"🍕 A Clash of Crusts - The strategic divide that reshaped the pizza industry Pizza Hut Domino's 📚 FREE read serialised chapters from Samuel H. Vance's Corporate Clashes books check it out folks. https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/pizza-hut-vs-dominos-a-clash-of-crusts https://www.itwasalwayshistory.com/p/pizza-hut-vs-dominos-a-clash-of-crusts"
X Link 2025-12-19T14:00Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Said it at the start of the season and will again the default position in every #PremierLeague season should be #MCFC winning it. If not for a gargantuan performance by #LFC in 19/20 this would be their 6th title in a row. Nobody should degrade the sporting effort but"
X Link 2023-05-14T17:39Z 13.8K followers, 61.9K engagements
"🔴 No Plan No Rhythm No Excuse #LFC 1-2 #MUFC Arne Slot is managing Liverpool like a man pretending nothing is wrong. Three defeats in a row before the international break and yet his response was to name the same eleven that lost at Chelsea. That is not faith in players that is managerial negligence. He looks paralysed. No tactical adjustments no accountability just endless recycling of failing ideas while the few in-form players he does have watch from the bench. Then theres Richard Hughes tasked with recruitment and who most of us me included would have given an A+ for his summer window."
X Link 2025-10-19T21:10Z 13.8K followers, 224K engagements
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