Author: Liam Togher
Where Are They Now?: Albert Riera
‘Journeyman’ is a term used in football parlance to describe players whose careers take in a multitude of clubs, usually across several different leagues, and who rarely stay at one club long enough to warrant getting their name on the back of your replica shirt. It’s a term that tends to have negative connotations as […]
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Where Are They Now? – Jari Litmanen
A free transfer arriving in January due to turn 30 a matter of weeks later is not something that would generally enthuse football fans, but such was the quality of Jari Litmanen that when he pitched up at Liverpool at the beginning of 2001, Reds fans couldn’t but think that it was a good coup. […]
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Where Are They Now? – Milan Baros
Since the introduction of designated squad numbers into the Premier League in 1993, the number 5 shirt at Liverpool has toured the pitch. By trade a centre-half’s shirt, the current incumbent is dynamic midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum. For three years in the 2000s, it was in the rarefied possession of a striker, and not a converted […]
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Where Are They Now?: Steve Finnan
In the early 2000’s, the role of a full-back was a pretty simple one. Their primary job was to defend, with forays over the halfway line limited. Long before pacey, roving wing-backs came into fashion, though, Liverpool had a right-back who often bombed forward to good effect and was among the best at supplying crosses […]
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Where are they now?: Yossi Benayoun
Saturday 4 April 2009. Liverpool arrive at Craven Cottage to take on Fulham in a match that the Reds must win to maintain their charge for a first Premier League title. It’s a fixture that has banana skin written all over it, for this was the venue where Liverpool’s main rivals for the crown, reigning […]
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Where are they now? – Raul Meireles
It’s fair to say that Roy Hodgson’s transfer market record during his fleeting tenure as Liverpool manager left a lot to be desired. The ex-Fulham boss deemed Christian Poulsen, Milan Jovanovic, and Paul Konchesky to be of a good enough standard to wear the famous red shirt, but the trio would go down in folklore […]
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Assessing Liverpool’s potential Champions League play-off opponents
Liverpool lie two matches away from reaching the Champions League group stage, having missed out on the competition entirely in the last two seasons; and on the same weekend that they secured their place in the play-offs, results around Europe also went in their favour as it became clear that they would be seeded for […]
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Power ranking Liverpool’s 2016/17 games: best to worst
1. Liverpool 6-1 Watford (Premier League, 6 November) Watford might not have been the most taxing of opposition, but Liverpool were irresistible at Anfield, putting six past the Hornets and moving top of the Premier League 11 games in. Sadio Mane, Philippe Coutinho and Emre Can netted to give the Reds a 3-0 interval lead, […]
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