Opinion

The Optimist Friends of Liverpool

There’s Plenty to Look Forward To; Even Defensively

That was much better. That wasn’t defensive errors and set piece nightmares. That was Liverpool, not quite at their best, but not far off it. Hoffenheim are no slouches. They’re a decent side who did well to finish 4th in the Bundesliga last season. Julian Nagelsmann is the youngest manager in the Bundesliga and he […]

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From admiration to acrimony: The culmination of the Coutinho saga

Three hours. It doesn’t seem a very long time, does it? It’s a flight from Liverpool to Bulgaria. It’s two football matches without any breaks. It’s two full episodes of Match of the Day. 180 minutes. Not a long time at all. But that’s all it took for Philippe Coutinho to take his Liverpool career […]

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Jake Humphrey Exclusive: “Coutinho Will Go”

BT Sport is where the best in domestic and European football go head to head, and while Liverpool could challenge for the top four in the Premier League again this season, it looks like they may have to do it without their star man. Philippe Coutinho looks all but set to join Barcelona, replacing world-record […]

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Friends Of Liverpool

What next if Coutinho agrees Barcelona switch?

With Liverpool’s tough test against Hoffenheim just under a week away, discussions of Philippe Coutinho’s future are dominating the headlines, and are perhaps distracting Jurgen Klopp from focusing solely on the hugely important tie with the dangerous German side. Hoffenheim stormed to fourth placed in last season’s Bundesliga through the genius of their young manager […]

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Friends Of Liverpool

5 out of 15

With the season fast approaching, the bigwigs here at FMG asked me to preview the biggest 5 games out of the first 15 in Liverpool’s league campaign. “That’s tricky. Klopp thinks we’ll win the league – they’re all important!” I said. “Just pick the must win ones,” they said. “They’re all must win,” I said. […]

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The Legacy of Lucas

Lucas Leiva breezed into Liverpool in July 2007 from Gremio. Rafa Benitez had been after the 21-year-old Brazilian for the best part of 6 months and finally managed to snag his man for £5.5 million. At the time, Lucas was a young midfielder who was in the midst of making the switch from all action […]

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What Do You Do With Marko Grujic?

Jurgen Klopp’s first transfer window at Liverpool in January of 2016 was one of little note. The only real ruffle the recently appointed boss made was when he spent £5.1 million to bring a young Serbian named Marko Grujic to Anfield. Little was known of Grujic outside of Serbia (where he was really impressing for […]

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Greatest Transfers #8 – The Fearless Leader

Having last week talked about the impact Gary McAllister had in the heart of the midfield in 2000-2002, it’s fitting that number eight is also a midfield great at Liverpool for a host of very different reasons. It’s also apropos that he’s another Scot and, while I’m opening myself to bias accusations here, it can’t […]

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The Greatest Transfers #9: The OAP

Welcome back to the latest edition of The Greatest Transfers where we take a look at some of the best Liverpool signings of all time as judged by me, meaning this list is not what you’d call gospel. Anyway, we’re inside the top ten and one of the criteria I’ve been judging some of these […]

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The Magnificent Seven: Top seven reasons for fans to look forward to next season

This is the eighth part of a weekly series titled “The Magnificent Seven”. Every week we’ll be taking a look at almost everything regarding Liverpool, ranked in a top seven. With the new campaign a fortnight away, excitement has begun to build around the world. With each club having its own unique reasons to either […]

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