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It would appear that Rafa Benitez is backing the one and only Jurgen Klopp. He believes that he is the manager that the Red’s need in order to become a top title winner. Liverpool are going to win the Premier League this season, according to Rafa Benitez.
Barring the advent of the title capitulation to end all others, Liverpool will herald a new generation of players that shook the Kop. By virtue of winning the club’s maiden Premier League title, and the first league honours since 1990, the class of 2019/20 will propel themselves into lore, and rightly find themselves named alongside legends like Dalglish, Rush and Gerrard.
Phil Thompson explains in his autobiography how Terry Mac's arrival at Liverpool came about.
Timo Werner, Leipzig’s striker, has decided to share interesting bits and pieces of information regarding his professional career. As it turns out, he’s strongly considering coming to England, which means that Liverpool has been effectively put on notice.
The illustrious reputation of Liverpool has so far tempted 328 internationals from 53 nations to sign for the club.
Over the last twenty years, various Liverpool players have temporarily departed Melwood to join up with their compatriots in a quest for silverware, on various continents, with varying results.
Many top-rated strikers have played for the Reds ever since it came into existence in 1892, over 125 years ago, and some of them left an everlasting impact on the club.
For the Treble we have crunched the latest odds in a bet calculator.
If the gossip columns are to be believed, Liverpool are looking to bolster their Premier League title bid with some new additions in the January transfer window.
Seven players who were then on the books at Liverpool were selected for the last World Cup, but (injuries permitting) there are set to be even more Kop idols appearing at the Euro 2020 finals next summer.
As always, the Premier League is turning out to be quite the nail-biter. However, we are lucky to have Liverpool stand strong and tall at the top of the leader’s board.
Signed by Bill Shankly’s Liverpool as the most expensive teenager in British football history for £100,000 two weeks before his nineteenth birthday. At 26 he was at Walsall in the third division. LFChistory.net interviewed the enigmatic Alun Evans in 2019.
Forget the countdown to Christmas, it’s the re-opening of the transfer window that football fans are starting to get excited about.
One thing is for sure – there’s never a dull moment as a Liverpool fan. With their penalty triumph over Chelsea in August’s Super Cup, Liverpool confirmed themselves as the most decorated club in England, their 43 trophies just pipping Manchester United’s 42. But it hasn’t always been plain sailing for the Reds.
There’s nothing in football like the Kop. It throbs like some huge factory. Those fans come not only to be entertained, but to entertain.’ – From a press report in 1963.
After achieving the extreme highs of Champions League supremacy last season, Liverpool were quickly brought back down to the earth with a sickening low in their Group E clash with Napoli. The Italian giants ran out comfortable 2-0 winners over the reigning and defending European champions in Naples, as Jurgen Klopp's side had to deal with yet another away setback in the competition.
It still feels strange to watch a Liverpool side which doesn't include Steven Gerrard. It's even stranger to see him on the touchline at Ibrox. But the former Liverpool skipper was always destined for a managerial role.
During Jürgen Klopp’s tenure at Anfield, the jovial German has had a tendency to up the ante and go one better each season. This was highlighted when Liverpool rallied from their Champions League defeat to Real Madrid in 2018 and went on to win the competition in style the following year
Liverpool have now contested the UEFA European Super Cup six times in their history. The Reds have won four of those and are unbeaten since the format changed from two legs to a single game in a neutral venue.
Liverpool will be looking for a return on their investments in the coming years.
Three decades. 30 years without a league title for Liverpool, but could that be about to change under the guidance of Jurgen Klopp?
Klopp's message to Liverpool fans was simple enough in his first interview as boss: "We have to change from doubter to believer... now."
Why not highlight the amazing progress Liverpool has shown under Klopp by reminding us all of some of the painfully average players Reds fans have had to put up with in the past?
By Melissa Reddy for EPSN on 30 May 2019.
By Martin Samuel - Sport for the Daily Mail. Published: 22:30 BST, 2 June 2019
Andy Hunter at the Estadio Metropolitano on 2 Jun 2019.
When Liverpool have sold key players in recent years, it has had a tendency to backfire on them but not so in this particular case.
Liverpool’s rich history is synonymous with the Champions League.
Liverpool is now focused on the Champions League and Premier League. But the club will be scouting for potential stars to sign across Europe now that the summer transfer window is just a few months away.
Over 100 Premier League goals scored, 39 of them for Liverpool and 40 for Leicester City. Six major honours won with the Reds, two previously with the Foxes. Former forward Emile Heskey has played his part in the modern history of both football clubs, and it all began with a fondness for speed.
As Elisha Scott entered the home dressing- room at Anfield before one of his 20 derby days between 1915 and 1934, the story goes that he was greeted by a brown paper bag with his name written on it. Inside was a bottle of aspirin with a note attached that read: "I think you might be needing these — yours, Dixie."
LFChistory.net was fortunate enough to spend a fair bit of time recently with Jamie and his dad, Philly, who is a legend in his own right!
LFChistory.net is very happy to have linked up with Steve Hothersall's Kick-off show on Radio City Talk.
Just over 72 years ago, war was over and football was back. September of the 1946/47 season would bring Chelsea to Anfield for what would be remembered as a milestone moment, with an amazing scoreline, in LFC history.
deCoubertin Books are excited to announce the publication of the autobiography of legendary Liverpool goalkeeper, Bruce Grobbelaar, Life in a Jungle.
Kieran Smith leads a noble effort to give the legends of Liverpool Football Club a proper resting place.
A year has passed since our biography on Ronnie Moran was published by Sport Media that offers you now to buy LFChistory.net's third book for only £13.99.
This book is the latest offering from Mark Platt who from variety of sources and his own interviews offers insight into the minds of those who have graced Liverpool Football Club's history.
Anthony Stanley’s account of how Liverpool fell from their perch in the 90s is truly excellent.
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