Tag: Liverpool

Liverpool fans are still reeling from their shock loss to relegation candidates Wolves, and, once again, left winger Cody Gakpo drew the ire of supporters for a lackadaisical performance in the attack. The Reds have to be better at creating chances this season, and when Florian Wirtz is unavailable, it really shows just how one dimensional this team is - and it really is a credit to striker Hugo Ekitke that he is getting on so well in his first season at Anfield with the wing play has been this bad. Gakpo is actually a quality technician who can find passes and cross the ball, and he isn't a terrible athlete either. The problem is that his game has become so predictable that Premier League fullbacks are easily neutralizing him. Even when Gakpo first came to Liverpool and his attac...

Liverpool had won three straight Premier League games after tough loss to rivals Manchester City, but after putting up five on relegation candidates West Ham United, the Reds lost to another relegation threatened side in Wolves to send them crashing back down to earth again. As Arne Slot rightfully draws the brunt of the criticism from Kopites for another horrendous managerial performance out of many this season, his favorite player, Cody Gakpo, also deserves plenty of criticism for one of the most disastrous winger performances by any player this Premier League season. Gakpo was the epitome of everything wrong with Liverpool in this one. At least fellow struggling winger Mohamed Salah managed to salvage a goal, because the Dutch forward did not prove himself useful in the slightest....

Plenty has been said about Mohamed Salah's regression this season and abrupt decline in 2025/26 after being the best player in the Premier League last year, and while he did score the lone goal for the Reds in their shock defeat to relegation candidates Wolves, Liverpool fans are not changing their tune about the Egyptian legend. However, they are now adding another Premier League Player of the Season caliber star from the 2024/25 title winning season to their list of regressors partially responsible for their downturn in 2025/26. Ryan Gravenberch was a massive success story under Arne Slot last season and the best midfielder in the Premier League, dominating in all phases. Now, he is a shell of himself and a liability like Salah, holding back the midfield. Liverpool have gone fro...

Liverpool thought the summer 2025 transfer window was the right time to cash in on Luis Diaz and that his best days would soon be behind him, but it is the Colombian superstar who is now laughing as one third of the best attacking trio in world football as he and Bayern Munich sit in the driver's seat in the Champions League. Meanwhile, Liverpool are missing Diaz so badly that even in games in which a current star like Florian Wirtz is unavailable, it is the dynamic left winger whom they miss the most. Liverpool are a stagnant team with issues progressing the ball, serious creativity woes besides Wirtz and Dominik Szoboszlai, and unproductive wing play that is as unthreatening as it is predictable. As Diaz carves up Bundesliga defenses for fun, setting the table for Ballon d'Or fa...

Liverpool seemed to have been turning the corner with a string of positive results, but they were sent crashing down to earth by Rob Edwards's suddenly dangerous Wolves sides, leading to the same old questions about Arne Slot being asked by Kopites. When Liverpool hired Slot, they did so over former center midfielder Xabi Alonso, who had just won the Bundesliga with a fairytale, undefeated season at Bayer Leverkusen - previously nicknamed "Neverkusen" for their inability to win the big one - to break up Bayern Munich's historic hegemony. But the Reds did not regret their decision, dominating the Premier League in 2024/25 in Slot's first season filling the massive shoes of Jurgen Klopp. Meanwhile, Alonso joined Real Madrid this past summer and was fired in months, unable to handle the...

Mohamed Salah has not scored in his last 10 Premier League outings for Liverpool, and as the goals fail to come out of a ketchup bottle that is starting to look a little bit dodgy, people are starting to realize that now is the best time for legend and club to part ways. Just a year ago, Salah was the unquestionable best player in the Premier League, guiding Liverpool to the title with an insane 29 goals and 18 assists. His goals were his highest total since netting 32 in his first season at the club in 2017/18, and the assists set a new higher water mark for the player. But even then, you could see Salah tailing off in production towards the end of the season, the second half not quite as brilliant as the first, with Salah ceding Ballon d'Or contention to Lamine Yamal and eventual w...