All football clubs would be better off if they agreed to ban managers/head coaches from ever signing their own players

substack.com/@sportscienc... Superb from @simonbrundish.bsky.social on the cruel reality of The ACL Tax on teenagers

theanalyst.com/articles/cry... Some really eye popping stats and numbers in this Palace article. A very difficult trip and serious test for #lfc this weekend

Didn't watch the match last night and will catch up later. But I've seen thousands of player stats lines and never seen this. Could even be a unique performance from Freddy Church #lfc

Sky: PL games where Rice & Merino have started in midfield: Bournemouth 2-0 Arsenal Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal Arsenal 0-0 Everton Brighton 1-1 Arsenal Arsenal 2-2 Aston Villa Everton 1-1 Arsenal Ipswich 0-4 Arsenal Liverpool 1-0 Arsenal Arsenal 1-1 Man City Too attacking maybe…

If you don't think Mikel Merino is an attacking midfielder you're a numbnut. Pass it on.

It’s a title winning squad with a title losing manager.

Gyokeres vs LFC and MCFC

Perfect result! #lfc MIND THE GAP

Can't believe the Arsenal home faithful stand for this utter dreck. 4 centre backs, 3 defensive midfielders, no Eze, no Martinelli. Imagine if Iraola had this squad of players.

If City lose tomorrow then it's already a 2 horse race - after 5 games

Maresca definitely has galaxy brain tendencies

Milos Kerkez 25/26 PL 62% ground duel win rate is superb Who had him at 59% aerial? And only dribbled past twice despite facing Semenyo, Elanga, Madueke and Ndiaye. Plus he's younger than Bradley. The narrative around him needs to change ASAP #lfc

This fixture was a bear trap after going Sun-Wed-early Sat + Ev being much better this season. Think 2nd half you could see Ev had a whole week off. Didn't give up much 2nd half either, kerkez and konate really good and VVD his normal self #lfc

Your next challenge @lfc is to not piss away a 2-0 lead

🎵 Liverpool are magic, Everton are tragic la la la la 🎶

The midfield was the strongest unit of the #lfc team that strolled to the PL title last season. And now Grav and Szobo's performances have visibly gone up levels this year. We are formidable in that area

3G+3A for Salah in 6 games during his "difficult" spell #lfc

Golazo golazo golazo gollllllazzzzzoooooooo #lfc

7 #lfc games this season inc community shield. Number of starts 7: VVD, Ali, Szobo, Salah, Cody, Konate (6 players!) 6: wirtz, Hugo, Kerkez 5: Grav 4: Mac Everyone else combined is 8 starts

Pretty much the biggest team possible for #lfc (only Jones missing) And some serious rain incoming for during the game

Me on Hillsborough Law. mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

6 games played by #lfc this season inc the community shield. Full games completed: 6: VVD, Alisson, Szoboszlai 5: Salah 4: Grav, Konate, Gakpo 2: Kerkez 1: Frimpong 0: EVERYONE ELSE

#lfc atletico Madrid statspack drbarts.quarto.pub/cl-match-day...

Beautiful shot map and pass network here #lfc

Szoboszlai 72/79 passes (91%) 3 shots 3 chances created 10 recoveries 4/8 ground duels 5/9 crosses 8/8 long passes 6 passes into the box 6 touches in oppo box You'll have to go a long way to find a better all round central midfield performance #lfc

First dominant performance of the season from the mighty reds. So many positives and good individuals, especially Grav, Szobo and Wirtz. #lfc

ARNE TIME

And this is more like it as well. Another positive #lfc

Combined 86% passing 8/13 duels 11 recoveries 2nd and 3rd in the XI for pass volume #lfc

He's back! #lfc

The Grav-Szobo axis has been outstanding #lfc

VAR in working-as-it-should shocker #lfc

Reports of his demise may have been exaggerated. Vintage Mo! #lfc

Will be watching the Frimpong-Salah dynamic very closely tonight. Want to see some positive signs of dovetailing #lfc

2 big takeaways from Slot pre match on TNT: 1) Hugo will only be a break-glass emergency from the left. Him and Isak will be competing for one role 2) don't expect much more game to game rotation this season. You can see slot is skeptical about the benefits of making changes to a settled side #lfc

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It was one of the biggest honours of my career to be inside Downing Street and Parliament today to watch as the Hillsborough families made history My write-up from an important and emotional day 👇

BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave his word to the ECHO that the Hillsborough Law will not be watered down www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

This was the emotional moment that Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed families of those who died in the Hillsborough disaster to 10 Downing Street on the day a law in their name will be introduced to Parliament

The Hillsborough families have never given up in their fight for truth, justice and real change What they have achieved is immense. My thoughts on this historic moment 👇

Tomorrow's Liverpool ECHO front page, on a day which will finally see a Hillsborough Law laid before Parliament

Some early season top 10s from fbref Lack of #lfc players in these 3 are a concern

Burnley 0 : 1 Liverpool ▪ Pass directness: 47.6 - 29.3 ▪ 10+ pass sequences: 1 - 29 ▪ Goalkick length: 63.3 - 18.0 ▪ Goalkick progr.: 17.0 - 86.2

Burnley 0 : 1 Liverpool ▪ Penbox shots: 1 - 14 ▪ Deep Entries: 1 - 26 ▪ Buildup completion: 47.3% - 87.1% ▪ PPDA: 13.2 - 5.6 ▪ High turnovers: 1 - 1

Burnley 0 : 1 Liverpool ▪ xG: 0.13 - 3.3 ▪ xThreat: 0.33 - 2.79 ▪ Possession: 19.7% - 80.3% ▪ Field Tilt: 5.5% - 94.5% ▪ Def Action Height: 38.1 - 51.7

Wirtz is doing a lot of god things, but they never connect with everyone else. When the rest of the team get in his wavelength we will become prolific. Om hoping Isak is in tune with Wirtz like Gerrard and Torres. Cos that would be magical!

Luckypool continue to roll on but the process and buildup continues to be really poor. The team urgently need to learn how to play with Wirtz and vice versa #lfc

Since scoring vs bournemouth, Salah has 1 shot (worth 0.05xg) in 3 PL games #lfc

11 corners in 61 minutes....