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Liverpool striker reminds fans why manager signed her twice after injury hell

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - 41 min 56 sec ago
Leanne Kiernan has had a difficult 18 months but she has showed exactly why Matt Beard was so keen to bring her to Liverpool
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Liverpool striker reminds fans why manager signed her twice after injury hell

icLiverpool.co.uk - 41 min 56 sec ago
Leanne Kiernan has had a difficult 18 months but she has showed exactly why Matt Beard was so keen to bring her to Liverpool
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We simulated Liverpool's title run-in with sickening result to Premier League season

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - 1 hour 41 min ago
Liverpool currently sit second in the Premier League, with Arsenal and Manchester City joining them in a nail-biting title race
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What Xabi Alonso was doing during Liverpool FA Cup defeat speaks volumes

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - 1 hour 41 min ago
Latest Liverpool news with Xabi Alonso among the favourites to succeed Jurgen Klopp at Anfield as Bayer Leverkusen's extraordinary Bundesliga season continues
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We simulated Liverpool's title run-in with sickening result to Premier League season

icLiverpool.co.uk - 1 hour 41 min ago
Liverpool currently sit second in the Premier League, with Arsenal and Manchester City joining them in a nail-biting title race
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What Xabi Alonso was doing during Liverpool FA Cup defeat speaks volumes

icLiverpool.co.uk - 1 hour 41 min ago
Latest Liverpool news with Xabi Alonso among the favourites to succeed Jurgen Klopp at Anfield as Bayer Leverkusen's extraordinary Bundesliga season continues
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Angry Klopp, a ‘dumb’ question and when managers lose their cool

theAthletic.com - 2 hours 26 min ago
Klopp being rude to a journalist after losing is not uncommon for a football manager. But is it real vexation or is there a game at play?
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Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool might still have to play Pep Guardiola and Man City again in extraordinary Premier League finish

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - 2 hours 41 min ago
There is virtually nothing to separate Liverpool and Man City in the Premier League table with 10 games left to play
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Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool might still have to play Pep Guardiola and Man City again in extraordinary Premier League finish

icLiverpool.co.uk - 2 hours 41 min ago
There is virtually nothing to separate Liverpool and Man City in the Premier League table with 10 games left to play
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Cody Gakpo criticism misses the point entirely as Liverpool know truth about his contribution

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - 4 hours 41 min ago
ECHO writers discuss Cody Gakpo's current standing in this Liverpool squad and where the Netherlands forward fits in
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Cody Gakpo criticism misses the point entirely as Liverpool know truth about his contribution

icLiverpool.co.uk - 4 hours 41 min ago
ECHO writers discuss Cody Gakpo's current standing in this Liverpool squad and where the Netherlands forward fits in
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Liverpool could be without three more players as Alexis Mac Allister unwanted problem arises

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - 6 hours 41 min ago
Jurgen Klopp could make a number of changes when Liverpool return to action after the March international break
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Liverpool could be without three more players as Alexis Mac Allister unwanted problem arises

icLiverpool.co.uk - 6 hours 41 min ago
Jurgen Klopp could make a number of changes when Liverpool return to action after the March international break
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Landmark football governance bill introduced to create independent regulator

the Athletic - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 22:30

A landmark football governance bill has been introduced in UK parliament to confirm the creation of an independent football regulator.

The independent football regulator will have powers to prevent breakaway competitions such as the European Super League, strengthen the owners and directors’ test and hold backstop powers around financial distribution between the Premier League and English Football League (EFL).

It comes over three years since the fan-led review called for the introduction of a regulator in November 2021. The government announced plans for one in February 2023.

The regulator will be independent from the government and football authorities, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport says it will be “equipped with robust powers revolving around three core objectives: to improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure financial resilience across the leagues, and to safeguard the heritage of English football”.

The failed Super League project in April 2021 — which Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Chelsea attempted to join alongside other European clubs – came at the beginning of the fan-led review and only strengthened calls for an independent regulator.

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Under the new legislation, breakaway, closed-shops competitions like the European Super League will be blocked.

Last week, the Premier League again failed to agree a funding package for the EFL as part of the ‘New Deal for Football’, despite pressure from the government.

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The bill includes backstop powers on such financial distribution. This means “if the leagues fail to agree on a new deal on financial distributions, then the backstop can be triggered to ensure a settlement is reached”.

New owners and directors will also face “stronger tests to stop clubs falling into the wrong hands”. They could be removed and prevented from owning football clubs if deemed unsuitable, and follows the financial mismanagement at Bury and Macclesfield.

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The legislation will also “give fans a greater voice in the running of their clubs” to stop owners from changing club names, badges and home shirts. Fan engagement is cited as “central” to the bill, with a number of clubs already having launched fan advisory boards since the fan-led review.

What has the Premier League said?

While the Premier League acknowledged the need for sustainability, it expressed “concern” about the bill negatively impacting the competitiveness of English football.

A Premier League statement read: “The government has consistently stated that it wishes to support the Premier League’s continued global success which generates funding to help sustain the entire football pyramid. With our clubs, we have advocated for a proportionate regime that enables us to build on our position as the most widely watched league in the world.

“Mindful that the future growth of the Premier League is not guaranteed, we remain concerned about any unintended consequences of legislation that could weaken the competitiveness and appeal of English football.”

What has the EFL said?

The EFL welcomed the bill, with chair Rick Parry describing his hope that this will be “an important milestone to help us secure the long-term financial sustainability of England’s football pyramid”.

“If delivered on the right terms,” Parry said in a statement, “this landmark legislation can help fix the game’s broken financial model by offering the independent input ultimately needed to help ensure that all Clubs can survive and thrive in a fair and competitive environment.”

EFL chair Rick Parry (Visionhaus/Getty Images)‘A remarkable moment for a sport that has resisted external oversight’

Analysis from The Athletic’s Matt Slater

Almost three years have passed since the Premier League’s six richest clubs announced they wanted to play in a European Super League that would entrench their positions at the top of the pile and dramatically hit the finances of domestic leagues across the continent.

It was an act of greed and stupidity that convinced Prime Minister Boris Johnson that there might be some votes in standing up for football’s lower and middle-classes.

We are in the last few months of the government run by the guy (Rishi Sunak) who replaced the woman (Liz Truss) who replaced Johnson but, for fans of good governance and clubs in the English Football League, the wait has been worth it.

Confirmation, at last, that Sunak’s government will introduce the football governance bill outlined by the fan-led review Johnson commissioned in 2021, means the English game is going to get an independent regulator.

It is a remarkable moment for a sport that has defiantly resisted external oversight for so long, at times striding from success to success, at others lurching from crisis to crisis. The Premier League, in particular, has been so opposed to interference that it broke away from the English Football League in 1992 and has spent the last three decades largely ignoring the game’s governing body, the Football Association.

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Whether the as-yet-unformed independent regulator for football will do any better than the FA in keeping the Premier League’s more selfish moments in check, while encouraging its noble instincts for self-improvement and excellence, remains to be seen.

But the FA never had a head start or suite of powers like the regulator: a robust licensing system, control of the owners’ and directors’ test and, most importantly, “backstop powers” to enforce a fairer financial distribution between the Premier League and EFL if, as they have so amply demonstrated, fail to agree on one themselves.

That last one is the most eye-catching and contentious of the powers — it is also the clearest sign that this represents a defeat for those clubs in the Premier League who thought this government would not have the stomach or time to force them to share more of their enormous media income with the rest of the pyramid. That now looks like a stunning miscalculation.

It probably also represents a victory for the EFL, especially its chairman Rick Parry.

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The Premier League’s first chief executive, and an ex-chief executive of one of the “Sneaky Six”, Liverpool, he has fought the good fight for greater financial sustainability throughout the professional game. Parry has not won the bout yet but he is ahead on points going into the final rounds and he now has a friendlier set of judges to impress.

(Top photo: Rob Pinney/Getty Images)

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Landmark football governance bill introduced to create independent regulator

theAthletic.com - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 22:30
A landmark football governance bill has been introduced in UK parliament to confirm the creation of an independent football regular. The independent football regular will have powers to prevent breakaway competitions such as the European Super League, strengthen the owners and directors’ test...
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Michael Edwards should have clear response to Liverpool injury news after Man United trip

Liverpool.com - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 20:00

At a big-picture level, it’s only fair to make excuses for Liverpool, giving Jürgen Klopp’s men something of a pass after a grueling few weeks where they have handled everything thrown at them. But in terms of the realities on the pitch at Old Trafford, there’s no way that Manchester United should have been allowed to advance in the FA Cup.

As the 90 minutes drew to a close, it looked like Erik ten Hag’s team who had been fighting on four fronts recently with an injury-ravaged squad. When Marcus Rashford spurned a late sitter right at the end of normal time, it seemed Liverpool would cruise on to victory in the additional period, with Klopp’s side defying logic by appearing to have far more energy than the opponent.

When Harvey Elliott restored the lead, it seemed that would be exactly what happened, only for a late and inexplicable collapse. Maybe you could put a poor Darwin Núñez pass in the lead-up to the equalizer down to fatigue, but the late winner for Manchester United was a clear sign that the deficit was mental, with almost every Liverpool player naïvely going up for a late corner as the contest needlessly descended into an absurdly open affair.

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More importantly, the game should never have entered extra time in the first place, as a profligate Liverpool side failed to capitalize on its near-total dominance. Accumulated physical and psychological strain over a period of weeks might have played some part in it, but there were more than enough chances for even a drained Reds side to clear this final hurdle before the international break.

So what would Michael Edwards have made of it all? A guest at Old Trafford, having been re-hired by FSG as head of football after a successful spell as Liverpool sporting director, it’s hard to know whether there were any kind of lessons to be taken from such a game.

Certainly, this match was not indicative of where the squad is at. The Guardian says that Edwards could only ‘smile in utter disbelief’; the man who played a key part in hiring Klopp in the first place, citing the bad luck suffered by Borussia Dortmund in the German’s final season there, will not read too much into a freak result from an isolated performance.

But while the truths on the Old Trafford turf came back to bad luck, bad finishing and bad decisions, Edwards will have been taking a more holistic look. The role of injuries and fatigue will not be lost on him, even though Liverpool should have been able to overcome them.

For starters, the picture of a wasteful Liverpool attack is not complete without mentioning the absence of Diogo Jota. Let’s not forget that before his untimely injury, he was being hailed as the greatest Anfield finisher of all time, ahead of Luis Suárez and Robbie Fowler.

Meanwhile, the Núñez error in the lead-up to the equalizer has already been mentioned. After the game, Klopp revealed that the Uruguayan was one of three players to pick up knocks during the contest, along with Luis Díaz and Cody Gakpo. There can be little doubt that the squad is stretched paper-thin, with this latest injury news only confirming how much of a tightrope Liverpool is walking as it tries to remain competitive while down to the bare bones.

Enter Edwards. While he won’t have drawn any firm conclusions about existing Liverpool players at Old Trafford, he should have seen enough to conclude that the squad next season will need to be deeper, especially after Klopp’s injury news (though it seems Díaz, at least, will be fine, having reported for Colombia duty).

After all, regardless of the identity of Klopp’s heir, Liverpool will be expected to go on four fronts again. One of those will be the Champions League, bringing with it harder fixtures. There will also be more of them, with all of the European competitions expanding from next season.

It’s a fine line for Edwards (and the sporting director he hires) to tread. Among those to emerge with credit against Manchester United was Jarell Quansah, and he’s just one example of the exciting crop of young talent. Transfer activity should not block pathways for those players.

But there will be more than enough games to go around. Just ask Quansah, Conor Bradley, Jayden Danns or any number of others who have played a role in this season’s push for silverware, even before the expansion of European competition.

As such, what Edwards must do now is clear. He must empower the next sporting director to continue apace with the construction of ‘Liverpool 2.0’ — Klopp has laid exquisite foundations, but there is plenty more building to do yet, and some of that work needs to happen in the transfer market.

That’s no slight on the existing players, who have done more than enough to be forgiven for this Old Trafford blip. But it’s unfair to ask the next manager to reproduce the miracles of the last few weeks, and Edwards must now set about making sure Klopp's heir is adequately equipped.

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Bayern Munich make Joshua Kimmich future 'decision' amid Liverpool transfer links

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 20:00
Latest Liverpool transfer news and gossip as Bayer Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich is reportedly a target for the Reds but other clubs including Man City and Arsenal are said to be interested
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Bayern Munich make Joshua Kimmich future 'decision' amid Liverpool transfer links

icLiverpool.co.uk - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 20:00
Latest Liverpool transfer news and gossip as Bayer Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich is reportedly a target for the Reds but other clubs including Man City and Arsenal are said to be interested
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Man City full list of charges and potential punishment as Everton and Liverpool watch on

LiverpoolEcho.co.uk - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 19:30
Nottingham Forest have been deducted four points for breaching the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules while Manchester City remain under investigation
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Man City full list of charges and potential punishment as Everton and Liverpool watch on

icLiverpool.co.uk - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 19:30
Nottingham Forest have been deducted four points for breaching the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules while Manchester City remain under investigation
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