The Making of Liverpool 2.0
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Josh Williams to explore the recently-emerged Liverpool 2.0 that we’re seeing - Klopp’s rebuilt team.
Looking back in hindsight, what was it that actually went wrong?
What was the summer transfer strategy?
What have been the good aspects and what have been the poorer aspects?
Are Liverpool title contenders?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my pal and producer Mike Zimmerman and Mike KD. |
| 0:47.8 | And I am always well, John. |
| 0:49.5 | And you are always well when we have Liverpool Football Club to talk about. |
| 0:52.9 | They are your team and we have been lucky enough to have a guest on to talk to us about where Liverpool are at this season, the famous Liverpool 2.0 Clops rebuild of that team. And we were able to talk to Josh Williams of Reach, who was very insightful into a lot of the tactical ideas that are being played over the last couple of seasons. You've just listened to that conversation. What did you make of it? I mean, of course I enjoyed it. Josh is |
| 1:14.5 | always great and as a Liverpool fan. I very much enjoyed that conversation. But I think, you know, |
| 1:19.4 | the interesting thing is, especially coming into the season for Liverpool was that new midfield, |
| 1:24.3 | right? With Alex Le Chamberlain, Henderson, Fabino, all leaving. They bring in Gravenberg, |
| 1:31.0 | Alexis McAllister, Wataro Endo, and Dominic Salbus Lai. It was interesting to see how they all |
| 1:38.4 | fit together like a puzzle. We've seen McAllister play in that six-roll, which it's not really his best position, but they've |
| 1:46.6 | made it work. And it's been interesting to hear Josh talk about how they've been able to |
| 1:51.4 | utilize McAllister in the six role while also bringing Trent Alexander Arnold into that midfield |
| 1:58.2 | as well as maybe two deep lying sixes. |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, really, really interesting stuff. |
| 2:05.4 | We spent a lot of time talking about the inversion of the fullback with Trent Alexander Arnold coming inside. |
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