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What is Success for Liverpool This Year?

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew look at Liverpool's season and break down what they think would be a successful season for the Reds after another poor run of form. Plus, the guys argue if there should be more changes to the UCL format after Barcelona manager Hansi Flick said he was a fan. Gab Marcotti also explains why he thinks Benfica still have a chance to make the UCL knockout round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC, K Murray, Alejandro Moreno and Shaka

0:09.0

Hislop here in the studio fresh from ESPN's gym. We'll have you know as well.

0:13.6

A little later on we're going to be hearing from Frank Leboff and our Liverpool correspondent,

0:17.9

Beth Lindopoul, be with us as well because we need to talk about what is going on at Liverpool as it currently stands

0:24.6

they have fallen to their seventh defeat of the season against Bournemouth and they are finding it hard to keep pace with the Premier League's top five

0:32.6

Anna Slot was asked ahead of the Carabag game a number of questions

0:38.3

what do you feel you have to achieve now this season to kind of quieting the outside noise?

0:45.3

No, I think it's going to be really difficult to quiet the outside noise with the position we are in in the league.

0:52.3

So even if we win a few games, every loss or every disappointing

0:56.2

result will start the noise coming back again. That's what you can expect if you started

1:02.6

the decision as we did, not started, but at a certain moment with so many losses. So it's

1:08.8

impossible to shut down the noise at a club like this if you are not competing for

1:14.2

the league.

1:15.2

When you are Liverpool, the aim is to win the league.

1:18.1

But we've only did this twice in the last 30 years.

1:21.1

We want to be competitive in every single competition we are in.

1:25.1

That's always the aim.

1:27.1

But reality is also in the last three years we've won one league cap and one Premier League title.

1:31.3

So when is things acceptable? I have my opinion about, I'm not going to share that.

1:37.3

Outside World has this opinion about that. As we all know, it's lots of being said about the 450 million,

1:43.3

where people tend to forget the 300 million we've brought in.

1:48.0

So Anaslatt has come in for a lot of criticism lately and when you take a look at the odds for the next manager to leave their post in the Premier League.

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