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🇫🇷 A STAR IS BORN ⭐ I was scathing about Richard Hughes and FSG after the summer transfer window, so when they get something spectacularly right, the flowers have to be delivered. Jeremy Jacquet looks an extraordinary piece of recruitment.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Man City's guilt is a 'verdict' not an 'opinion'. Now the uncomfortable questions begin. ⁉️ Pep Guardiola’s legacy ⚖️ City’s response 🇵🇹 Ronaldo’s cultish defenders 🥊 Saudi Arabia’s boxing vanity project Plenty to get stuck into in this week’s Gibbs’ Game.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Remember the name: Will Wright 🔴 #LFC's injury problems could open the door for one of the most exciting young strikers at the club. ⚽ 12 goals 🎯 6 assists ⏱️ A goal contribution every 81.7 minutes 🔥 Six goals in his last six U21 games 📈 35% shot conversion

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 01/10/2026

🇦🇪 Etihad’s Intervention Raises More Questions Than It Answers Etihad Airways is perfectly entitled to defend its reputation. What it cannot do is make the findings of an independent commission disappear simply by objecting loudly enough.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 01/10/2026

🇵🇹 Someone Finally Had the Balls In my column last week, after watching him play against Wales, I once again asked why nobody in Portuguese football had the balls to tell Cristiano Ronaldo what was blindingly obvious to everyone else. Apparently, Jorge Jesus did.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 25/09/2026

🇵🇹 “Portugal’s national team does not exist to help Cristiano Ronaldo reach 1,000 goals.”

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 23/09/2026

🇩🇪 Has the Florian Wirtz debate gone too far? Jamie Carragher has questioned his place in the side and his #LFC output needs to improve, but the underlying numbers tell a different story, especially when compared with Szoboszlai at No.10.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 20/09/2026

⚽ Iraola’s Return, Liverpool Must Match Bournemouth’s Fire #LFC 🆚 #AFCB #PremierLeague Preview There's something fitting about Andoni Iraola returning to Bournemouth with Liverpool still learning precisely what he demands of them.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 18/09/2026

⚽ #Bournemouth winning in Europe, #Chelsea entering a new era, and the curious case of JJ Gabriel at #MUFC. Plus my #PremierLeague predictions before the international break arrives to ruin the fun.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 18/09/2026

🇭🇺 Liverpool have signed another Hungarian, with Patrik Farkas returning to Anfield. I’ve taken a closer look at the 19 year old’s numbers, his passing range, pressing and why he could be an intriguing fit for Andoni Iraola. Read now on my Substack 👇

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 16/09/2026

🟥 Liverpool’s Young Guns Deserve Their Flowers I wrote my mini-match review last night on my phone in a bar in Edinburgh. A few replies quite rightly asked where the praise was for Trey Nyoni, Lewis Koumas and James McConnell.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 12/09/2026

⚽ Liverpool Have No Excuses, This Is a Game to Attack #LFC 🆚 #Fulham | #PremierLeague Preview There's a spring returning to Liverpool’s stride. Two victories cannot repair everything that went wrong last season, but there are signs of a team beginning to believe in themselves again.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 11/09/2026

🆓 My Weekly Football Column ⚽ Great Players, Bad Decisions This week, I’m looking at Lewis Hall, who I think has become the best left back in the Premier League, the huge potential of Estêvão, and the strange situation Richarlison now finds himself in at Spurs.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 09/09/2026

⚽ This felt like progress Liverpool 2-1 Atletico Madrid, and for the first time under Andoni Iraola it really felt like you could see what this team is trying to become.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 08/09/2026

🇸🇳 Why Lamine Camara looks made for Liverpool 📈 20 tackles in three Ligue 1 games. 27 recoveries. 93.3% pass completion. I wanted Liverpool to sign Lamine Camara all summer and I had everything crossed that his Chelsea move would collapse.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 06/09/2026

🇮🇪 Does Katie Taylor Really Need To Be Ranked? 🥊 I woke up this morning to see the debate already raging about whether Katie Taylor is Ireland’s greatest ever sportsperson. I’m not sure why it matters, and I doubt Katie Taylor cares much either.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 04/09/2026

⚽ LIVERPOOL LOOK LIKE LIVERPOOL AGAIN #ITFC 0-2 #LFC | #PremierLeague For 45 minutes at Portman Road, I remembered what it was like to watch Liverpool and properly enjoy it.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 04/09/2026

⚽ The Transfer Window Is Over, Now Football Has to Matter Again

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 04/09/2026

⚽ IPSWICH v LIVERPOOL: TIME TO TAKE CONTROL #ITFC 🆚 #LFC | #PremierLeague Preview Two draws, four goals conceded, twice behind. Liverpool’s season needs its first victory tonight and, perhaps more importantly, its first convincing signs of control.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 31/08/2026

WHO IS LIVERPOOL’S ‘MYSTERY’ ATTACKER? 📊🔍 🇧🇷 William Gomes 🇵🇹 Carlos Forbs 🇩🇪 Jamie Leweling Three very different profiles, all with numbers that make them worth a closer look as Liverpool scramble for attacking reinforcements.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 30/08/2026

📊 Liverpool had 69% possession and 562 completed passes, yet Forest created five big chances to Liverpool’s one and had more touches in the box.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 30/08/2026

‼️ Liverpool Are Too Big For This SH*T £85m for Cody Gakpo is a serious offer.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 29/08/2026

⚽ Anfield Return Comes With Familiar Fears #LFC 🆚 #NFFC - #LIVNOT Anfield opens its doors for another Premier League season today, and Liverpool ought to approach Nottingham Forest with excitement tempered by a healthy measure of caution.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 28/08/2026

⚽ Enough Transfer Talk, It’s Time for Football This week’s Gibbs’ Game column is out now. The transfer window has swallowed football’s news cycle for long enough. Soon the talking stops and clubs actually have to live with the teams they’ve built.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 27/08/2026

🇫🇷 BARCOLA JOY, NOW GET OVER IT FAST Bradley Barcola for £120m is a signing to get excited about. Enjoy it. Then move on quickly. Liverpool still have massive issues to solve, a midfielder is needed, the right wing remains unresolved and Cody Gakpo will likely leave.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 26/08/2026

A Magnificent Master of Transformation 🙏 RIP Tim Curry (1946 - 2026) Tim Curry possessed that rare theatrical gift, the power to enter a room already larger than life, then somehow enlarge it further.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 25/08/2026

🙏 RIP Dolly Parton (1946 - 2026) A Voice That Stayed With You

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 24/08/2026

🟥 Liverpool knew they had a midfield problem when they chased Tchouameni, Caicedo and Zubimendi. They’ve known for a while. Yesterday at Newcastle simply underlined that it still hasn’t been solved.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 23/08/2026

⚽ Liverpool Escaped, The Problems Didn’t Liverpool were awful at St James’ Park, and the 2-2 scoreline should not disguise it.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 23/08/2026

⚽ Matchday, At Last #NUFC 🆚 #LFC | #PremierLeague #NEWLIV Preview There is something eternal about the opening day, that peculiar feeling when you wake on the first morning of a new season and all the noise of summer suddenly begins to recede.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 22/08/2026

🟥 Goodbye Curtis Jones, Maybe We Never Knew You At All Someone said yesterday they would be singing “Goodbye Curtis Jones” to the tune of Candle in the Wind, and ever since, I have not been able to get the bloody thing out of my head. Strangely, it feels quite fitting.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 21/08/2026

⚽ Gibbs’ Game Column: Coventry Return, Liverpool Decisions & Football’s Changing Habits The Premier League is back, and so is that familiar Friday feeling of having far too many opinions and probably not enough restraint.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 20/08/2026

🟥 Hughes Has Lost the Plot - He Should Be On Gardening Leave Richard Hughes has reached desperation stakes.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 20/08/2026

🟥 Nyoni Deserves His Chance, But Liverpool Still Need More

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 19/08/2026

🔴 The FSG exit door now looks very real. 1892 Holdings reportedly own around 38% of Liverpool and have an option to take a controlling stake within 12 months. I’ve been writing for weeks that this could be the beginning of the end for FSG. The latest details only strengthen that view.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 18/08/2026

🇫🇷 Full Metal Jacquet - Ready To Shine

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 16/08/2026

🟥 Trying Not To Get Carried Away With Jacquet Liverpool 2-0 Como Trying not to get too excited about Jeremy Jacquet after 45 minutes of a pre-season friendly, yet that was some introduction.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 14/08/2026

🟥 Liverpool, Bezos and the Price of Staying at the Top

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 14/08/2026

⚽ I’ve barely watched any sport for two weeks. Now club football is finally waking up. This week I’m looking at four stories that tell us plenty about where some of the biggest clubs are heading: - Can Arsenal do it again, and would Victor Osimhen change everything?

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 12/08/2026

🔴 Three weeks ago, I asked whether this was the beginning of the end for FSG at Liverpool. At that point, Jeff Bezos had merely been approached. Now Bezos is reportedly IN, alongside Eduardo Saverin and Amit Bhatia, with a consortium closing in on roughly one third of Liverpool FC.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 09/08/2026

🟥 Liverpool’s Warning Is Hiding in Plain Sight ⚽ #LFC 2-3 #Monaco I couldn't care less that Liverpool lost 2-3 to Monaco. It's pre-season. The score will be forgotten before Monday morning. What matters is what the game revealed.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 08/08/2026

🇺🇾 I don't like this Araujo signing.... Not because of Ronald Araujo. Because Liverpool should never have needed it.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 07/08/2026

⚽ Football’s Biggest Battles My latest weekly column is here. Four stories, four different angles, one thing connecting them all, football is changing faster than ever. - UEFA pushing back against FIFA. - Mohamed Salah finding joy again in Turkey.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 06/08/2026

🇦🇷 Liverpool Must Make a Ruthless Mac Allister Decision

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 05/08/2026

🟥 I've been critical of Richard Hughes all summer. From the outside, Liverpool's transfer window has looked painfully slow. But if this ends with Bradley Barcola and Ibrahim Mbaye arriving together, perhaps we've all been judging the wrong thing.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 04/08/2026

🟥 Jordan Henderson's Legacy Was Settled Long Before Chelsea Jordan Henderson joining Chelsea has reignited a debate that, for me, was already over. If people believe this move is the moment his Liverpool legacy became tarnished, I think they've arrived several years late.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

🙏 Big Pussy Was Never Meant to Be Saved RIP Vincent Pastore (1946 - 2026)

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 31/07/2026

🔵 Chelsea Escape Again as Football’s Credibility Collapses

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Last season I wrote a few wider football pieces each week on my 'It Was Always... Football' Substack, for the new season I wanted something with a bit more punch. So here's the first edition of Gibbs' Game.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 30/07/2026

⚽ The Sensible Man’s Review of Liverpool’s 1-0 Win Full transparency, there was no chance I was staying up until 2.30am for a pre-season friendly. That's well beyond my bedtime on a school night, so the alarm went off at 6am and I watched Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Wrexham back in full.

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