The Anfield Wrap

It's an Anfield Wrap special on transfers this week and on it we've got four people who are close to the process to tell us what they're all about. What are the common misconceptions about transfers? Why can it take so long? Are agents mad and is it all a bit 'wild west'? Paul Joyce, The Times' Merseyside football reporter, Neil Sang, a football agent, Stephen Warnock, offering a player's perspective, and Oliver Hunt, a sports lawyer from Onside Law, tell us about their experiences of transfers in this extended episode of TAW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

3 Jul 20171h 30min

WITH Shrewsbury Town bidding to become the first English club with a safe standing section, West Brom stating their willingness to trial rail seating in the Premier League and Spirit of Shankly voting on an official stance on safe standing next week, Gareth Roberts hosts a special on the subject. First Gareth speaks to Jon Darch, a leading campaigner on safe standing who has worked closely with the Football Supporters’ Federation. He is then joined by Glyn Price, a Shrewsbury Town supporter who edits the Blue and Amber fanzine. In the final part of the show, Neil Atkinson speaks to Steve Armstrong from the United We Stand fanzine in a new ‘rivals’ section. How is their summer shaping up and how are their fans feeling? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1 Jul 201754min

Neil Atkinson and Adam Melia are back from Glastonbury and a little worse for wear. They try and piece together their weekends along with John Gibbons, who watched it all from the comfort of his own home. Nine great songs, some of which were from Glastonbury, some of which simply from the world of music. Enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

30 Jun 20171h 5min

An Anfield Wrap with a difference today, all the transfer tattle is over on our subscription feed, with Rob Gutmann getting ridiculously excited about more potential ins to follow in the footsteps of Mo Salah. Here though, we’re doing something else in a podcast of two parts. First, I’m joined by Andy Heaton, Ian Ryan and Paul Senior and with Liverpool making two high-profile appointments off the pitch this summer in the shape of chief executive Peter Moore and head of club and supporter liaison officer Tony Barrett I want to discuss what we as fans want from Liverpool FC. How do we want them to act? What should it’s identity be? What would make it a de facto ‘good club’? I then speak to Simon Strachan, who is the co-founder of Gain Line – a sports analytics company - and along with his business partner Ben Darwin they have worked at the top level in rugby union. They’ve got some interesting theories that are now being applied across all sports, including football, in particular around squad stability and team cohesion. All this and more on this week's big show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

26 Jun 20171h 23min

Mohammed Salah has signed for Liverpool. But are we satisfied? Are we ever? Rob Gutmann is joined by John Gibbons, Craig Hannan and Gareth Roberts to discuss what Liverpool still need to do in the market to compete on all fronts this summer and to analyse the likelihood of the names currently being linked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

23 Jun 201754min

As part of our TAW Player programming, we recorded a TAW reaction special to chat about the arrival of Mohamed Salah from Roma for a reportedly club record fee. Here is a five minute clip of the show - For the full 25 mintue recording as well a ton of other Liverpool content you can subscribe to TAW Player for only £5 a month here - https://goo.gl/RqMpPd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

23 Jun 20178min

It's our yearly Glastonbury Rider. Where people who are going and people who aren't tell you who to see and who to avoid at Worthy Farm. Two of our squad are actually DJing at Glastonbury this year. Try and guess who. I'll give you a clue. Mo Stewart rejoins the team this week. He runs down his weekends action and his plan of attack for work and play. Around Mo, Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan talk clashes, must sees, early starts and weather reports. And the fact Neil is going for a fortnight. Whether you are watching it on the TV or in a field, have a brilliant Glastonbury with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

22 Jun 20171h 47min

This week The Anfield Wrap looks into Liverpool's relative inertia to date, imagines what the squad could come to look like and plots the course through pre-season. Jurgen Klopp will want his players in, he always does, but can the club manage that? Hosted by Neil Atkinson and with Mike Nevin, Dan Morgan, Melissa Reddy and John Gibbons this is the current state of play for Liverpool FC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19 Jun 201751min