Libero: Libero 114 | Arne Slot, Liverpool Manager: The Case For And Against Join SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, now: liberopodcast.com.—Liverpool’s exit from the Champions League means they will finish the season trophyless, and ...

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Arne Slot: what next?

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Libero: Libero 113 | Why Does No One Want Arsenal To Win It? So it all comes down to this. Maybe. After Arsenal lost at home to Bournemouth and Manchester City swatted aside Chelsea, the Premier League has a genuine title decider: Mikel Arteta’s stumbling ...

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Are Arsenal bottling the league?

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How to not get relegated.

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Libero: Libero 110 | Will Infantino And Trump Break The World Cup? SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, is now live! Get on the bandwagon early, before broadsheet journalists start describing us as doing 'interesting things' at li...

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Will Infantino and Trump break the World Cup?

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Libero: Libero 109 | Can England Win The World Cup? We are still in the soft launch phase of ⁠SC Libero⁠, but getting on the bandwagon early will give you the chance to lock-in a pay-what-you-want price for an annual subscription until we figure...

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Can England win the World Cup?

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Libero: Libero 108 | Do National Teams All The Play The Same Way Now? Join SC Libero! Our members’ only offering is now live, in a soft way. We're starting you off with ad-free episodes, but a host of other benefits are in what we call 'the pipeline'. Sign up now a...

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Do national teams all play the same way now?

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Libero: Libero 107 | Chelsea, The Oligarch And One Of Football's Biggest Scandals SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, is now live! Get on the bandwagon early, before broadsheet journalists start describing us as doing 'interesting things' at l...

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The Chelsea scandal

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Libero: Libero 106 | Are Arsenal's Lost Years Over? Why The Carabao Cup Final Matters SC Libero, the most important of the least important membership clubs, is now live! Get on the bandwagon early, before broadsheet journalists start describing us as doing 'interesting things' at li...

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Arsenal: the lost years

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Libero: Libero 105 | The Paradox Of The Premier League's European Struggles For all of the Premier League's clubs financial advantages over their European rivals, they are facing a wipeout in the Champions League. Is it fatigue? Is it tactics? Is it a massive waste of reso...

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Whatever happened to Premier League dominance of Europe?

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Libero: Libero 104 | Where’s Your Famous Atmosphere? The Premier League’s Sanitised Matchday Atmosphere is one of the Premier League’s biggest selling points to broadcasters, but ask anyone who regularly goes to games and they will tell you that atmospheres in English grounds are in star...

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Where’s your famous atmosphere?

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Libero: Libero 102 | Trying To Make Sense Of The Business Of Football Every year football's rich and powerful gather at a West London hotel to do deals, shake hands and talk about the game in a way would be quite unfamiliar to anyone not in the posh seats at 3pm on a...

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Trying to make sense of the business of football

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Libero: Libero 101 | Spurs In Peril... No Longer Too Big To Fail? In recent years it has felt as if the Premier League was permanently stratified, with the poor teams unable to win and the rich teams unable to lose. But Tottenham Hotspur have the ninth biggest re...

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Are Spurs too big to go down?

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Libero: Libero 100 | Anxious Arsenal And The Definition Of A Bottle Job It is – it turns out – quite difficult to pin down an accurate definition of what 'bottling it' means and, therefore, which teams can be fairly described as having committed this failure of wil...

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What constitutes a ‘bottle’?

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Libero: Libero 099 | Has Jose Mourinho Burned His Bridges At Real Madrid? Jose Mourinho will take his Benfica team back to Real Madrid on Wednesday night, trying to get through to the last-16 of the Champions League.It is now almost 13 years since Mourinho left Real Madr...

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Has Jose Mourinho burned his bridges at Real Madrid?

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Libero: Libero 098 | Juventus, Benfica And The Plight of Europe's Forgotten Clubs It’s Champions League punishment round week, which means clubs who were among the biggest and best in Europe 10 years ago are slogging it out to make it through to the last-16.The question on tod...

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What’s the ceiling for Europe’s former giants?

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Libero: Libero 097| The Death Of Individualism In a world where Jack Grealish becomes 'The Rest Station' and Jürgen Klopp insists that no playmaker can be as effective as counter-pressing, it is fair to say that the game's creative geniuses ar...

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What happened to individualism?

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Libero: Libero 094 | Can VAR Be Fixed? There has been no bigger change to football in the 21st century than VAR. On today’s Libero, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Jonathan Wilson and Tariq Panja want to do more than just complain about it, and the...

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What can we do about VAR?

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Libero: Libero 093 | When The Premier League Is The Man I Need In Libero’s lifetime, the panelists have regularly lamented the spectacle served up by the Premier League, but after a bumper weekend, Rory Smith, James Horncastle and John Brewin dwell on whethe...

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Enjoying the Premier League weekend

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Michael Carrick has @jonawils.bsky.social reaching for a Scandinavian bovine analogy on today’s Libero.

Libero: Libero 091 | Bad In The Premier League, Winning In Europe Wednesday sees the climax of the Champions League's 144-game 'league phase', a TV bonanza featuring 18 fixtures, after which we will know who made the top eight, who faces the punishment round and ...

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If Premier League teams are dominating the Champions League, why do they look so average at home?

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Libero: Libero 090 | The Unbearable Weight Of Being Tottenham Thomas Frank may have delayed his departure with that surprisingly comfortable win over Borussia Dortmund, but that is only the tip of Tottenham’s problems. What is the club’s strategy? What do...

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The perennial Tottenham Hotspur identity crisis

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Libero: Libero 089 | How Afcon Descended Into Chaos It was supposed to be the smoothest running Africa Cup of Nations in tournament history, all the edges levelled off. Then came Sunday’s final and unbelievable scenes in Rabat: dodgy penalties, an...

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The dramatic finale of the African Cup of Nations

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Libero: Libero 088 | Real Madrid: Too Big To Manage He might have been a playing legend but that ended up counting for nothing as Xabi Alonso became the latest Real Madrid manager to be crushed between the weight of galacticos and the biggest Madril...

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Why did Real Madrid sack Xabi Alonso?

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Libero: Libero 087 | Chelsea, BlueCo And The Case Against Multi-Club Ownership Rory Smith enjoyed going viral for his rant against Chelsea's egregious exploitation of Ligue 1 'sister club' Strasbourg so much that he wanted to make a whole podcast about it. Luckily, James Horn...

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Chelsea, Strasbourg and the multi-club model

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Libero: Libero 086 | Amorim, Maresca And The Battle For Power That’s been quite a week, hasn’t it? On today’s Libero, Miguel Delaney, Rory Smith and James Horncastle explore how the sackings of Enzo Maresca and Ruben Amorim shed light on where power lie...

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You come at the Sporting Director, you best not miss

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