The Anfield Wrap

With a a club record transfer and a Merseyside Derby victory to discuss The Anfield Wrap isn't short of material this week. We start with off the field matters. Philippe Coutinho has gone to Barcelona and where does this leave Liverpool's season? What should the next move be and what has brought this matters to this pass? To help us get the background on Coutinho and the club's next move we're joined by Paul Joyce, Northern Football Correspondent of The Times who has been very close to this story since the summer. We then go on to remember the glory of Friday night, Liverpool and Virgil van Dijk delivering a knock out blow to Everton's season while being far from their best. A sign of things to come or the end of an arduous Christmas period? Neil Atkinson hosts and is joined by Rob Gutmann, Adam Smith and Dan Morgan. This is our flagship show and is available for free but we do 50 other shows a month which are premium content.  You can subscribe here https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscription/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new year and The Rider looking ahead to everything within it with ten new fabulous songs, some admin on air, the desire for new features and a whole new slab of Wham with a best before date of March 2018 rather than that stale stuff they were holding onto.  Neil Atkinson hosts insofar as anyone can as Stephanie Heneghan, Adam Melia and John Gibbons entertain us all for 87 whole minutes. What more can you ask for? The track list? Oh, OK then...  Anteros - Love  Cardi B - Bartier Cardi  Broken Records - They Won't Ever Leave Us Alone  Francis And The Lights - Morning  Yaeji - Raingurl  Firestations - Build A Building  Charli XCX feat Carly Rae Jepsen - Backseat  The Jet Age - Your Sweet Nothings  Shame - Concrete  Bullion - Blue Pedro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neil Atkinson was joined by Andy Heaton, Mo Stewart and Dan Austin for a free midweek podcast looking forward to the Friday night derby under the lights with a chance to settle scores against Everton. Neil also chats to BBC Radio 5 Live's Conor McNamara about the magic of the FA Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a victory for Liverpool against Leicester - a game which had a bit of everything. A brace, a ton of needle and Harry Maguire's big head. Liverpool did the business when the pressure was on and the crowd responded. Joining Neil Atkinson to work through it all are John Gibbons, Gareth Roberts, Mike Nevin, Philippa Smallwood and Ian Salmon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Gibbons hosts the latest edition of The Team Talk to talk Leicester at Anfield and Burnley away. Ian Ryan, Gareth Roberts and Mo Stewart are in the studio and are joined on the phone by Pete Selby and Tyrone Marshall to talk Leicester and Burnley respectively. John is then chats to Aizaz Sheikh for this week's travelling Cop and then Kev Sampson and John Mackin to talk Burnley away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's Friday show we were joined on the phone we're joined by Guto Llewelyn of The Jackcast to talk about the new appointment of Carlos Carvalhal as Swansea manager and look to their season to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A TAW Player Christmas Freebie! A longer Review show as The Anfield Wrap takes the opportunity to relax into The |Reds after a 5-0 win at home to Swansea. We talk about their approach, what they could have done differently and about why this Liverpool side were so effective. Rob Gutmann hosts and is joined by Sean Rogers, Neil Atkinson and Karl Coppack for this look back to Swansea, look at the bigger picture and look ahead to Leicester and Burnley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool have yet again thrown points away from a winning position. What should Jurgen Klopp be doing about this? What could the consequences be? It was a frustrating game but one where Liverpool also played very well. The club though has some hard choices to face. And a game in two days. Swansea City are on the horizon for The Reds. Who should start in goal? Guto Llewelyn joins us on the phone; Steve Graves, Stu Wright and John Gibbons are all in the studio. It's The Anfield Wrap. Have a listen while doing the dinner.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the Christmas edition of The Rider and as such there is lots of talk of little drinks, nights out and decorations. There are festive tunes. There is John's Spotify hacker. And there are songs of the year of sorts. Neil Atkinson hosts somewhat chaotically with John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia all cutting loose and feeling frisky. It's the perfect tonic to Christmas shopping and the stresses of the season. And the songs are good. Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Anfield Wrap this week takes a long look at Liverpool's fantastic 0-4 win at Bournemouth and dwell on the sheer quality of that front three. The intensity was there throughout from The Reds and their quality shone through. It's a chance to take a breath and assess the season as well and we have a little bit of Mancunian influence as Steve Armstrong joins to chat through the situation in the wider league picture. Mike Nevin is in too and he and Steve chat about their new project, working for a company called Fansbet. Neil Atkinson hosts, Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons are also in. What a win, what a gang of lads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices