James Pearce

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466 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Will Champions League save Slot at Liverpool? · 26 May 2026 podcast

Of course, the squad is in need of some urgent reinforcements, but you also need, you know, whether it's slot or whether someone else comes in, you have to revive the fortunes of a lot of those players that, you know, their form has fallen off a cliff over the last nine months.

You know, the answer isn't just to get a broom and kind of sweep it all out and bring in another seven or eight players or whatever, because then the danger with too much change again this summer is you find yourself facing another situation

season of transition and another year of players having to adapt to the Premier League.

So I always think you're never as far away as kind of like sometimes people think.

I mean, we've had on the Walk On podcast, we've had listeners say, you know, it's going to take five years for Liverpool to repair what's gone wrong.

And it's like, it doesn't work like that, does it?

We've seen it quite often in the

You know, can have a great season, then a big drop off and then go back up there again.

You know, one statistic that jumped out at me when I was doing the end of season kind of inquest piece yesterday was that Isak, Ekotike and Wurz have played 118 minutes of football together.

So when people say, well, how can Liverpool have such a terrible season when they spent, you know, 440 million?

Well, it's like, well, there's, what's that probably?

350 million or whatever it is in three players that have played just over one game of football together across an entire season.

So,

So I think there is that belief that, you know, Isak will kick on next season, that Wurz will be a lot more influential.

Kirke's now, you know, he's almost come out of Robertson's shadow.

He has to kick on.

You expect a lot more from Frimpong, you know, Leone, who we've barely seen, Jeremy Jacquet coming in.

that hopefully that will just foster some positivity.

And of course, pre-season is not going to be ideal off the back of the World Cup and players coming back at different times.

But it is going to be different to last pre-season because that was such a kind of horrendous starting point for the season that then kind of fell to pieces on so many different levels.

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