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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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Correction to the team sheet:

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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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Libero: Libero 085 | The Downfall Of Ruben Amorim Libero is not a coach. It is a manager. It has always wanted to be Ruben Amorim. Even on the day he was sacked by Manchester United. Rory Smith, James Horncastle and Tariq Panja unite to discuss th...

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Ruben Amorim sacked

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Libero: Libero 084 | The Things That Will Definitely Happen In Football This Year It's the first Libero of 2026 and here to pick up the pieces of the festive period are Tariq Panja, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Rory Smith and Jonathan Wilson. In a World Cup year the panel make some bold, a...

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What’s going to happen in 2026?

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Libero: Libero 083 | The Stories That Defined Football In 2025 As the year nears its end, Miguel Delaney, Tariq Panja, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jonathan Wilson take the opportunity to look back at 2025 to pick out football's major narratives. P1: (10:04)P2: (33:30...

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The stories that defined 2025

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Libero: Libero 081 | The First Annual Libero Personality Of The Year Award Black tie, ballgowns and montages... it's the Libero Personality of the Year award. Rory Smith is your host for this glittering event, where he is joined by the judging panel of John Brewin, Tariq ...

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Our prestigious annual Personality of the Year award

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Libero: Libero 080 | World Cup Tickets, Did It Need To Be Like This? It's basic supply and demand, right? Fifa has stunned most of the world by making the 2026 World Cup the most expensive tournament ever for the match-going fan, with dynamic ticket prices that coul...

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The World Cup ticket problem

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Libero: Libero 079 | What's Stopping Newcastle Becoming 'The New Manchester City'? Manchester City racked up another Premier League win this weekend, beating Crystal Palace 3-0 with another display of their new direct, powerful individualistic style. Their change of direction thi...

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Are we sleeping on Manchester City?

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Libero: Libero 078 | The Big Beautiful World Cup: Six Months To Go With six months to go until the newly-expanded greatest show on Earth, today’s Libero considers what a World Cup designed by FIFA, Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump will look like. Jack Pitt-Broo...

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Six months to go until the World Cup

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Libero: Libero 077 | Mo Salah, Player Power And Undignified Exits "I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season. Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why. It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus." These were ...

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Mohamed Salah’s messy exit?

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Libero: Libero 076 | The Long Barclays... Is Football Trapped In The 90s? Rory Smith is joined by John Brewin and James Horncastle, who – like the anxious middle-aged men they are – are seeking refuge in the past. But a past that informs our present in a way that is ...

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Football’s long 90s

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Libero: Libero 075 | Are Chelsea Actually Good? Chelsea held Arsenal to a 1-1 draw on Sunday even though they were reduced to 10 men in the first half. They looked like a proper Chelsea team, playing in a proper Chelsea atmosphere. And even thou...

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Are Chelsea actually good?

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Libero: Libero 074 | How You Watch Football Is About To Change All Over Again Football is ultimately a TV show, however much we might want to see it differently. The story of the rise of football over the last 40 or so years inseparable from the changes in technology, not le...

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Is football on TV about to change forever?

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Libero: Libero 073 | Why Is It So Hard To Retain The Premier League Title? Only three managers have ever won back-to-back Premier League titles and that figure does not look likely grow this season. Managerial greats such as Arsene Wenger, Jurgen Klopp and Antonio Conte h...

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Why is it so hard to retain the Premier League?

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