The Kop Magazine - January 2015

In this issue

CHRISTMAS is coming, we're rubbish at the back, Brendan's under pressure, but will he get the...full backing of Fenway Sports Group in the January transfer window?

In the January 2015 edition of The Kop we look at what Brendan Rodgers needs to do to turn Liverpool's poor season around, what the much-maligned transfer committee's priorities need to be when the window opens and Keith Costigan explains what impact the Reds Champions League exit will have on FSG's thinking about the cash available for new players and the manager's future.

Our cover star Raheem Sterling also comes under the spotlight. Having clocked up a century of Liverpool appearances – 98 of them as a teenager – and being the outfield player Rodgers has used the most in the last 18 months we analyse what he brings to the team, where he can improve and how his senior team-mates need to help him out with referees.

Liverpool's dismal Champions League campaign comes under focus both on the pitch (Basel) and off it (travelling Kopite Mike Hennessy reveals all about the LudogoREDS away trip) and we also reveal how Rickie Lambert's goal in Sofia earned him membership to an exclusive LFC club containing Jamie Carragher, Xabi Alonso, Dirk Kuyt and, er, Abel Xavier!

Don't miss our great Christmas giveaway, either. One lucky Kop reader will win a VIP Merseyside derby day out at Shooters Sports Bar in Liverpool One for eight people plus LFC books, DVDs and retro merchandise.

Add to that a campaign against half n half scarves, Kop 8 Lancashire away days, the first in a new series about Liverpool's 1965 FA Cup success, the winners of the 2014 Kop Challenge and how your kid's nativity might look if LFC were allocating tickets for it and you've got an unmissable action-packed, Christmas edition.

The Kop. Passion. Humour. Analysis. Opinion. Comment. Graeme Souness' Christmas gift to Gary Neville. Gizza read.