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Hopefully not, and I think the rumor has died down. :D But reports were saying we'd only take him if Chelsea let us loan him for free, which would be a bargain.
 
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http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/NG159906080513-1135.htm

Interesting article, particularly:

In relative terms, Ferguson spent bigger than Benítez in his first four years. And yet for three of those first four years United were marooned in the bottom half of the table. Ferguson made a lot of astute but expensive signings in 1988 and 1989 (Bruce, Pallister, Ince), but those players only delivered a league title in 1993.
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Strengthen the defence? Check. Improve the squad year-on-year? Check. Improve every department of the first XI, from keeper through to striker? Check. Overhaul the youth system? Check. Improve scouting? Check. Make the reserves more competitive? Check. Create a first team whose age means it can stay together for years and improve with experience? Check. Buy the best attacking players possible within the budget? Check. Improve in Europe? Check.

And improve in the league? Check.

In 2006, Liverpool won its second-highest ever percentage of league games on the way to 82 points, the best tally since 1988. This year, the Reds lost just four times –– again, the best figures since 1988. Clean sheet records have been broken, and the club finally has a 25-goal-a-season striker. What's missing is gold-dust of all these improvements occurring simultaneously, combined with enough weaknesses in the top rivals to leave a gap to move into.
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Difference is in this day and age is easy for you lot to improve and thats not a problem cause you will. The problem is bridging that gap, since im pretty sure us and Chelsea will improve just as much if not more then you lot especially since we have a young squad also.
 
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YoungGun_UK said:
Difference is in this day and age is easy for you lot to improve and thats not a problem cause you will. The problem is bridging that gap, since im pretty sure us and Chelsea will improve just as much if not more then you lot especially since we have a young squad also.
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And that's the problem isn't it. We'll improve, but so will the rest of the league, yet Benitez is expected to win the title.

Honestly, I am not expecting us to win the title, but be in the title race till March. Think it's again going to be United or Chelsea, unless someone like Babel has a really good Euro, and does what Ronaldo did in 2006/07.

Oh, and the best bit of transfer news I've heard.

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=695332

Let's hope it's true. Hopefully, Nemeth can be promoted to 4th choice striker.
 
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yo, im back after gettin my ass banned for a week , fookin bluenose twats.....:LOL: any way, my player of the year was jerman pennant makes up in skill what he cant do in wing, when is we getting a new good boss?
 
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Abhishek said:
And that's the problem isn't it. We'll improve, but so will the rest of the league, yet Benitez is expected to win the title.
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i think people (neutrals included) just expect lfc to be in the title race, which i dont think they've managed since they last won it...
 
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Its too soon for Babel to do a Ronaldo, again some will say its a risk but if moulded properly Quaresma would be a beast of a player on par with Ronaldo. I just think not many people have the patience to mould him, the amount of stick SAF got for Ronaldo in his first 2,3 years was silly and he ended up proving them wrong. :)
 
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Don't think Babel will ever be as good as Ronaldo.

Don't even think Babel is really lacking something, in terms of football skills.

Babel's problem is confidence though. If he believed that he is as good as he really can be, he'd already be a world beater. He's missing the arrogance you generally associate with Dutch players. Needs that cockiness IMO.

Just hoping he has a great Euro tournament. Come off the bench in the quarters, and win the match. Then starting in the semis and finals, and score a couple of goals. That'd do it :-pp
 
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Where do you get that from?
Its obvious the lad is in two minds!
Obvious too that martin oneil is desperate to keep his top man!

I think if liverpool upped the ante it would be very difficult for villa to turn down, every man has his price.
 
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I do think it's only a matter of time before Barry leaves for us. I think Barry has already decided but Villa are pulling out all the stops to try and keep him.
 
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LIVERPOOL co-owner Tom Hicks was today forced to abandon plans for a multi million dollar development in Dallas because of the credit crunch - sparking major concerns over his finances and ambitions for Anfield.

Hicks had been planning to build "Glorypark", a mixed used development in Dallas featuring retail, residential and office space due to open in March 2010 at a cost of £257m.

But early today the Texan released a statement confirming fears that his ambitious plans are not sustainable in the current market.

The move will inevitably increase fears that Hicks will not be able to put the funding in place to build a new stadium on Stanley Park for Liverpool, particularly with the UK currently enduring increasingly tough economic conditions which Bank of England chief Mervyn King has admitted could even turn into a recession.

Official Liverpool Supporters Club secretary Les Lawson told the ECHO today's developments will be of concern to all Reds fans.

He said: "When Hicks took over at Anfield he said a spade would go into the ground at Stanley Park within 60 days – 18 months on we are still waiting.

"Today's news from Dallas only adds to our concerns because if he can't afford to finance a cheaper development in the USA how could he afford to build a stadium here?

"It's not just the new stadium that is so worrying either. What about Rafa Benitez's transfer plans? How can they be funded?

"If the Americans can't finance the club and what it needs to get back to the top they should make way for someone who can."
 
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Blue4life said:
Where do you get that from?
Its obvious the lad is in two minds!
Obvious too that martin oneil is desperate to keep his top man!

I think if liverpool upped the ante it would be very difficult for villa to turn down, every man has his price.
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I do think the media is abit stirring things up much more than actually happening, and, in my reading, it looks like Villa is on the edge of losing Barry. O'Neill is speaking in a defensive mode already, looking like it's a losing battle. And as desperate as any team in the edge of losing its captain would be. :))
 
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DagsJT said:
I do think it's only a matter of time before Barry leaves for us. I think Barry has already decided but Villa are pulling out all the stops to try and keep him.
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i think he'll want to stay at villa, he plays every week in a team that plays good football, the club is well run and stable...

why go to anfield...
 
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Champions League football, obviously more chance of winning trophies, playing with better players?
 
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DagsJT said:
Champions League football, obviously more chance of winning trophies, playing with better players?
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maybe...

but for someone who is used to playing everyweek rafa's policy maybe hard to take..

apart from gerrard and torres there isnt really that many players better than barry..

maybe xavi..
 
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Milanista said:
Players with pride still exist. Kaka, Pato and Gourcuff chose us over Chelsea, Real Madrid and Arsenal because of the history behind Milan. Freddy Adu also chose DC United and rejected Inter, Barcelona and Real Madrid, and they offered almost 10x more than DC United.

Plan M, the Shevchenko transfer was more complicated than just the money.
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holly shit someone else besides me brought up DC United, unfortunatley milinista.. i dont think thats entirely true, he was 14 at the time and i due to child labor laws i dont think he could have been paid by those clubs until he was 16... so he would have had to live and play in there academy teams at a cost to him(probably covered by nike) or something like that.... here in the US a child under 16 can work, but only a certain ammount of hours, i think its different in the EU no?
 
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Anyone know much about Andreas Dossena then? Apparantly talks are underway to sign him as our new left-back.
 
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I think Pinola transfer is quite likely since Nurnberg got relegated. Dossena rumors were reduced by Udinese's sporting director:

Leonardi: Dossena al Liverpool? Non c’è niente di concreto, ha un contratto con noi fino al 2012, il resto sono chiacchiere, a tutt’oggi parlare di una sua eventuale cessione è parlare del nulla.
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Translation - "Dossena to Liverpool? There is nothing concrete. He has a contract until 2012, the rest is just speculation, today they just talk about his eventual transfer but it means nothing".
 
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i think he could be a good addition to the liverpool squad seeing riise might leave and i personally don't rate aurelio that high. and if anybody saw our uefa cup match against benfica - he surely got the quality to play premierleague football at a top team.
 
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