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Ride The Walrus said:
Yeah, but the staff aren't classed as players...



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That is correct, but before a lot of it the spanish players said about working with and for Spanish staff, that no longer applies. And you have also lost a lot of spanish players in recent years, Alonso, Arbelo, Reira.
 
Scott said:
That is correct, but before a lot of it the spanish players said about working with and for Spanish staff, that no longer applies. And you have also lost a lot of spanish players in recent years, Alonso, Arbelo, Reira.
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At least spell their names right =O
Yes, but we still have some Spanish folk.
 
RE Henderson:

After looking at everything I believe this is just to say to Wigan that we will not overpay for MCcarthy. And funny how as soon as we go for Henderson, Whelan comes out and says he's willing to sell MCcarthy and understands it'll be hard to keep him.

I think well played DC, well played. We'll get MCcarthy for about 8 mill and Jordan Henderson can go **** himself to the mancs.

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Alex said:
RE Henderson:

After looking at everything I believe this is just to say to Wigan that we will not overpay for MCcarthy. And funny how as soon as we go for Henderson, Whelan comes out and says he's willing to sell MCcarthy and understands it'll be hard to keep him.

I think well played DC, well played. We'll get MCcarthy for about 8 mill and Jordan Henderson can go **** himself to the mancs.

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****** hope so, McCarthy's much, much better.

Also, Henderson's wanted for 20 million, Valencia want 17 million for Mata...

With the way it's going, McCarthy/Mata (<333)/Enrique looks a possible summer.
 
Alex said:
RE Henderson:

After looking at everything I believe this is just to say to Wigan that we will not overpay for MCcarthy. And funny how as soon as we go for Henderson, Whelan comes out and says he's willing to sell MCcarthy and understands it'll be hard to keep him.

I think well played DC, well played. We'll get MCcarthy for about 8 mill and Jordan Henderson can go **** himself to the mancs.

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Far Fetcher Story MR Whitehouse, even for your Standards Boss, Check your ******* PMs.
 
Liverpool Football Club can today confirm it will compete against some of Europe's top clubs in a Champions League-style U19s tournament which starts in 2011-12.


Sixteen clubs including Barcelona and Inter Milan have confirmed their involvement in The Nextgen Series - a six-month format which allows the continent's top young footballers to compete against each other week in, week out for the first time.

Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, PSV, Celtic and Sporting Lisbon will also take part.

Sanctioned by UEFA and the FA, the tournament has been established to help Europe's best teenagers make the transition from youth football to senior level.

Four groups of four teams will battle it out home and away from August, with the top two progressing to the knockout stages which begin in January.

The tournament is the brainchild of ex-pro and former Watford Academy manager Mark Warburton and TV producer Justin Andrews.

Warburton said: "The Nextgen Series will provide a cognitive learning environment for players to experience how best to cope with the pressures of top-level football."

Organisers believe young players will benefit from travelling abroad and facing new styles of play, as well as being officiated by top referees and having to deal with media interest.

Clubs confirmed include Barcelona, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa, Marseille, Sporting Lisbon, Wolfsburg, Molde, PSV, Celtic, FC Basel, Fenerbahce and Rosenborg.
 
Question, what happened to Alou Diarra long time ago, that he left Liverpool and hadn't played a single game? :(
 
Diarra was only young while he was with Liverpool, he wanted games but couldn't get that so was loaned out. Then he decided he wanted to stay with Lens.
 
Liverpool plan summer clearance sale to fund top-quality signings
• Milan Jovanovic heads highly paid who may leave Anfield
• Approach is made for Sunderland's Jordan Henderson


Liverpool plan summer clearance sale to fund top-quality signings | Football | The Guardian

Liverpool's owner, Fenway Sports Group, is anxious to rid the club's wage bill of several expensive transfer errors this summer to maximise Kenny Dalglish's budget for "highest quality" signings.

FSG has sanctioned a substantial outlay on recruits at Anfield, with an approach having been made for Sunderland's Jordan Henderson and interest in the Aston Villa pair of Stewart Downing and Ashley Young expected to develop after their commitments with England. While FSG is willing to spend heavily on transfer fees it is, however, reluctant to increase an already inflated wage bill and wants several high-earning players to make way for the additions.

Liverpool had the fourth-highest wage bill in the Premier League in 2010 – £121m – but failed to qualify for the Champions League next season and last. FSG inherited a host of financial burdens from the previous owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, and the former managers Rafael Benítez and Roy Hodgson, and faces the dual problem of needing to improve Dalglish's squad – "We want to get the highest quality of player in that we can," the Scot has said – while starting to comply with Uefa's fair play regulations.

As John W Henry, the club's principal owner, said recently: "The worst surprise [following FSG's takeover last October] was the lack of depth in the squad. Our biggest concern in taking on this responsibility was this issue and it was a bigger issue than we feared. There was a huge multi-year payroll for a squad that had very little quality depth."

The free signings Joe Cole and Milan Jovanovic, for example, earn £100,000 and £120,000 a week at Liverpool respectively, although the latter's astonishing salary includes a signing-on fee payable over the first 12 months of his contract. Cole made nine Premier League starts last season and Jovanovic five. Paul Konchesky, Christian Poulsen and Brad Jones, who cost £5m, £4.5m and £2.3m respectively and were also part of a disastrous transfer policy last summer, are surplus to requirements too but are liable to deter potential suitors with their salaries. Philipp Degen, Nabil El Zhar and Emiliano Insúa also remain on the payroll.

Liverpool must pay a final instalment of €5m (£4.4m) to Roma for Alberto Aquilani by the end of June and must decide whether to accept a major loss on the Italian midfielder or bring him back to Merseyside after a season's loan to Juventus.

Juventus have offered only £6m for a player who will cost Liverpool a total of £17.6m, with Roma to receive 5% of any fee agreed, although the 26-year-old's agent has insisted a compromise deal is possible. Franco Zavaglia said: "All season Juventus have always given me the necessary guarantees that they want to keep Alberto. The next 24 hours will be decisive. Any eventual economic agreements will follow after Juventus make their decision. If Juventus can't do a deal for Alberto and he has to return to Liverpool, then Milan would certainly be a destination that he would accept."
 
Have to admit but all Sumer 2010 signings were awfull no?
 
Calum said:
Have to admit but all Sumer 2010 signings were awfull no?
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Raul Meirelas (sp)

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are Juve still buying Aqualani? Thought that deal was dead after they brought in Pirlo. And Ashley Young has apparently closed the door on a move to Liverpool saying he wants to play in the Champions league next year.
 
Juve will only pay 6 million for Aquilani, which frankly is atrocious. Rather we keep him for that price.

RE the link Mike. posted and the one I put in transfer rumours one;
Poulsen
Cole
Jovanovic
Degen
El Zhar
Insua and Soto (Bosmans, unfortunately)
 
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