Rafa to get £150m to spend?

[Rocket]

If he is good enough then age doesn't matter. We will have to wait and see but I believe that he will be our first choice left back next season.

yes, but what makes you think he's good enough?

for someone to be "first choice" next season, they will at least need to making appearences this season.

[FowlerLeftFoot]

£150m over how many seasons??

[Kopite_Colin]

We only have 2-3 or of our front 6 as good as is required to win a championship- In the current 1st 11 that's Gerrard, Alonso and Kuyt. Oviously Momo and Masher will rotate with AG & ALonso. We need 2 good wingers (Gonzalez may prove to be one of them) and 2 more strikers, 1 to play in the 1st 11 with Kuyt. Add a RB (we don't know if Arbeloa is up to it yet), LB, and a CB to replace Carra in the next few years and it's quite a few players we need.

[SouthAfricaRed]

If he is good enough then age doesn't matter. We will have to wait and see but I believe that he will be our first choice left back next season.

No problem, I respect your right to have an opinion I hope you are right

I just cant see an 18yr old LB in the EPL doing well. Hasn't happened all that often

[AFII]

yes, but what makes you think he's good enough?

for someone to be "first choice" next season, they will at least need to making appearences this season.

I have talked to people who have seen him play a few times. They said that he will very soon be first choice left back for Argentina. That's how high they rates him.

[einar]

I thought news of the world was as reliable as 15 year old condom.

[lfcruleus]

We only have 2-3 or of our front 6 as good as is required to win a championship- In the current 1st 11 that's Gerrard, Alonso and Kuyt. Oviously Momo and Masher will rotate with AG & ALonso. We need 2 good wingers (Gonzalez may prove to be one of them) and 2 more strikers, 1 to play in the 1st 11 with Kuyt. Add a RB (we don't know if Arbeloa is up to it yet), LB, and a CB to replace Carra in the next few years and it's quite a few players we need.

Sorry mate Finnan is as good as anyone (except maybe Neville (sorry)) in the prem. I agree on the wingers, and we definately need a LB. Carra has a good 4 years in him yet but we need quality cover.
I aint even starting the argument on strikers again cos it bores me.

[AFII]

£120M: RAFA WILL HAVE CASH TO BURN
Football: LIVERPOOL TO JOIN THE BIG SPENDERS Rafa will have cash to burn after takeover
By Paul Smith

LIVERPOOL boss Rafa Benitez will be handed an astonishing £120MILLION transfer budget if the proposed American takeover goes through this week.

US tycoons George Gillett and Tom Hicks are set to take control at Anfield. Under formal proposals of a projected £480m takeover, additional funding will be made available to Benitez to ensure Liverpool can match their free-spending rivals in the transfer market and compete for honours.

Gillett, who owns National Hockey side Montreal Canadiens, and Hicks, who owns NHL franchise Dallas Stars as well as the Texas Rangers baseball team, will split the £700m costs, which include funding for a new stadium.

Liverpool's decision to accept the American offer in preference to doing a deal with Dubai International Capital is widely thought to have come about after Gillett and Hicks put a far more lucrative package together.

Shareholders including chairman David Moores will profit from the deal, debts will be immediately addressed and proposals over a new stadium accelerated.

But it's the activity in the transfer market that will be of primary interest to fans and should delight Benitez, who has publicly voiced his frustrations at buying within a limited budget compared with the clubs Liverpool are supposed to be challenging.

Since Roman Abramovich arrived Chelsea have monopolised the top end of the market.

But while arch-rivals Manchester United have spent £28m on Rio Ferdinand and £21m on Wayne Rooney, Liverpool's record signing remains the £14m invested in recruiting Djibril Cisse from Auxerre 30 months ago.

Most of Benitez's buys have been in the £6m-£10m price range. And he admits that some of them have been found wanting.

Both Gillett and Hicks have earned reputations for spending big to achieve their goals and Benitez will now have a license and cash to target the key players in European and world football.

CLICKY - Sunday Mirror

[einar]

Surely this is all nonsense because the club would never leak out such info.

[desertscouser]

Surely this is all nonsense because the club would never leak out such info.

It could well be nonsense but who said the club leaked this info?

[Kopite_Colin]

Sorry mate Finnan is as good as anyone (except maybe Neville (sorry)) in the prem. I agree on the wingers, and we definately need a LB. Carra has a good 4 years in him yet but we need quality cover.
I aint even starting the argument on strikers again cos it bores me.

I'm not suggesting Finnan isn't any good, it's just he's getting on. We can hope our current back four goes on for years like Adams, Winterburn, Dixon & Bould/Keown but it's unlikely. We need genuine pace at the back and we don't have any. Agger looks absolute quality, but isn't REALLY quick.

[AFII]

Our new owners will be pressured to give Rafa very much to spend to win over the supporters because of the DIC.

The supporters thought that DIC would give Rafa very much to spend so Gillett and Hicks will be pressured to do the same.

[Kopite_Colin]

Hate to say it mate, but once they've got their sweaty plams on the club, Gillett and Hicks can do what the hell they like..and to hell with the fans. That's what worries me (the same was true with DIC TBH). Believe me they won't be giving a flying one about DIC. We need new blood at Board level, we just have to hope these guys do have the best interests of the club at heart and are NOT after a quick buck. They've obviously taken over other sports franchises before not nothing outside N. America (in minority sports) and nothing on the global scale and reputation of LFC.

I still think we will live to regret p*ssing off the 5th richest man in the world with a keen interest in sport and a winning mentality.

[kopdan]

DIC were never going to lavish us with money to spend. People confuse DIC with the Sheik.

DIC were in it to make money AS ARE Gillette / Hicks.

Quite frankly, we will see no difference with G&H as we would had DIC been in charge.

[Kopite_Colin]

DIC were never going to lavish us with money to spend. People confuse DIC with the Sheik.

DIC were in it to make money AS ARE Gillette / Hicks.

Quite frankly, we will see no difference with G&H as we would had DIC been in charge.

Of course Dan. I've been saying all along that DIC are exactly what it says on the tin - an Investment Company. Of course they had a timescale for a planned exit strategy, all investment bankers do. But that doesn't mean they stick to it, depeding upon what happens in the interim period. My point is that from LFC's point of view, LFC should have been planning internally as to how they were planning to ensure that DIC (and maybe even the Sheikh himself) were going to pump the NEXT level of investment in 5-10 years time (this is why our Board appears to lack so much business acumen). We know the Sheikh loves his sport, and likes to win, we should have played on that as much as possible.

G & H sounds too much remarkably like GH for my liking! lol ( :shivers: )