We bid in time for Distin but he accepted Pompeys offer over ours as he got guaranteed first team football there.
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As always, I'm of the 'wait and see' brigade in regards to signings. Rafa's comments today are spot on IMO, we've done far to much dithering in the past in regards to negotiating and signing new players which has cost us but on the flip side we havent been able to compete financially with the scum or chavs in the past few years. So it's with my eternal optimism that I genuinely believe it'll be different under G&H's ownership as they seem like they are sharp lads who want to win and don't take bull****.
Rafa knows exactly where we're lacking on the pitch and I think it will be an interesting summer for us.
In Rafa we trust
"The Liverpool offer arrived and I told the club to listen to that offer as that is the team I wanted to play for" - El Nino 03/07/07
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when is this quote from mate? if it is yesterday, then it is deffo panic stations over.Originally posted by einar View PostBill shankly to Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee:
'Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean YOUR knee, it's LIVERPOOL'S knee !'
"Sorry, boss, I should have kept my legs together," said Lawrence. "No, Tommy, your mother should have kept her legs together!," replied Shankly.
* After Tommy Lawrence had let in a fluke goal between his legsComment
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Originally posted by DannyMan2006 View Post
probably offered more money aswell, isounds very like another free transfer we almost made recently.
Bill shankly to Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee:
'Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean YOUR knee, it's LIVERPOOL'S knee !'
"Sorry, boss, I should have kept my legs together," said Lawrence. "No, Tommy, your mother should have kept her legs together!," replied Shankly.
* After Tommy Lawrence had let in a fluke goal between his legsComment
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Oh cripes, I remember that.Originally posted by CharlieMansonsSquint View Post
We need may need an emergency sanity plan for this forum, something along the lines of having a "random/unsubstantiated player links and gossip thread" into which anything completely extraneous and random gets merged, and one thread only for each genuinely confirmed targetted player......I could not dig, I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?Comment
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Originally posted by IrishPaul View PostAs always, I'm of the 'wait and see' brigade in regards to signings. Rafa's comments today are spot on IMO, we've done far to much dithering in the past in regards to negotiating and signing new players which has cost us but on the flip side we havent been able to compete financially with the scum or chavs in the past few years. So it's with my eternal optimism that I genuinely believe it'll be different under G&H's ownership as they seem like they are sharp lads who want to win and don't take bull****.
Rafa knows exactly where we're lacking on the pitch and I think it will be an interesting summer for us.
In Rafa we trust
I just wonder though how the american sports teams are run in a sporting sense in comparrison, would they act as fast as the ultra competitive European football leagues? are G&H still adapting to this?Bill shankly to Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee:
'Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean YOUR knee, it's LIVERPOOL'S knee !'
"Sorry, boss, I should have kept my legs together," said Lawrence. "No, Tommy, your mother should have kept her legs together!," replied Shankly.
* After Tommy Lawrence had let in a fluke goal between his legsComment
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I heard we signed Lucas in a matter of hours.Originally posted by bazza76 View Post
I just wonder though how the american sports teams are run in a sporting sense in comparrison, would they act as fast as the ultra competitive European football leagues? are G&H still adapting to this?Comment
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thats a valid point mate, lets hope all our transfers are concluded this swiftlyOriginally posted by einar View PostBill shankly to Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee:
'Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean YOUR knee, it's LIVERPOOL'S knee !'
"Sorry, boss, I should have kept my legs together," said Lawrence. "No, Tommy, your mother should have kept her legs together!," replied Shankly.
* After Tommy Lawrence had let in a fluke goal between his legsComment
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Henry.....and i will wet myself if we pulled it off what a signing to shake the Prem up!!!!When you feel like you're done, you are not alone........Comment
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The new owners will be only falling over themselves to help Rafa this summer and he will get all that he wants IMO. He has shown that the can back up his requests for the club to meet his standards and lets hope they do.When you feel like you're done, you are not alone........Comment
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Basically a guess then.Originally posted by Chris View PostTomorrows Times
BenÍtez claimed that Liverpool were in a position to sign “one or two top-class targets for €15 million to 20 million [about £10 million to £14 million] right now”. The identity of the two players was not clear last night, but at least one of them is a winger and Daniel Alves, the Seville wing back, is thought to be out of the equation for now. Gabriel Milito, the Real Zaragoza defender, is a strong possibility, but not such an immediate priority as a wide player.
And can anyone honestly see Rafa telling some random hack that he's about to sign two players? When has he ever done this?I hate PolanskiComment
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Your right Charlie he is a manager that keeps it to himself and doesnt leek his business.Originally posted by CharlieMansonsSquint View Post
Its all purely guess work. Im excited to see what happens this summer.....we might finally sign a World Class player of the ilk of an Eto'o etc.........When you feel like you're done, you are not alone........Comment
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Guardian have it a bit different to the "2 signings are imminent" stuff
Basically Rafa saying he can get two top class players now for around £13m each so get your arse in gear by the look of it.
Rafael Benítez has issued a stark warning to Liverpool's American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, that the club must spend lavishly in the transfer market this summer if they are to mount any kind of concerted Premiership challenge next season, suggesting that failure to do so would have serious implications on his own long-term future at Anfield.
The Spaniard, his temper still simmering following Wednesday's European Cup final defeat by Milan, launched a thinly veiled attack on senior management at the club, principally the chief executive Rick Parry who undertakes transfer negotiations, by voicing long-held concerns that Liverpool "talk and talk but never finish" when it comes to the prospective signings of players. Benítez claimed to know of two "top-class targets" he could sign now for around £13m each, while a failure to act swiftly would see Liverpool finishing well adrift in the title race again next term.
"If we don't change things right now and understand how crucial this moment is, we will waste another one or two months on two or three targets and we'll start having to sign third-choice players," said Benítez, who signed a new contract last summer, extending to 2010, but whose patience has clearly been wearing thin.
"That would leave us contenders to be in the top four. Nothing else. After three years working really hard, we've not progressed enough. I have confidence in the Americans because they say they will back me, but I want to see things happening right now. I'm tired of talking, talking. We talk and talk but we never finish."
Most worryingly for Liverpool's supporters, Benítez drew comparisons with events at his previous club, Valencia, where frustration that he was not given carte blanche to reshape his squad eventually prompted his resignation. "At Valencia we won the league for the first time in 31 years, but the club thought we were winners already and decided they didn't need to sign any more players, and we finished fifth the next season," he said.
"It is the situation I've been watching here in the last few years. They say we are close, but we are not close. We are 21 points behind and we cannot work harder. I cannot work more than 20 hours a day.
"We have improved every year, but Chelsea, Arsenal and United have done the same. The team that won the Premier League this year have just spent £20m after winning the title on one midfielder [Owen Hargreaves]. I want things to be done. We have some targets, top-class players, but if you spend two or three weeks waiting, then talking and talking, you either cannot sign the player or have to pay more money.
"We can sign two top-class targets for €20m each right now. Maybe we didn't have enough money in the past, but now we have new owners who can invest £400m in the club. If we don't do the right things right now, we'll miss the opportunity and next season we'll be talking about third or fourth and 20 points behind again."
Benitez had substantial backing under David Moores' regime, and 11 of the 18-man squad for the Athens final were his signings. Indeed, Hicks and Gillett have commissioned Deloitte & Touche to conduct an independent report on the Spaniard's spending to date. Yet he has consistently argued that the entire Liverpool squad required revamping upon his arrival in the summer of 2004. Since then he has been infuriated to miss out on targets, such as Daniel Alves at Sevilla, Simao Sabrosa of Benfica, Nemanja Vidic at Spartak Moscow and Real Zaragoza's Gabriel Milito. He also felt Liverpool should have secured Theo Walcott, Abou Diaby and Denilson, all of whom joined Arsenal.
That reflects directly upon Parry, whose position could come under closer scrutiny this summer when Foster Gillett, the joint-owner's son, takes up a permanent position. Benítez is also perplexed that contract renegotiations with Xabi Alonso and José Reina have moved sluggishly.Comment
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This is pretty huge.
He is really telling Parry off. Hope he gets his way. IMO he deserves a chance to mould the club after his own ideas.Comment
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