Shanghai Shenhua v Liverpool

[Gazzla]

So your judging him on his limited performances he has had with us.

He certainly impressed me during the recent U21's games, and he has impressed for the Dutch national team aswell.

Give the lad a chance

I can't believe people are writing Babel off after less than 2 hours of football with us when he has played both up front and on either wing. FFS give the lad a chance

[Guest]

Back to Leto. Reading a piece from Bascombe today and apparently his European Passport hasn't been given still as he's required special dispensation to play in the game yesterday. Can't help thinking how our players required so much time dealing with red tape such as this compared to the likes of manure who didn't have such problems with Anderson and Nani.

[bigfooty]

Events in Hong Kong with regards to clearance were a bit of a farce. Yes the domestic FA's probably had some part to blame but didn't seem to impact on Pompy or Fulham.

Sack parry .

[Guest]

Events in Hong Kong with regards to clearance were a bit of a farce. Yes the domestic FA's probably had some part to blame but didn't seem to impact on Pompy or Fulham.

Sack parry .

Didn't mean to have a dig at Parry mate but more to emphasize how clearance of our documents by the FA / Premier League / Other authorities seems smoother.

[Harv]

Back to Leto. Reading a piece from Bascombe today and apparently his European Passport hasn't been given still as he's required special dispensation to play in the game yesterday. Can't help thinking how our players required so much time dealing with red tape such as this compared to the likes of manure who didn't have such problems with Anderson and Nani.

Nani is Portuguese

And Anderson is one of the hottest properties of football mate. He is rated as being a future star. Leto, lets be honest here.....we had never heard of the lad before he signed for us.

[Guest]

Nani is Portuguese

And Anderson is one of the hottest properties of football mate. He is rated as being a future star. Leto, lets be honest here.....we had never heard of the lad before he signed for us.

I know he is mate.

I meant, Leto was highly rated in Argentina but I guess his lack of international caps was not in his favor, therefore him getting a passport would have been harder anyway. Such a shame as he looks a quality player.

[dww]

I know he is mate.

I meant, Leto was highly rated in Argentina but I guess his lack of international caps was not in his favor, therefore him getting a passport would have been harder anyway. Such a shame as he looks a quality player.

Yeah but we are going for a European passport for Leto which will mean no faffing about in future in terms of games played for us or his country. Anderson got a work permit from this country.

the two processes are very different and involve different governments. I doubt the Italian/Spanish governments (not sure which is involved) are likely to rush the passport as Liverpool are not from their national league. The passport only relies on the processing of the fact that relative x qualifies the player for the document, but I know people who have waited months for their British passport at times and I expect other countries have much the same attitude to peoples personal documentation.