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[el_stinger]

Do we need to sign anyone else in this Transfer Window ?

Or if Mark Gonzalez's work permit goes through, will that give us what we need ??

Looking at the current squad on a position by postion basis we seem to be ok.

Reina/Carson

Finnan/Agger/Warnock/King Jamie/Kromkamp/Hyppia/

Alonso/Gerrard/Kewell/Sissoko/Hamann/Garcia

Crouch/Cisse/Morientes/Pongolle

Add Gonzalez to that mix and we look very good

is riise injuried, just curious cos he aint on ur list and i wudnt be 100% sure where to check

Where are all you coming from?

[el_stinger]

dunno y benitez ever had traore in the squad ahead of riise

By all accounts, to what I understand, is that Riise wanted to get back into his role of left wing, especially since Kewell had his shocking run of injuries. Then Zenden came in to put some pressure on that position, and ever since Zenden's injury, Riise hadn't had any competition, and naturally, Traore was preferred to Warnock to be put in as Left Full Back seeing as there was no one else to occupy the left wing position. Riise then had to come back to his role as left wing full back to allow Kewell to slip in to his preferred left wing position, to bring strength into Liverpool's game.

I much prefer the Riise-Kewell combo down the flank anyway, both have become great players for us in recent weeks.

[The Specialist]

Adriano? 

I would prefer that Ukranian guy that plays for AC Milan. Let's get him. Maybe we could get him on loan at first..

I doubt we will be seeing any big name signings under Rafa's tenure. Very good established players, or young hungry ones. Very few clubs make 15 million plus signings.  10 million even. I doubt that Rafa and LFC will ever be involved in signing one of world football's "hottest properties" in the immediate future...

WTF ....Whats the specialist for .....a specialist wánker....
what planet are you on that you could possibly think that AC Milan would offer shevchenko on loan to us or indeed anyone.....

The quality of these newbies on here beggars belief.

You would be the wa.nker. Both you and LIVERPOOL _FC_YNWA are dimwits as well. The Specialist is an Interpol song, as well as my username on here.. Now, do you know who Interpol are? Probably not, although they are well-known. What have you been drummin' on, Phil?? Your head?? You thick . Now, why don't you think a bit before you start to spout off. You look quite foolish now. I don't like to be rude, but don't provoke me. I'm not a newbie, btw. I've been on this board for over a year and some change. I just re-registered due to computer problems.

The signing of Xabi was big money, yes. But, not an extreme amount. This is what I am saying. And, although Real and the Mancs were interested they never stepped up their interest and made it serious from the beginning. Real toyed with the idea of signing him for a bit too long, and I don't remember what happened with the Mancs. Either club could easily outbid us, though. They are probably kicking themselves now. Puddy mentioned Adriano. One of the best and most recognized strikers in the world. Household name. He would easily cost any club wanting to buy him in excess of 25 million, IMO. That's unrealistic. Xabi Alonso wasn't a household name when we signed him. Most Liverpool supporters hadn't heard of him before, let's be honest. Only people who watched La Liga knew much of him. Gerrard, Henry, Adriano, etc. Everyone knows of them. This was my point, I don't think we will ever buy these types of players flat out. They cost insane money. This is why I said "very-good experienced (doesn't mean old) players" are our realistic targets instead of highest of profile ones. I'm not even going to comment of Cisse as his tranfer cost is a joke..

So who were you then?
If you changed your log in due to a computer fault - what was the fault?


What can I smell?...Is it...errr....bullsh*t? 

As bigmick said, and I agree with - it's time to stop wasting time on my side-comments and get back to real thread related issues.

What does it matter who I was anyway, etc?? You probably wouldn't recognize my username if I told you. Stop trying to find faults with me, and go back to wasting your time on here trying to be funny.

[The Specialist]

Real toyed with the idea of signing him for a bit too long

Sort of. They wanted Xabi, and they wanted him cheap as they knew we needed the money. The typical pressure of Marca and the capital media started. Since there was not that much money in Spanish football, only Madrid and Bar$a might seem able to enter the bids, and Bar$a never entered. I just think they didn't expect the Liverpool movement. They played, and they'd win in normal circunstances but Rafa surprised them. For our cheer. ALonso in Real Madrid would hurt, tbh.

As for mancs, it was more than a rumour, since the day the borther of Ferguson appeared in Anoeta with a notepad, but IIRC there was not formal contact between Real Sociedad and Mancs boards about the player. In case of Madrid, there was.

Thanks for the added insight. I remember reading an article or something on here from a Real Sociedad's fan point of view regarding Alonso's transfer, and the person expressed their happiness about him not ending up at Real Madrid. I don't know if you were the one who wrote it and it was a post, or if it was an article posted on here. You never ran into Xabi days or weeks prior to him signing with Liverpool at a cafe early in the morning, did you?? And him telling you "Don't worry. I won't sign for Madrid." and smiling when asked about his future?? I remember that part well. 

[Lando_Griffin]

Adriano? 

I would prefer that Ukranian guy that plays for AC Milan. Let's get him. Maybe we could get him on loan at first..

I doubt we will be seeing any big name signings under Rafa's tenure. Very good established players, or young hungry ones. Very few clubs make 15 million plus signings.  10 million even. I doubt that Rafa and LFC will ever be involved in signing one of world football's "hottest properties" in the immediate future...

WTF ....Whats the specialist for .....a specialist wánker....
what planet are you on that you could possibly think that AC Milan would offer shevchenko on loan to us or indeed anyone.....

The quality of these newbies on here beggars belief.

You would be the wa.nker. Both you and LIVERPOOL _FC_YNWA are dimwits as well. The Specialist is an Interpol song, as well as my username on here.. Now, do you know who Interpol are? Probably not, although they are well-known. What have you been drummin' on, Phil?? Your head?? You thick . Now, why don't you think a bit before you start to spout off. You look quite foolish now. I don't like to be rude, but don't provoke me. I'm not a newbie, btw. I've been on this board for over a year and some change. I just re-registered due to computer problems.

The signing of Xabi was big money, yes. But, not an extreme amount. This is what I am saying. And, although Real and the Mancs were interested they never stepped up their interest and made it serious from the beginning. Real toyed with the idea of signing him for a bit too long, and I don't remember what happened with the Mancs. Either club could easily outbid us, though. They are probably kicking themselves now. Puddy mentioned Adriano. One of the best and most recognized strikers in the world. Household name. He would easily cost any club wanting to buy him in excess of 25 million, IMO. That's unrealistic. Xabi Alonso wasn't a household name when we signed him. Most Liverpool supporters hadn't heard of him before, let's be honest. Only people who watched La Liga knew much of him. Gerrard, Henry, Adriano, etc. Everyone knows of them. This was my point, I don't think we will ever buy these types of players flat out. They cost insane money. This is why I said "very-good experienced (doesn't mean old) players" are our realistic targets instead of highest of profile ones. I'm not even going to comment of Cisse as his tranfer cost is a joke..

So who were you then?
If you changed your log in due to a computer fault - what was the fault?


What can I smell?...Is it...errr....bullsh*t? 

As bigmick said, and I agree with - it's time to stop wasting time on my side-comments and get back to real thread related issues.

What does it matter who I was anyway, etc?? You probably wouldn't recognize my username if I told you. Stop trying to find faults with me, and go back to wasting your time on here trying to be funny.

My best advice to you would be this:

Don't try to condescend to me, friend. 

[The Specialist]

I just want to get on with my posing on here. Can I do that?? You commented on me, you get what you give. I thought I was nice considering..

[babu]

posing 

[The Specialist]

I meant posting. That is pretty funny, though.

[Lando_Griffin]

I just want to get on with my posing on here. Can I do that?? You commented on me, you get what you give. I thought I was nice considering..

Well you've obviously had run-ins with certain people on here as your "alter-ego", otherwise you would have disclosed your previous ID.

Still.

P.S. Considering what?

[SouthCoastShankly]

I don't think we need anymore signings to strengthen the squad, i would say the squad is now balanced. Any future signings needed would be to provide cover of equal or near equal ability.

This is the strength that Chelski have over ourselves. Their bench is far stronger than ours. We needed satisfactory cover.

[Lando_Griffin]

But SCS - surely we should be looking to get better players than we already have, and use some of the current crop on the bench!?!

[darwisigila]

yes...we should try to get better players whenever they available..thats what big club doing-chelshite.

[John Barnes]

I think we still need a top class striker, a striker whos going to get 20+ a season. Between them IMO, i dont think cisse morientes and crouch are gonna do it , ad we should offload one to get something decent.

Ok crouch works hard, but his job is to score goals, he's not exactly prolific. cisse and moro too.

whats worrying for me is, most of our goals still come from the midfield.

worrying sign.

[Lando_Griffin]

Crouch is a very important player for us. With the system Rafa employs, Crouch is pivotal to it's success.

I agree we need a prolific striker, preferably someone with some pace so we can exploit more weaknesses in defences.

[A.B.]

I think we still need a top class striker, a striker whos going to get 20+ a season. Between them IMO, i dont think cisse morientes and crouch are gonna do it , ad we should offload one to get something decent.

Ok crouch works hard, but his job is to score goals, he's not exactly prolific. cisse and moro too.

whats worrying for me is, most of our goals still come from the midfield.

worrying sign.

You see it in that perspective but a manager like Benitez doesn't. While he was at Valencia most of Valencia's goals came from midfield. Mista,a striker,did score 20 goals in one season but that was just in one season out of the three that Benitez spent there.

Rafa wants the midfield to score goals, more so than the strikers. Now why would he want that? When the goals are being scored from all over midfield then the team is not depending on one or two players i.e. strikers. Benitez has emphasized countless times how much he wants the likes of Gerrard,Riise,Garcia,etc.. to score.

It makes perfect sense when you think about it. A team is scoring goals without fully depending on the strikers. Let's use Newcastle as an example. When Owen plays the majority of the goals come from him. When he doesn't play, Newcastle never look like they're going to score.

And when the opposition is comming up with their gameplan they are thinking about the strikers probably instantly. You mark out one prolific striker and you stop the team from scoring most of the time. But when you have various players who can score goals then its more difficult to mark them no?

Benitez has said that himself if you don't believe me. He even pointed out recently what he did against us when Valencia played us at Anfield. He was asked if he wanted Valencia to mark Gerrard out of the game and he said no.

Instead he said that Owen was the main threat and that stopping him from getting into good positions would prevent us from scoring. He was spot on.

If Benitez really wanted a prolific goalscorer he wouldn't had brought in Crouch in the summer.