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by **Rafa D** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:51 pm

Buying young English players means they generally succeed at a big club. Lennon, Carrick, Defoe, Dawson, Joe Cole, Lampard, Rooney, Rio, were all bought when they were young and emerging and have all gone on to do very well for there respective clubs.

The ones you mentioned did not move from where they were until they were much older and therefore did not develop.

How is selling Carrick at about 800% profit not successful?! And how is Lennons value rocketing not successful?!?

Its not a coincidence that Chelsea and United have a far bigger base of English players and finished above us in the league.

Our players prefer the European competion, the English lads know what to do in our league because they grew up in it.

by **Anfield rapper** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:39 pm

The start of the season is the key. The last two seasons Rafa has been in charge we've f**ked it up and been out of the race by the start of the new year. I hope he's learned from it. I think its all down to how you bring new players into the premiership. In the last few seasons our new signings have just been thrown in at the deep end to try and gel in our team and play against teams who sometimes just want to physically hurt them. Theres got to be a better approach. I would say reduce the number of players we bring in in the sumer but the ones we do bring in make sure they are big hitters. I'm talking about a £20m+ striker and a £20m+ midfielder. That would do as far as i'm concerened. Then at the start of next season start the first few games with the winning formula from this season and then bring the new recruits in from off the bench.

by **parchpea** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:18 pm

Its true we need to spend on quality and not quantity.

Hopefully we can get the first choice star names but thing is all the best teams will be after them.

In my opinion this policy should have adopted before now.

Because Benitez has a strict rotation policy you need numbers and utility players to cover positions rather than specialists in each area.

Maybe he will change his gameplan next season and only rotate a little to give us a real crack at the title.

by **LFC2007** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:46 pm

tommycockles wrote:
redtrader74 wrote:PS, our first priority is to tie down Mascherano to a real contract, not the loan deal he is currently on. As far as i am concerned he has proven himself fit for our club.

i really hope we agreed a fee when we took him on loan as otherwise his price is going to be sky-high now!!

it's a strange one because on the main site it doesn't state that he's on loan but indicates we signed him.

From .tv
"Argentinian international Javier Mascherano joined Liverpool in January 2007 after the Premier League approved his transfer from West Ham.

The 22-year-old Argentinian international becomes the most high-profile of the Reds' transfer window signings and will offer Benitez more options in the centre of midfield."

Joorabchian holds the rights of ownership, we are in possession of the player's registration.

by **Kash_Mountain** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:26 pm

Next season, the likes of Kewell, Zenden, Bellamy should not be at this club.

by **El Nino_#9** » Thu May 24, 2007 11:55 pm

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Buying young English players means they generally succeed at a big club. Lennon, Carrick, Defoe, Dawson, Joe Cole, Lampard, Rooney, Rio, were all bought when they were young and emerging and have all gone on to do very well for there respective clubs.

The ones you mentioned did not move from where they were until they were much older and therefore did not develop.

How is selling Carrick at about 800% profit not successful?! And how is Lennons value rocketing not successful?!?

Its not a coincidence that Chelsea and United have a far bigger base of English players and finished above us in the league.

Our players prefer the European competion, the English lads know what to do in our league because they grew up in it.

yea, i guess i can see where your coming from.

by **zarababe** » Fri May 25, 2007 12:54 am

this is what Rafa says:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media...._bb.asx

pretty clear that .. lets see what happens

by **alxy** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:31 am

I hope Rafa gets his way. We need to sign the players now and have them join us first thing when the transfer market opens July 1. That way they have about 1.5 months to gel into the team. If we sign them too late, we're going to have the mess we were in when we started last season, where everyone was trying to find their own feet and one another's

by **stmichael** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:01 am

we've already got the basis of a really good side. we desperately need some creativity in the final third though as was blatantly obvious again on wednesday. despite dominating possession (again) we didn't create anywhere near enough. a top quality winger and a top quality striker have to be first priority.

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