Two wounded beasts collide. Aston Villa were just recently (Sunday) beaten at the Emirates by what would be considered a heavy defeat by their standards this season (0-3). Liverpool on the other hand won on Sunday, but they have been struggling all season, and are still 8th on the table, so also by their own [...]
Will the visiting coach once again field his reserves in this away fixture to be able to use his regulars at full-strength in his home game vs Man City in 48 hours.
If this is the case, then maybe Liverpool will win it, but –of course- the odds are impossible to use on Liverpool these days [...]
Rafa Benitez has been assured that whatever funds he raises from transfer sales in January he can use to recruit new players.
Benitez already knows he is getting no money from the owners for new players and will have to sell to buy, something he intends to do in earnest as soon as the transfer window [...]
According to rumours going around today, the Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has lost the confidence of at least three of the senior players in the team, and they have decided that they don’t him to be in charge any longer.
An un-named source was quoted in the LFCGlobe as saying: “Three Liverpool players are absolutely against [...]
There has been speculation recently that the Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, who has just played his 600th game for the club, didn’t expect to be given a new contract when the current one expired in 2011, but Rafael Benitez has said that he didn’t see there being a problem.
“I read an interview with him yesterday [...]
The ex-Liverpool star Stan Collymore has spoken out what quite a few fans must be thinking after this weekends result. He thinks that the players don’t want to play for Benitez any more and the Spaniard should leave for the good of the club.
Collymore said in his column in the Mirror: “Perhaps Liverpool’s latest dire [...]
The Liverpool manager Rafael benitez still thinks that the club will finish in the top four of the Premiership despite losing to bottom-club Portsmouth this weekend.
“We always knew the battle for fourth would be difficult but we know we can play well,” Benitez said.
“We know we have the quality, it’s just a question of belief. [...]
The Liverpool rumours for the last week have been saying that Rafael Benitez is close to winning a £5m bid for the Crystal Palace star Victor Moses, and today the Palace manager Neil Warnock admitted that Moses will be leaving in the transfer window.
Warnock said: “I’ve no doubt whatsoever that we’ll lose him unless the [...]
According to a report in todays News of the World, Liverpool are now favourites to sign the 19 year-old Crystal Palace star Victor Moses.
Crystal Palace are having a financial crisis and have to sell their best player to balance the books. It was thought that Tottenham were in pole position to sign the talented youngster, [...]
The ex-England star Gary Linneker has been giving his ideas on the highs and lows in football over the last 12 months, and he thinks that Rafael Benitez made a grave error when he signed the Italian international Alberto Aquilani. In fact he called it “possibly the worst £20m ever spent on a player,”
This may [...]
A report this morning in the Mirror is suggesting that Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is planning a £60m raid on Liverpool for their superstriker Fernando Torres if the Reds fail to make the Champions League next season.
They say that Ancelotti is a great admirer of Torres, and since the West London club has not been [...]
The Liverpool defender Fabio Aurelio has admitted that his contract talks with the club have come to a standstill, and the 30 year-old can now start discussing his future with other clubs in the New Year.
He said: “At the moment we are waiting for Liverpool.”
`We started conversations before the end of last season. But I [...]
The Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez says that Liverpool are definitely going to have a go at winning the Europa League after the disappointment of being knocked out of the Champions League, but doesn’t think they have been given an easy first draw against Unirea Urziceni.
“Unirea won the league in Romania and they are certainly a [...]
The Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez thinks that the people who compile the Premier League fixture list should get their act together, and stop sending clubs on 500 mile journeys at Christmas!
“I am a foreign manager and people talk about Christmas being a busy time,” he said. “In Spain, it is the same, and it is [...]
