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 standards they are very much lagging behind on their target.
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.
Rafa Benitez has been assured that whatever funds he raises from transfer sales in January he can use to recruit new players.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,”
