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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Liverpool defender Jamir Carragher is approaching his 600th game for the Reds, and is only the ninth player in their history to reach that landmark figure, but he admits that he is not sure if he can carry on playing at the highest level for much longer. He said: “I wouldn’t want to get [...]
The Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt was not overly impressed with the manner of last night’s win over Wigan, but he thinks that just getting the win was the important thing, and now they need to concentrate on doing the same again this weekend against Portsmouth. “It’s a really important win. We showed we wanted to [...]
The news that Liverpool have been included in the list of possible venues for Englands bid to host the World Cup in 2018 drew comments from many top footballing personalities, not least the Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard and his manager Rafael Benitez. Anfield is renowned throughout the world as being the most atmospheric ground in [...]
The Liverpool boss was pleased with Fernando Torres coming on and scoring the winner against Wigan last night, despite still feeling the effects of the last game against Arsenal. “It was a fantastic achievement for him,” Benitez said. “He was tired after the last game, so I told him if I don’t play you it [...]
It seems that Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has come to an agreement with Real Madrid to take the Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy on a six month loan in January. Today’s Independent reports that Liverpool have beaten Blackburn and Arsenal to securing Van Nistelrooy as cover for Fernando Torres for the rest of the season. [...]
