Kopfaithful

I don't really understand the point of this. Are you saying people can only discuss how a match went or players form if things are going well? Is it not possible to say a player had a stinker or is out of form? or perhaps they would have liked to see the manager make different changes in a game or something similar?

it's a fact of life as soon as results dip off, the knives will be out. results are everything, no matter how short term. i don't think it's any different for any of the managers from last years top 3. the only top manager who seems to be immune, no matter what the results, is wenger.

i think it could be us. we have agents facilitating a lot of our deals, so why not us? it's clear we tap players up and the like before we sign them (pennant and bellamy are two examples this summer that are obvious). i'm not confident we're not involved.

I think now we're past the qualifiers in the CL, rafa will be picking his strongest teams in the league and if players need resting it will be in the CL. He might change this if we get out of the groups, but for now i reckon that'll be his plan. He won't want to lose this on Saturdayor drop any points the Sunday after.

there is deffo something in the design that helps contain the noise within the stadium and attempts to allow as little as possible to the outside community. it was one of the big considerations in the planning permission, as well as the neutral colour it will have to be built in.

hehehe ... i meant per week!

As I said in my original post "I just think we should continue to pay up his wages, release him". We would continue to pay him. Like the FA are doing with Sven. The when he finds another club, his wages are reduce by the amount he gets paid by his new club. At least this way he's out of the club today and can sign for someone tomorrow. If we don't release him today, we have him on our books until January. It gives us a chance to save some money, gets him out of the club (what use is he?) and allows the fella to continue his career somewhere else.

Who exactly would want him? Pompey, Brum and Charlton have all taken a look at him - if they thought he could add real value to their sides, they'd have bought him. But they know he's not a top division player in a top league. I would imagine Salif knows that too. If Diao had turned out to be the new vierra and then Barca, Milan or Real Madrid wanted him, but didn't want to pay much money for him, LFC would be glad of the contract they signed with him and no matter how much Salif had cried in that situation, we'd have been within our rights to keep him at the club or hold out to whatever we thought he was worth. As it turns out, he's been more the new Paul Stewart, but he's entitled to what we've given him in a contract. These things work both ways. I don't blame him for one second for not moving, why should he? To be quite honest, as we're not going to use him, I just think we should continue to pay up his wages, release him and allow him to end up where ever he ends up. His side of the deal, is once he finds a club, we reduce his new wage off what we're paying him for the final 12 months of his contract. Not that that will save us much, because he's not going to earn anything above 10k a year where ever he goes.

I think carra is on record (maybe in one of his Liverpool Way interviews), that Neill did come in to appologise to him in the changing room and Carra told him to fu(k off.

the last survey of this kind I saw is they have less local support - they have a higher percentage of their local gate (something like 74% v 73% for us), but because we have a higher average gate, we have more locals coming to Anfield each week than they had going to woodison.

the same dates are supposed to be on the psv official site.

but what i saw of that the document claimed that martins played in the same youth teams as babayaro ... surely as babayaro is newcastles left back this would be pretty easy to prove/disprove either way.

Didn't we take him on trial? I'd have thought a trail would have been permission enough!

but to gain interest and publicity, surely offering the best odds around on us would be a better option.

pretty sure it's just 1 year.

M Gonzalez

and what is really strange is adidas have bought reebok for their US presence. it always struck me as weird you could never get LFC stuff in the states.

or rafa is happy for kuyt to gain a bit more fitness as it's unlikely if we pushed a deal through this week he'd play sunday - so it would be 2 weeks when he played v boro to our 1st match?

that's exactly what he said on goals on sunday last season or the year before. he thought it was unfair for him to stay when he was 1st team coach and as GH & PT where deemed failures, he thought he should fall on his own sword too.

isn't that because barragan was away with the spain U19s squad?

gonzalez was initially going to be bought, he got injured, so we tried to make it a loan. once he was fit we bought him anyway. he was out of last years money and imo so was agger - he is just the milito/owen/simao we didn't buy.

ah, ok.

I'm not quite sure I understand this in relation to the agent changing his stance. On wednesday night, he was on 5live saying the prices being mentioned in the press we're over what was wanted and that kuyt would be moving to a new club by the start of the season. by yesterday in the dutch paper he was saying nobody is willing to pay feyenoords asking price. so in 24 hours, the agent has gone from thinking the fee is not an issue, to it is. and by the looks of things it's only earlier that week he spoke to feyenoord.

in 24 hours?

i would imagine if a deal has almost been done, it would fit in with our WC players coming back to training last week and perhaps we've aksed them to allow him to rest while it's sorted.