marty

Markovic is suspended

if only we had a fully fit Sturridge to take advantage....course you Hodgson you senile bollix

yep Echo said Balotelli had a bug but Brendan said he be fine for Saturday...didint mention Lovern

horribel feeling bout this game. Like city its come way too early and they despite lack of opposition come into the game confident where we after a sluggish opener and then beaten by City are not up to speed yet and new back four yet to come to terms with each other. Bar last season its been a horrible hunting ground, just hope we turn up cause another setback this early will deflate confidence

ah right, never paid attention to him when he wasint one of ours...suppose his more the battering ram type

Anyone else think Lambert looks way off the pace and very sluggish when his come on?

just received my copy this morning from Play...lokking forward to reading it

we had to loan him back its what made Lille accept our deal ahead of others including Madrid

we like the underdog tag, suits us

wonder if new contacts come out of the kitty....Henderson, Sturridge, Gerard, Serling all due new ones

Money will write Luis Suárez’s future as Barcelona prepare to bare teethThe Liverpool striker’s mooted move to Barcelona would not be a consequence of his most recent biting shameShare 24 inShare.0Email Andy Hunter The Guardian, Wednesday 2 July 2014 15.47 BST Jump to comments (87) Luis Suárez and Giorgio Chiellini's coming-together should not be seen as the reason for the striker's possible move from Liverpool. Photograph: Tony Gentile/REUTERS It is tempting, and a much better tale, to suspect Liverpool are falling foul of an elaborate plot designed to prise Luis Suárez from their grasp and into the forgiving embrace of Barcelona. The fiendish plan is enacted with the bite mark on Giorgio Chiellini’s left shoulder in the conspiracy world when, in reality, Suárez’s latest shameful act has little influence on where he performs next season. Cash, not canines, will determine that. The process that brought Liverpool and Barcelona to a meeting table in London on Wednesday commenced not with “Bite 3 – it will never happen again” in Natal last Tuesday but Suárez’s thwarted attempt to leave Anfield 12 months ago. Suárez was serving a ban at the time, for biting, but had to get out of England because of unfair vilification by the English media. All very familiar, although the argument was somewhat undermined by a public appeal to be allowed to join Arsenal. It was one example of Suárez taking people for a ride. The World Cup, following a stunning season of redemption and apparent maturity for Liverpool, delivered another. Last summer proved a mess for Suárez, his agent Pere Guardiola and ultimately Liverpool. The player’s camp believed they had a watertight agreement to leave for a set price and, in the absence of Champions League football, the Liverpool hierarchy stood firm, principal owner John W Henry laughed off Arsenal’s £40,000,001 bid and Suárez had to train away from the first team having accused manager Brendan Rodgers of breaking promises. No one cared for a repeat and an agreement was reached quickly on a lucrative new contract. The headlines centred on Suárez’s £200,000-a-week salary and commitment to Liverpool until 2018 when his past indiscretions and longing for the exit were forgotten as he put pen to paper in December. Both parties, however, now had clarity regarding a future possible transfer thanks to a release clause. Suárez’s suitor has to meet Liverpool’s valuation to land the striker, and Real Madrid’s willingness to pay £85m for Gareth Bale last summer was instructive to owners Fenway Sports Group during the contract negotiations. Liverpool have not suddenly decided to wash their hands of Suárez following the Chiellini incident and the subsequent four-month ban from all football-related activities. It would be surprising, worrying even, if key figures at Anfield have not grown tired of the appalling behaviour of the club’s prized asset but Barcelona’s request for a meeting was not accepted at gunpoint. It is simply business. Not a reaction to a bite. Suárez’s ban presented Barcelona with opportunity to secure a player who has long dreamed of a move to Spain and spends time in Catalonia with his wife’s family. The opportunity may have arrived earlier than expected but was expected all the same. They have moved swiftly, encouraging the apology and U-turn that Suárez issued for biting Chiellini then commending his strength of character for doing so 24 hours later. And with a straight face. But unless Raul Sanllehi, Barcelona’s director of football management and the man leading transfer negotiations, makes an offer acceptable to FSG, they do not walk away with their prize. The Uruguay coach Óscar Tabárez got it badly wrong in the aftermath of the Italy game when he said Suárez’s actions were not a question of morality. In terms of the business of football, however, he was right. Barcelona are said to value the Liverpool striker in the £60m region but the damaged-goods argument does not work. The theory that a club cannot keep a disillusioned player does not hold with Suárez either. His reaction to being denied a transfer last summer – 31 Premier League goals, a clean sweep of Player of the Year awards and the leading role in Liverpool’s strongest title challenge for over two decades – would support Ian Ayre’s case should the need arise in the chief executive’s meeting with Sanllehi. Liverpool accepted Barcelona’s request for talks not only to hear their offer for Suárez but to register interest in Alexis Sánchez. Barcelona are willing to offer the winger as a makeweight in the deal but whether the Chile international can be manoeuvred into a corner remains to be seen. He will not be short of options, including standing his ground and staying at the Camp Nou, following an outstanding World Cup campaign. £50m and Sánchez? That would soften the blow at Anfield should Suárez become Barcelona’s brilliant problem. In the meantime, Steven Gerrard’s advice to Suárez when he was flirting with Arsenal last August is beginning to sound prophetic. “Move on if you want, further down the line, but a player of his calibre should wait for the big one to come to him,” was Gerrard’s message. “He deserves to play for one of the best teams in the world, a Barcelona or a Real Madrid. They will come calling for him again.”

have my doubts bout Lallana....English one season wonder overpriced....we've been down this road plenty

bunch of hypocrites Henry wont take Barca's s****

so its alright for them to take the moral high ground comsidering their line of business

while they ruin thousands of homes torn apart by gambling debts f***in BBC love stickin the boot in the Manc loving c****.....Barca will have him at the right price, f*** off will ye as if Henry is gonna knock off 30 mill

Brendan has been let down these last few windows by FSG and transfer commitee, he needs to be backed 100% in this window, he fulfilled his side of the bargain getting us into Champions league time now for the owners to fulfill theirs

just dont mess up the summer window like we did 02/03, set us back years that

is this one on the telly?

you know what, no matter what happened over the last 2 games I still feel we have been the best team in the leaguse this season and deserve to win the title, that whats hurting me the most, not last night just the fact that we are the best team out there and we dont get to win it

its the hope that kills you

Tony fecking Pullis....nothing is a certainty, lets just go and do our end of things right

changed to PMCFU

Liverpool v Blackburn when victoryy would have handed the title to United, who did ye hoped win....i shouted for Liverpool that day cuase its all i know

Liverpool v Blackburn when victoryy would have handed the title to United, who did ye hoped win....i shouted for Liverpool that day cuase its all i know

id love the Ukranian lad he looks class