Liverpool

One Night in May Part 3

2009-11-18T16:37:00.000+08:00

One Night in May Part 2

2009-11-18T16:36:00.002+08:00

One Night in May Part 1

2009-11-18T16:36:00.001+08:00

One Night in May

2009-11-18T16:34:00.000+08:00

Fergie gang ‘bully’ Rafa

2009-10-28T12:11:00.001+08:00

Fergie gang ‘bully’ Rafa

28 October 2009

Alex Ferguson has been accused of leading a group of Premier League bosses who gang up against Rafa Benitez.

The amazing claim was made last night by Wigan manager Roberto Martinez.

He also insisted the FA are terrified of Fergie’s power over the Premier League.

Martinez said: “Ferguson has his group of loyalists among other coaches - Steve Bruce, his ex-player, and Sam Allardyce, who thinks he will be his successor, among others.

“On the other hand, there is only Benitez and they throw sticks at him from all sides.”

Liverpool chief Benitez caused a storm last season by accusing Manchester United boss Ferguson of having too much power and getting away with too much with the FA.

And Martinez reckons fellow Spaniard Benitez’ criticism was spot-on.

Fergie is currently sweating over an FA hearing into comments he made accusing ref Alan Wiley of not being fit enough.

Asked if he reckons Fergie DOES have too much power, Martinez added: “Yes, a lot.

“The FA have charged him for saying a referee was not physically up to scratch.

“The reality is they have almost begged his forgiveness for doing so. Anyone else, they’d have crushed.”

Sami's Farewell

2009-05-26T23:47:00.001+08:00

European fans rate Liverpool boss Benitez best in game

2009-03-29T13:21:00.000+08:00

European fans rate Liverpool boss Benitez best in game

29 March 2009

Europe’s biggest newspapers have named Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez as the best coach in the world.

Spain’s AS and Marca, plus Italian broadsheet La Gazzetta dello Sport conducted online polls asking their readers to vote for the best coach in world football.

Liverpool’s manager was an overwhelmingly popular figure and came out on top, winning more votes than the likes of Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger, Fabio Capello, Marcello Lippi, Vicente Del Bosque and Barcelona’s Josep Guardiola.

In Marca, Rafa got 44 per cent of the vote to finish ahead of Guardiola (28 per cent) and Wenger (7 per cent).

Meanwhile, in AS, Benitez took 34 per cent with Guardiola in second place (19 per cent) and Spain’s Head Coach Del Bosque third (15 per cent).

Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport had Rafa out in front with 24.6 per cent, ahead of Ferguson (17.2 per cent) and Mourinho (15 per cent).

Is this the start of the decline and the fall of the Ferguson Empire?

2009-03-29T13:20:00.000+08:00

Is this the start of the decline and the fall of the Ferguson Empire?

Piers Morgan
28 March 2009

Sir Alex Ferguson is a keen student of history. In his interview with the gut-wrenchingly sycophantic Alastair ‘I support Burnley and Manchester United’ Campbell for New Statesman magazine last week, he banged on about how much he loves reading about, and picking up tips from, such great leaders as Abraham Lincoln.

So I’m sure Sir Alex won’t mind me also turning to past events to try to glean some insight into what is going on with Manchester United.

Until two weeks ago, Sir Alex’s empire looked unbeatable in any competition.

Their squad appeared to be the biggest, most powerful army of men ever assembled on a field of combat.

I, like many, was convinced they had a real chance of winning the first-ever quintuple.

But history tells us that when any empire reaches that point of virtual global supremacy, equally total ignominious collapse usually lies never far away. So it seems with United.

Thrashed 4-1 by Liverpool, then stuffed 2-0 by Fulham, they now find themselves engulfed in self-doubt, bitter recrimination, civil unrest and that decaying stench that follows the gloriously intoxicating aura of invincibility.

We Arsenal fans know all about that. After going through the 2003-04 season unbeaten, our own Invincibles disintegrated faster than former RBS boss Fred ‘The Shred’ Goodwin’s smirk after the vandals struck.

For United, though, the parallels with the Fall of Rome are a more obvious analogy.

One of the best history books ever written is Edward Gibbon’s The History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire, an enormous series of tomes that charts in vivid detail how and why the seemingly unstoppable Romans went belly-up.

In a nutshell, the demise began with too much money and arrogance, leading to a breakdown in the phenomenal discipline that had made the Romans omnipotent.

Overpaid, and overfed, the star soldiers grew lazy and took their eyes off the ball.

This led to stupid mistakes, a loss of their all-important fear factor and, as a consequence, increased levels of confidence in their enemies. Sound familiar, Fergie?

I watched the United games against Liverpool and Fulham and could scarcely believe what I was seeing.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a limp shadow of the goalscoring machine of last season.

Wayne Rooney showed once again the petulance that has blighted his career.

And as for Dimitar Berbatov, he is displaying all the commitment and fighting spirit of a diseased aardvark.

But for me, the defining moment that signified the possible beginning of the end of the Ferguson empire came when Fernando Torres made such a muppet out of Nemanja Vidic.

For the country’s best defender to be humiliated on the biggest stage in such a way was a hammer blow that seemed to suck every vestige of imperialistic life out of the hapless Serb and his colleagues.

I wrote a few months ago that if Steven Gerrard and Torres stayed fit, then Liverpool could win the league.

And, as virtually every other football pundit still maintains that United will recover and prevail, I’m going to stick my neck out and say that I believe Liverpool will win - IF, and it’s a crucial ‘if’, those two phenomenal players remain injury-free for the rest of the season.

On a more positive note, I suspect that the decline and fall of the Ferguson empire would not have quite as catastrophic an effect on civilisation as the decline of the Romans had.

That sounded the death knell - for centuries - for literacy and education, sophisticated architecture and the rule of written law.

I can’t quite see the departure of Mr. Rooney, the Theatre of Dreams or United’s shocking disciplinary record leaving quite the same vacuum.

And to all those United fans who will mock me when they read this, let me remind you that on their shirts, your players still have the letters of their sponsors, AIG.

Which is ironic really, because at the time that deal was struck, AIG were the Roman Empire of global insurance - a supremely successful, seemingly unbeatable entity at the top of their game.

Today, within just a few months, they have become a disastrous laughing stock, brought to their knees by greed and laziness.

They were a bunch of Berbatovs - very expensive but averse to due diligence.

Blips in football are nothing new but to blip at this particular time of the season, in this alarming way, just when your most ferocious rivals hit the form of their lives, may not just be ‘squeaky-bum’ time for United and Sir Alex.

It might be Time, period.

Rafalution

2009-03-24T14:58:00.000+08:00

Rafalution

By ANTONY KASTRINAKIS
23 March 2009

Today we reveal the secrets of Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez’s Red Revolution.

Benitez has completely transformed the club who were the sleeping giants of English football when he arrived in 2004.

And SunSport can uncover the most intimate secrets of what is known around Anfield as the Rafalution.

Resurgent Liverpool moved within a point of Premier League leaders Manchester United at the weekend and suddenly their first title in 19 years does not seem impossible.

Benitez, 48, has just signed a new five-year, £20million contract in a superb fortnight that has seen the Reds put 13 goals past Real Madrid, United and Aston Villa.

So as the Spaniard begins his second five-year cycle at the club we reveal how he:

• Has created a 70-strong scouting network and a players’ database with information on 14,000 professionals.

• Transformed the training ground and even had a hotel built for the players at Melwood.

• Banned fizzy drinks and revolutionised the players’ eating habits.

• Built a video room and hired staff who can get any game from the world’s 12 top leagues.

Benitez’s former Anfield No 2 Paco Herrera, now boss of Castellon in Spain, was a vital member of his original quartet of assistants that also included Paco Ayestaran, Jose Manuel Ochotorena and Alex Miller.

Herrera said: “Rafa lives football 24 hours a day, that’s the first detail.

“He has faith in his coaching staff and we had a great team of people.

“In the first two years we played five finals and we won three.

“It was an excellent group of people. We met every morning to prepare the work of the week and the work of the day.

“We studied the rivals we were going to face. Benitez does not leave any room for improvisation and he himself supervises everything.

“It’s true he has a database with information on more than 10,000 players.

“Everything started when we arrived there. I signed on as assistant manager but three months later my role changed because we all realised that there were serious problems in the technical department.

“Liverpool was very antiquated in that sense. So Rafa asked me to change my role and occupy myself with this issue. He wanted me to become the chief scout and start organising, along with himself, the technical department.

“It was when we started to sign up all the scouts — and from what I remember all the ones who started then are still there.

“All of them, or almost all of them, have had a direct professional relationship with Rafa — like Laurent Viaud, who was a player at Extremadura when Rafa was boss and is now a French scout.

“We started incorporating people from one country or another. As time went by Rafa proposed to create a personal database, apart from the one at the club which is also very interesting.

“So he created a personal one and that’s where every day all the scouts from every country are putting information on all the players they are watching.

“I would say it would be closer to 14,000 players than 10,000.”

And thorough Benitez did not stop at the scouting network. Everything from dietary habits to training-ground facilities and spying on Liverpool’s opponents changed radically.

A video room was created with a dedicated team of people who can give Benitez DVDs of any game he wants from at least 12 top leagues in the world.

And a hotel was built in the training ground so the manager can keep his players there on the eve of big games, especially in Europe.

Herrera added: “Everything was created little by little.

“Most of the things were done in the first two years. Like the video room, with staff who deal with this issue 100 per cent.

“There are big satellite dishes and contracts with two or three companies that make sure that every month the club get all the videos from every country.

“There have been little improvements, even though Melwood was already an excellent training ground.

“In the second year we started building a hotel of about 20 rooms.

“It was completed before I left, so that the players could concentrate there above all before Champions League games.

“The players rest there in the training centre and they don’t go to any hotel.

“Ayestaran and Benitez also created small hills in the training ground for the players to do resistance running.

“Everything is very detailed and thought through.”

The players’ dietary habits also underwent a radical transformation, from the times of meals to what the Kop idols actually eat.

Herrera added: “Yes, the dietary habits were changed from the outset when we arrived.

“In general terms, in the teams where the management staff were English the diet was not very careful.

“So at the start in the entire training ground, which is very big, in the restaurant, in areas with refrigerators where you can get energy drinks and isotonic drinks — as soon as Rafa arrived he banned everything that he thought might be bad for the players.

“From that day the food was meticulously studied because the players eat breakfast there and also lunch.

“Now every breakfast or lunch is made with commonsense for the good of an athlete.”

Having inherited a distinctly average squad from previous chief Gerard Houllier, Benitez managed to go on and win the Champions League, European Super Cup and the FA Cup in his first two years.

He reached the Champions League final again in 2007 but lost to AC Milan — the side the Reds famously came back from three down at half-time to beat in Istanbul two years before that.

This season Liverpool are mounting a credible title challenge for the first time during the Benitez era — and the first time since the 2001-02 campaign when the Anfield outfit finished second behind Arsenal.

Since Herrera left in the summer of 2006, Benitez’s backroom set-up has also undergone a transformation.

Former players Sammy Lee and Mauricio Pellegrino, plus ex-Valencia and Atletico Madrid fitness coach Paco De Miguel, now hold the key positions.

Herrera added: “What most people like at Anfield is to have an idea of play and a set pattern. Win or lose, the team plays with purpose and a pre-determined idea.

“What they value is the personality of Rafa. Professionals are respected there and Rafa is hugely respected.

“Bill Shankly is a myth for them - he is everything.

“But I think that Rafa, in those five years at least, will match what they consider Shankly to be.”

ZZ rates Stevie G the tops

2009-03-13T12:38:00.000+08:00

ZZ rates Stevie G the tops

By MATT PARKER

13 March 2009

ZINEDINE ZIDANE has called Steven Gerrard the best player in the world.

The French legend also hailed midfielder Stevie G as the ‘heartbeat’ of the Liverpool team.

Former Real Madrid star ZZ said: “Is he the best in the world? He might not get the attention of Messi and Ronaldo but yes, I think he just might be.

“If you don’t have a player like Steven Gerrard, who is the engine room, it can affect the whole team.

“When we were winning league titles and European Cups at Real, I always said Claude Makelele was our most important player.

“There is no way myself, Figo or Raul would have been able to do what we did without Claude and the same goes for Liverpool and Gerrard.

“When Claude left us for Chelsea I campaigned for us to buy Patrick Vieira and Gerrard is now in the same mould as him.

“For many years, Patrick was the most complete midfielder in the world and now that award must go to Gerrard.

“No team will be successful without a heartbeat and you can see Gerrard is that heartbeat.

“He has great passing ability, can tackle and scores goals, but most importantly he gives the players around him confidence and belief.

“You can’t learn that — players like him are just born with that presence.”

Hiddink: Man Utd’s Ronaldo didn’t deserve World Player gong

2009-01-25T17:12:00.000+08:00

Russia coach Guus Hiddink has slammed the crowning of Manchester United ace Cristiano Ronaldo as World Player of the Year.

“Cristiano Ronaldo is a good-looking footballer, he looks fit and, oh yes, his hair is always in place,” said Hiddink. “But him winning the award is too much about glamour.”

Hiddink insisted that Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, who today faces an FA Cup Merseyside derby with Everton, had a greater claim to being named the best player on the planet.

“I very much preferred Gerrard,” said Hiddink. “He has superb technical and tactical qualities and I admire his spirit and attitude on the pitch.

“It has everything to do with his passion for the game and my passion for football.

“He is a player who fans can identify themselves with and a man who carries the love for his club on his club badge.

“There is not another player in the world who combines all those qualities. He is the type of player who appeals so much more to me than Cristiano Ronaldo.

“Of course, Ronaldo entertains the crowds and has great skills. But it is too much glamour and show. Gerrard, Barcelona’s Xavi and Messi are not as much focused on themselves. They focus on the team.”

These are reasons why Rafa doesn't want Pennant

2009-01-24T22:36:00.001+08:00

A Life Less Ordinary – Gerrard’s Battle to Breathe in a Claustrophobic City

2008-12-31T00:36:00.001+08:00

The high-profile leader of a Liverpool side seeking to end their title drought does not have it easy off the pitch, writes Sam Wallace

Liverpool run out of suitors amid world financial woe

2008-12-09T13:15:00.001+08:00

Gillett tight-lipped on sale prospects as Middle Eastern buyers disappear from view

Top of the league and a top place in their Champions League group if they collect more points in Eindhoven tonight than Atletico Madrid do in Marseilles but Liverpool’s co-owner has not dismissed suggestions he has employed investment bankers to find a buyer for what appears to be the most unwanted English club.

In an interview with a Canadian radio station, George Gillett avoided a direct response to a suggestions that he and co-owner Tom Hicks have enlisted the help of Merrill Lynch to find a buyer, with the loans they took out to buy the club due for rescheduling in January. “We wouldn’t have any comment on that, there’s too much speculation already’,” Gillett said. Some financial analysts believe that with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, who has been trying to purchase the club for the last two years, no longer interested, a purchaser will probably only now be found if the Americans are forced into a fire sale by their banks foreclosing on them or them running out of money. The Americans may be wishing they accepted the £500m Sheikh Maktoum offered them before the credit crunch hit and may even accept £350m, the total sum of the loans, some financiers believe.

There appears to be no prospect of the mystery Middle East suitor who came to the table several months ago returning, despite the competition provided by Sheikh Maktoum having gone. Though some sources suggest a £500m deal, with the prospective buyer also taking on the club’s debt, was agreed and that the deal was within minutes of being signed, that prospect seems to be in the past.

Gillett said that he was not worried about the club’s revenues dropping in the financial crisis. The public’s discretionary spend on sport to “take your mind off the trouble of the day” tended to hold up well, he said. “We have a list of season ticket fans which is substantially larger than the amount of tickets available,” Gillett added. But Liverpool’s growth is dependent on having owners who can fund a new stadium, a project which, Gillett reiterated, was off in the “intermediate” future.

Emotions do not drive decision-making for individuals like Gillett but he and the Canadian media present his “soccer” franchise “over the pond” as the antithesis of his Montreal Candiens hockey franchise. While he eulogised about the cash he has ploughed into a new training facility for the Canadiens, his distaste of the British media which he expressed after a business conference in London last month was barely concealed once again.

The boy who became king: Ten years after he turned heads against Arsenal, Gerrard has become one of the world’s top midfielders

2008-11-29T13:18:00.002+08:00

Liverpool deal collapses

2008-11-05T17:42:00.000+08:00

The Sun
4 November 2008

Liverpool’s Yank owners were stunned after a shock Arab takeover collapsed.

George Gillett and Tom Hicks held secret talks with a new Middle East consortium – and were willing to sell the club for less than £500million.

Talks were so advanced that due diligence, the process of going through the Anfield accounts, took place last month.

The accounts even forecast the Kop outfit would make a projected profit of £45million by the end of this season — a claim city experts believe is totally unrealistic.

But Hicks and Gillett were left empty-handed when the Arabs dramatically walked away at the 11th hour.

The news puts the Americans under intense pressure to accept the £500m offer still on the table from Dubai International Capital, who have a long-held interest in buying the club.

Hicks and Gillett borrowed £350m from the Royal Bank of Scotland to help them buy Liverpool but that deal expires in January.

And with the bank already a major victim of the credit crunch, there is a danger the Americans will fail to get the loan deal they need to remain owners of the club.

That could let in DIC, who have pledged to invest heavily in Liverpool’s new stadium, currently put on hold by the cash-strapped Yanks, and the playing squad.

Milan Make €35m Bid For Fabregas - Reports

2008-10-31T00:21:00.001+08:00

Milan have made a €35m bid for Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas and he could arrive as soon as January, according to Calciomercato.com.

MP: Liverpool FC sale to Americans a ‘major blunder’

2008-08-30T21:58:00.000+08:00

Aug 30 2008 by Tony Barrett, Liverpool Echo

LIVERPOOL MP Peter Kilfoyle today described the decision to sell Liverpool Football Club to Tom Hicks and George Gillett as “a major, major blunder”.

Kilfoyle, whose Walton constituency includes both Anfield and Stanley Park, spoke out against the club’s owners in the wake of the latest delay to hit Liverpool’s plans for a new stadium.

Having vowed to have a spade in the ground of Stanley Park within 60 days of taking over in February 2007, Hicks and Gillett were yesterday forced into yet more embarrassing backtracking as they admitted work on the new stadium has again been delayed.

The Americans blamed global market conditions for the postponement and have come up with a new timetable for completion which would see the new stadium open for business for the start of the 2012/13 season – a year later than previously promised.

Kilfoyle is aghast at the latest developments and is dubious about the ability of Hicks and Gillett to deliver on their pledge.

And by inference he also questioned the wisdom of previous owner David Moores to sell out to the American duo.

He said: “I have to say it was a major, major blunder to sell to these people.

“They are not putting any money into the club and everything they have done so far is built on third party finance.

“They are not meeting the commitments they made to this city and the Liverpool fans on the new stadium and it is little wonder that so many people have turned against them.

“It is also important to remember that they are also letting down the people of Anfield who have remained very patient as they await the start of work on the new stadium which will signal the beginning of a much needed regeneration process for that area.

“The current owners are dragging down the reputation of Liverpool Football Club and in many ways they are turning it into a laughing stock.

“Personally, I have no faith in them delivering on what they have promised.”

Kilfoyle believes that the Dubaians, whom Moores rejected in favour of Hicks and Gillett, would have been much more suitable owners for Liverpool and he also had some words of support for beleaguered chief executive Rick Parry.

He added: “I had some dealings with Dubai when the original talks to buy the club took place and I have to say they were a much more attractive proposition for me as a local politician as far as the club and the city were concerned.

“Had they taken over I would have expected their investment to spill over into the city as a whole.

“I have to say I feel very sorry for Rick Parry in all of this because he is the meat in the sandwich. It is the owners who are making the decisions and it is they who must carry the responsibility for the current problems, not him.”

Arabs eye £500m Liverpool buy-out

2008-01-13T13:34:00.000+08:00

Sissoko free to leave Liverpool

2008-01-12T22:52:00.000+08:00

Klinsmann was offered Benitez's job

2008-01-12T12:41:00.000+08:00

Benitez digs his own grave

2008-01-07T22:13:00.001+08:00

Liverpool chief Parry jets to USA for crunch talks

2008-01-07T14:44:00.000+08:00

Mourinho fancies Benitez's Liverpool job

2008-01-06T20:40:00.001+08:00

RAFA: MY TIME'S UP

2008-01-06T20:26:00.000+08:00

Juve line up Sissoko swoop

2008-01-01T14:23:00.000+08:00

Now players get roasted by Fergie

2007-12-30T17:19:00.001+08:00

Hicks questions Rafa policy

2007-12-29T18:45:00.001+08:00

Unlike owners, Mascherano must stay

2007-12-28T12:25:00.001+08:00

Sami Hyypia setback puts pressure on Liverpool’s fragile defence

2007-12-28T11:31:00.001+08:00

Torres' class cannot stop Benítez pleading poverty

2007-12-24T19:10:00.001+08:00

Benitez: Mascherano key to Torres success

2007-12-24T15:08:00.001+08:00

Crespo hails Liverpool's "fighter" Torres

2007-12-24T14:56:00.001+08:00

Liverpool plan new bid for Real Madrid's Heinze

2007-12-24T14:44:00.001+08:00

Torres outstripping Gerrard in Liverpool shirt sales

2007-12-23T14:05:00.000+08:00

Klinsmann remains in frame for Liverpool job

2007-12-23T14:04:00.001+08:00

Liverpool money crisis deepens as American owners miss deadline over £220m debt

2007-12-23T14:02:00.001+08:00

Yanks facing takeover bid

2007-12-23T13:57:00.000+08:00

The Difference Between Liverpool and Manchester United

2007-12-20T21:39:00.001+08:00

Liverpool need to sell

2007-12-18T22:03:00.001+08:00

Liverpool deny transfer ban claim

2007-12-18T21:29:00.000+08:00

Liverpool's belt tightening leaves Benitez in a squeeze

2007-12-18T16:31:00.000+08:00

Wes Brown desperate to join Liverpool

2007-12-18T00:47:00.000+08:00

Manchester United show why Americans must listen to Rafa Benitez

2007-12-18T00:27:00.001+08:00

George Gillett: We’re right behind Rafa Benitez

2007-12-18T00:17:00.000+08:00

Parry admits: Summer stadium plans ditched

2007-12-18T00:11:00.000+08:00

You'll Never Walk Alone

2007-12-16T21:08:00.000+08:00

Liverpool's owners gamble by warning manager Benitez: You've no money for new players

2007-12-16T19:42:00.001+08:00

Liverpool boss Benitez admits considering resigning

2007-12-16T19:41:00.001+08:00

Man Utd's Ferguson: Liverpool win title? You're fucking joking!

2007-12-16T19:39:00.000+08:00

Fernando Torres faces the apache

2007-12-16T19:25:00.001+08:00

Liverpool may Kop owners’ debt

2007-12-16T19:22:00.001+08:00

Liverpool playing catch-up as clock ticks for Benitez

2007-12-16T19:17:00.001+08:00

Torres adds a new dimension to Liverpool

2007-12-15T14:44:00.000+08:00

Fernando Torres rekindles memories of past greats

Ferguson eyes Liverpool record

2007-12-15T14:39:00.001+08:00

Fairclough: Torres can Torment MU

2007-12-15T14:32:00.000+08:00

Sir Alex Ferguson gives his backing to Rafael Benitez as Anfield owners ride into town

2007-12-15T14:16:00.001+08:00

David Moore, you're a traitor to sell Liverpool to Tom Hicks

2007-12-15T13:59:00.000+08:00

Liverpool aim to beat their bogey team

2007-12-15T11:31:00.000+08:00

Anfield no place for 'lambs' says Ferguson

2007-12-15T00:46:00.000+08:00

Torres the new dimension to Reds’ firepower

2007-12-15T00:33:00.001+08:00

Rafa waits for chance to finally speak to owners

2007-12-15T00:17:00.001+08:00

Kuyt & Mascherano Hail Reds Striker Torres

2007-12-14T19:29:00.001+08:00

Rafa relaxed in role as talks loom

2007-12-14T19:23:00.001+08:00

Revitalised Reds plan Anfield statement of title intentions

2007-12-14T19:20:00.001+08:00

Benitez backing Reds to scratch six-year itch

2007-12-14T19:17:00.001+08:00

Benitez presses Liverpool to bring forward Mascherano deal

2007-12-14T19:15:00.001+08:00

Benitez: Less pressure on Torres at Liverpool

2007-12-14T19:14:00.001+08:00

Benitez wants control of Liverpool transfers

2007-12-14T19:13:00.000+08:00

Benitez wants Liverpool defensive signing

2007-12-14T19:12:00.001+08:00

Liverpool boss Benitez denies Gerrard rift

2007-12-14T19:11:00.001+08:00

Man Utd No2 Queiroz: Torres transformed Liverpool

2007-12-14T19:05:00.000+08:00

Benitez says Liverpool's spending below big clubs

2007-12-14T18:54:00.000+08:00