Enjoyed your comment about Gerrard's jerseys selling more than Chelsea's! Funny votes!

Hey Ryan,

You've posted a few rumours in the Liverpool chat area recently but post no links or give no source, and people are wondering where you get the info. Do us a favour and post a link to the site you got the info from

Cheers

Ant

Yeah. I´m from Aalborg. Or Nørresundby, witch just over a bridge. Why mate

* Arbeloa (RB). We could also use him now. Made a profit on this guy, but 4m was too cheap to sell

Especially without having a proper backup RB

Response > it was either that or we loose him to the bosman rule, so getting 4 million is more than we

Could wish for.

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*Alonso. Could really use him now. Letting Alonso go and then not even getting Garreth Barry was Rafa's

Biggest mistake IMO.


Response> we could certainly use him, but we are not into slavery, we don't keep players against their

Will, he wanted to leave and having given us 5 years I think it was the best thing to do to respect his

Wishes, and we did make more money than what he is worth from that sale.

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*Hyppia. Letting Hyppia go for FREE, then paying 2m for Kyrgiakos who is probably no better, is basically

A loss of 2m.


Response> Hypia wanted to play first team football, something we could not offer him, and after all those

Years were we going to stop him from leaving? Given the price we paid for him and how much he gave to us,

That two million we paid for his replacement is peanuts, just a token of our good faith.



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*Glen Johnson. B+. Good long-term signing, english, but pretty expensive and Arbeloa was fine at RB.

Response> expensive really, he is the best english player in that position. He is one of the five best

Player in his position.
Other alternatives: 1 Maicon $30 millions
2 Alves $30 - $35 millions
3 Asley Cole $30 - $35 millions
4 Evra $20 - $25 millions

Do you still think we spent over the top? And you already have the answer for Abelao, staying was not

Even an option for him.

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*Aquilani. C+. I bet rafa wished he had held onto that 18m instead of buying aquilani.


Response> well first it's very hard to judge a player on his first year at the club, specially coming from injury. He is a player in the $30- $35 millions we got for half price. I don't think we can complain about that. It's just our blessing that lucas is developing into one of the best midfielders in the epl, and that we are blessed in that area. Were there any better option available on the market.... Let see yes, ronaldo, kaka could we have afforded them? I don't think so.


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Kyrgiakos. B+ Has been in good form lately and has a warrior-mentality, but not sure if he's any better than Hyppia.

Response> B+ is even more of what was expected from that guy. He was bough in to play mostle in cups games or when our main players needed a rest and those matches when we needed a tough presence in the air. Last but not least to help the young players such as kelly, darby and ayala to progress. He has done exactly what he was bought for.





Final verdict from my point of view atleast. Rafa A-. He did brillantly with what he had, no one could forsee all those injuries coming at once, specially all those players loosing form. Of course he could have done better.... Their was adriano, owen available on free. The worst thing he did was to trust babel to come good and show a bit of determination, he was abit naiive there, that's his character to give people thier chances, once more babel not coming good aint his fault if only he wasn't a lazyboy lol.
Hopefully pachecho will get more chances and with the arrival of jovanovic and nemeth we will have a very good team for next year and injury free! YNWA

I gotta' ask.... Who is the guy in your pic?