Thought I would make a thread to discuss this season's matches, Rather than lots of single threads.. First up, Auxerre V Liverpool Any news on the line up? How do you think it will go?
The Lineup.... Mihaylov Finnan Palleta Carragher Arbeloa Yossi Gerrard Hobbs Babel Voronin Kuyt Subs...Reina, Carson, Hyypia, JAR, Pennant, El Zhar, Crouch, Darby, Agger, Alonso, Torres...
Completed Transfers Season 2007/8 Liverpools in & outs!!! Confirmed In's Andriy Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen) - Free. Sebastián Leto (Lanús) - 2,500,000. Lucas Pezzini Leiva (Gremio) - 6,750,000. Krisztian Nemeth (MTK Hungaria) - 750,000. Andras Simon (MTK Hungaria) - 750,000. Alexander Kacaniklic (Helsingborgs) undisclosed. Gary Makay Steven (Ross County)- undisclosed. Marvin Pourie (Borussia Dortmund) - undislosed. Jay Spearing (Acadamy graduate.) Ray Putterill (Acadamy graduate). Martin Hansen (Acadamy graduate). Nikolay Mihaylov (Levski Sofia) -undisclosed. Mikel San Jose (Athletic Bilbao) 270,000. Dani Pacheco (Barcelona) - undisclosed. Fernando Torres (Athletico Madrid) - 20,300,000 Ryan Crowther (Stockport County) - undisclosed. David Amoo (Millwall) - undisclosed. Yossi Benayoun (West Ham Utd) - 4,500,000. Ryan Babel (AFC Ajax) - 11,500,000. Charles Itandje (Lens) - undisclosed. (Jan08 transfer Window) Alex Cooper - Ross county - £100,000. Pajtim Kasami - Grasshopper Zurich - undisclosed. Lauri Dalla Valle - JIPPO - undisclosed. Martin Skrtel - Zenit St Petersburg - £6,500,000. (March08) Javier Mascherano - Loan Conversion - WestHam (MSI) - £17,000,000 Seasonal Buy's - £70,920m Confirmed Out's Jerzy Dudek - Released. Robbie Foweler - Released. Daniele Padelli - Released. Boudewijn Zenden - Released. Florent Sinama Pongolle - Sold to Recreativo Huelva for 2,700,000. David Roberts - Released. Danny O'Donnell - Sold to Crewe Alexander for 100,000. Luis Garcia - Sold to Athletico Madrid - 2,700,000. Djibril Cisse - Sold to Olympic Marseille for 5,400,000. Craig Bellamy - Sold to West Ham Utd for 7,500,000. Mark Gonzalez - Sold to Real Betis for 3,500,000. Danny Guthrie - Contracted till 2009 - Loaned to Bolton FC for 07/08 season. Godwin Antwi - Contracted till 2009 - Loaned to Hatlepool FC for 07/08 season. Paul Anderson - Lonaed to Swansea FC for 07/08 season. Adam Hammill - Loaned to Southampton FC for 07/08 season. Lee Peltier - Loaned to Yeovil Town FC for 07/08 season. Miki Roque - Contracted till summer 2009 - Loaned to Xerez FC for 07/08 season. Scott Carson - Loaned to Aston Villa FC for 07/08 season. Besian Idrizaj - Loaned to Crystal Palace FC for 07/08 season. Jimmy Ryan - Loaned to Shrewsbury FC. Anthony Le Tallac - Loaned to Le Mans FC for the 07/08/ season. Nikolay Mihaylov - loaned to FC Twente for the 07/08 season. James Smith - Left club by mutual consent. Craig Lindfield - Loaned to Chester City for the 07/08 season. Momo Sissoko - Sold to Juventus FC for £9,720,000. Jack Hobbs - Loaned to Scunthorpe united for 07/08 season. Seasonal sales - £31,620m Net spending this season ( -£39,300m) Source: RAWK (DosyMickKeane) Comfirmation. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article2120571.ece For Previous years http://paultomkins.com/liverpool_spending_04-07.jpg http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/live...a-benitez-s-transfer-history-100252-20150499/ http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=311&Thread=674463&Type=1&Page=1
Liverpool V Portsmouth This is the first real test of the pre season IMO.. Babel, Torres and Levia set to play some part.... Should be a good game... I think 2-1, Liverpool....
Result was a bit disappointing, but a decent performance from the team, Thought Sissoko was by far the best player on the pitch.....
Of course, well done to Pompey anyway.... Torres was impressive at times, lets hope Babel improves... Main thing is none of the team picked up any injuries....
If we would have stuck the ball in the back of the net we would have won....so many chances ....i'm having deja vu already..
Liverpool V Shanghai Shenhua.. Not heard much about these so I don't know what to expect.... Leto is finally set for his debut, so I look forward to seeing him in action... Other than that there isn't much else to talk about... If he plays how do you think he will do? My team would be ---------------Reina--------------- --Finnan--Palleta--Agger--Arbeloa-- ---Pennant--Levia--Alonso--Leto--- ----------Voronin--Torres----------
According to LFC.TV it's a Liverpool XI v Shanghai Shenhua, so based on that: -----------Carson Finnan Carra Hyypia Arbeloa Pennant Leiva Alonso Leto ------Torres Crouch
Team confirmed.. --------------Martin-------------- --Finnan--Palleta--Hyypia--Insua-- --Leto--Lieva--Sissoko--Benayoun-- ----------Torres--Crouch---------
Some half decent performances by our younger players. I defo liked the look of both Insua (looks very tenacious in the tackle) and Leto (looks like a nice signing) both on the left, which is a huge bonus. Was the best I've seen of both Torres and Benayoun, to whom linked up nicely at times, especially for the goal and even Babel looked sharper than he has when he came on. Wasnt the hardest opposition we'll ever face, but still, we did start with a pretty young/inexperienced XI.
Definitely agree about Leto and Insua.... Both looked in good shape the whole match, Insua was good defensively and got forward to good effect linking up nicely with Leto...Leto looks a good prospect, at only 20-21 is certainly one for the future, and hopefully an improvement on Gonzalez.... Also thought Leiva handled him self well, bar the odd miss placed pass.... Agree that Torres, Yossi and Babel gave their best performance for us thus far... All though just pre season I've been very happy so far, hopefully take this form into the Villa game......
Gerrard and Torres' goals showed where our attacking qualities are and that extra individual star ability. I think we can expect a big season off Gerrard this year and that would bring alot out of other players. Leto looked good and on the basis of that one game (which you can't judge him on), produced the quality, I expected from Gonzales last season. I take it Levia is unfit at the moment after his injury but it wasn't nice because of his haircut, I kept on thinking Zenden was still here. The three new lads looked promising, particularly Benayoun and I like the look of Insua at left back. We need another centre back though because Paletta and Hyypia as a partnership would be turned over by decent opposition, as witnessed against Arsenal. As seen with Chelsea last season, with Essien and Ferreira at centre back at Anfield, you can't take that risk, of being short of cover. We were lucky Finnan stayed fit until January, until we bought another right back in. The question for me is where will Babbel and Benayoun play but I think Benitez sees them as being variable.
Benayoun will be a cracking little player for us Inusa looks a very good prospect I must of been drunk last night how did I think Babbel scored the goal ???? (Gerrard one_
Liverpool V Feyenoord Team..... -----------------Riena---------------- ---Arbeloa--Carragher--Agger--Riise--- ----Pennant--Gerrard--Alonso--Kewell---- -------------Kuyt--Voronin-------------- Subs, Martin Finnan Hyppia Torres Benayoun Crouch Babel Mascherano Sissoko
That's the Gerrard we all know and love. He showed more fight there then he did in the whole of last season, even though it was a 'friendly'. About time he backed his team mates up and didn't take any shit. We need to be more cynical though and get stuck in and back each other up because you don't get points for being nice. Riise is still shit and pissed me off today. Constantly giving the ball away, ball watching, hoofing aimless balls up the pitch and with a great chance to shoot, passed because it was on his right foot. We need technical, pacy, cultured players, who can use both feet on the flanks, not limited alehouses players like Riise. He's a glorified David Unsworth.
Quite happy to see Gerrard show a bit of a nasty side, made me smile when Masch' milled Drenthe, he pissed me off quite a bit today..... Even though just a 'warm up tournament' can't help but feel disappointed with some of today's on goings, how the ref and linesman can give a penalty for the supposed handball.. but fail to see an equally tough call with Kuyt's goal....is beyond me... The scuffle at the end was the highlight of the match.....
