JAMIE CARRAGHER'S LAST GAME

Jamie Carragher will be playing his final game for Liverpool on Sunday 19th May 2013. having won two FA Cups, three League Cups, two Community Shields, one Champions League, one UEFA Cup and two Super Cups in his 16th years playing with the club he loves.

Naturally, it promises to be an emotional day for the crowd, if not the player himself who has vowed not to shed a single tear, preferring, instead to concentrate on the job of playing well on the pitch and ensuring that Liverpool emerge victorious in their final game of the Season.

Sky Sports punditry alongside Jamie Rednapp and Gary Neville beckon for the boy from Bootle for a Season or two, at least, should be interesting to say the least.

The QPR game will also be a chance for Daniel Sturridge to add to his impressive tally of 10 goals since his January signing, while the sensational Philippe Coutinho will be hoping to add to his 7 assists and 2 goals since his move to Liverpool at the turn of the year.

3-1 to the Reds   

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LIVERPOOL V QPR: CARRA'S RETIREMENT

 

Liverpool v QPR

 

 

 

 

Liverpool face into their final game of the season and Jamie Carragher's final game ever for the club this Sunday.
It is sure to be a highly-charged occasion for the man who has played 736 games for the club and Anfield will be rocking to his every tackle, tousle and triumph in the game.

Liverpool are ending this season on something of a high having won 7, drawn 4 and only losing one of their last 12 games in the League against Steve Clarke's WBA back in February.

Brendan Rodger's team are 4-1 on to win their final home game against relegated QPR, checkout Unibet for the best odds on a Liverpool home win, Sturridge to score his twelfth goal at 2/1 for the Reds since his January move from Chelsea, the young striker has been a sensation since he joined Liverpool.

Phillipe Coutinho has also been sensational since his arrival from Inter in January, providing countless assists for Sturridge as well as getting a couple of goals himself.

But the main attention on Sunday will be on Jamie Carragher, we are certain now to be 7th in the League, Carra will captain the side for the final time and if we get a penalty, what are the odds that he gets to take it?

We will miss you Carra.



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QATARI GIANTS SET TO BUY MAJORITY STAKE IN LIVERPOOL FC

 

 

Major news concerning the future of Liverpool FC is that Quatari Telecoms Giants: Ooredoo wish to buy a majority stake-holding in John W Henry's Liverpool.

 

 

It is believed that FSG are under some financial stress with their baseball team barely breaking even and their other team Liverpool costing them money in terms of cash already invested and the knowledge that much more investment is needed to get the players in who will challenge for the top four next Season.

 

John W Henry is a balance-sheet man and he has realised that balancing the books alone at Liverpool will not be enough to achieve tangible success at Anfield.

 

To this end he has begun negotiations with Qatar's very rich Telecommunications company, Ooredoo to buy a majority stake in his £300 million purchase of Liverpool FC, now worth £670 due to sponsorship deals with shirt-sponsors Warrior Sport and club sponsors Standard Chartered Bank.

 

The cash injection needed to propel Liverpool forward into the future can only come from the UAE company and discussions and due-diligence of Liverpool's accounts are already underway. 

 

A Quatari spokesman, last week stated:

'We want to sponsor the club in full. We want to sponsor the stadium (possibly rename it) as well as the club's kits. Our goal is to reach the Asian markets where the Premier League has an enormous fan base.

 'We received the tender from the club a few days ago and we are currently in the process of due diligence and we are studying each aspect of the study.

 'It is a dual interest, Liverpool needs the money to compete with the European heavyweights and we want to expand our brand to reach new markets via football.'

While this is not a Hicks/Gillette scenario, it is far from ideal.

Fenway Sports Group still wish to keep a sizeable stake in the club, but it will be a minority one.

Lets await developments... 

 

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ATLETICO WANT SUAREZ AND BARCA WANT REINA

The papers have swung into overdrive today with some saying that Athletico Madrid will bid £40 million for Liverpool's controversial goal-machine Luis Suarez.

Despite LFC and the player himself publicly stating that Suarez is happy at Anfield, this hasn't stopped the speculation continuing as a replacement for  the departing Falcao is urgently required by the Madrid club.

Won't happen.


Meanwhile the Pepe Reina to Barcelona rumour has suddenly re-surfaced again with papers writing that now a £9 million is being offered to Liverpool for Reina.

True, he might like to return to his home club where he played as a young goal-keeper, but, he has performed so well this season and is such an integral part of the whole Liverpool team, I hope he stays.

Other News:

• Alex Ferguson to retire this week
• Mourinho to Utd
• Moyes to Utd
• Same old nonsense

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BRENDAN RODGERS HOPES FOR NEW BLOOD IN THE SUMMER TRANSFER-WINDOW

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, was in Northern Ireland yesterday at the launch of the Annual International Youth Milk Cup.

He did a press-conference at the opening of the event and gave his thoughts on the Summer transfer-window and the need for new faces at Liverpool for next Season:

"The club respect where we need to strengthen and where we need to improve," Rodgers told Sky Sports.

"We have seen from the last window in January, we got our business done early and brought in two outstanding players in Sturridge and Coutinho.

"Hopefully we will have a similar impact in the summer. If we can do that, that will make me really happy with the group going forward.

"I just think we need a bit more depth and a bit more quality.
"The players this year have done very well. I have asked everything of them and, in the main, they have done very well.

"The majority of the time, there have not been too many performances where I have been really disappointed."

Certainly, after the 6-0 thrashing of Newcastle away on Saturday with January signings Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge starring for the team, they are aiming to finish in the coveted top four, next Season.

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Next up for Liverpool is the Merseyside derby at Anfield, Sunday lunch-time.

It should be a cracking encounter with Everton in 6th on 59 points, while Liverpool are 7th on 54 points.

A Liverpool win over the toffees would close the gap to just two points and while Europe is slightly beyond the Reds this Season, to finish above David Moyes's team in the League would be great, as always.

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