Month: July 2010

Friends Of Liverpool

WELCOME BACK FABIO

Nice to see the return of Fabio Aurelio to Liverpool. The injury-prone full-back is once again reunited with his Anfield team-mates as Roy Hodgson took a sensible decision to re-instate him in the Liverpool squad for the new season. The Brazilian has been without a club since Rafa released him in May. Despite Aurelio being […]

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ROY SPEAKS AFTER 2-O WIN

Roy Hodgon expressed his delight at his team’s victory in Macedonia tonight. Two goals by David Ngog gave Liverpool a crucial 2-0 away win to take back to Anfield. “I am delighted at the win tonight, the young boys played well and Ngog took his goals well. I am disapointed that we gave the ball away […]

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LUKE YOUNG DISCUSSING TERMS WITH LIVERPOOL

Aston Villa’s Luke Young is close to completing a move to Liverpool. His agent, Andy Evans said the two clubs had agreed a fee, believed to be around £2.5 million and are now discussing terms for the 31 year old full-back. Young has travelled with Martin O’ Neill’s side on their pre-season tour of Portugal, but […]

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LIVERPOOL AGREE TO MASCHERANO DEPARTURE

Liverpool have this evening allowed Xavier Mascherano to leave the club. The combative midfielder arrived back at Anfield today as expected and immediately began talks about his exit from the club with Roy Hodgson and the Liverpool board. “The talks were extremely amicable. It was all done in a very nice way. Javier made it clear […]

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SHOULD ROY RISK WORLD CUP PLAYERS IN EUROPA LEAGUE MATCH?

Roy Hodgson faces an enormous selection dilemna this week. As we begin our Europa League campaign on Thursday in Macedonia, he must decide whether to persevere with the Academy and reserve team players who did well enough but were clearly second best in yesterday’s defeat to Kaiserslautern. “The sports science people are keen we don’t throw the […]

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LIVERPOOLS YOUNG REDS LOSE IN GERMANY

Liverpool lost 1-0 to German side buy one goal to nil this evening thanks to a cool finish by Micanski after 32 minutes. Kaiserslataurn ran out easy winnersagainst a second-string Liverpool team filled with youngsters like Ayala, Darby, Eccelestone and Amoo, and, in truth, they stuggled against an experienced German team. Looks like the massed […]

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RIERA RAT TO DESERT SINKING SHIP

It appears that all is going well with Hodgson’s removal plans as Albert Riera is set to join Olympiakos in a £4.2 million deal. The player who denigrated our club last season with remarks such as ‘Liverpool are a sinking ship’ etc, might have been somewhat correct at the time after our dour last season under Benitez, has […]

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PURSLOW LOCKED IN TALKS WITH TORRES

Following this evening’s draw with Grasshoppers of Zurich, Roy Hodgson was quizzed about the future of key Liverpool striker Fernando Torres. Hodson revealed that: “Christian Purslow has been talking to Fernando Torres for the last two days so I think there has probably been lots of words from Fernando Torres but I haven’t actually spoken […]

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PURSLOW MUST BUY REMY TO SIGNAL LIVERPOOL’S INTENT

Great news with the signing of Joe Cole on a free from Chelsea on a four deal with Liverpool, but it must be backed up with some hard csh-spending on strikers aswell. The man in the news is Loric Remy, a talent from Nice in France. He is a dynamic forward who gets around the […]

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ROY SAYS PURSLOW IN CHARGE OF TRANSFERS

In an extraordinary insight into the current runnings of Liverpool Fc, Roy Hodgson tonight revealed that he has no say into who is bought and who is sold by the club. Instead, amazingly, it is temporary MD Christian Purslow who is solely in charge of all transfer dealings at the club, “If you want to […]

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