Incoming!

Now that all that messy Euro 2008 business is out of the way, and a whole host of new names (mostly Spanish, Russian and Dutch) have made their way onto the shortlists of managers with cash burning holes in their pockets the continent over, we thought it was about time to have a look at the various areas of the pitch in which Rafa and Liverpool might (or might not) be looking to strengthen over the truncated (because hey, nobody but Chelsea does business while there’s a cracking tournament to watch) summer break. Some of the players we’ve been linked with are clearly wild fantasy, others are the sort of name that always seem to pop up but never really seem like realistic targets – but others (not just a certain Villa captain) are clearly names that El Gaffer has in his sights, so just how will he be looking to fit these potential new signings in…?

If I go there will be trouble…

Now then.

It’s all becoming a bit unsavoury.   I’ve very mixed feelings about the Barry transfer largely due to two of our closest friends, and creators of our excellent sister*-blog ‘Oh, It Must Be! It Is!‘ being ardent Villa fans.

Having your club captain (and fan favourite) openly criticise your manager and publically state his intention to join a rival team cannot be easy reading, and given the paper printing the story he’s hardly endearing himself to Liverpool fans either.

Karl Eisenhauer

* – I say sister.  I mean more like an anorexic junkie, slapper, half-cousin obviously.

Nunca Caminaras Solo

So, 42 years after we were last represented by the winner of a major international tournament, the Euro 2008-winning Spain squad contained four Liverpool players (jointly “donating” the most players to the squad, along with Valencia), all of whom saw match action during the tournament. We’ll finish the “Eurowatch” roundup of our various players’ (and ex-players’) fortunes early in the coming week, but for now, I just wanted to say congratulations to Jose Reina, Alvaro Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso (even if he does bugger off to Juve shortly) and final-winning goalscorer Fernando Torres! Let’s just hope it’s some kind of omen for the season ahead…

(Seb Patrick)

Playing spot against the walls of Anfield

“You can’t play with your ball here”.

The word’s spoken by a faceless exec, after some friends and I had purchased a ball from the club shop and began an impromptu kick-about.  Kind of sums up the Parry-era doesn’t it?

Goodnight John Boy

So that’s £139,634 off the monthly wage bill.

New away kit

Football Shirt Culture (pretty much the best site out there for collating leaked kit pictures that float around fan forums, bookmark fans) have posted scans of a leaflet that would seem to confirm our new away kit for 08/09 as being a fetching grey and red number…

EDIT 19.06.08 – The kit is now available to pre-order, with some proper pictures now up, in the online shop.

38 Steps

… to number nineteen?

Well folks, the fixture list for next season is out.

Immediately the home game with Manure on September 13th stands out. After that all our big matches come away.  Everton two weeks later, Chelski on October 25th and then a trip to Emirates on December 20th where hopefully we can grab ourselves an early Christmas present of three points.

We’ll be geeking out on the full fixture list over the next few days so look out for a stat-attack of an update this weekend.

Karl Eisenhauer

Eurowatch – Week One

As Euro 2008 marches on, we thought we’d take a look at how the various LFC players in the competition are doing. Not that we have as much interest in the tournament as, say, Chelski or Arsenal – and most of our players are on the subs’ benches rather than starting – but nevertheless, a couple of Reds have already managed to make an impact…

Hello, Hello.

Hello,

It’s just a word, a greeting.  Apart from one night in Istanbul when it entwined itself with this.

It was the start of a miraculous comeback, the greatest in the history of Liverpool Football Club, the European Cup final, the greatest in football history?  Maybe.

Fifteen minutes after Gerrard’s header we felt that way.  If you did too, this might be the place for you.