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?

There doesn’t seem to be an awful lot going on for Liverpool fans right now,  more accurately there isn’t an awful lot to feel excited about.  Whilst the likes of Villa and Arshavin dance their way across the fields of Austria and Switzerland as Red fans we can only watch glumly, from the sidelines in the knowledge that such riches are currently beyond our means.

It’s all ifs, buts and maybes right now.  The Gareth Barry saga rolls ever onwards,  Juve seem a bit closer to coming in for Xavi and Pompey’s bid for Crouch has been dismissed, with their eyes possibly switching to Yossi instead.   So quiet is the transfer talk around Anfield right now that the Mirror’s taken to making things up .  Originally the Mirror rticle had Rafa demanding money to sign Daniel Alves, some coup that would be since he’s already signed an agreement to join Barcelona.

Surprisingly news that work has finally begun on the new stadium has made few headlines. Although given the on-off-on-off-oh shit we’ve got no money-on-off-on nature of the project under Hicks and Gilett it’s fair to say this latest step is to be taken with a pinch of salt.

The Barry transfer is starting to feel ever more important.  On the one hand we don’t want to be held to ransom, but if we come out of this summer yet again with Rafa getting only his 2nd or 3rd choices for each position how can we realistically expect anything apart from another season where we’re out of the title race by Xmas and scrapping for 4th with Everton come the springtime?

Hopefully the current transfer nonsense is all part of a smoke and mirrors attempt to cover up something positive, “Hope in our hearts” – for sure, no?

Karl Eisenhauer