Liverpool FC, # 20 Mascherano

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2009 15:43 schreef One_conundrum het volgende:
Ach, Daar ligt de prioriteit niet met Carra, Agger en Skertel daar al. En anders kan Kuijt daar ook staan.

Er moet een aanvaller of nummer 10 bij.

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2009 12:38 schreef DemonCleaner het volgende:

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Niet al het geld zou betaald hoeven worden omdat Pompey nog geld schuldig is voor Crouch. Het zou een goede aankoop zijn, maar wel een prijzige.

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2009 15:55 schreef One_conundrum het volgende:

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Veel te veel geld. Laat daar dan maar zitten. We hebben Degen nog ergens. En kuijt kan ook wel rechtsback. Trouwens wel minder als Carra daar weer moet staan, maarja 17 miljoen pond. Daar heb je VDV ook voor.

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Gerrard overweegt afscheid in 2013
Uitgegeven: 16 juni 2009 16:48

PARIJS - Voetballer Steven Gerrard overweegt in 2013 zijn loopbaan te beëindigen. Zijn huidige verbintenis bij zijn club Liverpool loopt dan af. ''Ik ben 33 als mijn contract erop zit. Ik weet niet of ik dan nog wel verder ga'', zegt Gerrard dinsdag in het voetbalblad France Football.

Gerrard begon zijn professionele loopbaan bij Liverpool in 1998. De aanvoerder werd diverse keren in verband gebracht met andere clubs, maar vertrok nooit.

''Als ik stop, dan weet ik dat ik van het begin tot het einde van mijn carrière maar een club heb gehad. Ik wil er ook niet aan denken in de toekomst nog een ander shirt te dragen.''

Hij heeft tot nu toe bijna vijfhonderd wedstrijden voor Liverpool gespeeld.

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And the Northern Irishman is keen on taking £13m-rated Standard Liege midfielder Steven Defour to Villa Park, despite interest from Liverpool. (Daily Star)

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Also according to The Sun, reported United target David Villa has told friends he will only come to England if it is to play for Liverpool.

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Rafael Benitez set to lose Javier Mascherano
Liverpool manager fears credit crunch will wreck his transfer plans as Real Madrid makes move for combative midfielder

FOOTBALL’S transfer tombola threatens to make Liverpool its grand loser as the game’s richest clubs tempt away Rafa Benitez’s most important players and outbid the Spanish manager for his own targets.

Benitez is close to conceding defeat in his attempts to keep Javier Mascherano after Real Madrid moved for the combative midfielder. He also fears that Fernando Torres could be lost to Chelsea in a £60m heist.

Barcelona were already courting Mascherano when Madrid entered the chase last week. Having set two high watermarks for transfer fees with the £56m purchase of Kaka from AC Milan and their £80m offer for Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo, new president Florentino Perez is prepared to pay £38m for the joint transfer of Mascherano and right-back Alvaro Arbeloa. With Mascherano — who is keen to move to either of Spain’s premier clubs — valued at £30m, the sum would be a record fee for a holding midfielder.

Benitez is also concerned at the prospect of losing Torres, established as the Premier League’s most impressive striker since joining from Atletico Madrid two summers ago. Chelsea inquired about the 25-year-old earlier this year and Benitez believes the London club are now ready to offer as much as £60m. Fearing that Liverpool’s hard-up owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, might struggle to resist, Benitez has made inquiries about Almeira centre-forward Alvaro Negredo as a replacement. Negredo is half-owned by Madrid and available for £15m.

Chelsea are in the market for a marquee signing to launch Carlo Ancelotti’s reign as manager. Billionaire owner Roman Abramovich promised to top Madrid’s offers for Kaka this month, only for the Brazilian to decide that the Spanish club had a greater status.

While Torres is loyal to Benitez and will not agitate for a move, he recently signed an improved contract which takes him to 2013 without committing to anything more than the option of an additional year at Anfield. Asked about his future while on international duty last week, he said: “I’m very happy with my contract and wouldn’t leave just to earn a little more somewhere else where I wouldn’t be that happy. To want any more would be greedy and that is not me. As long as Liverpool want me, I will stay.”

Having fought to take control of transfer policy, at the expense of Rick Parry’s position as chief executive, Benitez finds his dealings hampered by the £350m loan Liverpool’s American owners have loaded upon the club.

Benitez has to make an economic case for every proposed transfer. Restrictions have already seen him lose Gareth Barry to Manchester City. Liverpool spent all last summer failing to close a deal and then City took just days to match Aston Villa’s asking price and radically improve the England midfielder’s personal terms. Benitez has bid for Portsmouth defender Glen Johnson, but more than a third of the England right-back’s £17.5m fee would be covered by money owed by Pompey on Peter Crouch’s move in 2008. Chelsea have also had an offer accepted, leaving Johnson to choose which club to join.

Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has given Benitez a further problem. Alonso has antagonised his manager by discussing personal terms with Madrid without official permission. The player admitted that the pound’s fall in value against the euro was a factor in considering his future. “Of course we think about it,” Alonso said. “When you see your contract down by 30% you cannot be happy.”

The pound is worth ¤1.18, but when Alonso signed a five-year contract in June 2007 it was worth ¤1.48.

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Op zondag 21 juni 2009 10:58 schreef onlogisch het volgende:
Hmm, dat zou wel klote zijn als Mascherano en Xabi Alonso zouden vertrekken

Maargoed, aan de andere kant voor dat geld kan je heus wel weer nieuwe toppers aantrekken


En gelukkig blijft Torres

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Op maandag 22 juni 2009 23:39 schreef Fortitudo het volgende:
nice

goede aankoop

belachelijk alleen wanneer xabi alonso straks dan wordt weggedaan