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Not confident one bit about this bet but thought it'd be worth a punt!

Gonna be watching him tomorrow vs. PSV assuming they're not playing at the same time as us! (Even if they are, I'll probably live-stream the game in another tab and take glimpses!)

Anyone know if he won MOTM?

I'm now realistically expecting something along the lines of: Out: Malouda Hilario Lampard In: Paulinho Falcao (I just find it a bit fishy that he's getting literally zero minutes in Europe for Atletico Madrid this season; unless of course I've missed something! It makes more sense to the board for him to arrive in the Summer, but we know our board. They're an odd bunch.) Long shots: Skrtel (in) Paulo F. (out. He's a great asset to this club off the pitch, but I get the feeling he may be moved on. I'm not entirely sure though.)

I'm sure we've all read the list by now, but here's a summary of the best players Rafa signed for Liverpool and their prices. Some of these players I barely knew until they went to Liverpool: Xabi Alonso: £10.5m (Absolute bargain) Peter Crouch: £7m Pepe Reina: £6m Fabio Aurelio: Free Kuyt: £9m Agger: £5.8m Arbeloa: £3m Torres: £20m Mascherano: £18m Benayoun: £5m Lucas: £6m Skrtel: £6m Johnson: £18m (lol) Sterling: £600k (will rise to £5m) Suso: Free He signed some pretty dreadful players too though, but I'd rather not go into that! He really can spot talent though; or maybe it was his scouts, who knows. But players like Agger, Skrtel, Reina, Lucas (when he's not injured) and Johnson are still going strong while Mascherano, Alonso and Torres are now at the biggest clubs in the world. Not bad, eh? Maybe he sees Paulinho who he's apparently interested in as a Lucas-type player for us. Who knows. I've barely seen him.

He was compared to Robbie Fowler allot at Nottingham Forest. He was said to be one of the best, if not THE best young English forwards at youth level. I was worried he'd be completely ruined here. Hopefully he does well. He scored like, 11 goals in 2 games or something at one point last season which had people believing he was some amazing finisher - he's not. It's just that he creates loads of chances for himself and therefore has to put away some of those shots! 3 assists is a great way to make your debut. I'm sure he'll be amongst the best players in the league this season if he stays there. Next season he should be loaned to a Championship side for sure.

A few people on this forum genuinely have better coaching qualifications than Zenden. I just find that a tad funny.

@, We have history before Roman. An unstable history. We almost went into liquidation. We almost didn't exist. We went up and down divisions. We had one of the shittest owners in history in the form of Ken Bates. God knows how he got into football. We've then had a decade of managers. We've had all these off the pitch issues recently after being relatively quiet when it came to off the pitch. We spend literally around £100million each season at the moment it would seem on players, when collectively they're worth not even half that most the time. We're constantly making losses and not a profit. Last season we didn't even finish in the top 4 yet still won 2 trophies. Before that, we'd been in the top 4 for around a decade. We've now got a strange policy when it comes to 'older' players meaning even if they're among the best left backs in history, we'll just let them go because we won't spend a bit extra on his contract and instead pump it into the likes of Torres' and new staff to make him happy. There's a big difference between us and other clubs.

This is one of the most unstable, unpredictable, overspending clubs in history: But I love this club. There's nothing else to add to this. That's all.

I can see this being the point where Everton's season slows down for a bit and I believe the Liverpool game tonight will speed their season right up.. hopefully to relegation.

I love all the Belgians who have joined this site recently

YESSS!!!!!!!! NORWICH JUST WON ME £1.50!!!!!!!!!!!! (every penny counts!)

J.Hernandez is the devil.

Not bad. Still a shame about his first-touch though.

I don't want to wait 4 or 5 seasons to wait until Luiz is in his 'prime years'. We don't have time for that. We can't have 4-5 seasons of Luiz's awful mistakes.

Redknapp agrees to become QPR boss

Yay. We've just broken 14million 'likes' on Facebook.

"Why change our team to make Torres happy?" Well why restrict the amount of coaches we have in a particular department to make Cech happy? Obviously their performances contrast greatly, but once again, double standards it would seem.

Not that it really matters if he's only short-term, but he actually brought both Sterling and Suso to Liverpool originally.

I find it ironic how when some of us, myself included, have slated Torres (yes he's being mentioned again. he's our fucking number 1 striker. don't freak out) we've got the whole "FAKE FAN. PLASTIC. LEAVE DIS FORUM OR I RAPE U XX" treatment from certain members on here, yet the same people are hating on Rafa before his first game. He will divide opinion. This is a forum. We share opinions. No one here is right or wrong ok. We're all foolish for either liking or disliking him when we take his Liverpool ties out of the equation as he actually hasn't done anything for us yet. However, he has done nothing to deserve not having our support. Let's judge him game by game for what he does for our club. Like Liverpool as a club, they're history, along with Rafa being a part of them.

Bravo. Great press conference. I just wish there was talk of how we'll be lining up in the future.

LOL I'm sorry but I really like him. Never imagined it.

"Have you seen my CV? I have all the trophies you can win at club level"

So Rafa did indeed turn down both Tottenham and Manchester City. Nice.