Liverpool in £100m rebuilding: Villa, Barry, Bentley….who should Rafa sign?
by Mr Comfort on June 16th, 2008Every day, Liverpool fans are bombarded by a metric ton of rumours relating to new signings already sizing up a property in the Merseyside area, but they can’t all be signing! So who exactly do Liverpool fans want to see arrive? You never know, the bearded Spaniard may well be viewing this page whilst having his afternoon cuppa!
Whilst it is clear that Anfield could do with one or two new additions, it’s not like the club needs a major overhaul. Many consider David Villa a good choice for a big spend, but Liverpool did manage a century of goals in all competitions last season, which is pretty astounding and would suggest that strikers are not the be-all-and-end-all of the big spending.
Having already brought in Degen and Dossena, maybe Rafa is just after Gareth Barry and no one else. He has already set his mind to selling a few familiar Liverpool faces, with John Arne Riise, Scot Carson, Jermaine Pennant and Danny Guthrie supposedly set for exits. Is this with a view to re-investing the cash in big name players or extra wages?
So over to you the Liverpool faithful, who do you want to see paraded before the media at the usual transfer press conference.
We're giving you £10 FREE so show some bollocks and BET NOW!
Tagged Under: Barry, Liverpool FC, Premier League, riise, rumours, villa



LFC - June 16th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
We want villa and silva and maby even johnson
Jóhann Guðmundsson - June 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
David Villa or Berbatov…
reikirebel - June 16th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
1st week in July we will know more …. real info not made-up to keep us argueing
reikirebel
Alf Joachim Tapper - June 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
David Villa no doubt! This is my realistic dream team for next season :
D.Villa Torres
Barry Gerrard Kuyt
Mascherano
Dossena Agger Carra Arbeloa(Degen is a joke)
Reina
That is a world class team!(exept the sidebacks)
Ryan - June 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
David Villa (always been a big fan), and Martin Petrov. He is very good, and made Man City a much better team last year.
Michael Sanders - June 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Leftback - Dossena
Rightback - Degan
Not big names, but hopefully Rafa will pull something out the bag like Agger and Skertl
Rightwing - Sergio Garcia - This lad ghosts past players
Leftwing - Downing - English with two good feet
maastricht - June 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
the news of today it is one of the owners wanna sell torres the stupid yanks and they dont want liverpool to be champs
Josh - June 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
David Villa
LFC - June 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I think having already got the defenders Rafa should make three more signings
1. Gareth Barry
2. David Villa
3. David Bentley
and the starting line up is:
Villa Torres
Babel Barry Gerrard Bentley
Dossena Carra Skrtel Degen
Reina
George phoenix - June 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
If we were to sign Villa than we would be impossible to choose your best team. We would Have Quality options. Especially with Barry. Nemeth I also believe will come through next season. Just cant see the Yanks signing Villa though !
Tony H - June 16th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
obviously villa, would rather put the money towards him than pay the always escalating cost for barry. ideally villa, barry and bentley but thats a million miles away i think and several million pounds away too lol
richie - June 16th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
my lfc line for next season is
villa torres
babel gerrard mascha quersma
dossena skrtel agger carragher
reina
Rafa The Gaffer - June 16th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
It’s the silly season alright!!
At least one website will claim to have “told you here first” when we sign someone, cos they linked us with everybody!
My own opinions are we’ll sign Quaresma, Barry and Milner, and will not sign a striker but will use Babel, Kuyt and Torres as strikers and cover.
fell - June 16th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
villa not Barry coz he ain’t worth 20 mil he’s to old bentlys n e price and buy ooijer hu plays 4 holland
herbert - June 16th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
villa,wayne rooney
John(Jack-UK)Hill - June 16th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Sign Villa - but not Aston.
lfc norway - June 16th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
whit rafas butget he can`t iven buy the pictures of players likke quaresma,villa and silva sow for geth about the real thing
Crazy Wolf - June 16th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
100 million rebuilding? And we`re haggling with Villa over the valuation of Barry and offering spare change for Milner? Seems strange indeed. Maybe we act like a penniless scrooge club just to fool all our competitiors? Hmm.. Let`s hope so.
Anyhow, likely departures from the club include Riise, Crouch, Pennant, Guthrie, Itandje, Carson, Alonso and maybe Voronin and Finnan. Which means Benitez needs to bring in at least: 1) a new back-up keeper (God knows who..), 2) a new left back (Dossena), 3) a new central midfielder (Barry), 4) a new right midfielder (Milner or Bentley? Don`t think Rafa will splash the cash in this position as he already has Kuyt, Babel and Benayoun), 5) a new left midfielder (Riera and Downing touted in the media - I think we should force Redknapp to part with Niko Kranjcar, especially if we allow Crouch to go in the opposite direction), and 6) at least one new striker (Villa would be great but I doubt Rafa has the money. If he does, I`m afraid he will spread them across the field and opt to bring in a more physical striker who would A) replace Crouch and B) fit easily into his newly-crafted 4-2-3-1-system as back-up for first choice Torres).
big bad boy - June 16th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
lfc norway- you are sucha knob, and speak english you cock
Anonymous - June 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Nice one Richie !!
villa torres
babel gerrard mascha quersma
dossena skrtel agger carragher
reina
Croat - June 16th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
1. Villa
2. Ribery
3. Aguero
susan benitez - June 16th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
sign
1.roque junior
2.sissoko(bring him back)
3.litmanen
4.freddy adu
5.me
Ryan - June 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Obviously with the way Villa has been playing everyone will want LFC to sign him. It would be great to sign Villa, but we have bigger needs than adding another world class striker. If Rafa had a bigger budget, then I could see going for Villa, but given there is limited funding, he needs to focus on filling the weaknesses , the wing.
You figure Villa will probably cost around 30M, so if Rafa has that much available, I think he would be better off signing two of the three, Silva/Bentley/Quaresma (in that order), for around 15M each. That would take care of the two wings, and we would still have the Babel (who knows how quickly if will recover and return to form) and Kuyt that could fill in on the wings or forward.
Obviously we would all like Villa, but like I said, given the funding provided by the owners, I don’t think Rafa has the luxury to spend the money on another forward when we already have Torres and have a big weakness on the wings. You add in Barry (assuming the signing actually happens) with two of the three wingers I mentioned, and Rafa would have a lot of depth and the ability to play a multitude of formations.
Ry - June 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Obviously with the way Villa has been playing everyone will want LFC to sign him. It would be great to sign Villa, but we have bigger needs than adding another world class striker. If Rafa had a bigger budget, then I could see going for Villa, but given there is limited funding, he needs to focus on filling the weaknesses , the wing.
You figure Villa will probably cost around 30M, so if Rafa has that much available, I think he would be better off signing two of the three, Silva/Bentley/Quaresma (in that order), for around 15M each. That would take care of the two wings, and we would still have the Babel (who knows how quickly if will recover and return to form) and Kuyt that could fill in on the wings or forward.
Obviously we would all like Villa, but like I said, given the funding provided by the owners, I don’t think Rafa has the luxury to spend the money on another forward when we already have Torres and have a big weakness on the wings. You add in Barry (assuming the signing actually happens) with two of the three wingers I mentioned, and Rafa would have a lot of depth and the ability to play a multitude of formations.
Alex - June 16th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Well theres rumours about Sergio Ramos moving away from Madrid for the right price seeing as Madrid said they’d be willing to offer ramos to utd in exchange for Ronaldo so now Ramos is a bit demoralised.
He is valued at 30m and i reckon he’s well worth it considering;
a) he’s 22.
b) he has bags of stamina, technique, and pushes all the way up the flank and likes getting a cross in.
c) he said Torres is the best striker in world and would love to play with him.
Therefore by selling:
Alonso: 15m
Crouch: 10m
Pennant: 5m
Riise: 5m
Finnan + Aurelio: 5m
Kuyt: 8m
Total of 48m.
If got say 25m from the board we would have 73m.
Then i’d buy (presuming dossena is already a done deal and not included):
Ramos: 30m
Van de Vaart: 12m (contract runs out next year so might be able to get him cheap)
Silva: 13m (valencia are in trouble financially)
Johnson: 10m
Hamsik: 8m
Total: 73m
I wouldnt buy villa as firstly he will cost 30+ million and we seem to play best with Torres upfront on his own with gerrard just behind him and two attacking midfielders on either side of him. Van der Vaart is one of the most versatile players around so would be a great addition. Johnson will be one of the best english cms around in the next few seasons and would learn quickly playing alongside mascherano and gerrard. Silva would give us that dynamic edge and he can shoot with either foot, Hamsik is a friend of Skrtel and has just had a fantastic season for napoli, and he is only 21. And ramos is just different class, and decent full backs are very rare so i think he would justify his price tag considering i reckon he will last as long as Cafu has as he is a similar player to him in the way he presses forward but tracks back very very quickly.
then out start formation would be:
Reina
Ramos
Carragher
Skrtel
Dossena
Mascherano
Johnson (who would also push up)
Van der Vaart
Gerrard
Silva
Torres
4-2-3-1
Subs:
Babel
Benayoun
Lucas
Agger
Nemeth? Pacheco?
then i think we can finally challenge utd for the title next year. im praying for these transfers!
Alex - June 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
***Hamsik on the bench aswell - forgot to mention him, he’s awesome! cheers guys.
pre - June 16th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
just need to buy 2 or 3 players!!! defo villa and quaresma maybe barry
luke keogh - June 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
yes to villa and barry no to bently to averge my side next season
reina
degan carra skrtel dossena
maschrano barry
quersma gerrard garcia
torres
degen is no joke he is quiet good dossena is the best left back in italy
luke - June 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
rafa please buy villa and silva we are already buying barry we need villa and silva
luke keogh - June 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
yes to villa and barry no to bently to averge my side next season
reina
degan carra skrtel dossena
maschrano barry
quersma gerrard garcia
torres
degen is no joke he is quiet good dossena is the best left back in italy
nick93 - June 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Buy : Quaresma ( already agreed a deal)…….Villa ( agreed a 4 year deal waiting for bid to be accepted…….Rafinha ( Awsome and young) and a sly bid for aguero ( will be best player in the world 2010)…………. Look at the South american youngsters….. Matias Fernandez maybe……
Robbie - June 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
we want villa and silva or quaresma.. dats all and if there’s some money left, bring owen home
trent - June 16th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
get aaron lennon dav bentley n a good striker. left winger would be nice we shoud of keepd harry kewell look wot hes doing 4 the aussies who ever gets him is lucky he’ll he a great buy
washie - June 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
villa is already on his way, barry is signing on thursday, bring back kromcamp haha
ktz1992 - June 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
hmm this old game…we fink 100m and it just appears from nowhere we have nowhere near 100m…we have about 20m cash and 10-20m of players that benitez wants to sell..but my perfect team i surpose IF we had 100m
reina
lahm–skrtle—agger—chara
———-masch————-
barry—gerro—benyoun
—–torres—-villa
beny coz of the games he has changed from the bench and 10 goals from hardly playing chara bcoz of the inter were he was stunning
ktz1992 - June 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
hmm this old game…we fink 100m and it just appears from nowhere we have nowhere near 100m…we have about 20m cash and 10-20m of players that benitez wants to sell..but my perfect team i surpose IF we had 100m
reina
lahm–skrtle—agger—chara
———-masch————-
barry—gerro—benyoun
—–torres—-villa
beny coz of the games he has changed from the bench and 10 goals from hardly playing chara bcoz of the inter were he was stunning
JD - June 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
IF WE PAY MORE THAN £15M FOR BARRY I’LL BE GUTTED
FACT!
Alex - June 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
sell:
Alonso 14 million
carson 5 million
riise 4 million
pennant 5 million
crouch 9 million
Total of 37 million plus 24 million from the american owners and thats a total of 61 million.
Buy:
Dossena 7 million
Quaresma 15 million
Barry 18 million
Silva 21 million
Total of 61 Million
Line up next season:
4-2-3-1
————–Torres—————–
Silva——-Gerrard——Quaresma
——–Barry——Masherano—–
Dossena–Carra–Skrtel–Degen
—————Riena—————
fdg - June 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
liverpool dont really need another striker.i think nemeth should come through the academy.he is very good and will continue to develop. we just need two new wingers and a central mid, probably barry. two wingers i would like to see are riera on the left because he is class and will add a new dimension on the wings and is strong physically.on the right there are several options such as mancini would be good, ribery too expensive, quaresma not consistent enough but could improve, bentley over rated and over priced. i would say mancin would turn out to be the best since he is fast, consistent, links up well, quick feet and great shot power. ribery would be better but is just too expensive.who ever rafa signs lets all hope he gets it right.and brings in more tropies and success.
Kasper - June 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
We don’t need any other signing but two. It’s Villa And Barry, Please Rafa Bring them to Anfield. Dirk Kuyt and Crouch cannot last us 90 minutes with perfection let alone a whole season. Rafa has already stated that he seeks premier league glory this season.
Villa Torres
Babel Barry Mascherano Gerrard
Dossena Agger Skrtel Carragher
Reina
Subs: Kuyt, Lucas, Crouch, Degen, Itandje, Leto
Can’t These American Owners Provide 40-50 Million, this will surely clinch the signings of these two stars. Liverpool Will be back in it’s glory years. If Rafa is too blind to see how villa and torres complement eachother in the euro, i don’t think he will ever succeed in the premier league.
fano-liverpool - June 16th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
F.Torres D.Villa
R.Babel S.Gerrard(C) R.Quaresma
J. Mascherano
A.Dossena D. Agger M.Skrtel J.Carragher
J.M.Reina
durim - June 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
F.Torres D.Villa
R.Babel S.Gerrard(C) R.Quaresma
J. Mascherano
A.Dossena D. Agger M.Skrtel J.Carragher
J.M.Reina
Kenny - LFC season ticket holder - June 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
We’ll sign David Villa definately, and we’ll also bring through Nemeth through the reserves because he is definately one for the future. Hopefully I would rather see Kranjcar (dont get spelling) insted of Bentley. As weve seen in internationals bentley dusnt perform and we cant be buying players who dont perform on the big stage. Also think that Gareth Barry for 18m+ is a complete joke. Shouldn’t even be more than 12m.
Also to watch out for next season of the battle of Agger and Skrtel for the centre back spot with Carra or even see sometimes giving Carra a rest and see them partner each other.
Team for Nest Season:
Reina
Degen Carra Skrtel Dossena
Kuyt Gerrard Masch Babel
Villa Torres
zain - June 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
obviously villa. my team for next season;
villa torres
babel gerrard masch bentley(idts we’re gonna get quaresma for cheap)
dossena agger skrtel carragher
Yogi - June 16th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
You, youcud be groundsman cause the amount of shite you spread the pitch would be in perfect condition
LFC MAN - June 16th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
We need to concentrate on Villa get him 1st then look at bently to go the wings with babel leave barry for christ sake its gunna cost us £20m just for barry, waste of money if u ask me!
dule_radikal - June 16th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
silva and villa
as - June 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
David Villa
David Silva
Franck Ribery or take a chance on David Bentley
Antoni - June 16th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
We need to fix our flanks 1st… thats why if we do end up with abit of cash lets get Quaresma and silva… and of course villa.
Villa Torres
Silva Mascherano Gerrard Quaresma
Dossena Agger Carragher Ramos
Reina
Bench - Babel , Skrtel , Lucas , Aurellio , Kuyt or a decent keeper
jack sparo - June 16th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
i prefer just 3 david…vila…silva…bently
……………………reina………………………..
carra………skertl……..agger……..Dossena
…………..gerrard…………maschy………….
bently…………………………………silva…..
…………………vila…………………………..
……………………………torres…………….
that would be great and we must hav midfield to be in the bench lik diarra or jhonson
Scott D - June 16th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Get rid of Crouch, Pennant, Voronin, Riise, Finnan, Carson, Istande. I would add Kuyt to that list but Rafa seems to absolutely love him so Kuyt aint going nowhere.
I would keep Alonso and forget about Barry. Aston Villa are playing hard with Barry and are trying for 18m + which is just a joke coz he aint worth anywhere near that much. Alonso is just as good so I would not be wasting any more time on Barry.
Players I want Rafa to pursue are: Bentley, Villa, Berbatov, Santa Cruz,Quaresma.
I think we need some more powerful strikers that can score (unlike Kuyt) and also cover on the wings.
My ideal team would be:
Reina
Carragher, Agger, Skrtel, Dossena
Mascherano, Bentley,
Babel,Gerrard, Berbatov (or Villa),
Torres
Subs
Alonso, Santa Cruz, Benayoun, Lucas, Arbeloa, Another Goal Keeper
Eric - June 17th, 2008 at 12:26 am
You mention clearing out for wages but I did not hear you mention the departure of Harry Kewell, who will not be missed, at least when it comes to paying wages at the end of the month. His wages will pretty much pay up Barry´s wages for next season plus maybe little extra. Then Bentley and we are good.
taffy - June 17th, 2008 at 2:23 am
if it isn’t complete fiction and villa does come, i would see him playing ahead of torres. he appears to me to be more of a poacher, whereas torres drives into the box more while sucking in defenders, we’ve seen he can shoot from long range and villa would profit from that.
i like that more and more people out there are seeing carra at RB. the couple of times he’s played there recently, he has been outstanding, pushing up and getting good crosses in - and why not let agger & skrtel develop a partnership now which could serve us beautifully for another decade?
i’m not sure we really are that desperate for wingers playing as we did for the latter part of last season. i think stevie g might then have to go out rightish, although he, torres & babel would be in pretty free roles. wot about this 4-2-3-1 – its a pretty promising first-choice team & would bentley etc even get into that team? wot i really like is the flexibility of almost all of those players, allowing rafa to change formations/tactics during a game without really affecting the strength:
villa
babel torres stevie
barry masch
dossena agger skrtel carra
reina
i also don’t think getting rid of 7 or 8 players (carson, finnan, riise, aurelio, alonso, pennant, voronin & crouch) and bringing in 5 or 6 is going to help us. that’d be a massive disruption to our momentum. we already ‘have the spine’ and just need 2 class players and 1 or 2 good back-up guys and we’ll be very close to the real deal next season.
degen's dad's dog's bo!!ocks - June 17th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Excellent points in a couple of the lastest posts. If we could buy Villa, Barry & Bentley:
Reina
Carra-Skrtel-Agger-Dossena
Masch-Barry
Gerrard-Torres-Babel
Villa
or
Reina
Carra-Skrtel-Agger-Dossena
Masch
Bentley Gerrard Barry
Villa-Torres
mmmm?!
have faith people……
ret - June 17th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Need wingers, like John Barnes. No wingers, no talk. Forget about buying all the best strikers or Barrys in the world.
degen's dad's dog's bo!!ocks - June 17th, 2008 at 3:25 am
…..as if there ever will be another JB?!!!
we don’t play with wingers, ret - we’re playing a 4-2-3-1 at the moment… but yes, we should have options
wilson - June 17th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Buy DANIEL ALVES for the right wing\wing back positions and DAVID VILLA. Persuade BARRY to buy out the remainder of contract at AV and post MARTIN O’NIELL’S reaction on Utube
barry - June 17th, 2008 at 4:17 am
REINA
ARBELOA AGGER CARRAGHER AURELIO
BENTLEY MASCHERANO GERRARD RONALDINO
TORRES SANTA CRUZ
Nuff Said!!!
Axon - June 17th, 2008 at 4:50 am
David Villa, new No. 7 for Liverpool.
Anonymous - June 17th, 2008 at 5:12 am
get villa and barry and bently now!!!!!
Anonymous - June 17th, 2008 at 5:29 am
david villa can suck my dick
liver - June 17th, 2008 at 5:31 am
david villa can suck torres off
orca16 - June 17th, 2008 at 6:00 am
for god sake ,get rid of the yanks first, sign villa, silva,and forget barry,waste of 20mill.
daboy - June 17th, 2008 at 6:03 am
i would like to see being reasonable Bentley Silva Johnson and Podolski depending on what they ask for him no more than 15 mill.
matL - June 17th, 2008 at 6:15 am
sign villa and silva
Liverbrother - June 17th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I say we just need three more signing and Liverpool will be the best team in the world good enough to win a triple ( FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League). And they are ( in order of priority)
1.David Villa
2.Ricardo Quaressma
3 Barry
mr. david villa - June 17th, 2008 at 7:30 am
simple…barry, bentley and villa = title
Pool4Life - June 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Q1 How many games did new LFC signing Philip Degan play for Switzerland?
A None (not even a sub appearance, Zero mins.)
Q2 How did Switzerland do in their Euro 2008 group?
A Bottom of the group
This concerns me. How good could he be if he cant even make the Swiss starting 11.
Aj El Nino - June 17th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Reina
Gerrard Carra / skrtel Sami / Agger Dossana
Mascherano Barry/Joshson
Bentely Quaresma
Villa/nemeth Torres
This will be the team that helps liverpool to win BPL, CL, Facup, Carling Cup. From my view Gerrard is good in that position & we should buy Villa, Quaresma and if Barry can get in 9 - 10 million other wise its waste of money cause we can get good one in that sum of money more quality more skillful than barry. N try to add some more italian & agerntinan Defender in the Squad. RAFA plz help to build strong squad this season. Lets so other what is liverpool. we have to do it cause we can do it. liverpool place is not in forth we should be in first place. Cheeres for liverpool (YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE)
alan - June 17th, 2008 at 8:33 am
villa? haha. no chance! simple as that
OLIVETTI - June 17th, 2008 at 8:59 am
WE NEED A ANOTHER STRIKER
4-4-2 WE CAN DEFINATELY START PLAYING THIS FORMATION AGAIN , VILLA IN , STRENGHTEN UP THE BACKLINE , ONE MORE STRONG MIDFILEDER AND WINGER AND WE GOOD TO GO
Tricky - June 17th, 2008 at 9:45 am
If we sell these three for twenty mill, that covers the fee for Barry plus at least 1 or two mill more, I believe he will sign Milner and then bring in Villa with the sale of Alonso and what ever he does have to spend
Aakash - June 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am
i think rafa should just sign 4 people:
1.david villa
2.david bentley
3.ricardo quaresma
shahir - June 17th, 2008 at 9:58 am
villa, querasma, ribery is all you need.
maxta - June 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Villa for the ultimate strike power in the league-already have the best midfield & backs that are right up there. The combination of Torres & Villa is already proven so this really is a no brainer-get Villa & success comes with. Next on my wishlist will have its critics but Johnson(fullback) has plenty of potential & if theres 1 thing our fullbacks have lost out in is speed which wont happen to this flyer. Who else?-we’ll get Villa then talk about it!!!
Aakash - June 17th, 2008 at 10:08 am
and the 4 one will be benzema play 4-3-3 villa torres benzema bentley gerrard quaresma dossena skrtel carra degan reina sell out alonso :15mil crouch 11mil pennant 6mil riise 5mil finnan 3 mil .also sell voronin ,aurelio and possilbly kuyt
torres=god - June 17th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I hope Liverpool sign Villa,Barry and a full back or maybe two.For starters Villa has huge potential and a huge work ethic and a never say die attitude which we saw against sweden in the euros.he also has a great understanding nd friendship with de great man fernando which wud hopefully keep dem at anfield 4 de long term.
Barry is a very versatile who can be vry effective in left nd central midfield.aswel as did he is english(6+5 rule).he nearly single handlehandedly guided to 6th last year with his passing shooting and defensive play.i would much rather him ovr quaresma who i tink is a complete sham.he is lik ronaldo excep rarely scores goals nd cant perform in big games.we saw did in de champions league wen porto needed him most he got the ball,tried sum stupid tricks,got tackled nd started rolling arond looking for a free.
degen was an awful signing.he cant get nywer near de swiss side nor cud he de dortmund side nd as it looks lik riise nd finn ar going we ar going to need 2 gug fullbacks.i hugely admire dani alves bu i tink he is far ou of our pricerange so i tink dey shud go for mayb lahm nd laursen nd den carra cud play full as i tink he is slightly past it nd agger nd skrtel ar immense.aswel as dis insua wil hopefully mak de cut nex year
Liverpool's Number 9 - June 17th, 2008 at 10:18 am
A decent line up would be:
Torres
Bentley Gerrard Kuyt
Barry Mascherano
Dossena Agger Carragher Degen
Reina
Bill Vector - June 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Yeah - what’s the idea with Degen? If he’s not much good - even if he’s free, why bother? He’s got funny eyes too
Sam - June 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am
defence is sorted so now 3 more signings = villa, barry, quaresma
LINE UP-
……………………………..REINA……………………………..
DEGEN…………CARRA…………SKRTEL………….DOSSENA
……………..MASHERANO………..BARRY……………………….
VILLA…………………..GERRARD……………………QUARESMA
……………………………..TORRES………………………………………..
= PREMIERSHIP+CHAMPS LEAGUE+FA CUP
yo - June 17th, 2008 at 10:35 am
……………………reina………………………..
carra………skertl……..agger……..Lahm
………….essien.…………masch………….
messi…………..gerrard… ……….. aguero
…………………torres……………………
sub- babel, lasana diara, kuyt, hyppia, jaskelainen(bolton keep)Dossena, Degen, alonso, Lucas
out-carson, kewel, pennant, benayoun, crouch, aurelio, voronin, finnan, riise, Itandje, Leto
Rushisalegend - June 17th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Omg that would be sweet.
yo - June 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am
= PREMIERSHIP+CHAMPS LEAGUE+FA CUP +LEAGUE CUP & CHARITY SHIELD 4 NXT SEASON
Bill Vector - June 17th, 2008 at 10:40 am
yo - what are you on?
yo - June 17th, 2008 at 10:49 am
we must spent big money to have a great team like real & milan
huntellar - June 17th, 2008 at 11:10 am
we need villa barry and bentley!! what happens if torres gets injured!! we need one central defender as well!!! waht happens as was the case for champions leaugue if skirtel gets injured!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill Vector - June 17th, 2008 at 11:19 am
we don’t have the same amount - Hicks was right about Parry, we need better marketing - and a massive stadium. We should also be looking to make the Academy the place all promising youngsters want to come to. Trimming the squad would be a good idea - and maybe bringing a few of the reserves through, although Benitez started doing that last season. We also need a manager who can read the game and make good first-team selections and effective substitutions. Slaven Bilic would be a good one.
Bill Vector - June 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am
£20m for Barry would be a ludicrous waste of money. Why not go for Nicky Shorey? Reading went down - and Shorey is just as good as Barry for left-wing crosses and corners - and it would sort out our left-back problem. He’d be back in the England set-up within a few months if he came to Liverpool.
Anonymous - June 17th, 2008 at 11:51 am
There is more chance of Rafa signing as a left back for the mancs then there is of Villa coming to Anfield.
Bill Vector - June 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Villa, Barry, Bentley…. £30m, £20m, £15m???? (£65m approx)
Kenwynne Jones, Nicky Shorey, Sabri Sarioglu….. £10m, £6m, £8m (£24m approx)
Sell Riise, Kewell, Voronin, Carson and Crouch and you’d get all the cash needed and be able to hold on to Alonso, whose passing to Gerrard is still a great asset for the team.
ZLOT - June 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Benayoun is WAY under-utilised - and probably the shrewdest signing of last year. Use him as a full time right wing. Babel is brilliant on the left. USE HIM. Me-likes Skrtl too. Rafa’s already built the bones. Just bring in Villa & Barry and get us the Premiership.
LFC 4EVER - June 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Buy: Lahm, Villa/Aguero, Barry and Silva! Cheaper options would be: Pavel Pogrebnyak (class player!) , Barry and Van der Vaart!
Villa/Aguero-Torres
Silva-Gerrard-Babel/Barry
Mascherano
Lahm-Agger-Skrtel-Carra
Reina
OR
Torres-Pavel Pogrebnyak
Babel-Gerrard-Van der Vaart
Mascherano
Barry-Agger-Skrtel-Carra
Reina
degen's dad's dead dog's bo!!ocks - June 17th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
i SWEAR the recipe for success is this:
FIRST, we should sell:
carson, itanje, finnan, arbeloa, riise, aurelio, hyypia, guthrie, alonso, pennant, benayoun, kuyt, voronin, leto, crouch, skrtel, lucas, plessis, insua, nemeth, el zhar & jack furkin hobbs.
that way we’d have approximately £114.235M to spend.
SECONDLY, we should buy ALL the players who REALLY want to join us:
villa, henry, bentley, milner, kranjcar, silva, downing, ronaldinho, barry, diarra, johnson and wheater (who is he?!)
OTHERWISE, if we don’t get any of those targets, don’t worry, we’d still have the best 5-a-side team of all time……..
reina
carra agger
stevie masch
torres
subs: dossena, degen, barry, bentley, babel
……….come on fellas, GET REAL!!!!!!
degen's dad's dead dog's bo!!ocks - June 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
What will happen this summer:
In addition to signing Degen & Dossena, Rafa will buy Barry, Bentley (or Downing), and either Villa or Owen.
Bearing in mind that I am planning on us having a Premiership & Champions League winning squad, I wouldn’t be too unhappy if we will sell Riise, Voronin, Alonso (but only if Barry comes in), Crouch (but only if Villa or Owen come in), Pennant, Carson (if another keeper comes), Itanje, Leto, Guthrie (if we get him a good club), and a number of useful youngsters.
With a potential 5 coming in but as many as 9 going out, plus Kewell leaving, that frees up a LARGE amount of weekly wages.
That sounds like a big differential, but that would hypothetically leave us with a Squad like this:
GK: Reina + ANOTHER
DR: (Carra)/Degen/Arbeloa
DL: Dossena/Aurelio/Insua
CB (2 players from): Skrtel/Agger/Carra/Hyypia
DM (2 players from): Mascherano/Barry/Plessis
AM: Gerrard/Benayoun/Lucas
RF: Bentley/Kuyt/Benayoun
LF: Babel/Downing/(Benayoun)
SC: Torres/Villa
However, we’re not likely to move 9 players on, so i reckon we might still have the likes of Carson and Voronin, with us next season.
We’ll see, but I’m excited….
bgudg - June 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
think about this. bring in gareth barry and david villa, and line u a 4-3-3
——————-reina——————
Degen——Carra——Skrtel———Dossena
Gerrard(pushes up)—–Masch———-Barry
Babel————Torres————-Villa
eh? eh?
Jem - June 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This fromation should be good
a 4-3-1-2 formation
reina
Degen–Carra–Agger–Dossena
bentley–Mascherano–Barry
Gerrard
torres–villa
Ben - June 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I thinnk that benitez has sorted the defending situation that was a burden last season but know he needs to sort out who is going to get the goals appart from stevie G and Torres. We need someone of high quality like Villa to partner torres. And i like the idea of Barry but villa has to come first then there is laso rumour of downing. Bentley is ok but i think downing would benefit us more because he is a left sided player and that is what we need then bable can play on his natural right footed side! But lets not pay stupid money for barry we have to put our foot down at some point i.e def no more that 15 mil, tht is still to much!
WiLkO - June 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
qualiarella torres
babel barry gerrard silva
dossena agger carra onuaha
reina
my mersyside fantasy for next seaon whoop whoop
rudra chandel - June 17th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
hey mercysiders are awaitning the glory of epl,
villa and barry should shurely cone to anfield
josh g - June 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
i think he should buy villa for more then 20 mil because arsenal want him.and they should buy Bentley because he is like a new David Beckham.Robinho would be a good choice because he is only young and be good for the future.and we need a good defender since we are losing some defenders and ribery is a very good player so is david silva
josh g - June 17th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
i think we should buy some English players like joe cole,Shaun wright phillps ,Richards,Bentley.and sell crouch,hyypia because he is getting old and soon he might retire and we won’t get any money
RJ - June 17th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Sams formation does it for me! wouldnt mind Downing on the left also but i feel babels doing well so we should accomodate him. If we dont get Villa hopefully its a blessing in disguise because Im eager to see him play second striker to torres
REINA
ARBELOA CARRA SKRTEL(OR AGGER) DOSSENA
MASCH BARRY
GERRARD QUERESMA/DOWNING
BABEL
TORRES
Im not sure with Gerrard on the right but its the only way to accomidate him barry n monster masch
billyLFC - June 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
listn guys seriously villa?? NEVER gonna happen
..we just dont have the funds, the only way he’d come to liverpool is because of a partnership with torres but still never.
villa has already said he wants to stay in spain and play for either barcelona or real madrid so forget it.
i say bring in queresma hes top class.
Paul Aus - June 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
1. Villa (perfect partner for Torres)
2. Quaresma (if we cant get Henri)
3. Henri (if we cant get Quaresma)
4. Barry (perfect partner for Gerrard)
5. Downing (better than Bentley)
Paul Aus - June 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Sorry Henry not Henri
byrneitez - June 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
first of all paul aus bentley is much better than downing but i dont think either would help lfc get where they want to be forget henry that wont happen hes not the same anymore anyway unsure about quaresma i think villa,silva,barry,job done and for those who think degan is just goin to slot into the first team not likely he is backup for arbeloa plain and simple would love to see asamoah gyan the ghana international playin right wing for us too he is class and young dont think he would cost too much he can play up front too
michael - June 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
96 Jem 06.17.08 at 1:26 pm This fromation should be good
a 4-3-1-2 formation
reina
Degen–Carra–Agger–Dossena
bentley–Mascherano–Barry
Gerrard
torres–villa
Jem your spot on mate
michael - June 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I tink a diamond would be da best
Reina
Degan Carra Agger Dossena
Masherano
Barry Bentley
Gerrard
Torres Villa
LIVERPOOL WOULD B PREM CHAMPS
jamie fitzgerald - June 17th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
rafa should david villa,barry,danny alvas and ribery
and should sell at least 15 players
ZW - June 18th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I think that he should sign barry, bentley, villa and stop there. Sell a few, and get some talent from the reserves.Those guys have been waiting long for their big break. Some of them are good tooooo.
Rich .S - June 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I think the formation should be :
Reina
Degan-Carragher/Agger-Skrtel-Dossena/Aurelio
Mascherano-Barry
Bentley/Villa-Gerrard-Babel/Downing/Benayoun
Torres
niti - June 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
liverpool chenpions 2008-09 in premier lige ole ole ole ole ole ole ole ole ole oole
michael - June 19th, 2008 at 7:01 am
If we dont get villa I’d love 2 c santa cruz 4 us he is a top striker but he plays the same as torres
nilesh - June 19th, 2008 at 8:28 am
we want villa, modric, sneijder
airflare - June 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Miguel Veloso, sergio aguero, david silva……sorted
steven - June 19th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
VELSO OR DIARRA KEEP ALONSO BUY SILVA ,QURESMA AND ETO OR VILLA OF OWEN
Dream Team - June 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Reina
RB..Deegan ( Arbeloa Poor ..Squad player only )
CH..Agger ( Or Carra In Fairness 2 of these 3 would be fine )
CH..Skertl
LB..Dossena or Aurelio ( Dossena might be able to play Left Wing )
RM..???????
CM..Barry ( Mascherano )
CM..Gerrard
LM..?????????
F.. Torres
F.. Babel ( No more a winger than i am )