From Optastats' twitter:

172 - Lucas Leiva made more tackles than any other player in the top five leagues in Europe this season. Cult.

\:d/ \:d/ \:d/ Boss.

Tis what happens when you give the ball away more than any other player too...

:lol: Hardly. His passing completion was also one of the best in the league, 83%.

That's not half bad for a lad who a year ago couldn't hit a pass further than 5m :lol:

I'm a bit miffed at these reports of Meireles leaving.

If we sell him and bring in Adam i'll be very angry. I don't really rate Adam tbph. Decent squad player but not at the expense of Raul.

Raul was the only reason we didn't completely fall apart in the absence of Gerrard last season, for him to leave would grossly undervalue him. As for Adam, yeah, he's little better than a squad player.

Sounds like we're going to wrap up the signing of Adam in a day or two though. Whether that also means Raul is leaving, I'm not sure.

Sounds like Aquilani is coming back too according to his agent.

I'll be really upset if Raul leaves. I think he's been what kept the team together and brought the best out in Lucas all season.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, with Aquilani coming back we'll have a serious oversupply of midfielders if we bring in Adam...but then, we'll be able to leave out Spearing. I'm not sure if that's a win or a lose.

Adam to sign in about 3 hours imo.

Looks like your prediction was a little off.

:lol: It will happen.

More reports on Raul leaving though :(

I'm increasingly uneasy about the notion of Meireles leaving.

Adam is the last player we need to sign. With Aquilani returning we've got a lot of depth up front. We need to take care of the problems on the left wing and strikers.

The Times are reporting that Meireles is on the transfer list after a dispute about a payrise that was agreed to last summer when he joined on reduced terms.

I guess if anyone knows what's going on it's a London newspaper...

Yeah, we all knew the terms. He was on a very low wage and was supposed to be offered like a 70% increase after the first season if it was deemed a success.

Obviously FSG want to turn a profit on him while we still can. I can understand from a business standpoint why they want to do it, but it's still disappointing.

I don't see why we would trade him in for Adam and run the risk of having to rebuild the team chemistry when the guy has been holding the team together on multiple occasions. It's mildly understandable from a business sense, but from a football sense it's crazy and this is a football club first, business second.

Sky reporting that Sammy Lee has left.

With Clarke in I'm not sure how much he was needed, but I wish him the best wherever he goes :)

YNWA Sammy.

It doesn't surprise me that Lee left. With Dalglish there and Clarke and Comolli in the back room, I don't think he was really getting much say anyway. Good luck to him in the future.

John W. Henry - "Everything in sports is overpriced now - especially the cost of winning. But you make your choices based on a plan."

John_W_Henry John W. Henry
Speculation on players shouldn't include those of a certain age. We are not going to be successful by merely filling short-term needs at LFC

Pretty sure that ends speculation about Wayne Bridge :P. Pretty much what I've been saying all along, and clearly he is not too worried about high transfer fees.

See, high transfer fees can be reclaimed with resale value with younger players, like we are clearly aiming to do. Signing people like Joe Cole for free, those 100k wages a week he gets, you NEVER get those back. Never.

I'd say that rules us out of the race for Diego too. Would have been a good move for us though.

It looks like we're being linked with Lennon and Honda again.

You've been linked with Lennon for the last week or so.

Hence 'again'. Talk is we tabled a 20m bid.

Edited by afromanGT: 30/6/2011 06:34:14 PM

99% of what's in the papers in BS, I try to take as little notice as possible nowadays.

I don't remember where I saw it, but it definitely wasn't newspaper affiliated.

:lol: Saw this. I think it's been misquoted a bit. For more accuracy;

Luis Suarez (Liverpool): "Already from before I knew my current agent Pere Guardiola, I had this wish, this dream to play at Barcelona"
Luis Suarez (Liverpool): "If Guardiola would be interested in me, he'd be interested independent of who represents me." [don balon]
rorysmith_tel Rory Smith For those of you following@barcastuff, those quotes from Suarez in Don Balon are legit but he is by no means expressing a desire to leave.

Why wouldn't he want to play for Barca? But yeah, it's not him saying he wants to leave, moreso talking of how much he admires Barca I think. All good.

New season ticket list has gone up... people from 1998 are still waiting and have missed out, from what I'm reading on RAWK. Amazing, when you consider so many other clubs don't even have a waiting list

We've got a waiting list of over 40,000 I think. Have contemplated joining the waiting list for no apparent reason :lol:

Re: Suarez: pretty sure he just reiterated how happy he is at Anfield in an interview.

NOTW reporting some hyperbolic, conjecture based bullshit about Carroll 'attacking' his half brother.


A source close to the player said: "The brothers did have a disagreement and Mark was asked to leave the yacht.

"Perhaps it wasn't settled in the most friendly of ways, but there are two sides to every story. Andy doesn't feel he's the one in the wrong."

Don't know whether that's any more true, but I think that's probably something closer to the truth.