Falconhoof

We should march on Anfield and take Parry hostage until this teenage unknown is unveiled in a Liverpool shirt.

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While Ince may have been a key player in that United side, he was far from the level Gerrard is at. Ince was light years away from being among the best 5 footballers in the world, Gerrard is among the top 5 now.

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its being discussed in here...

Pongolle can come in for Cisse and we can buy a replacement for Morientes. I can see the tendency now after a couple of recent goals and performances that everyone is forgetting the crap they've dished out for the most part of the season. People are being generous but if the right fee is there i'd sell both. Crouch is not in question.

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He'd be good for a club like West Ham I reckon.

Lets get a quality right winger & striker AND keep Gerrard. He's a decent squad player. There's no way Gerrard, Alonso and Momo can play all of our games. Its perfect that we have the three of them to mix and match and cover suspensions.

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Clearly W Brom are going down but i'd rather it was Portsmouth. From the t*** with the drum to the fact that they are practically in Northern France.

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Sullivan too, in fact he's worse.

Lots ? Really ?

His articles are getting better. Even if he's a bit of a t*** he's a far better bloke to be in charge of a football club than people like Gold. He showed David Gold up good and proper with that article.

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The original post was right to say we are doing a lot more now, thats obvious. One or two trialists under Houllier doesn't change the fact that we're doing a lot more now. Don't see what you are arguing with TBH.

Le Tallec and Pongolle cost a fair whack too but they have been included to bolster the numbers of promising young players Houllier brought in. Look at the long list I posted earlier in this thread and its clear that Rafa has already brought in more young players in than Houllier did in the entire time he was manager.

How old was Vignal. Diarra 21, yeah but if you include him then you could just as well include Alonso 22 and Momo 20. However you look at it, benitez has brought in far more young players than Houllier ever did.

Yes but its not about building an Academy is it ? You can spend as much as you want on the buildings and facilities but it won't make a blind bit of difference if you haven't got the scouts to find the right quality of young players. Under Houllier we stuck too rigidly to the new rules where trainees have to be born and bred locally. Rafa and his scouts have circumvented this rule by getting top quality young players from the lower leagues and abroad, paying relatively little for them. You only need to watch the reserves to see that they all have the potential to play at the premier legue level in the future if they keep working at it. I'm not saying Houllier left the academy in a worse state but what he did with it was extremely disapointing considering his work with young French players in their national system. Some have said that its still early days for an academy to bear fruit and we'll start to see the 1st few come through soon. The way Rafa is handling it is far more pro active and sensible IMO. He's finding the right quality of young player from far and wide and not just relying on the assumption that the coaches will be able to develop kids from merseyside into the necessary quality.