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No we haven't. But my thinking is that as it took all/most of our players quite a while to fully comprehend and put into practice the way Rafa wants to defend, its quite likely that any new players, particularly defenders, will take a while to adjust to this way of defending. If one had some experience of playing something near Rafas system with a previous club, I would have thought he would be likely to 'acclimatise' quicker than someone who has not. Thats all. Obviously, usually most players are brought back to defend set pieces against us, so its not neccessarily just denfensive players that have to adjust to this system. Sorry if thats come across a bit waffley!

Thanks. Hopefully, Agger may adjust a bit quicker then.

My concern when bringing new defenders like Kromkamp and Agger in is how long it will take them to adapt to Rafa's defensive system. Obviously we need cover, but its taken the regular defenders quite a while to adapt to it and now we have a couple of new players to try and adapt to it. So surely its likely that it will take them time as well. [im not aware how their previous clubs defended - maybe someone can help?]

The boy Fowler Seen this elsewhere (TLW) and haven't seen it on here yet. Well worth it. (Need WinZip - 30MB) Very well put together. Courtesy of Djibrilliant_9 I believe

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'Big' Sam on Sky! He was having a moan in general so probably just got carried away!

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I think thats the key point atm. RM & Newcastle have agreed a fee - its still for Owen to decide to go there and agree wages and as hes already said he wants to come back to Liverpool, so its up to RM & us to sort some kind of deal out. Lyon agreed a higher fee with us for baros, but hes hasn't gone there, so basically, this 'development' could be irrelavant unless owen wants to go there.