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Dutch commentator just suggested that Blackburn have an impressive midfield with savage, reid & pederson, so perhaps Rafa has instructed Liverpool to bypass the midfield and play high balls.

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Next up: "I wanted a bigger engine and they bought me a wheel."

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Anyone read any of the Shankly books?

Shouldn't this be in the general footy forum or are we seriously linked to this guy?

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Hopefully someone there picks it up and has some information. Top lad indeed.

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ManU have been "in decline" for the past 5 seasons. Yet practically every year they've finished above us and they're only two midfield signings away from having a very good team next year.

I'd rather Arsenal win it than Milan. If Milan win another they'll be on 7, if we win one first we'll be level with them on 6. So what if Arsenal win one, hardly going to put them anywhere near the European elite. Out of all the teams left i hope Villareal win it though.

Hopefully we'll be playing about 60 games, Kewell can also place as a forward and you need to account for injuries, so no problem at all.

There's 10,000 - 15,000 on the waiting list though (isn't there???) which would put capacity at 55,000-60,000 just on emptying the waiting list. Add to that the people willing to go but with no chance as it is and i think 60,000 is a minimum.

Inflation accounts for about 2% (?) a year, meaning 120m in 2000 is 135m now.

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Couple of points, 1) There's no way the 80m price increase is solely due to the steel price increase. I expect the 80m was a preliminary valuation and after going over the details the figure was adjusted, i think to 120m a couple of years ago. 2) Although as RP says there's no formal futures market the club could have negotiated an option to buy a certain amount of steel from a steel producer. Given the demand for steel at the time that would have been a difficult contract to negotiate. Besides, you can't expect the club to have sufficient knowledge of the steel market to fix the deal. 3) I seem to recall the new stadium would not be expandable. Seeing as ManU are finding their 70,000 stadium too small i find it a bit worrying if we're going to be restricted to 60,000 without the option of expansion. Or do the Mancs really have larger matchgoing fanbase?

If only to annoy kev

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All off to Lyon? Seriously, it wouldn't surprise me if Houllier tried to buy any of them back, they're all Gerard favourites. Traore was his first signing, Le Tallec and Sinama his 'gems' and Cisse his record signing. I expect they'd do pretty well in the French league and Lyon should have a bit of money to spend seeing how well they're doing in the CL and with the Essien transfer fee.

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