yellow jumper

me too. think either simao or macinni can player both flanks, so we'd be pretty well covered left and right.

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in rooney they already have a very similar player too. would be better going off for someone to replace larrsson, smith or the perpetually injured saha. they do seem interested in gudjohnsen (another second striker) for some reason though.

two of capello's men, emerson and cassano were getting preference earlier in the season, until he was forced to do a volte face and start including the likes of beckham and robinho instead. think the sporting director has as much of a say on transfers as the manager there.

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accept it's unlikely we'll get him, if we're even in for him. was reacting more to groundless speculation, and also the idea that we need two wide men. which i think would become less of an issue if we got a forward like tevez. he could provide a lot of the movement, running with ball, creativity we've been missing, albeit from a more central position. a midfield of gerrard, alonso, mascherano, new left winger with tevez/torres in front would carry enough threat i reckon. with kewell, pennant, lucas, sissoko all waiting in the wings (a decent carling cup quartet that). can't see tevez staying at west ham, hasn't he burnt bridges with curbishley?

sissoko may be off to the african nations, but all the signs are gerrard will continue to play down the right for much of the time. think getting tevez on top of torres would reduce the need for that extra winger, and we could get away with signing just one quality left mid on top, rather than the two being mooted. would put a question mark over at least one of the strikers, and maybe kewell too, though.

errikson would be a good appointment for madrid. would keep players and board happy, while still having a fair shot of winning something. style of football might be the only issue. it hasn't been the sort of club where the manager can be confrontational, or control everything, for a long time.

champions league and full international experience. looks decent back-up to me. rafa does seem to have almost as much of a penchant for young keepers as defensive mids, however. if we do sell carson we should be playing hard ball over the fee.

we've got more options on the left, but better ones on the right. kewell can replace garcia in terms of flexibility and goals, if not style. as might voronin (he's certainly more like garcia centrally than fowler from what i've seen). which still leaves us with leto and malouda (or whoever) for the left. with both aurelio and riise able to fill in assuming they're still fit/at liverpool. for me, benayoun's one too many, although i wouldn't mind seeing him at the club, if we shipped another out, or assumed leto isn't going to be ready this year.

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agree with the sentiment. at the very least they can both be the best impact subs in the league. lucas, voronin and leto should be worthy cup men initially. however, would countenace, letting one or both of them go, if tevez was available for between 15 and 20 million (assuming we had the money after wrapping up torres), and he wanted the move. leave benayoun alone, sign one left winger and perhaps a quality left-sided utility defender depending on sami's status and aurelio's fitness.

jesus gil's dead, i think. probably his son, or some other family member.

rafa went to mascherano's appartment to sell him the club. there's an owen lobby in and around anfield, people on here have made it patently clear he wants to come back, but moved to newcastle, dissapointed that he'd been "messed around" by liverpool. there'd be plenty justified in feeling they were "messed around" by michael owen. and he wanted the red carpet treatment? after two/three years of this it seems pretty clear the manager ain't arsed, and why should he be?

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madrid have had plenty of winning seasons with average managers in charge.

what does need to be said is that atletico are a very big club with plenty of quality players. not only torres and maxi, but pablo, perrea, antonio lopez, pernia, luccin, maniche, costinha, petrov, aguero, galletti, ze castro, mista etc. there seems to be a general perception that he's at a dead-end club, which isn't really true. they've been mismanaged over the years and struggled to find any consistency, but they are capable of beating any of the top sides in spain on their day, and were in the running for champions' league places at the halfway stage of the season. it's more than concievable that torres might believe that there are still possibilities in madrid. on the otherhand - and i knows ballague's hit and miss - but he interviewed torres pretty recently (just after he was pictured with YNWA written on his arm band), and he seems convinced the players desperate to come to liverpool.

it's his representative speaking by the looks of that. could be just be a case of torres needing to be seen to be loyal to atletico by their fans. it certainly flies in the face of everything else we've been hearing.

he's a serial diver. the thing i like about him is that he has the ability to be a two-in-one striker. he can do the hold-up, link play, although as you say he'll probably need to get tougher, but he is also quick and skilful enough to run in behind or beat a defender.

ancelotti's done better at milan than capello ever did. he also proved himself at some of italy's lesser clubs earlier in his managerial career. yet he's never talked about in the same way as capello, who plays dull football and has flitted from one european giant to another throughout his career, never leaving much of a legacy. still a very good manager though.