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Roy Hodgson

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HODGSON KEEPS FOCUS ON FOOTBALL By Carl Markham, Press Association Sport Next Permanent Liverpool Manager. Click here to bet. Click here to follow us on Twitter! Click here for our special Transfer Centre! Click here for more football headlines! This week may be the start of a new era for Liverpool with the ownership issue having been resolved, but manager Roy Hodgson accepts future planning has to take a back seat to more pressing matters on the field. New England Sports Ventures completed their £300million takeover on Friday and they are now looking at all aspects of the club to see where improvements can be made. But, despite the hope of having a significant budget to spend come January, Hodgson is focusing on football matters. After a fourth Premier League defeat in eight matches left the club 19th in the table, Liverpool have to face Napoli away from home in the Europa League on Thursday before hosting Blackburn on Sunday. That is of more concern to Hodgson than a transfer window which is more than two months away. "I think the owners will be very interested in sitting down and planning things and the club can take comfort in the fact they are moving into a period of stability - it is badly needed," he said. "There are a lot of things that still need sorting out on a level outside of the football field and they will certainly help there. "They will finds ways and means of aiding us in those areas but when it comes to us playing we've got the players we have and we have to keep working with them and hopefully they will win some games. "The transfer window is two and a half months off and there is a lot of football to be played so there is no point in us in trying to put our eggs in the basket of the January transfer window. "The first thing we have to do is start winning matches and if we can do that and get in a better position and the owners can find the way to back us in the transfer window to improve the team we will obviously do so. "The transfer window is something which interests us, and we will have to do our scouting work, but it is not something which interests me in the coming week. "What does interest me is preparing for Napoli and then Blackburn - in particular it is the Blackburn game we need to win." Hodgson has a two-fold problem at the moment in that the side are conceding goals but are not scoring enough. In the league Liverpool have scored seven goals and let in 14 in eight matches. The manager knows he has to find a way of increasing the former while reducing the latter but does not believe one aspect has to suffer in order for the other to benefit. "It is a problem we are letting in goals but with the offensive line-up we have that is going to be a risk," he said. "Basically we need to score goals to take pressure off the fact we could let them in. "Good teams score goals and don't let many in as we see Chelsea doing topping the table. "They manage to score goals without letting them in and that is what have got to be trying to do as well. "I'm not prepared to suggest we need to offer something for something else (ie: defensive solidity at the expense of goalscoring). We need to get better in both areas." E-mail Article Print-Friendly Subscribe to RSS

October 19, 2010
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January transfer window

Bogman replied to New York Red 's topic in Liverpool FC

Reina wants out as Hodgson joins "Great Dane" chase 11 October 2010 - 10:41 | Sport.co.uk Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina is rumoured to be unsettled at Anfield and has reportedly alerted the Reds hierarchy to his state of mind with manager Roy Hodgson subsequently joining the chase for Aalesund goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard. It is understood that the highly rated Danish stopper will seek a move to one of the Premier League's top clubs in January. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and an un-named Spanish club are thought to have joined the race for Reina who has been linked with a move away from Anfield since the start of the summer. Lindegaard, 26, is also being monitored by Arsenal, as well as Aston Villa, Manchester United, AC Milan and Bayern Munich, however, no formal bids have been lodged with his club. The goalkeeper is now actively encouraging offers as he looks to seal a move to top European club in the January transfer window. Sir Alex Ferguson has sent goalkeeping coach Eric Steele to watch the player on a number of occasions while Arsene Wenger is monitoring the stopper. Villa have emerged as an option with new manager Gerard Houllier an adamant fan. It has now also emerged that Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has sent scouts to watch the Dane with fears rising at Anfield that Reina could quit the club. Sport.co.uk understands that while Lindegaard is eager to play in the Premier League, it depends which clubs make approaches for him with his representative admitting he is open to other top European leagues with Milan and Munich registering their intent. The agent of Lindegaard Michael Stensgaard told Sport.co.uk in an exclusive interview: “It is difficult to talk about his future. At the moment he is playing well and is with the Danish national team. That is where he will stay for the moment, until a club come in with an official offer (Anders) is just focusing on his club and country, not speculation. “ He continued. “There are some interesting clubs following him and he is an interesting talent. He has been suited to the Premier League for many years and he is suited to all of Europe’s top leagues. He is very good with his feet and he also stands up as a traditional English keeper, he is not just a good shot stopper. Arsene Wenger is also a rumoured suitor following the underwhelming performances of Manuel Almunia, but the former Liverpool and Southampton stopper Stensgaard refused to rule out his client moving to another league in Europe. “The Premier League is a possibility but if other teams from other leagues come in for him we will look at it.” He concluded.