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Marca today still reckon his future is in the air.

He stuck him out on the wing and said something like; "He is doing fantastically well. If he was Brazilian everyone would be raving about him."

Maybe he is eyeing some sort of technical position with the club and thinks sticking the boot in Rafa will up his chances. Either that or he was bladdered when he gave the interview.

Roy Evans is weak? Any need to go over this now?

He's not a designer slaphead is he?

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What Hodgson said on Saturday suggests otherwise. "As far as I know, Joe Cole is still a player looking for a club. "I know we've been connected with him, and it's good to know we're connected with players of that quality, but I don't have anything to report on the subject. "I haven't had any discussions with him, but I had a brief chat a while back. "If you want to know about transfer targets, and how things are progressing, you'll have to ask (managing director) Christian Purslow because he's the man looking after those discussions, not me."

Where did he say he had given a list of targets to Purslow. This is what he said on Saturday; "If you want to know about transfer targets, and how things are progressing, you'll have to ask (managing director) Christian Purslow because he's the man looking after those discussions, not me."

This is what he said at the beginning of July. "There have not been any offers at this stage. There haven't been any offers to turn down and I wouldn't have expected there to have been at this stage.There are a number of interested parties but there's no specific deadline on it. We are looking to the middle of July-ish for the first round of bids but that's not a final stage - that's a first entry through." Make of that what you will.

10 out of 10 for tenacity anyway.

Rafa is not responsible for transfers at Inter. He has made it clear he is only the coach.

I back him 100%. Just like I backed England 100% but still was not convinced that they would beat Germany.

This is b******s. Can't imagine anyone on here or any Liverpool supporter wanting Liverpool to do badly. You could probably describe myself as being firmly in the 'Rafa camp' but I would love to be proved wrong and for Roy to have a successful season. Ain't going to happen though.

Anyone we haven't been linked with yet?

No, he is actually s****.

All that has been said is that he wants them to stay but can't promise anything. No reason why he could not have said the same thing about Masch. Hodgson's first press conference and the first interview were virtually identical. It just that Cecil forgot to mention Masch when he handed the script to Hodgson, nothing more sinister than that.

Bring back hapless Cisse? Oh how Sunderland would rue the fact that they failed to sign him up permanently.

He chose Arsenal over us.

So it's just the scarf then? I knew it was too good to be true.

In fairness, he has deliberately concealed the word 'Liverpool' in it's entirety. He's off.

Duncan Ferguson. (Nothing wrong with being nostalgic.)

Yossi's comments are annoying as he is bordering on saying that Rafa had some knid of agenda against him. When you read through his 'examples' it amounts to nothing more than an inkling he had that he would not be starting the next match. That being said i'm half expecting him to come out in the next few days and say he was quoted out of context!

I'm not sure I can. He appears to be suggesting he was good enough to start most games. He had good games but did he do well enough to warrant being a regular? He started 39 games last season. Only one less than the season before. Hardly as if he was left on the bench to rot.

Pretty sure he could still have pulled out of the deal now if Rafa was his main problem. Maybe the lure of a fantastic club like Chelsea did have something to do with it after all.