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Soon as Babel came on, he looked like a third division player. My MoM is Alonso, closely followed by Benny/Aurelio together, then Kuyt.

Yes there is.

Do what they did years ago. Pay on the gate, then open up the gates at halftime....

He was certainly a costly buy at ten million quid. Don't think we would get our money back.,that's for sure.

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You might find that if Rafa goes, then the Spanish players may follow him shortly afterwards. Plus Aurelio, Lucas and Mascher...

Quite. We will finish third this season which is an improvement on some seasons in the past few years.

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This game has 'draw' written all over it.

Think he'll be gone in the summer.

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on BBC TV's 'Question Time' tonight. Apparently. Time to dust off those emails and fire them off again to Auntie Beeb.

Which could be taken to mean that with all that going on, he wouldn't have the time to travel round seeing every player he'd been approached about...

It's about time Gerrard was told to stop taking corners. 75 percent of the time he rifles the ball in about chest high. He would be far more use on the edge of the penalty area picking up seconds. As for N'gog, he will never be more than a squad player at Anfield. I am doubtless in a minority of one here but I DON'T think that our squad is as strong as Rafa makes out it is....

If Rafa has enquired about Voronin, he must be desperate. I have wondered in the past if we have a small coterie of players who Rafa hadn't seen play live before he brought them in. Voronin would be a member of that group even though he was a freebie. So would Ngog. It is not unknown for players to be bought on the basis of what managers have seen on a video.....

Forget that comment - just seen the Aurelio thread.

I actually think we should persevere with Aurelio in midfield on occasion. Am I the only one?

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Good point and I agree about Plessis. A lot of talk on here about Torres and match fitness. How much match fitness do people think Plessis has got?? Knowing Rafa, it is possible we will see N'gog up front today. Don't know why he has a fixation on this guy. How many goals did he get for PSG before he came here? Someone told me he had scored TWO the last season he was with them. Think Torres has to play with Benayoun in the hole. Then four in the middle - Kuyt, Alonso, Masch and Riera. Back four Arbeloa, Carra, Hyypia (certainly against Crouch) and Aurelio.

People on here are talking about Valencia but I suspect he will go to Man Utd in the summer. As for players going, wouldn't be at all surprised to see Babel go.

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Might just as well put Sami up front - at least he'll be able to head the ball and he certainly could do no worse than messrs Kuyt and Babel in the goals dept.