Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14 Mod request post#5808

GTR63 wrote: »

How are they playing is Yar as good as Dean?

Dean?

Yarmo's been a bit Quiet in the 2nd Half. But then again, most of Ukraine's Play seems to go through the Right with Kono.

rarnes1 wrote: »

Eh...

So I take it I completely missed yours.

I blame the rolleyes.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/liverpool-fc-owners-put-money-5906686

Liverpool owners to put money where their mouth is in £150m Anfield revamp

However the club has endured a decade of failed stadium plans and broken promises under previous regimes

Fenway Sports Group will have the cash to redevelop Anfield once property acquisitions, planning processes and other issues are resolved.

That’s the pledge from John Henry to anyone doubting the Reds owners will put their money where their mouth is on ambitious £150m stadium redevelopment plans.

The club has endured a decade of failed stadium plans and broken promises under previous regimes.

But if and when ‘certainty’ with partners and processes is achieved, the cash will be there to fund it says, Henry.

Liverpool FC are working with Liverpool City Council and the Your Housing Group on a major redevelopment plan for the whole Anfield area, which is already well underway in parts of the run down district.

The Reds want to massively redevelop the Main Stand and Anfield Road stands, giving the stadium a new look and feel and crucially a capacity of around 60,000 – 15,000 more seats than at present.

It is a remoulding model successfully employed by FSG at the Boston Red Sox famous Fenway Park baseball home a few years back.

Said Henry: “We are making good progress.

“There are a lot of different groups working very well together and that’s the key to a big project like this happening, when everybody is on the same page. When everybody is on the same page, we move forward.

“I think we were clear at one point that what made financial sense was going in this direction - and this is the direction that makes financial sense for the club for a long time.

“Obstacles are being overcome.”


Henry would not speculate on when a planning application might be able to be put in saying: “We have always said you have to have certainty with regard to the properties because of the height of the stand and all of the issues regarding that. So that’s been the biggest issue.

“We need certainty on that. But we are making progress.

Added Henry: “ It is actually a positive. That’s why we are doing it.

“The previous regime (Hicks and Gillett) were talking about going out and borrowing an enormous amount of money to build an enormous new facility. That’s not what we’re doing.

“One of their problems was that they weren’t able to get financing. When this happens, financing won’t be the problem.

“Again we just need certainty with regard to these properties and the number of properties that are in question keeps getting reduced.

“The City Council is doing everything they can and that’s all we can ask. Not just the city council, but Your Housing and the regeneration.

“Everyone associated with this – we are all on the same page.”

Brazilian striker Diego Costa admits he came close to signing for Liverpool but his connections to Atletico Madrid proved too strong.

The 24-year-old was reported to be the subject of a late £22million bid by Brendan Rodgers in the closing stages of this summer's transfer window.

Costa, who started his career with Portuguese side Braga, conceded a move to Anfield was on the cards but ultimately chose to reward the loyalty Atletico have displayed to him.

"I was close to leaving, Liverpool are a great team," he told Mundo Deportivo. "But after fighting so hard and overcoming difficulties to get my place at Atletico, how could I leave?"

"After fighting so hard and overcoming difficulties to get my place at Atletico, how could I leave?"
Diego Costa
Liverpool have since been linked with a January bid for the forward, but Costa remains adamant that he will be staying at the Estadio Vincente Calderon, where he is relishing the UEFA Champions League challenge ahead.

"I thought it was very important to keep growing at the Colchoneros, and play here for many years," he added.

"Porto are a team with a lot of traditions in this competition, Zenit are a great team too. It's a difficult group, but we knew we wouldn't have an easy group in the Champions League, considering what could have happened, the group is good.

Despite Costa's two Brazil caps to date, there have been recent suggestions the forward could represent Spain in future internationals, speculation he is not denying.

"In my life, I usually follow this idea; I want to be in a place where people want me to be," Costa admitted. "I play where people want me, I'd have to see, I don't close any doors."

Kess73 wrote: »

But take Lucas out and would you be as confident of an Allen/Gerrard or a Gerrard/Henderson combo avoiding leaving large gaps/channels for players to run into?

Is Lucas injured ?

klose wrote: »

Anyone else think its stupid how Barkley is in the england squad and hendo isint?

eh you know the English hype media pick the squad yeah?

Piers is an awful clown.

BMJD wrote: »

"Suarez demands Anfield exit - TO MAN UTD!

Controversial Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has stunned the club by demanding that they sell him in the January transfer window to their bitter rivals citing an obscure clause relating to an internet discussion forum. The fiery Uruguayan claims that Liverpool must sell him in order to inject some life into the LFC Superthread on boards.ie. Since the Summer transfer window closed last Monday, tumbleweed has been spotted several times in the thread. Experts believe that the club's smart purchases during the window, combined with their incredible 100% start to the season has silenced their long-bickering and pedantic fans on the popular forum. Controversial LFC principal owner, John W. Henry was unavailable for a smartarse comment when contacted today. Moderators on the forum have been placed on high-alert. "
:eek:

This was a better written piece of journalism than nearly all the crap I read through the whole of the transfer window.