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Paul McCarthy being interviewed on Talk Sport there's going to be an exclusive by Chris Bascombe in NOTW tomorrow with Steve Gerrard.

 

So much for him having no contacts at the club now Parry's gone eh.

 

 

Biggest selling Sunday tabloid has interview with captain of most succesful club in the country

Hardly deep throat is it?

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Biggest selling Sunday tabloid has interview with captain of most succesful club in the country

Hardly deep throat is it?

It was just to let people know about the interview.

 

Some people thought Bascombe's links with the club were gone with the announcement of Parry's imminent departure.

 

*Awaits Durango's insightful words of wisdom.

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It was just to let people know about the interview.

 

Some people thought Bascombe's links with the club were gone with the announcement of Parry's imminent departure.

 

*Awaits Durango's insightful words of wisdom.

 

not like he's being fed information from links within the club...he's doing an interview

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If he does write something positive, and i'm sure it will be, no one on here will mention it.

 

 

It's an interview, so the tone is hardly likely to be set by the journalist

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Paul - while your last two points have striven to be balanced in tone they are still, in my opinion, typical of that special TLW anti-Rafa thesis which has been over-the-top and far too reliant on on the kind of psuedo information provided by Bascombe. (I've made it clear that his is not genuine information but gossip and speculation animated by (a) his need to produce copy and (b) his wounded sense that he is different from other reporters and somehow entitled to inside information. The bottom line is he has become far too reliant on the techniques pioneered by Oldham at Kraptalk.

 

Your critcism of Rafa's rotation policy is hackneyed and factually incorrect. He never did rotate more than other leading managers with relatively large squads. So your saying you approve because he is rotating less is meaningless. He rotates less in the last third of the season because that is the aim of rotation policy is to keep the core players fresh for the run-in.

 

He treated Crouch very well and not shabbily. When Crouch was being hounded by many on here and throughout the country it was Rafa who insisted that even without goals he was contributing to the team. Rafa was proven right when Crouch began to score regularly and earned himself a starting position with England. But nobody believed that Crouch should be the height of our ambitions and Rafa certainly cannot be criticised for acquiring Torres. It was Crouch, not Rafa, who decided he did not want to sign an extension and instead made clear in polite and respectful but nevertheless clear interviews that he was available to other teams if they would offer him regular football. Why should Rafa continue to build on Crouch if it was clear that he did not want to stay in a supportive role.

 

Whether Rafa's tactical decisions were consistently wrong for two seasons as you state is a matter of opinion. You can be as tactically correct as you like but it is the players who have to execute tactics not the manager and it takes a long time for them to be schooled and drilled. With all its resources and history and with players of above average skills United have played some tight games this year going through by an odd goal and often as the result of a set piece.

 

Critcising Rafa for being involved in LFC politics is close to being stupid. The club had been hawked around the world for the first years of Rafa's reign. It was said to have been sold to DIC and then to the two cowboys. Rafa had to keep the team together through all the uncertainty. When Hicks and Gillett came along their sheer ignorance of the game and their inept decisions and statements were breathtaking. Parry was their bitch. The only person who provided stability and some independence was Rafa. Yet the owners publicly declared they had canvassed an alternative manager. Instead of lashing Rafa for being consistent and strong and inisisting on the restoration of order and efficiency through these turbulent times and instead of labelling his strength and vision as "politics" you should be grateful that we had him rather than some other manager like Mourinho who would have engineered a confrontation with his owner in order to get himself a nice pay off so that he could be free to chase another fat contract somewhere else.

 

If Rafa's insistence on principle, clarity, efficiency and self respect is "politics" then let's have more politics at the club.

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Steven Gerrard in Kop talks

 

By CHRIS BASCOMBE, 21/03/2009

 

STEVEN GERRARD will be offered a new £30million deal to spearhead the rest of Rafa Benitez’s reign.

 

And the Liverpool skipper is certain to pledge the rest of his career to his boyhood team.

I'm obsessed with winning the title, says Steven Gerrard - Click here for full story

Having secured manager Benitez on a new five-year £20m contract, owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are determined to ensure their captain also stays.

 

The midfield star will be offered £140,000-a-week for the last two years of his current deal and then a two-year extension which will keep him at Anfield until at least 2013.

 

Despite interest from the rest of Europe, Gerrard has no intention of walking away from Anfield and Liverpool hope the improved terms for the 28-year-old will be signed as soon as May. The Gerrard and Benitez deals are part of a £240m cash injection by the Americans to win back the trust of the Kop.

 

The pair have put together an ambitious business plan. It includes:

  • New summer deals for Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Jamie Carragher, Dirk Kuyt and Daniel Agger costing more than £120m over four years.

  • A guaranteed minimum £20m summer transfer kitty every season for the rest of Benitez’s reign.

  • A radical review of the structure of the club, with the possible formation of a new, non-executive board to run Liverpool in the owners’ absence.

  • Defensive legend Sami Hyypia joining the backroom staff as player/coach.

  • A new deal for Benitez’s assistant Mauricio Pellegrino.

Hicks and Gillett Jnr are still talking to potential investors as the takeover saga rumbles on but they’re negotiating independently rather than as a united force.

 

The most likely scenario remains a Hicks alliance with a new partner, with commercial director Ian Ayre favourite to take over as chief executive to maintain some local presence on the Anfield board.

 

Ambitious plans are also being considered for a complete revamp of the club hierarchy, with the possibility of a non-executive board being put in place.

 

Former FA chief executive Brian Barwick has been touted as an ideal addition, but not necessarily as Rick Parry’s replacement as earlier believed.

 

Barwick could be recruited as a non-executive chairman to work alongside fellow Liverpudlian Ayre in a bid to bring harmony to the boardroom.

 

Liverpool were last night mourning the death of club secretary Bryce Morrison. Morrison, who attended Friday’s Champions League draw, died suddenly on his return to Merseyside. There will be a minute’s silence before today’s match against Aston Villa and the players will wear black armbands.

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Paul McCarthy being interviewed on Talk Sport there's going to be an exclusive by Chris Bascombe in NOTW tomorrow with Steve Gerrard.

 

So much for him having no contacts at the club now Parry's gone eh.

It won't be an exclusive.

 

Plus he is still BANNED from Melwood.

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