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  1. Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has revealed Argentina captain Javier Mascherano has turned down an approach by an unnamed club.

     

    The Liverpool boss is preparing his side for Sunday's crucial Barclay's Premier League clash with Newcastle at Anfield aware that the 25-year-old's position at the club has been undermined.

     

    Mascherano is only 15 months into a four-year contract, but Benitez held talks with him following the midfielder's own claims that he was unsure about his own future on Merseyside.

     

    Benitez refused to name the club concerned but it is understood the approach did not come from either Italy or Spain.

     

    That suggests a British club could be involved because it is unlikely that a club from anywhere else could match the player's wages or likely fee.

     

    However Benitez has been quick to defuse the situation saying: "Javier is happy here with the fans, the club and the manager. I have had a very positive conversation with him.

     

    "He has already said no to one club, a good side. He wants to stay but he cannot stop big clubs asking about him.

     

    "If you are a top-class player, people are always asking about you. They will know if there are four or five big clubs asking for them and the player would be proud of that.

     

    "He has tried to be polite and correct. Now I have had a conversation with him and it was very clear he wants to continue to play for us. I do not see this as a big problem.

     

    "The conversation with him was very honest and he was very clear about things.

     

    "These things happen always in football, clubs all around the world will work like this. It is just part of the situation that exists at the top level.

     

    "You just have to handle it and work with the situation when it arises.

     

    "Clearly we do not want to lose key players. Players like Mascherano and Xabi Alonso have long contracts so we are in a strong position, while we are very close now to sorting out Daniel Agger's position here.

     

    RAFA: MASCH SNUBBED A MOVE | Football Transfer News, Football News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, Stats

  2. I thought this was a Liverpool forum, but alas I must have stumbled onto another manc site.

     

    I know everything's relative, but why waste our energy discussing their match, and all things scummyfied......................

     

    Anyways, as you were.

  3. :)

     

    football-rumours.com:

     

    LFC:

    I work for a large financial establishment, and the company has, on the request of the current Liverpool owners, been working on various ways to refinance the club, to release more funds – After months of trying and approaching several different banks, we have drawn a blank (no–one wants to take the risk) – So, the only option is to sell. the good news is, that there are three genuine offers on the table – All for similar amounts and all promising to fund the new stadium and release funds for transfers (in the region of £35m)– The Americans are reluctant to sell to DIC, as they have not been impressed with recent dealings, so it is potentially down to two, being a consortium from Kuwait plus a new bidder which is being fronted (but not solely funded) by none other than Richard Branson. He loves the idea of having his Virgin branding flashed all over the globe in an instant ! So, watch this space ! Fact – not rumour

  4. I don't know, I mean, to be fair to Hiddink, he is a fantastic manager, and twice against us, after half time, Chelsea have gone on to do what they needed to do to go through.

     

    Whatever he told them, helped them get the win. Yes, they got a lot of luck, but a manager of his calibre doesn't win all that he has won, with constantly being lucky.

     

    They came out with the same conviction that they showed in the first half, and their only real chance of the game ended with Pepe's helping hand.

    IF that hadn't gone in, who knows.

     

    I'm not denying Hiddink had a pop at the players, but until their lucky goal, they still weren't at the races.

     

    Remember Olympiacos in 2005, remember how we started the second half, well that wasn't Chelsea on Tuesday night, so I don't describe to the fact that it was the manager that change the course of the game. But that's IMO.

  5. Hiddink is known in the Netherlands as "Lucky Guus" and this game is good evidence of why. There was no great team talk, no inspiring performance by moonface to drag them back into the match. It was a freak goal and a free kick that shouldn't have been given.

     

    Nail, head and finger.

     

    Correct, but every tv pundit, journalist, radio presenter thinks otherwise.

     

    Was it bollocks, it was exactly as you put it.

  6. Good post John, can hold our heads up high, can take so much from this game into the business end of the season.

     

    Tonite just emphasizes exactly what supporting Liverpool is all about - not giving up whatever the world throws at us.

     

    Tonite, I'm again, one proud scouser.

     

    Justice to the 96.

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