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Interesting to see Suso has scored 4 goals in 13 games for Genoa. Pretty wicked goals also

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/oct/02/fox-sports-selfie-shaming-of-sorority-was-casual-sexism-at-its-most-insidious

Pachino for me, but a close call. De Niro's work in later life is far worse, it was all downhill after Rocky & Bullwinkle Scarface, The Godfather one and 2, Donnie Brasco, Carlitios way, Heat

ojo's goal, shit quality video but good technique on the strike http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/golazos/strike-liverpool-loanee-sheyi-ojo-bags-first-professional-goal-for-wolves-video/?

Liverpool winger Harry Wilson joins Crewe Alexandra on loan Crewe Alexandra have signed Wales international Harry Wilson from Premier League Liverpool on a youth loan. The 18-year-old winger has not played for the Reds' first team, but was part of the senior squad on their pre-season tour of Asia and Australia this summer. Wrexham-born Wilson made his senior debut for Wales in a World Cup qualifier against Belgium in Cardiff in October 2013. He has agreed a deal that will keep him at Gresty Road until January. Wilson is the Alex's sixth summer signing and goes straight into the squad for Saturday's League One game at Wigan. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34062988

Derby highlights http://knbtt.com/highlights-everton-u21-2015-aug/

LIVERPOOL v HJK HELSINKI Liverpool: Mignolet; Clyne, Skrtel, Lovren, Gomez; Henderson, Milner, Coutinho, Ibe, Lallana; Ings.

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/video/off-the-pitch/news#22677 Main stand update video Main Stand update

If safe standing was ever reintroduced we could probably add another 10000 or so on the kop

sounds like 16 mil upfront, the rest in installments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqLTWguk-sY

"However, the caveat in that trite phrase ‘good touch for a big man’ is there for a reason and Benteke has the worst passing accuracy of any regular outfield player at either Villa or Liverpool (39 players in all). Every third pass fails to find its target and that highlights the problem."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC5WXdXVqK0

4 0 Origi

Liverpool FC ✔@LFC Confirmed #LFC first-half XI in Bangkok: Bogdan, Gomez, Toure, Sakho, Wisdom, Lucas, Rossiter, Teixeira, Markovic, Ings, Lambert #LFCTour Follow Liverpool FC ✔@LFC Confirmed #LFC second-half XI: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Lovren, Maguire, Allen, Henderson, Milner, Ibe, Lallana, Origi #LFCTour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrxlpF5NK8Q

Right-back has been a problem position for Liverpool in recent seasons, but Nathaniel Clyne represents a considerable upgrade on the departed Glen Johnson, writes Nick Wright. It’s full steam ahead for Liverpool in the transfer market this summer, with Sky sources confirming right-back Nathaniel Clyne will become their sixth signing of the close-season next week. The 24-year-old will follow the arrivals of James Milner, Danny Ings, Roberto Firmino, Joe Gomez and Adam Bogdan at Anfield as Brendan Rodgers re-shapes his squad and looks to lift the gloom that surrounded the club after their disappointing 2014/15 campaign. Clyne will be seen as a direct replacement for Glen Johnson – whose gradual decline made him something of a joke figure among supporters before he quietly departed in the shadow of Steven Gerrard at the end of the campaign. But while Johnson fell from grace, Clyne was busy establishing himself as a top Premier League right-back at Southampton. The defender was a key member of Saints’ back four last season, making 35 appearances and helping them qualify for the Europa League as they finished the campaign with the second best defensive record in the division. Clyne’s individual contribution was superb, and Southampton manager Ronald Koeman – a man who knows a thing or two about defending – described him as one of the best full-backs he’s managed in his 15-year coaching career. Clyne has also broken into the England set-up, making five appearances for Roy Hodgson's side since his debut against Slovenia in November. His stock is now so high that Hodgson's decision to persist with Phil Jones as his first choice right-back has been widely criticised. Top tackler The stats highlight just how significant Clyne's arrival at Anfield could be. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the former Crystal Palace player beat his predecessor Johnson in almost every department last season. He averaged far more tackles per game (3.3 v 1.6), more interceptions (1.8 v 0.9) and created more chances per game (0.63 v 0.26) than the 30-year-old, showing he was far more effective at both ends of the pitch. Premier League 2014/15 Opta stats comparison Spaniard Javier Manquillo showed promise in his 10 Premier League appearances for the Reds, but the 21-year-old is a rookie who is not ready for regular action, whereas Clyne has three full seasons of the top flight experience under his belt. He may have only turned 24 in April, but Clyne has already made close to 250 career appearances having broken through at Crystal Palace as a teenager. Johnson is not the only player whose stats pale in comparison to Clyne’s. The Southampton man’s tackling ability is one of his biggest strengths, so it comes as little surprise that he made more than any other defender in the Premier League last season with 115. In fact, the only player to make more successful tackles in 2014/15 was Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic Dangerous outlet The pressure is on Clyne given how Dejan Lovren struggled after making the move from St Mary’s to Anfield last summer, but the former Crystal Palace man is a well-rounded defender who has all the tools to succeed as Liverpool’s first choice right-back – and former Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher agrees. “I saw Nathaniel Clyne at St Mary's after a game last season and told him to sign for LFC – he took my advice!” the former Liverpool centre-back wrote onKICCA this week. “I think it's another good signing for the club to go along with the other business already done.” Nathaniel Clyne in action with Liverpool's Raheem Sterling last season As well as being a strong tackler and confident in one on one situations, Clyne is a dangerous outlet going forward. His dynamic playing style contrasts sharply with Johnson’s casual approach, and he has the speed and energy to charge up and down the flank, cover for his team-mates and recover when caught out of position. Clyne’s marauding forward runs have become a regular feature of Southampton’s playing style. Fittingly, one of the best exponents came at Anfield last season, when he played a clever one-two with Dusan Tadic before beating Simon Mignolet with an emphatic first-time finish into the top corner. The right-back scored an even better goal in a Capital One Cup clash against Arsenal, rifling home a rising driving from 35 yards out at the Emirates Stadium. Versatility “I’m a full-back who likes to get forward and help out in attack,” Clyne said in an interview with Southampton’s official website in September. “I try to get assists and to score goals myself. With the centre-backs covering me, I’ve got the ability to go forward and help the team in an attacking sense.” His attacking instincts could be particularly useful to Rodgers, who is partial to deploying wing-backs in a 3-4-2-1 formation. The Liverpool manager will need time to settle on a favoured set-up for his new-look starting XI next season, so Clyne’s versatility should serve him well in the opening weeks of the campaign. And while Clyne can provide an immediate solution to Liverpool’s right-back woes, they are also obtaining a player with his best years ahead of him. Clyne’s career is on an upward trajectory, and he could make Liverpool’s right-back spot his own for many years to come. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11700/9895824?

Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino: a thiever of balls who never stops running In December 2010 the Hoffenheim sporting director, Ernst Tanner, travelled to the east coast of Brazil to check out a player at the second division side Figueirense. The reports had been promising but Tanner did not know what to expect as he turned up for training to watch the young Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira. Afterwards, Tanner was not much the wiser. “It was strange because during some exercises he would just, without any apparent reason, just fold … but instead of making a big meal out of it and getting angry, he listened carefully to his coach and learned from what he had done wrong. That impressed me.” It is perhaps not the most glowing reference ever heard from a scouting mission but Tanner convinced Hoffenheim that the 19-year-old, whose move to Liverpool was announced on Wednesday, was worth a gamble. In January 2011 the Bundesliga club signed the player for €4m without much fanfare. At the low-key unveiling Tanner explained the club’s plans for the unknown Brazilian. “We are delighted to have been able to strengthen our squad with a top talent from Brazil, in which several international clubs were interested,” he said. “We will give him enough time to settle in here at our club. He has already shown his qualities with eight goals in 36 games and was recently voted the best player in the Brazilian second division.” In hindsight, Firmino could hardly have chosen a better club to start his European adventure. Hoffenheim is a tiny town south of Frankfurt with only around 3,000 inhabitants. The young Brazilian was allowed to settle without the pressure of being at a big club, or even in a big city. Hoffenheim are only in the Bundesliga because of Dietmar Hopp’s huge financial support but they have also been extremely successful with their South American imports. In the month Firmino arrived at Hoffenheim, the club sold Luiz Gustavo to Bayern Munich for €17m. He had arrived from Corinthians Alagoano in 2008 for an even smaller fee than Firmino did three years later. Firmino, in fact, was looking forward to moving to Europe so much that he got himself a tattoo in German before he boarded the flight. There was only one slight problem: he had used an internet translation tool, which did not use the umlaut on the ö in the phrase Familie unaufhorlich Liebe, which roughly translates as “unremitting love for the family”. Undeterred, the Brazilian made his Bundesliga debut a month after arriving in Germany and played in 11 league games that season, mainly as a substitute, scoring three goals; and this is the thing about Firmino, he is not an out-and-out goalscorer. He is a forward who averages roughly a goal every three games, and he has done that throughout his career. What he does provide, though, is an unrelenting work ethic. In that respect, he is similar to Luis Suárez and Alexis Sánchez. He will harry and press the opponents until he drops. In one match report in Germany he was described as the “clever, first stealer of balls in Hoffenheim’s pressing system”. Holger Stanislawski, his first manager at Hoffenheim, immediately described him as being “unbelievably good tactically”, which will be music to Brendan Rodgers’ ears after a season of having to teach Mario Balotelli, among other things, how to defend at corners. In fact he has been showered with praise for most of his time in Germany, the papers describing him as one of few players “who stay focused for the entire 90 minutes” and a “master of moving around without anyone noticing him, to provide goals or score them himself”. There have been some disciplinary issues and he was once suspended briefly by Hoffenheim for turning up late for training but that was early on in his career and he has not done it since. FacebookTwitterPinterest Roberto Firmino celebrates a Hoffenheim goal against Eintracht Frankfurt last season. Photograph: Action Press/Rex ShutterstockThe 23-year-old was born in Maceió – as was Pepe and Mario Zagallo – which is one of Brazil’s most dangerous cities. His father sold water bottles to commuters waiting in the queues in and out of the city and he had to move to Figueirense on his own when he was 16. “It was not an easy time,” he has said, “I was completely on my own.” But that experience will have prepared him for moving to Germany, and now to England. The 2013-14 season was arguably Firmino’s best to date with the manager Markus Gisdol getting the best out of him. Gisdol not only made him a better attacking player but also instilled the workrate ethic that was surely a big reason for Liverpool paying as much as £29m for him. That season he scored 16 goals in 33 Bundesliga games, finishing third behind Marco Reus (30) and Robert Lewandowski (31) in the goalscoring charts. He also provided 12 assists in that campaign and is, in fact, the player who has created most chances in the Bundesliga (138) over the past two seasons. Firmino also had the joint-third most assists last season (10) with Thomas Müller. Not bad for someone playing for a mid-table club. Currently with Brazil at the Copa América, Firmino has coped well with the pressure of leading the line now that Neymar is suspended and he has already scored four goals in nine appearances for the national team. Dunga’s side play Paraguay in the quarter-finals on Saturday. Behind the scenes, he is a bubbly, fun character but in front of the cameras he comes across as incredibly shy. On Tuesday, at a Copa press conference before his move was confirmed, he managed to answer 18 questions without saying anything of note. It got to a point where the Brazilian journalists could only smile. Most importantly for Liverpool, though, is that they seem to have learned from last summer’s travails in the transfer market. Then, a deal for Loïc Rémy collapsed in late July and the club were forced into what can only be described as a panic buy with Balotelli in August. This time they have already signed James Milner, Adam Bogdan, Danny Ings and now Firmino. The fee is eye-watering considering it is almost as much as Chelsea paid for Diego Costa and more (with add-ons) than Arsenal paid for Sánchez. But there is no doubt that he is an extremely talented young player who is still improving. There will be few defences in the Premier League looking forward to an afternoon battling Philippe Coutinho, Firmino and Daniel Sturridge – if fit. And while £29m does seem a lot, if Raheem Sterling joins Manchester City for a fee of around £45-50m then Liverpool will have got a more consistent performer and made a hefty profit in the process. They will settle for that, and if Sterling stays, then opposing defences will be in even more trouble next season. http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jun/24/roberto-firmino-liverpool-thiever-of-balls

Atletico Madrid midfielder Arda Turan wants a move to the Premier League this summer and has three offers from top English clubs, according to his agent. The Turkey international, 28, has two years left on his contract with Madrid - is he on his way to the Premier League? "His intention is to leave Spain this summer," Turan's agent Ahmet Bulut told Spanish sports newspaper AS. "His will is to leave and to play in the Premier League, that is the path he would like to take to continue his career. "We are currently in talks with three teams but I cannot reveal the names of the clubs. "However, I can tell you that they are the best in England and in European football." --------------------------------- Wonder if we could be involved in that. I remember him saying a lot of times he was a fan of us. Quality player, but other priority positions

Please let the Tevez rumours be true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX25PDBb708

Pullo is a beast