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Starting: Doni, Kelly, Carragher, Ayala, Robinson, Poulsen, Coady, Aquilani, Cole, Maxi, Ngog. Subs: Jones, Flanagan, Insua, Degen, Carroll, Henderson, Kyrgiakos, Kuyt, Downing, Spearing, Wisdom, Wilson, Hansen, Adam.

Reds mourn Norway victims 23rd Jul 2011 Liverpool players will today wear black armbands during the friendly against Hull City as a mark of respect to those who lost their lives during the terrorist attacks in Norway on Friday. Liverpool Football Club has always enjoyed incredible support in Scandinavia, and Norway in particular, and the thoughts of everyone at the club are with the people of Norway and the relatives of those who lost their lives or were injured. Managing Director Ian Ayre said: "Everyone at the football club was shocked to hear the news and see the television pictures coming out of Norway. "Some of our most passionate fans are Norwegian and we count them as friends as well as supporters. "The team is due to play in Norway on August 1. Ahead of that, we want our fans to know we are thinking of them at this terrible time." Reds mourn Norway victims - Liverpool FC

Ince set for Seasiders Holloway set to seal second raid on Liverpool By Pete O'Rourke Last Updated: July 23, 2011 11:48am Skysports.com understands Blackpool are poised to sign Liverpool midfielder Tom Ince. As revealed by skysports.com earlier this month, Blackpool were lining up a double swoop for Ince and Reds team-mate Gerardo Bruna. Blackpool tied up a deal for Bruna earlier this week and now Ince is set to follow him to Bloomfield Road. Ince failed to break into Liverpool's first team and has been a regular in the reserves over the last couple of seasons. Ince, who is the son of former Reds captain, Paul, enjoyed a spell on loan at Notts County last season alongside his father. However, it seems Liverpool are now willing to let Ince move on, with the player keen to be playing regular first-team football. Seasiders boss Ian Holloway has been busy in the transfer market lately and he is believed to be keen on a double loan swoop for Manchester United duo Danny Drinkwater and Oliver Norwood. Ince set for Seasiders | Liverpool News, Fixtures, Results, Transfers | Sky Sports

He's also had another knee injury in the 2007/08 season, missing 14 league games as a result ... He is a injury liability, especially if you consider that he would be playing in a more physical league ...

Henry in a landmark debate By Kevin Cullen July 23, 2011 LIVERPOOL, England - Anfield, the storied ground that is home to Liverpool Football Club, has been compared with Fenway Park, even more so since the team was purchased by Red Sox owner John Henry. Now Henry and his Fenway Sports Group are facing a question similar to when they bought the Red Sox a decade ago: build a modern stadium or upgrade the iconic old one? Early sentiment here among Liverpool fans was that Henry will do at Anfield what he did at Fenway - upgrade and add on, but keep the basic confines of the original. Last week, Ian Ayre, Liverpool’s chief executive, tried to downplay suggestions that the team has already decided that building a new stadium was more realistic than redeveloping Anfield. He told the BBC the team would not be rushed into making a decision. Ayre’s insistence that a decision had not yet been made came after Henry noted on Twitter that there were “many obstacles’’ to adding on to Anfield. Joe Anderson, leader of the Liverpool City Council, said Liverpool fans and residents simply want closure, one way or the other. Like other city officials, Anderson believes an improved Anfield, or a new stadium, will help regenerate the surrounding neighborhood. Opened in 1884, Anfield originally was home field for Everton, the city’s other Premier League team. But after Everton decamped for nearby Goodison Park in 1892, Liverpool Football Club moved in and has been here ever since. There’s more history, and certainly more human remains, scattered around Anfield than just about any other ground in English football. If it is still slightly unusual, and usually unsanctioned, for someone to have their ashes scattered at Fenway, it’s a regular and official occurrence at Anfield. “We scatter someone’s ashes here at least once a week, sometimes more than one,’’ says Kevin O’Shea, an assistant manager at Anfield. “An awful lot of Liverpool supporters can only find eternal rest here.’’ But as much reverence as there might be for the dead - including the 96 Liverpool fans who died at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and who are remembered with a shrine at one entrance to Anfield - it is what to do with the living that is occupying the relatively new owners. What’s noticeable walking around the stadium is the rather cramped confines. There’s no such thing as a bad seat among the 45,000. But neither is there much room to move around. During a match, there are no hawkers selling food, drink, or souvenirs. The aisles simply aren’t big enough. More concerning to Henry, as he tries to increase revenue flow to pay for better players to get Liverpool back to the top four finishers in the Premier League, is the limited space for corporate boxes and hospitality. Anfield has just 30 boxes. They’re small, with room for just 10 spectators. Compare that with Liverpool’s hated rival, and perpetual Top Four finisher, Manchester United. Old Trafford, Man U’s equally iconic ground, holds 76,000 spectators and is ringed with 200 corporate boxes. Even Chelsea, whose Stamford Bridge stadium holds just 42,000, has 100 corporate boxes. It doesn’t hurt that Chelsea’s owner, Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, is one of the richest men in the world. Liverpool diehards get sensitive about talk of revenue streams. “Chelsea has five-star chefs, but they don’t have five European Cups,’’ says O’Shea, who as a boy worshipped the Reds, as LFC is known, and can tell you the dates and every possible fact about those five European championships, not to mention Liverpool’s 18 league championships. Man U just won its 19th league championship, a sore subject here on Merseyside. But O’Shea and other Liverpool diehards know that while you can relish history, it doesn’t put good teams on the pitch today. “We turn away about 20,000 people for every game,’’ O’Shea said. That would pay for a decent midfielder or two. The famous loyalty that Liverpool supporters show goes both ways. They limit season ticket-holders to 23,000, and there is a waiting list of 60,000. “The club takes very seriously the notion of being able to get a ticket on game day,’’ said Stephen Done, the curator of the Liverpool Football Club museum, which is housed inside Anfield. “We have season ticket-holders who live in Scandanavia and travel here for every home game,’’ he said. It’s that kind of loyalty that makes replacing Anfield with a modern, bigger stadium more than a matter of mathematics. Done said under a plan to build a 73,000-seat stadium in adjacent Stanley Park, “The old Anfield would disappear. The area around Anfield would be rejuvenated. It would help the locals.’’ But it would come at an emotional cost. “A lot of people live for this team,’’ O’Shea explained. “For over 100 years, generations of the same family have been coming here. A lot of people’s ashes are spread here. Some clubs take payment to spread your ashes. We don’t do that. We’d never build on the pitch, no matter what happens regarding a new stadium. If I had to guess, 90 percent of supporters would want to stay here.’’ Even if Fenway Sports Group decides to build a stadium, the common local consensus is that politics and regulation would make it virtually impossible to get it done, at least any time soon. Anfield’s amenities are spartan. The press box is just that: a box with a couple of dozen seats, smack dab in the middle of the main stand. The visitors’ dressing room looks impossibly small and basic. You can’t call it a locker room because there are no lockers. Liverpool Football Club and its supporters are deeply aware and respectful of tradition, but they are not Pollyannaish. In 1978, the team became the first in the Premier League to splash a sponsor’s name across their jerseys. Like left field at Fenway Park, Spion Kop, the famous section of Anfield named after a battle in the Boer War where more than 300 Liverpudlians were killed, used to be a green grassy hill. Like Fenway, Anfield is a tourist attraction. More than 150,000 people take the stadium tour every year. Beyond expanding the seating capacity, especially corporate boxes, Fenway Sports Group will be able to add advertising. In the pubs that surround Anfield, fans worry that ticket prices will rise, as they did after Henry bought the Red Sox. Right now, the average ticket costs about $70. “Look around,’’ said Jimmy Little, a Liverpool fan, an hour before a game against Manchester City. “No one here is rich.’’ But the history is, and that’s the balance that Henry will have to find. Liverpool fans hated the previous American owners, but he has has impressed the locals with his grasp of their history. Done said he was showing Henry around the museum and was surprised when Henry pointed at a photograph and knew that one of the men in it was Bill Shankly, the manager credited with bringing Liverpool back to the top after it had fallen to the bottom in the 1950s. “Mr. Henry knows his stuff,’’ said Done. Liverpool fans hope he knows his limits, and theirs, too. Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at cullen@globe.com Boston Red Sox - John Henry caught up in a landmark debate in Liverpool - The Boston Globe

That we are signing a starting left full back ...

Any realistic chance of signing Aguero was gone in January, when we've got both Suarez and Carroll ... Not that I am disappointed, though ... Suarez is already showing his worth, and Carroll will turn into a very good target man, especially with the improved service from the wide positions ...

You include my complete quote in your reply, yet you post this bullshit ... Godin is also injury prone ...

Moyes clinging to Jagielka - but Rodwell may go Published 23:01 22/07/11 By David Maddock Everton will resist any attempt to lure Phil Jagielka away from Goodison Park. Arsenal are the latest club to express an interest in the England defender, with Gunners boss Arsene Wenger ready to test the Blues’ resolve by making a tentative £10million enquiry. However, Everton boss David Moyes would not even answer the phone at that price. He has reiterated his stance that the player – whom he sees as a future club captain – is not for sale. The Scot knows he must sell some players to raise funds for his own summer transfer plans, but Jagielka is not on the list of those he is prepared to let move. One player Moyes may be ready to sell is England Under-21 midfielder Jack Rodwell, whose progress last season was held back by injury. Rodwell was valued at £25m a year ago and was seen as the heir apparent to Steven Gerrard in the England midfield. But his lack of progress over the last 12 months has forced a rethink at Goodison. Moyes is still a big fan of the youngster but, with the likes of Marouane Fellaini and Mikel Arteta among his midfield options, Rodwell is not central to his plans. Manchester United have had an interest in Rodwell for some time, and Sir Alex Ferguson may find a bid of £15m would be enough to take him to Old Trafford. Moyes would use any cash raised by sales to make a serious bid for Wigan winger Charles N’Zogbia, but does not want the money to come from the departure of Jagielka. He also hopes to persuade Fellaini to sign a new contract. Everton could sell Jack Rodwell fund move Charles N'Zogbia but clinging onto Arsenal target Phil Jagielka - Transfer News - MirrorFootball.co.uk

We already have a far better backup option for Andy Carroll in Dirk Kuyt ... Even David Ngog is better than Bendtner ...

Yup ...

Agger is a better player than Godin ... By the way, Godin has also had a fair share of injuries in recent seasons ...

Exactly ... Manchester City are yet to spend anything this summer ... They have sold Boateng, Given, Jo and Caicedo, and have only bought Savic and Clichy so far ... They will very likely get Aguero, as a direct replacement for the departing Tevez, spending nothing in the process ...

Unless we are selling Suarez or Carroll (highly unlikely), Aguero is not a realistic option for LFC ...

Every player could flop ... For example, Downing might be a huge flop for us ... However, it is much more likely that he will be a success ... How do I know this ? It is simple ... Just watch the player ...

If that is the case, Joey Barton is the right man for you ...

As I have already said, Spearing is an over-rated local player ... By the way, this was the post I was replying to ... As much as I admire Jay's effort, he is nowhere near Lucas' level ...

Nope, Downing will not be our last signing this summer ...

Jay Spearing is just another over-rated local player ... He will probably have a decent career at some weaker Premier League/top Championship club, but that's about it ...

Well, they do have an Aquilani-style midfielder in Montolivo, and he is still with Fiorentina ... Personally, I think that Fiorentina are using this Aquilani story to force Montolivo into signing a new contract ...

Well, he has not thrown in a step-over merchant, but Godin is very much Hispanic, and hardly a priority for this LFC team ...

That entire article is based on recycled media speculation, from the past couple of months ... Very far from Barrett's usual standards, when writing about LFC ...

Poor and speculative article by Tony Barret ... He is usually much better ... This is something more appropriate to David Maddock or Alan Nixon ...

According to today's '' El Mundo Deportivo'', we've already made a €4 million bid for Jeffren, but Barca have only accepted Bolton's €6 million bid ... El Bolton aprieta por Jeffren

Of course they will ... They will lose Clichy and Fabregas, and that's about it ... On the other hand, they've already got Gervinho, and will probably get another couple of good players ... Still ahead of us, in terms of squad depth ...