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He says that there is so much slavery in football today so gayboy should leave if he wants to. Slavery ?? They get paid silly money for playing football, its not carpetmaking 18 ours a day ffs. To have Blatter talking about an ongoing prosess like this is for me wrong. Sky Sports

Lets see if we can manage a thread without the "don't quote him" and other such bollocks and try and have a discussion about what is going on this summer. I am trying to work out what is going on this summer with regards to the players we are going for. Let's look at the solid links... James Milner I know for a FACT that we offered Pennant plus money for Milner and Pennant said no. Arguments aside I don't think either player is much of an improvement on the other. A pointless exchange. Gareth Barry The one area if you asked all fans in May where we didn't need to strengthen is in this area. Forgetting all the bullshit arguments about Xabi being shite in the Premieriship - we all fear that Barry will probably cost more than we sell Xabi for with the improvement in quality negligible. We are selling a player who loves it here and epitomises what a Liverpool player should be. Again baffling. Robbie Keane Absolute superb footballer and a good partner for Torres. Taking aside my own opinion that we should move Gerrard back into the centre and get a link player in, there is an argument that Gerrard is Torres' best partner and it would be madness to split them up. If Keane plays out wide he would be half the player he is for Spurs. Do we need Keane more than we need say a David Silva? Andrea Dossena The "best right back in Italy" couldn't even get into a poor Italian squad. However, we needed a replacement for John Riise and let's hope Dossena is a rabit out of the hat in defence like Agger and Skrtel were. Philipp Degen We already have two reasonable quality right backs in Arbeloa and Finnan with Carragher also likely to play there this season, so I don't get this signing. I'd be annoyed if we play him right midfield too. Good luck to the lad though, you just never know it will turn out. _____________________________________________________ If our strategy was to buy attacking wing backs to play the 4-3-3 then I'd question the quality of the fullbacks we have bought given their importance in the system. Signing Keane and Barry won't significantly improve the areas they will be playing (Xabi's and Gerrard's positions) but I feel they will bring greater consistency - whether that is £35m worth improvement remains to be seen. The one area that I feel we need top class players is in Kuyt's position and competition for Babel on the left as Kewell has left. We may still buy these players and we may not. However, I remain confused by the links of this summer but let's see how it pans out, next season is crucial for Rafa and he knows it. It might be clever for people to argue night and day about the merits of the players we are signing, but whether they are the 'right players in the right positons' remains questionable and I'd challenge anyone to suggest they wanted these players 4 months ago.