Real campeones, spending spree begins!

Last Sunday, Real Madrid crowned champions of La Liga for the 30th time after four seasons in the wild. They had to comeback from a goal down to beat Mallorca 3-1 while Barcelona efforts went down the drain with 5-1 win over Gimnàstic. While Sevilla was beaten by Villarreal 0-1 at home. The three horses race to the Spanish La Liga title has come to an end now, the summer shopping spree is about to begins but there is one more game left in Spain. The Copa del Rey final between Getafe and Sevilla on 23rd June and then the transfer market is open to all clubs in the European continents on 1st July 2007.

Pressures are mounting on the two new owners of Liverpool over summer signings for the past few weeks as fans have grown anxious to see who will be coming to Anfield. Liverpool's co-owner, George Gillett has spoken to liverpoolfc.tv recently and once again assuring all of us that Liverpool Football Club are entering the second phase after securing extended deals to our current stars like Stevie G (MBE), Jamie Carragher, Jose Reina and Xabi Alonso. What does he means by 'second phase'? - bringing players in. Now we will give them the time to initiate their course before we lay down the judgement.

"We're not going to do something just to try to prove something. I can assure you that we are working on different things.

"The first part was identifying a number of our existing star players whom Rafa wanted to sign on long-term contracts.

"That was the first step and it has been done. Now we're moving on to phase two, which is bringing players in.

"For Tom and me, this really is about trying to win championships, and that takes commitment, no matter what sport.

I has read an interesting blog from kopblog.com on 'Time for Reds fans to Kop on' which the author has rally all the Reds fans to be patience and have faith in the new owners. I think he's right for the time being. We need to calm down a bit and let them do their jobs. The prospect of the takeover by George Gillett and Tom Hicks has had all of us begging for a better instalment to challenge Manchester United and Chelsea megabucks. So, I don't see why not some of us are getting impatient over some media hypes. Although, we can not totally believe what the media has been cooked up but this is really what give us the excitement over the summer holidays!

Lets discuss who do you think Rafa should sign to fill the No.9 shirt? Barcelona offered Gunners £20million for Henry and Arsene Wenger wants Eto'o as part of the deal. What happen if Barcelona refuse to include Eto'o? Should Rafa hijack it? I know Henry won't play for another premier league team but rumour from Spain saying Frank Rijkaard is stepping down as the Catalan club manager and Wenger was the replacement. If Wenger go and manage Barcelona, he won't buy player who is almost 30 year old for an over-priced £20million, he's specialize in cashing in on them not purchasing. Does the meeting between Wenger and Barcelona's club director in Paris was to discuss his position as the club's manager rather than Henry's availability? The press could again cooked up a half-baked story on this but who knows, Thierry Henry a household name in the premiership could be on his way to Anfield.

We'll have to wait and see. Just keep the faith!


YNWA,
Red's Fury™