Thank you, Sami for the best 10 years

Sami Hyypia, deservedly a Liverpool Football Club’s legend for his professionalism and loyalty to the club, on and off the pitch. Since his arrival from Willem II on one summer 1999, people are saying, “Sami who?” But the towering Finnish centre back were one of the best signing ever made by Gerard Houllier’s French Revolution period.

Why was Sami Hyypia described as a “legend”? He played 463 times for the Reds, scored 35 goals, won 10 pieces of silverware with Liverpool FC and was the pivotal part of the Reds’ defence spanning the last 10 years.

Enough has been said about him. Thank you to Sami Hyypia, for the memories and the greatest moments in Liverpool Football Club. Wishing you all the best with Bayer Leverkusen, Liverpool’s loss is Leverkusen’s gain.

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Drawn too many games and two defeats

The title race may seems to be over now but the season yet to be closed for the holidays. There are still one final match to be played at Anfield and Liverpool could record its season’s point tally of 86 if they can overcome Spurs this Sunday afternoon. Liverpool can be proud of themselves as they pushed Manchester United till the final two matches for the title decider.

Looking back at the performances by the Reds this term, losing two league matches (one more match to be played) could ends our long awaited league title since 1990 but a certain dipping of form during the January and February has cost Liverpool dearly. The eleven drawn matches which seven of them at home to the likes of Stoke, Fulham, Hull will always be the talking points for the football’s critics. Hopefully, Rafael Benitez has gained a valuable lesson this term and rectified them in the summer.

In the illustrated Premiership’s campaign, teams which have accumulate lesser than six defeats stands the chance to clinch the trophy. The lesser the better but in Liverpool’s case, it was close but no cigar. The Reds scored almost a century of goals, chucked up a greater goal differences, lost fewer matches than the rivals and yet the title went down the M62.

We could always blamed it on the injuries to the key players. If only Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres are fit and played together most of the time this season. That’s clearly just an excuse as injuries to the groins and hamstrings are just part of the game which it can not be avoided. Largely, this is due to the depth of the current squad and just look at the luxury United or Chelsea has have at the bench which they can call upon.

Adding new personals in the coming summer could be very crucial for Liverpool to continue to mount the challenge next season. But the sell before buy policy means Rafa need to clear his flops to get his new targets. Whoever Rafa signs next, we can rest assured that he’ll not going to make the same mistakes again.

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New Liverpool away kit for 2009/2010

A preview of Liverpool's all-new away kit for 2009-2010 campaign which is available to pre-order online now. The kit will be available in store from June 11.

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Two giants slain in a space of four days

While Liverpool very left licking the wounds after the Boro's defeat. The Reds bounced back to produced the most memorable performance in a European night by inflicting a 4-0 defeat of Real Madrid at Anfield. And we reminded Real that "This is Anfield".

With our title credential under fire by the media and pundits. They claimed, Liverpool were moulded as a cup competition team rather than an English club. So the faintest of hope to savage some pride and shut the critics, nothing sooner than a clash with Manchester United in the Premier league, where it's a do-or-die for the team from Merseyside.

The Red Devils were seven points ahead and with a game on hand before the start of the match. But soon after the final whistle, the lead has been cut to four and now Liverpool need to push United to the limits by winning the remaining nine games.

Well, if a season double over the reign champion and Chelsea in a football calendar wasn't enough to earn Liverpool the credits that has been overdued. I don't know what to say anymore? Manchester United were torn apart by the brilliant tactics of Rafa Benitez.

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Liverpool 2-0 Sunderland

After the sky-high victory at Santiago Bernabeu, the Reds came crashing down back to earth at Riverside last Saturday's Premier League match. The title are fading to some section of fans but in football anything can happen within as short period of time.

Next up, Real Madrid at the backyard and then Manchester United at Old Trafford on 14th March.

The teams:
Liverpool: Reina, Insua, Carragher, Skrtel, Mascherano, Riera, Gerrard (captain), Alonso, Benayoun, Kuyt, Ngog.
Subs - Hyypia, Aurelio, El Zhar, Dossena, Babel, Leiva, Cavalieri

Sunderland: Fulop, McCartney, Ferdinand, Ben-Haim, Collins, Richardson, Whitehead (captain), Leadbitter, Malbranque, Jones, Reid.
Subs - Murphy, Cisse, Gordon, Davenport, Bardsley, Edwards, Healy

Referee: M Halsey

Conditions: Fine


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Champions League: Real Madrid 0-1 Liverpool

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Liverpool 2-0 Chelsea

Liverpool are back on track for the Premier League’s title challenge. The game produced one red card and two last-gasp goals from Torres.

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No deal

 

Rafael Benitez has rejected the contract offered to him by Liverpool. The club’s owner have refused to agreed with his demand that he will be given complete control of transfer matters.

 

 

"The owners feel that the manager's decisions need to be subject to the chief executive.

"But I know that I am subject to results and to our fans and they are the best judges I will ever have."

"I have a lot of experience in football at different clubs and if you do not have a technical director and you are the manager you have to have control of the football decisions. But always within the confines of a budget which is controlled by the owners and the club.

"In this scenario the manager knows the amount money he has available to him and can decide how much he should spend on each player according to the needs of the team.

"The only person who can decide the value of a player to his squad is the manager because he knows what elements are needed to improve the squad." – Rafa Benitez, Football365

 

Could be next year spells the end of the Rafalutions?

 

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