Momo going to Juventus

Mohamed Sissoko was lined up for the exit door and would be heading to Juventus before January transfer window close. His failure to features regularly in Rafa starting XI since joining Liverpool from Valencia in the summer of 2005 due to the arrival of Javier Mascherano. Although, he is not one of the fans favorite but at least he has tried his best to fit into the English premier league.

“My reason is a very simple one, I am young and I want to play,” he said. “In Liverpool, I’m not playing.

Thank God! Please polish your passing skills before you called yourself an established footballer. No doubt that Momo is a very good tackler and ball winning midfielder but he need to pass the ball accurately too. So, I wish you all the best playing for Juventus.

He said: "I've known Ranieri since my time at Valencia. I did really well with him.

I hope so. Maybe Italian Serie A is more suitable for Momo. His departure to Juve will profit the Yankees with at least £10M in transfer fee and next we want to see Mascherano loan to be make permanently in the summer. If Tom and George, let slip this opportunity, their time as the co-owners of Liverpool Football Club are numbered as I'm not joining the other supporters in crucifying the Yanks yets but I will if Rafa walks.

In Rafa we trust,
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Liverpool held... again!

Another lacklustre displays from Liverpool at Riverside Stadium last Saturday. Liverpool's title ambitions suffered another blow when they were held to a 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough. Clearly, this season team's performance has deteriorated with the on-going saga behind the scene between Rafa and the owners.

Liverpool fell behind on the 26th minutes through Goerge Boateng's goal after a defensive error from Alvaro Arbeloa for heading the ball back across Liverpool's goal only for Jeremie Aliadiere to nodded into Boateng's path.

Boro has controlled majority of the match and almost scored the second goal when Downing rattled the post in 67th minutes. Luck was beginning to favour our side as four minutes later after Downing's shot was denied by the post, Torres fired a screamer from 25 yards that beats Schwarzer and went in off the post.

Liverpool piled on the pressures for the remains 20 minutes but their belated show of urgency has reap no reward. Drew in the last 4 matches in a row now and failed to capitalised on Gunners 1-1 draw to Birmingham, means we are still 12 points off Manchester United and Arsenal in the league with a game on hand.

YNWA,
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Martin Skrtel passes medical

Liverpool search for a central defender ended with Martin Skrtel, a Slovakia international from Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg will be completing his formality later today after passing his medical at Melwood. Skrtel will become the most expensive defender in Liverpool history, he rumored to be cost around £6.5M and Rafa hopes he can travel with the team to Middlesbrough on Saturday.

The injury list at Anfield continues to plague Liverpool's defence as Fabio Aurelio is the latest casualty. Aurelio suffered a minor hamstring injury.

With Daniel Agger still continuing his rehabilitation from a broken metatarsal, Rafa has been short of cover at centre back for several months and was keen to add competition for places to such a crucial position.

I don't know how good is Martin Skrtel, but he's a towering defender at 6'4" tall will be good enough to cover the aging Hyypia, who being playing since Agger was injured.

YNWA,

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Liverpool for sale?

WTF? Just barely 12 months after the takeover by the Americans and now The Yankees are looking for buyers. Is this just a piece of a sensational tabloid news or the truth? This piece of shit was written by Chris Bascombe for News of the World. Jurgen Klinsmann to replace Rafael Benitez? Can you believe this crap?

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Back on track

After a back-to-back defeats in the Premier League, Liverpool has revived their title bid with a 4-1 thumping of Portsmouth at Anfield last Saturday. The Reds still remains 10 points off the leader and have a game on hand. This hectic festive period are very crucial for Liverpool, nothing less than a 12 points out of 4 games are at stakes here.

Liverpool raced to a 2-nil lead in the first quater of the hour with goals from Yossi Benayoun (13th) and an own-goal by Sylvain Distin (16th) before Benjani pulled one back for Portsmouth in the 57th minutes. Fernando 'El Nino' Torres puts this match beyond Portsmouth with two late goals.

We conceded some terrible goals through poor defending but Torres is a a top striker, a fantastic player who is at another level. He is in a top-four team with a lot of good players who can tear you apart on the day.

Make no mistake, Liverpool can beat anybody on their day and the top four teams are at another level to everybody else in this division.

- Portsmouth manager, Harry Redknapp.

YNWA,
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The Super 16

You may call it tough luck or whatever you want. But I was looking forward to this Champions League grudge match with Inter Milan. During the draw process, the candidates that are in the pot were Sevilla, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Inter Milan after Barcelona was drawn against Celtic earlier. I was hoping for a rematch against AC Milan, but we got Inter instead.

Liverpool and Inter Milan only met once in European competition, way back in 1964/65 semi-finals of the European Champion Clubs' Cup. Liverpool triumphing 3-1 in the first leg at Anfield only for Inter to overturn that deficit with a 3-0 victory in the return, going on to lift the trophy for the second time in their history. Liverpool have won four of their six home games against Italian opposition, including their last two, but have tasted success just once in six visits to Italian teams. Inter, may have won only three of their nine trips to England, yet two of those victories came in their last two visits, in impressive fashion, 4-1 at Newcastle United and 3-0 at Arsenal.

The Reds will entertain the Italian champions in the first-leg on Tuesday, February 19 while the second-leg in Italy will be played on Tuesday, March 11 2008. And here are the rest of the last 16 draws for this year Champions League.

• Celtic v Barcelona
• Lyon v Mancheater United
• Schalke 04 v Porto
• Liverpool v Inter Milan
• Roma v Real Madrid
• Arsenal v AC Milan
• Olympiacos v Chelsea
• Fenerbahce v Sevilla
  

All matches will be play on 19/20 February and the return leg on 4/5 March, except Inter Milan home match which will be play on 11 March (Inter and AC Milan ground sharing).

YNWA,
Red's Fury™

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The great escape

Champions League

Marseille 0-4 Liverpool

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