I Want Forty Million Pounds (and a striker available all season)

We need to spend. And we need to spend a little more than we would normally.

Why? Because when other teams are travelling to other hot spots in the Champions League, our players  will be spending their weeks training and hanging out in Liverpool. And as great a city as Liverpool is, if nothing else, Madrid is a lot nicer in January. And so is Rome, Istanbul and many others.

But, if we are going to ask high quality players to sacrifice a season, maybe two, not playing in the Champions League, we will have to compensate them for the sacrifice and compensate them well.

So where do we get the money?

Sell Luis Saurez. Sell him high and outside of England. Liverpool is clearly no longer going to get its money's worth from him. He doesn't want to stay, and he keeps (stupidly) getting suspended. This is a recipe for disaster. He will become the next Torres, and Liverpool cannot afford to have that situation arise.

What can we do with forty million? 3.25 Daniel Sturridges, a Micah Richards, Wanyama, an Anelka as a spare, the possibilities are endless.

We need a striker, and a centre back,  like a Robert Huth, or Vermalaen type player. We also need to find an attacking midfield play maker. We have three years before Stevie G packs it in and we need to search and invest now.

We need that new anchor, or anchors to move the team forward. We need the next Stevie G, Carra, or Torres. And we need to pay it forward. If they can't get Champion's League football, then the only thing the Club can give them is $$.

And real money, will only come from Luis Saurez.

Life is Hard for a Liverpool Fan

I love my family. Two beautiful daughters. Both outstanding players and fans of the game, except one loves Manchester United, and the other loves Chelsea. I could blame their mother, my ex-wife, but she too is a Liverpool fan. So where did a doting father and die hard Red go wrong.

I let them watch television.

I let them see other teams play, I let them see Edwin Van Der Sar (one daughter is a goal keeper), and the other one thought Joe Cole was "hot". Try as I might I couldn't convince them to see Reina and Craig Bellamy and Robbie Fowler and Grobellar in the same light.

The up side is, and there is an upside, is that at least four times per season we all sit together and watch a game and scream and shout for "our boys" and for the bragging rights for the season. Now I haven't had as much to brag about the last few years, but it's going to change. Unfortunately not before my eldest moves away to study engineering (Chelsea fan) leaving me with my youngest one ( and massive Manc fan) and all the grief I anticipate from another massive Man U season. Things go just too fast. I'll miss her, and her taunts about how good those Chelsea b*****ds are.

I guess I need to find someone who likes Chelsea to watch the games with.

Enjoy University.

You'll Never Walk Alone.

Even if you are a Chelsea fan

Hal White

Liverpool's Long Long Transfer(less) Summer

It's a little dull out there right now, but this article helps (sort of) explain where we are heading and why there is still a little hope.....

http://www.thisisanfield.com/2013/07/its-turning-into-a-long-summer-for-liverpool-fans/

WALK ON

YNWA

HAL WHITE

Luis Saurez----Should He Stay or Should He Go.....

Should I stay or should I go now

If I go their will be trouble

If I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
Should I cool it or should I go

I miss The Clash, but more importantly I miss the loyalty of players to the Club. Steven Gerrard and Carra are probably creatures of a different century, a different upbringing.  Maybe what I really miss is directness. Where a player says something honest, like, " I want more money! That will make me stay ". 

But these are different times. Players say things like "the press are mean to me", "I'm homesick" and then their agent starts to make noise.

So Luis Saurez, what do you do?  He is a fantastic player. Scores goals, is aggressive, has great instincts, terrific pace, and disrupts the defensive lines effortlessly. He also regularly gets banned from games, causes distraction to the development of the squad, and makes noise direct and indirect about leaving the squad.

He makes about 4.5 million pounds per year, and misses on average 6 games (so far) per season. And still score more goals than most players in the EPL.

Today we here that the spendthrift Arsenal were offering €30000000 for Saurez. If true he must surely be worth double! 

My opinion, sell. Just using the Arsenal figure of €30000000 is an amount that could well set up Liverpool's financial stability for the years to come. It would allow for the acquisition , now and in the future, of solid players to get us back into Europe and, more importantly, to stay there.

Liverpool FC; Are we going back to Europe?

Damn right we are, and it is at all possible it will be because of this upcoming season.

Why now, and what is different?

Now, because everything has changed and an old philosophy has returned. The old philosophy is the pass and move football of the past has returned. Pressure is being mounted in the opposition end of the field, defending is taking place high up the pitch, and possession is treasured and maintained, not just (always) lumping the ball up the pitch. It is so good to see Liverpool play football again. Real football.

These ten goals just give us the faintest of memories of what happened in that distant past. In those days of yore.

In, now it seems, pre-history.

But the times are changing. A different field philosophy, pass and move, control and pass, patience. New players and revived careers. Brendan Rodgers has revitalized Henderson and Downing, he has identified the players and roles to move the squad forward (Allen, Coutinho and Sturridge [so far]), and has found, by hook and by crook, more goals for and fewer against. It is looking up. Way way up!

My name is Hal White.

YNWA