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Editorial: 17th August 2007

Anfield Online Editorial looking ahead to the Chelsea game, and back on the first two games of Liverpool’s season.
Published on: Fri 17th Aug, 2007

Crouch denies rift, and Gerrard set for break

Peter Crouch today insisted that he would not be rocking the Anfield boat and Rafa’s rotation policy, while Steven Gerrard and his broken toe will be gambled upon for 90 minutes only.
Published on: Thu 16th Aug, 2007

Toulouse 0-1 Liverpool

Liverpool take a one goal lead, and an away goal back to Anfield thanks to Andriy Voronin’s wonder strike which sealed the outcome of the reds first European clash of the season
Published on: Wed 15th Aug, 2007

Rafa backtracks and lets Carson go

Weeks ago Rafa Benitez was hopeful that Scott Carson would remain at Anfield as understudy to Jose Reina, now that Jerzy Dudek has left the club.
Published on: Thu 9th Aug, 2007

LFC Players and Staff reaction to new Stadium

Rafa, Stevie G, Jamie Carragher, Xabi and Rick Parry have all give their verdicts on the proposed new Liverpool FC stadium.
Published on: Wed 25th Jul, 2007

Gerrard ready to ‘give it a good go’

Steven Gerrard has commended Rafa Benitez’ summer purchases and insists that the reds will push much harder than last season in an attempt to break in to the title race.
Published on: Mon 23rd Jul, 2007

Liverpool 2-0 Auxerre

Yossi Benayoun and Ryan Babel made their Liverpool debuts in today’s fourth successive win for Liverpool - a 2-0 victory over Auxerre.
Published on: Sat 21st Jul, 2007

Gonzalez leaves Liverpool for Betis

Liverpool have sold Mark Gonzalez to Real Betis for a fee of approximately £4.2 million. Mark was unveiled along with three other signings at Betis today by new boss Hector Cuper.
Published on: Thu 19th Jul, 2007

Liverpool 3-2 Werder Bremen

Andriy Voronin doesn’t appear to be sticking to the script. The free transfer showed the £26 million Torres and the watching Rafa Benitez that he has no intention of sitting on the Anfield bench.
Published on: Tue 17th Jul, 2007

Agent confirms Reds contact over Brazilian

According to Alessandro Mancini’s agent, Rafa Benitez has been in touch about the Brazilian right sided player.
Published on: Sat 14th Jul, 2007

Reds start the season with a 3-2 victory

It was a Liverpool team of sorts but the pre-season friendly campaign got off to the right start with a 3-2 win over Wrexham at The Racecourse ground.
Published on: Sat 7th Jul, 2007

Rafa’s determination helps reds close Cisse deal

A number of weeks ago, Djibril Cisse’s one year loan at Marseille finished. Some transfer talks happened - but it looked like the reds were prepared to be fobbed off by Marseille who wanted ‘another’ year of loaning the player.
Published on: Fri 29th Jun, 2007

Reds step up pressure on Torres deal

Fernando Torres may currently be on holiday, but Liverpool are stepping up the pressure to activate the release clause of £27 million, after Atletico appeared to be unimpressed by a deal involving a player swap.
Published on: Wed 27th Jun, 2007

LFC News Round Up (20 June 2007)

A look back at today’s events - Torres linked heavily, Cisse deal extension on the cards, Bellamy ruins someone’s holiday and sympathy for Scott Carson.
Published on: Wed 20th Jun, 2007

Media stirs Liverpool fans in to panic

Maybe the hot weather is to blame for the apparent panic starting to spread through Liverpool’s support across the globe.
Published on: Mon 11th Jun, 2007

Reds in talks over Cisse but no approach yet for Malouda

Liverpool’s officials are set to head over the English Channel next week to discuss the transfer of Djibril Cisse away from Anfield, while nearby Lyon winger Malouda has still had no LFC contact.
Published on: Sun 3rd Jun, 2007

Benitez: We need to spend big, and spend big NOW

Rafa Benitez does not want to wait any longer as he urged the board to release the funds to buy his first choice players NOW, not later in the summer.
Published on: Thu 24th May, 2007

Fowler to exit Anfield for the second time

Robbie Fowler has been told this week by reds boss Benitez that his contract will not be extended in to the next season.
Published on: Fri 11th May, 2007

Dudek backs Rafa for title success

He’s had his ups and his downs under Rafa Benitez’ managerial reign - but Jerzy Dudek who approaches his final Liverpool game insists that Benitez will deliver the title to Anfield.
Published on: Wed 9th May, 2007

£7 million says Cisse is coming back

Djibril Cisse could well be heading back to Anfield at the end of the season as Liverpool appear to have slapped a £7 million price tag on the French striker.
Published on: Mon 23rd Apr, 2007

Rafa warns the reds against the ‘Istanbul effect’!

3-0 down at half time. Sound familiar doesn’t it?
Published on: Mon 9th Apr, 2007

Benitez remains cautious, but looking beyond PSV

Rafa Benitez isn’t one to get carried away with a 3-0 first leg lead, but today the boss insisted the reds are peaking at just the right time in the season - hopefully one of the products of his squad rotation.
Published on: Wed 4th Apr, 2007

Liverpool roar to another classy European victory

As far as transitions in power at one of the World’s biggest football clubs goes, the hand over from David Moores to George Gillett and Tom Hicks, has gone down as one of the best.
Published on: Wed 4th Apr, 2007

New Chairman Gillett thrilled with ‘amazing’ Arsenal victory

George Gillett Jnr, Liverpool’s new co-Chairman, has spoken to the official website about the Arsenal game and the future of our club.
Published on: Sun 1st Apr, 2007

Benitez hands Kuyt 18 goal target

Dirk Kuyt’s 10 goals in 30 games for the reds is ‘not good enough’ he has admitted in this weeks LFC Magazine but insisted that as he adapts to the English game he will become a more complete Liverpool goalscorer.
Published on: Thu 15th Mar, 2007

Reds confirm striker signing, but what for Robbie?

Liverpool today confirmed that Bayer Leverkusen’s striker Andriy Voronin will join the club in the summer on a four year contract on a free transfer.
Published on: Mon 26th Feb, 2007

Benitez happy with ’spirit’ after fining Bellamy and Dudek

Rafa Benitez expressed that the team was fully united as they left Liverpool bound for Barcelona today.
Published on: Tue 20th Feb, 2007

Rafa’s old side hand Barcelona defeat

Liverpool slipped up last week in their last league game losing 2-1 away at Newcastle United. Now Barcelona have repeated our feat after losing 2-1 to Valencia who scored twice within the space of 3 minutes.
Published on: Sun 18th Feb, 2007

Rafa warns players after Portugal trouble claims

After allegations of drunken high-jinxs on Liverpool’s final night at their Portugese training camp, the club released an official statement on behalf of manager Rafa Benitez earlier today.
Published on: Sun 18th Feb, 2007

Reds’ new Argentine eager to impress Rafa

Javier Mascherano, who is widely expected to complete his move to the reds shortly, has spoken of his desire to impress at Liverpool and put the West Ham months behind him.
Published on: Sun 4th Feb, 2007

Bitter blues bite back at Benitez

Rafa Benitez wound up the blue-half of the city yesterday when he referred to Everton as a ’small’ club, and those loveable rogues from across Stanley Park (for now) have been biting back in force.
Published on: Sun 4th Feb, 2007

Liverpool set to complete Argentinian midfielder signing

Just as the transfer window was finally getting ready to slam shut, Liverpool have completed the signing of Javier Mascherano, the Argentinian World Cup star, who has been rotting away out of sight at Premiership strugglers West Ham United.
Published on: Mon 29th Jan, 2007

Reds deal to be done quickly

According to Liverpool Chief Exec. Rick Parry, the proposed takeover by Dubai Investment Capital of England’s most succesful football club, could be completed within days to weeks.
Published on: Sun 14th Jan, 2007

Rafa still confident as Boca Juniors boy arrives

Rafael Benitez today insisted that the doom and gloom merchants are wrong, and that the reds still have plenty left to play for, as he added another Spanish-speaking South American to the Liverpool ranks.
Published on: Thu 11th Jan, 2007

Rafa fumes at Ewood misery

Rafa Benitez reflected on yesterday’s defeat at Ewood Park, expressing his disappointment at the result and being able to understand what went wrong:
Published on: Wed 27th Dec, 2006

Carra insists Rafa will land Liverpool the title

Liverpool’s scouse centre-half has insisted that it will be Rafa Benitez who will be the first Liverpool manager since Kenny Dalglish in 1990 to win the title with the reds.
Published on: Fri 22nd Dec, 2006

Rafa will make ‘disrespectful’ Barcelona pay

The draw for the Champions League today opened up the clash we all expected. The 2006 European Champions Barcelona will take on the 2005 European Champions Liverpool over two legs.
Published on: Fri 15th Dec, 2006

Reds squad will shine over Christmas - Rafa

Rafa Benitez believes that the reinforcements to Liverpool’s squad will prove vital over the festive season this year.
Published on: Mon 11th Dec, 2006

Benitez struggling over Fulham decision

Rafa Benitez says he has been provided with a major selection headache after the excellent work of his strike force in recent games, insisting that Robbie Fowler is forcing his way back near to the top of his list.
Published on: Fri 8th Dec, 2006

Benitez and Xabi Euro nervous

As all 5 British clubs moved in to the next round of the Champions League (the draw is next Friday) the Reds boss and the midfield man Xabi Alonso both sounded the bells of caution for the rest of the campaign.
Published on: Thu 7th Dec, 2006

Confirmed: Liverpool £450 million bid announced

The story we posted two days ago has finally broke in the national media. Under strict financial legislation - companies need to disclose impending financial decisions and today both Liverpool FC and the Arabian Capital Investment group announced their on-going co-operation in a possible Liverpool takeover.
Published on: Mon 4th Dec, 2006

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