Rob Styles receives one weekend punishment for his errors at Anfield.

In days gone by it was the Premier League, or the Football League, who docked clubs points. Today at Anfield, Rob Styles, decided to assume those powers and snatched two points off Liverpool to stay in the good books of the Russian mafia.

Anfield Online Editorial looking ahead to the Chelsea game, and back on the first two games of Liverpool’s season.

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.

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

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.

Rafa, Stevie G, Jamie Carragher, Xabi and Rick Parry have all give their verdicts on the proposed new Liverpool FC stadium.

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.

Yossi Benayoun and Ryan Babel made their Liverpool debuts in today’s fourth successive win for Liverpool – a 2-0 victory over Auxerre.

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.

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.

According to Alessandro Mancini’s agent, Rafa Benitez has been in touch about the Brazilian right sided player.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe the hot weather is to blame for the apparent panic starting to spread through Liverpool’s support across the globe.

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.

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.

Robbie Fowler has been told this week by reds boss Benitez that his contract will not be extended in to the next season.

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.

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.

3-0 down at half time. Sound familiar doesn’t it?

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.

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.

George Gillett Jnr, Liverpool’s new co-Chairman, has spoken to the official website about the Arsenal game and the future of our club.

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.

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.

Rafa Benitez expressed that the team was fully united as they left Liverpool bound for Barcelona today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Rafa Benitez believes that the reinforcements to Liverpool’s squad will prove vital over the festive season this year.

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.

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.

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.

Rafa today stood by Pennant and Bellamy, two players undergoing their own crisis of confidence, but conceded that his loyalty would need to be repaid by both players.

Benitez pre-match conference ahead of tomorrow’s clash with Portsmouth focussed on two key matters at hand – firstly the growing list of injuries, and secondly the desire to finally break clear of that mid-table pack.

Rafa Benitez has heaped praise on the reds club captain ahead of today’s important clash with Man City, insisting the player is on his way back to his best.