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Cisse To Leave Liverpool This Weekend?

Word via the BBC this afternoon suggests that Djibril Cisse is to put pen to paper on a full-time contract at Marseille either today or tomorrow. In a post on the BBC Football site (see earlier link) Cissé’s agent Ranko Stojic is quoted as saying the deal “will happen on either Friday or Saturday”.

Looks like its going to be a busy weekend for Liverpool after all.

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Sissoko Signs On For Four More Years

The Liverpool midfield has received a firm bolstering with news that Momo Sissoko has put pen to paper on a new four year contract keeping him at the club until 2011. To be honest, with Gerrard, Alonso, Mascherano and Leiva on the way I figured Sissoko might be in the running for a transfer out of Anfield but such is not the case.

Credit to Sissoko, he does have the talent and I’m glad that he’s been given the chance to stick around Anfield and prove himself in the centre of the pitch. There should be some interesting competition so between himself and Mascherano this coming season but if you’re pushing for the league title and competing for four trophies its vital to have strength in depth and some good reserve in the tank come the tail end of the season.

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Liverpool Sign Mikel San Jose

The reserve side should certainly get a strong bolstering this season with word this morning that Liverpool have signed Athletic Bilbao central defender Mikel San Jose for around €400,000. The 18 year old was expected to break through to Bilbao’s second team this year but will instead be getting to grips with life in Liverpool after Benitez snapped up the youngster. Anything to do with the recent changes on the youth development side of things?

Don’t know an awful lot about San Jose barring the fact that he clocked up a good 27 games for the Bilbao juniors last season. I don’t think we’ll see him in first team action this year but its nice to see some strong Spanish talent being brought into the younger ranks.

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Fernando Torres eh? We’ll See

So listening to the news last night and again this morning Liverpool seem to be edging ever closer to signing Fernando Torres. I’ve been holding back on blogging about it because its still speculation in my eyes and if you were to right about every player we’ve been linked with for the summer I could put a new book together.

Still though, the increased speculation and talk has got me interested. Of all the Premier League clubs I reckon Fernando Torres would go to Liverpool and I’d be surprised to see him anywhere else. Luis Garcia had been mentioned earlier in the week as a possible make-weight in the transfer process and according to ITV this morning it looks like Garcia is open to the idea and wouldn’t have any problem.

“Liverpool are in my thoughts at the moment, but one day I would like to come back, and not to Barcelona, but to Atletico Madrid, who are always in my thoughts,” Garcia told Spanish television.

Then, read Sky Sports this morning and you’ll see the fuel has well and truly been added to the fire with the news that Atletico Madrid have agreed to sign Diego Forlan and Juan Riquelme.

The transfer process at Liverpool has thus far been pretty slow, not at all the flurry of activity that was expected but its still good to see the management being patient. While other managers would have rushed in and dragged any name going, Benitez has picked his targets and is making damn sure he sticks to them before concentrating on something else.

Who knows, maybe this time next week we’ll see Fernando Torres singing in the rain in Liverpool with the red jersey on him. We’ll see.

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Cash Boost For Liverpool From Carslberg, Sponsorship Continues

It’ll be a few years yet before the Carlsberg brand disappears from the front of Liverpool football jerseys with Carslberg and Liverpool announcing a three year extension to the current deal (until the end of the 2009/2010 season) which should provide Liverpool around €30m or so over the next three years. The partnership is the longest running the league at present, stretching all the way back to 1992 so its great to see it continue. The extra cash should prove quite helpful too!

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Tall Order For Crouch To Go To Spain?

You’ll have to pardon the pun on the title, feels very tabloid-esque, but wouldn’t you think its a tall order to get Crouch to head off to Spain in part of a deal to take Fernando Torres to Anfield? Sure enough, he’s been linked around the transfer market, including moves to Newcastle earlier in the year but of all the transfer talk and possible transfer situations I reckon its a bad thing to be shipping Crouch off.

There’s talk too of Luis Garcia being used as a make-weight for the transfer but sure enough, isn’t it worth holding onto Crouch? Retain some homegrown talent, a man who was a certain suspect purchase when he first arrived at Anfield!

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Top Seeded Again

Ah, while we wait on the transfer news to start rolling in (I’m climbing the bloody walls at this point), it is good to see that we’re still among the top seeds in the Champions League - third highest in Europe I might add, behind AC Milan (this year’s winner) and Barcelona (last year’s winner and this year’s casualty at the hands of Liverpool). Chelsea’s millions have finally started to pay off too as they’ve made the top seeds meaning all four British clubs (Liverpool, Arsenal, United & Chelsea) are in the seeds along with both Milan sides (AC and Inter), Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Of course it means that we avoid AC, Inter, Madrid or Barca in the group but it bodes well for Chelsea who (thankfully for them) won’t be paired with Barca in the group stage next year.

Who knows, another trip towards the final this year would go a long way towards keeping us in those top seeds.

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Liverpool Goal Of The Season Videos

In case you haven’t seen them or heard them, here’s the two goals of the season for the Liverpool first team and reserves as voted by fans on LiverpoolFC.tv.

First up (above) is Daniel Agger’s wonderstrike against West Ham in the second game of the season.

Above is Robbie Fowler’s goal for the reserves in the Liverpool demolition of Blackburn. Fowler gets a great ball in from Jermaine Pennant and has no problem in calmly chipping over the ‘keeper from just inside the box.

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Day Number One At The Villa

Its day number one and Liverpool kick off their Premier League campaign for 2007/2008 against Aston Villa. Thats possibly a good thing for us as the last time we took three points from our opening fixture in the league (as opposed to a draw or anything) was five years ago - against Aston Villa.

Of course, an awful lot has changed in five years. Aston Villa aren’t much better but Liverpool sure have come on in leaps and bounds (but where oh where are the summer transfers?).

Anyway, we’ll be tripping to Villa Park on August 11th for the opening clash against Martin O’Neill’s men before Alan Curbishly takes safe-from-relegation West Ham to Anfield four days later for our opening home fixture.

Our first big clash is against Chelsea in the third fixture (August 18th at home) before Arsenal at the end of October and United in the middle of December. The league campaign finishes out with an away trip to Spurs. Full fixtures at Liverpoolfc.tv.

Update: Strong possibility of the West Ham game being pushed back due to the Champions League - if that was the case then we could be looking at Chelsea as being the first visitors to Anfield in the new campaign.

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Reina Yesterday, Xabi Alonso Signs Today

Whatever about the transfer situation, Rafa Benitez and Rick Parry are locking down contracts goodo this week.

First there was Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, each penning four year contract extensions; Pepe Reina signed on yesterday until 2012 and Sky Sports News this morning reports that Xabi Alonso has put pen to paper on a five year contract extension, great news for the team I think.

There had been rumour that Xabi was heading away this summer with Barcelona a reported new home but I think the new five year deal should see him at the club for at least the next two seasons anyway.

Others are doubtful but I still strongly feel that Xabi Alonso is an absolute quality midfielder who is core to the future success of the Liverpool midfield line and I’m expecting great things from him this coming season.

Speaking to Sky…

I have been here for three seasons now and have such special feelings for the club and the supporters. I understand what Liverpool FC means to so many people. It is such a special club and I just didn’t want to leave.

“We agreed that the talks would take place after the Champions League final and, to be honest, in the end it was a simple decision for me because I could see right away that the attitude of the club towards me was spot on.

There was word during the week that Momo Sissoko would follow Alonso in contract talks but that remains up in the air. A loan move might not be too bad an option for Sissoko though his sale could still generate much-needed transfer funds (hell, every little helps in getting bigger names this summer) but I can’t imagine Liverpool landing him with a new contract just yet.

So, now with four of the biggest names at the club under new deals can we expect to start seeing some transfer moving and shaking done? Let the gates of Anfield open….

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