One of the most underrated centerbacks in England and maybe the most unsung player in the Liverpool squad because of his consistent workman like performances, Jamie Carragher has come out in the press saying this weekends Premiership match against Blackburn at Anfield “is the biggest league match of my career right now.”
Midwest Wingers should immediately head to actor Jeff Daniels‘ Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, MI to check out “Bleeding Red” a new play written by local Wayne State graduate, Michael Brian Ogden. The play is about the friendship between three mad Liverpool supporters, their female troubles, and “the biggest football match in twenty years”
from the Guardian:
Tom Hicks’s US sports investment-vehicle has defaulted on loans amounting to US$525m (£354m). The news emerges less than four months before he and his Liverpool co-owner, George Gillett, must refinance a £350.5m loan for the Premier League club with two separate banks. (more…)
After Rafa Benitez put pen to paper on a new 5 year deal through 2014 with Liverpool, Captain Steven Gerrard and Holland International Dirk Kuyt followed suit and re - upped for for two more years after both were intent on committing their futures to the club and the manager.
Doesn’t it seem like every single time Liverpool starts to get it right on the field one of the Co - Owners has something coming out in the press, taking the focus off the great form the team is in and putting it back once again on the possible “sale” of half the teams’ ownership?
This time the reports coming out of Canada are about George Gillett “considering the sale of some of his Sporting Assets”, which include his 50% stake in Liverpool FC.
While he will still face the charge of Affray, Liverpool and England International Steven Gerrard has had an Assault charge dropped after appearing before the North Sefton magistrates court over the December 29th incident.
Liverpool Co - Owner Tom Hicks has admitted that while he is over the moon about Rafa Benitez re - upping with the Reds for five more years, the Spaniard WILL NOT have total control over the Transfer kitty as has been earlier reported and the main stumbling block over the initial round of negotiations.
With his current deal on course to expire at the end of next season, Liverpool and Rafa Benitez have finally agreed upon and signed a new 5 year deal that will see the Spaniard through the end of the 2014 campaign after rejecting the club’s initial offer due to “lack of total control in the Transfer Market.”
