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		<title>By: Tattyhoker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tattyhoker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t think they would get the money, but they did. That means that we&#039;re stuck with them for another while at least.

So what does everyone do? Do we all continue to whinge and cry about the owners or do we all get on with what we do best.. being the best team in Europe.

On a personal level, I&#039;m no renewing my LFC e-season ticket, bt that&#039;s as far as my protests will go. I will still go to Anfield. My wee man will get any kit that&#039;s going and I hope to stop talking about money and concentrate on football.

I think Hicks and Gillette should learn from this experience. It can only get better for them as far as the supporters are concerned and they should now know a lot more about what it means to own a football club like Liverpool. Maybe they&#039;ll sell,  maybe they won&#039;t. If they have any sense they&#039;ll hold unto Rafa for as long as the fans want him. But, they must give Rafa a fixed budget, say 40m per annum so that he knows where he stands. Whether it&#039;s adequate is another matter but the man needs to know where he stands.

The team needs to stand up and be counted too. In all fairness, the last few weeks can&#039;t be solely attributed to the ownership issues. The team have been brutal and have merely gone through the motions. That&#039;s not enough at a club like Liverpool and the fans are entitled to expect more from the team. You don&#039;t need a team of superstars to draw with Wigan, Luton, Middlesboro or to lose to Reading. They need to buck up and get on with playing football.

Stevie G needs to behave like a captain. Stop whinging about where he wants to play. Stop cracking stupid shots from 50 yards out, stop getting in the way of the strikers. He should play on the right with Alonso and Mascherano in the middle. If its good enough for Ronaldinho and Ronaldo it should be good enough for Gerrard. He could learn a lot from Carra in terms of his attitude. If you think of it, if Gerard was sold we could buy Alves, Molouda  and still have enough for a good striker.. so let him not think that the team must be built around him. He has to play for the team, and forget his own ego.

As for Rafa. Rafa&#039;s job appears to be secure. The least he&#039;s entitled to now is certainty regarding his budget. Tell him what he has to spend and let him get on with it. Let him take in a decent assistant manager to help. If he get&#039;s that he will be in as good a position as most top European managers. It will be up to him to motivate the team and to get them back to winning ways. There&#039;s nothing he can do now about the owners so like everyone else he&#039;ll have to make the most of his lot.

We&#039;re different at Liverpool. We won our league titles when money wasn&#039;t the factor it is now. We won because we were better at what we did than the other teams. We&#039;ve got to keep ahead. We shouldn&#039;t be dependent on simply buying new players. At the end of the day, for all their money, United and Chelsea can still only play 11 men.

We can stil win the Champion&#039;s league. We can win the cup. But for those recent draws we&#039;d be in pole position for the league, but everyone needs to stand up and be counted from now on - glory in adversity.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t think they would get the money, but they did. That means that we&#8217;re stuck with them for another while at least.</p>
<p>So what does everyone do? Do we all continue to whinge and cry about the owners or do we all get on with what we do best.. being the best team in Europe.</p>
<p>On a personal level, I&#8217;m no renewing my LFC e-season ticket, bt that&#8217;s as far as my protests will go. I will still go to Anfield. My wee man will get any kit that&#8217;s going and I hope to stop talking about money and concentrate on football.</p>
<p>I think Hicks and Gillette should learn from this experience. It can only get better for them as far as the supporters are concerned and they should now know a lot more about what it means to own a football club like Liverpool. Maybe they&#8217;ll sell,  maybe they won&#8217;t. If they have any sense they&#8217;ll hold unto Rafa for as long as the fans want him. But, they must give Rafa a fixed budget, say 40m per annum so that he knows where he stands. Whether it&#8217;s adequate is another matter but the man needs to know where he stands.</p>
<p>The team needs to stand up and be counted too. In all fairness, the last few weeks can&#8217;t be solely attributed to the ownership issues. The team have been brutal and have merely gone through the motions. That&#8217;s not enough at a club like Liverpool and the fans are entitled to expect more from the team. You don&#8217;t need a team of superstars to draw with Wigan, Luton, Middlesboro or to lose to Reading. They need to buck up and get on with playing football.</p>
<p>Stevie G needs to behave like a captain. Stop whinging about where he wants to play. Stop cracking stupid shots from 50 yards out, stop getting in the way of the strikers. He should play on the right with Alonso and Mascherano in the middle. If its good enough for Ronaldinho and Ronaldo it should be good enough for Gerrard. He could learn a lot from Carra in terms of his attitude. If you think of it, if Gerard was sold we could buy Alves, Molouda  and still have enough for a good striker.. so let him not think that the team must be built around him. He has to play for the team, and forget his own ego.</p>
<p>As for Rafa. Rafa&#8217;s job appears to be secure. The least he&#8217;s entitled to now is certainty regarding his budget. Tell him what he has to spend and let him get on with it. Let him take in a decent assistant manager to help. If he get&#8217;s that he will be in as good a position as most top European managers. It will be up to him to motivate the team and to get them back to winning ways. There&#8217;s nothing he can do now about the owners so like everyone else he&#8217;ll have to make the most of his lot.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re different at Liverpool. We won our league titles when money wasn&#8217;t the factor it is now. We won because we were better at what we did than the other teams. We&#8217;ve got to keep ahead. We shouldn&#8217;t be dependent on simply buying new players. At the end of the day, for all their money, United and Chelsea can still only play 11 men.</p>
<p>We can stil win the Champion&#8217;s league. We can win the cup. But for those recent draws we&#8217;d be in pole position for the league, but everyone needs to stand up and be counted from now on &#8211; glory in adversity.</p>
<p>YNWA</p>
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		<title>By: kopycat</title>
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		<dc:creator>kopycat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rafa= Reina, Alonso, Mascherano, Torres and Gerrard, who would have gone but for Benitez. Quite simply, back him or F* off across the pond! the best manager since Dalglish, its only a matter of time before we get the league. No Rafa= player exodus, £6 million compensation, a new manager with a new five year plan, millions spent on new transfers, no hope no future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rafa= Reina, Alonso, Mascherano, Torres and Gerrard, who would have gone but for Benitez. Quite simply, back him or F* off across the pond! the best manager since Dalglish, its only a matter of time before we get the league. No Rafa= player exodus, £6 million compensation, a new manager with a new five year plan, millions spent on new transfers, no hope no future.</p>
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		<title>By: Kul Pattar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kul Pattar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>know one believed that under Rafa we would be back amongst Europes Elite, so much so that teams we would never had had a hope in beating (Barcelona away for eg) dont fancy playing us at all. We are Liverpool! and that is down to Rafa! i cannot believe the Lies we have been fed by these two ass clowns! the only thing they understand is money...so hit them where it hurts...boycott the KOP for one hiogh profile match!! let the television pictures speak a thousand words!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>know one believed that under Rafa we would be back amongst Europes Elite, so much so that teams we would never had had a hope in beating (Barcelona away for eg) dont fancy playing us at all. We are Liverpool! and that is down to Rafa! i cannot believe the Lies we have been fed by these two ass clowns! the only thing they understand is money&#8230;so hit them where it hurts&#8230;boycott the KOP for one hiogh profile match!! let the television pictures speak a thousand words!</p>
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		<title>By: wayne</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hicks Holdings 
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Tel 001 214 615 2300

For anyone fancying any direct action!</description>
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<p>Tel 001 214 615 2300</p>
<p>For anyone fancying any direct action!</p>
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		<title>By: 1FredTheRed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kong the news of the refinancing does not mean DIC won&#039;t bid for us it just means the hillbillies have more time to consider any offer.
Maktoum brought a boeing 747 to transport his horses do you really think they wouldn&#039;t invest in the team? The more successful we are the more we are worth.We have to be owned by someone and most would prefer DIC.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kong the news of the refinancing does not mean DIC won&#8217;t bid for us it just means the hillbillies have more time to consider any offer.<br />
Maktoum brought a boeing 747 to transport his horses do you really think they wouldn&#8217;t invest in the team? The more successful we are the more we are worth.We have to be owned by someone and most would prefer DIC.</p>
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		<title>By: 1FredTheRed</title>
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		<dc:creator>1FredTheRed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We are F**KED. Have you seen the news today Mascherano is Hicks gift to us.Are we supposed to be grateful?But get this........its on the condition we sell Sissoko, and Mascheranos fee of £17m includes his wages so its a straight swap and we are supposed to be content with that. Its also been reported we wanted Walcott on loan!!!!!!! Can you believe that we are reduced to having the Gooners cast offs.
Thanks Mr Moores you have certainly done the best for our club haven&#039;t you and Parry you bootlicking piece of crap.All this misery for a few extra bucks per share.
We have become a laughing stock.Owned by Yank parasites that don&#039;t even attend our games.We had better get used to the likes of playing Havant because thats where we will be heading soon seeing as it looks like we will have to meet yearly interest repayments of £30 million.
Sleep easy Mr Moores
Sleep easy Mr Parry
Youv&#039;e f**cked us good and proper!!!!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are F**KED. Have you seen the news today Mascherano is Hicks gift to us.Are we supposed to be grateful?But get this&#8230;&#8230;..its on the condition we sell Sissoko, and Mascheranos fee of £17m includes his wages so its a straight swap and we are supposed to be content with that. Its also been reported we wanted Walcott on loan!!!!!!! Can you believe that we are reduced to having the Gooners cast offs.<br />
Thanks Mr Moores you have certainly done the best for our club haven&#8217;t you and Parry you bootlicking piece of crap.All this misery for a few extra bucks per share.<br />
We have become a laughing stock.Owned by Yank parasites that don&#8217;t even attend our games.We had better get used to the likes of playing Havant because thats where we will be heading soon seeing as it looks like we will have to meet yearly interest repayments of £30 million.<br />
Sleep easy Mr Moores<br />
Sleep easy Mr Parry<br />
Youv&#8217;e f**cked us good and proper!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: King Kong</title>
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		<dc:creator>King Kong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look it&#039;s done now. No turning back. Only thing we hope for is to have the stadium completed. The chaos is over for now so we need Rafa to get things going on the pitch.

Building a cheaper - cost effective stadium is ok with me. Cheaper stadium will perhaps mean cheaper tickets later. One of my friends told me that the plastic seats in Arsenal Stadium was from Malaysia and Malaysian plastic is comparable to global standards - only cheaper. So this &quot;cheaper&quot; is fine with me when quality is not compromised.

I&#039;m not saying I like the USA but with DIC in, they may restart the whole process again and waste another year or so before the stadium even start work. 

In my head, I&#039;m just thinking about the stadium and the sooner it is built - whether it&#039;d built by the Devil himself, I don&#039;t care. The sooner it&#039;s there, the sooner we can compete with the big 3. DIC or USA, whoever, doesn&#039;t matter to me anymore. This whole farcicle on USA is getting boring to me and the tabloids must be having fun with the news everyday. I don&#039;t think DIC will do a Roman style on us. They are crude investors and only invest on things they see fit.

But first things first, Mascherano is a MUST!!! Come end of season ppl to leave will be Kuyt and Voronin (Unless Kuyt starts scoring winning goals for us in Old Trafford and Emeriates and Stamford Bridge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look it&#8217;s done now. No turning back. Only thing we hope for is to have the stadium completed. The chaos is over for now so we need Rafa to get things going on the pitch.</p>
<p>Building a cheaper &#8211; cost effective stadium is ok with me. Cheaper stadium will perhaps mean cheaper tickets later. One of my friends told me that the plastic seats in Arsenal Stadium was from Malaysia and Malaysian plastic is comparable to global standards &#8211; only cheaper. So this &#8220;cheaper&#8221; is fine with me when quality is not compromised.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying I like the USA but with DIC in, they may restart the whole process again and waste another year or so before the stadium even start work. </p>
<p>In my head, I&#8217;m just thinking about the stadium and the sooner it is built &#8211; whether it&#8217;d built by the Devil himself, I don&#8217;t care. The sooner it&#8217;s there, the sooner we can compete with the big 3. DIC or USA, whoever, doesn&#8217;t matter to me anymore. This whole farcicle on USA is getting boring to me and the tabloids must be having fun with the news everyday. I don&#8217;t think DIC will do a Roman style on us. They are crude investors and only invest on things they see fit.</p>
<p>But first things first, Mascherano is a MUST!!! Come end of season ppl to leave will be Kuyt and Voronin (Unless Kuyt starts scoring winning goals for us in Old Trafford and Emeriates and Stamford Bridge.</p>
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		<title>By: Kopite 999</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kopite 999</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To LFC Supporters Network,

I have been on before ranting against the DISGRACEFUL way the owners have been running our club. However i&#039;m not going rant at them today. Instead I want to concentrate on letting Rafa know how much we want him to stay and how much he means to us and the future of our club. There is no doubt that Rafa will consider leaving in summer due to relationship with the American tw@ts. LETS NOT GET TO THE SITUATION WHERE WE END UP LOSING THE BEST MANAGER WE HAVE HAD IN YEARS!! 

THE IDEA- Lets start a fund online to finance the making of a massive rafa flag for the kop. Designing is not my strong point but i&#039;m sure between us we can come up with a solution to show our unwavering support for the choice of the people. Rafa&#039;s head on a red/ white/ red background. 

How could the Yanks ignore that when its televised across the pond? (because lets face it they&#039;re never at the games )

Stupid idea OR Genius idea I dont know? But one thing is for sure I&#039;m not willing to sit around and do nothing. This club means too much to me for that</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To LFC Supporters Network,</p>
<p>I have been on before ranting against the DISGRACEFUL way the owners have been running our club. However i&#8217;m not going rant at them today. Instead I want to concentrate on letting Rafa know how much we want him to stay and how much he means to us and the future of our club. There is no doubt that Rafa will consider leaving in summer due to relationship with the American tw@ts. LETS NOT GET TO THE SITUATION WHERE WE END UP LOSING THE BEST MANAGER WE HAVE HAD IN YEARS!! </p>
<p>THE IDEA- Lets start a fund online to finance the making of a massive rafa flag for the kop. Designing is not my strong point but i&#8217;m sure between us we can come up with a solution to show our unwavering support for the choice of the people. Rafa&#8217;s head on a red/ white/ red background. </p>
<p>How could the Yanks ignore that when its televised across the pond? (because lets face it they&#8217;re never at the games )</p>
<p>Stupid idea OR Genius idea I dont know? But one thing is for sure I&#8217;m not willing to sit around and do nothing. This club means too much to me for that</p>
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