All this talk about title this and title that is complete loss. One loss/draw or two puts us right back in the pack again.

Yes, it’s our best start for many seasons but that means nothing unless the gap between us and the rest is huge – and that can only happen if our run is sustained and long ie in May 2009!

On Everton/Standard Liege and us – I accept the point you raise (as i was thinking the same as I watched last night). Luckily for Everton, Fellani (?) is with them now as SL would have seriously turned them over. Would be interesting for us to play SL now that we appear to be hitting a good vein of form.

If our run is not long and sustained – or god-forbid Stevie G or Torress get injured – then for sure we’ll be returning to the ownership issue with some gusto.

I have to be honest and say for a fleeting moment I wondered whether Jim was not posting due to the ownership issue BUT within moments I thought better of it. If it were true, Jim has never bottled having that discussion with us over the ‘net. So why would he now?! Hicks will believe he still has arguable lines/arguments and (if Jim were his ‘net messenger) would want his PR machine to test them out.

Man City on Sunday will be an interesting game. Us against the money that we hoped to have ourselves. Us against Robinho costing £30m +, the kinda money Hicks and Gillett promised we could spend on Snoogy Doogy if Rafa wanted to. I look forward to Jim one day answering my burning question: of the money the club spent this summer on transfers, how much of that transfer budget actually came from H&G and how much came from Rafa’s dealings in the transfer market and success in EPL and Champions league?

I have no worries about Agger though cos, as I’ve said many times before, I think he’s going to captain us one day. It’s a nice problem for Rafa to have. It’s a long season and his chance will come. Currently it just makes no sense to change things. Once again my respect goes to Sami Hyypia for his patience. At this rate he could turn out to be my favourite player of all time.

One point I’d like to make is that, Evertons result against Standard Liege puts our result against them in perspective.

My worry is that unless expectations are managed, the title momentum could peak way too early. We’ve had a good start, but there’s plenty of ups and downs to come!

I wish, but I think this story has some way to run. The good news is that I think this is the best squad Liverpool has had for a good many years.

Why no report from Jim on the PSV game ? Could it be that his heart’s not in it anymore ? Could this be anything to do with Thomas O Hicks ??

I know Stevie G and Keano have grabbed the headlines but both Torres and especially Kuyt were outstanding.

Kuyt, for all is critics – and yes a lack of premership goals – , scored the first and was absolutely instrumental in the 2nd goal. His run/dribble to release Torres was fantastic. I loved that he stayed on the pitch after the game to applaud both sets of fans after the game. I hope Kuyt finally starts getting the credit he deserves beyond being just a work-horse – which probably won’t happen until we/he’s won the PL for some.

One thing that does worry me is the position of Agger. I don’t like the rumours about him trying or positioning to leave. The Club stood by him through his injury and Rafa was clear that his absence cost us points last year. This will not buy a players loyalty but it should at least tell him that he’s instrumental to our plans. All – and it’s easy for me to say – he has to do is be patient as one or both defenders will fall victim to injury/form and then he’ll get the games to establish himself again – like he did against Crewe (but not quite so convincingly against Standard Liege).

Oh – one other thing – I’m loving Alonso’s form at the moment. It seems Rafa’s psychological games has worked

We’ve now got so much flexibility in the squad that we can play 4-4-2, 4-3-3 and 4-5-1 whenever Rafa chooses. I just hope we don’t start berrating Kuyt (too much) should we start experiencing a little difficulty.

PS It’s great not focussing on the ownership issue. But it’s still the elephant in the room. Fingers-crossed it gets dealt with – and soon.

Does anybody believe anything these prats say anymore ??

A decent result against PSV and Manchester City will see us as real contenders for both competitions.

The Premiership……BELIEVE.