SVEN LOSING THE PLOT

Eriksson wants strikers to shine
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson says he is looking for big performances from strikers Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney when they play Sweden on Tuesday.
"I expect Owen and Rooney to play like they used to, in the golden days," said Eriksson. "They always play well.

Ok what is the lunatic on now, they just dont suit each others style of play when they are both playing up front, even though it may not be the prettiest football in the world English football is based on a target man and even though these are 2 great players they are midgets. I agree that he has to play them tomorrow to give them as many match minutes as he can before the real buisness starts ,but i really hope Sven does not think that playing these 2 together will be the answear for Englands tactical problems, and Englands problems are tactical.
Gerrard as always is the key he has to be let go forward more, Lumpy Lampard is a good player but he just dose not have the drive going forward that Gerrard has, and Rooney will be much more effective when he has Crouch knocking balls down to him.
If England are to do well at this world cup then they are going have to have enough confidence in there defence to venture forward , release Gerrard and let him bring the fear to the opposition.

BELLAMY HEADING TO ANFIELD

Liverpool are believed to be pushing ahead with a move for Craig Bellamy.

The Welsh international is widely reported to have a clause in his contract at Blackburn that allows him to leave Ewood Park for just £6 million.

Not ideal but as long as he is not our main striker buy of the summer, and if we can get him for 6 million and if he leaves his crazy off-field antics behind him then it could turn out to be a good deal. Not too keen on giving Sinama-Pongolle as part of the deal i think he will still be a good option for Liverpool fc and even though cash is tight he is worth a lot more than the trade-in we would get as part of a Bellamy deal.

Cash really does seem to be the problem this summer, even more so than past summers if we do go ahead with the Alves deal which will probably cost over 8 million and hopefully one world class striker, it makes u wonder where the cash is going to come from. With the arrival of Gonzalez maybe Rafa is hoping Kewell will have a great world cup to push up his price, hope he stays at anfield he really does seem to be coming back to his best...