For years Liverpool Fc have had to spend their money miserly, often on players that were second rate that may have a chance of improving, but those days are gone. Now its all about getting the very best to end our league title drought.
Fernando Torres signaled Liverpools intention by shattering the clubs old record transfer fee and this has been just followed up by paying 11.5 million for Ryan Babel the 20 year old prospect from Holland, it shows the confidence that the new owners have in Rafa Benitez and that they believe that he is truly the man to end the clubs recent barren spell of league titles.
With the recent arrivals of Yossi Benayoun and Andrei Voronin Liverpool fans may be left scratching their heads at Benitez`s selection, because the players he has signed are so versatile. Torres is an out and out striker but Voronin can play up front or on the wing, Benayoun can play anywhere behind the front two while Babel can play up front or on either wing, so this season its going to be even more of a guessing game of who starts and where, this versatility is a great advantage that Benitez will use to great effect, its so so long since Liverpool had the option of putting out a purely attacking team, one that can kill off the lesser teams and gain us the three points, the same points that we get if its Man Utd or Reading, now Rafa has the ammunition he needs to deal with teams putting 11 men behind the ball, something that has caused us nightmares in previous seasons simply because we did not have enough attacking flair to break down these defences......but that is the past
Many people may say that Man utd are miles ahead with their early purchase of Nani and Anderson, but people must remember these are young players to replace the aging Scoles and Giggs so its not improvement its maintenance, and Hargreaves is another attempt to replicate Keane but as most people know the closest you can get to Keane in today's world football, plays for their arch rivals and is a better player than Keane could ever hope to be.
So the next season should be very interesting Rafa has shocked us in the past with his team selections but with the choices he now has your more likely to win Lotto than pick his starting 11 in their positions.
It has been a long long time coming but at last we have the players and manager to mount a serious title challenge so roll on the new season.
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