The season may have ended almost a month ago but there remains plenty of news to keep Liverpool fans occupied this last week.
We’ll begin with Wednesday’s release of the new season’s fixtures, which sees us begin away from Anfield for the sixth consecutive year. We begin at White Hart Lane against Spurs, and end the season against Hull at the KC Stadium. More info.
There’s been plenty of transfer gossip and speculation so here’s a quick update;
£17.5m bid accepted by Portsmouth from Liverpool, and Chelsea. Reports suggest Johnson prefers a move to Anfield and will sign early next week. Finance will be partly funded by payments yet to be paid for Peter Crouch.
The Argie forward apparently has ruled out a move to Liverpool and will instead choose between Man City or Chelsea
Torres urged Rafa to sign his international team-mate but Villa says his decision has been made where he will go – press say that is the Bernabeu.
The Reds midfielder has refused to comment on his future, Rafa says he wants to stay but the press say a £30m bid would be accepted by Rafa. This one won’t be going away any time soon.
The club issued a statement with a hands-off both Masch and Xabi but the press continue to claim he and his wife are unsettled on Merseyside. Torres says he’s not though. Barcelona continue to be snooping around.
One minute he wants to leave the next he doesn’t, depending when you read this the latest is he wants to stay and fight for a place. Still looking likely to head to Juve for £6m-ish though.
Only has a year left on his contract, is “flattered” by interest from Real Madrid and likely to join them if Johnson’s move is confirmed.
Becomes a free agent at the end of the month when his contract expires.
Our Rumour Mill forum is attempting to keep up with the latest, here.
Elsewhere, a new reserve team coach has been appointed to assist new reserve manager John McMahon. Antonio Gomez Perez is a Spanish coach who joins a new look coaching staff at Anfield.
Thursday saw the announcement that former chairman David Moores has resigned from the board.
On the pitch, Torres scored an 11 minute hat-trick for Spain against New Zealand in the Confederations Cup last Sunday. They progressed to the semi-finals with a 1-0 win over the mighty Iraq on Wednesday. They face hosts South Africa on Saturday. Alonso, Riera and Arbeloa have also been involved in both games so far.
Finally, the new away kit is now on sale, while the new European/third kit is rumoured to look like this.
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