http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/176751-displays-like-that-can-earn-us-results .a late equalizer from wounded hero Martin Skrtel, saved a point v arse nal sunday 
the first half was mostly ours, Coutinhos goal was classy , he missed easier chances in the game,
but always looked dangerous...Possession was 65 to 35 % & the gooners had only 2 attempts but scored an equalizer just before the break,
after H-T the REds looked bright again, but I feel the injury and the long stoppage for tretment to Skrtel, (*10 mins ).....
.....I dont feel throwing on Borimi or Lambert did it, its the sort of thing I expect the airmchair fan nies to propose
/// extra forwards just tend to make the play seem desperate..... and Brent needs to "have a word"< 2 red cards in recent games, is part of "bad luck" which goes with a lack of confidence /...the Team is close to return to form
..... but its a shame Sahko is back, I dont rate him any better than ( the now injured ?) Lovren .......................... IN 2nd l Szczesny was a keeper blocking all - until Skrtel found a way, with a storming nod into the corner, to salvage a point.
the No.37 was pleased & keen to acknowledge the players' need to tighten up at either end of the field.
"It is good that we scored the goal and got a point - we showed our spirit, desire and fight until the end," the centre-back explained to Liverpoolfc.com from inside the tunnel at Anfield. In the first half, we were totally dominant and scored a goal. But straight after we conceded, just before half-time. There were a few mistakes there. Then we were behind a goal and trying to get an equaliser. I'm just glad we got it. Performance-wise, it was good. In the last three games - Manchester United, Bournemouth and this - I think we did well.
"We just couldn't get the result because of the goals we conceded and not taking more chances. But if we carry on in this way, it will be good for us. Now we have to get ready for the next game, Burnley away. We need to get the three points there." nThe 30-year-old had endured an accidental kick to the head from Giroud early in the second half, forcing extensive treatment and a long break in play.
The incident was a major factor behind the nine minutes of stoppage time , during which Liverpool scored the dramatic leveller.
"It's alright now," Skrtel reported on the injury. "It was quite sore straight after the accident, but that's part of football. I'm just glad I could carry on and be part of the game.
"I'm happy about the goal because it helped the team to get a point. But we're disappointed because after the performance we showed - we were dominating - we deserved more than we got."
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/176727-skrtel-header-earns-draw-against-arsenal ......http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/176738-rodgers-on-sturridge-injury-latest =================================
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REdNET BooTRooM Update
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number of date, time and broadcast alterations have today been confirmed for
Liverpool's Barclays Premier League fixtures in February and March of next
year.
The Merseyside derby at Goodison Park will remain on Saturday February 7, 2015, but kick-off has been rescheduled for 5.30pm GMT and the match will be televised by Sky Sports. Three days later, the Reds welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Anfield. The date and time of that fixture is unchanged, but the contest will now be broadcast on BT Sport. Their away trip to Southampton, originally set for Saturday February 21, has been moved to the following day at 4.15pm GMT and will be shown live on Sky Sports. Liverpool's second meeting with Manchester City of the season has been rescheduled; that game will now be held at 12pm GMT on Sunday March 1 and broadcast by Sky Sports. Therefore, the home game with Burnley has also been moved back by one day, with the kick-off time remaining 8pm GMT but now on Wednesday March 4.
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The Liverpool No.31 received the individual accolade for being picked out ahead of 39 shortlisted others as the most impressive young player in Europe for 2014 by a series of leading newspapers from around the continent.
Established by Italian publication Tuttosport more than a decade ago, the honour has previously been presented to the likes of Sergio Aguero, Mario Balotelli, Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney - and Sterling is the first Reds player to win the trophy.It arrives as reward for a calendar year in which the 20-year-old has developed into a feared opponent to any defence at domestic and international level, with his natural talent bearing rich rewards and almost a Barclays Premier League title.
"It's a great achievement to win such an award," Sterling reflected to Liverpoolfc.com immediately upon receiving the prize. "It's a really happy feeling for me and my family, of course.
"Something I've always wanted to do is to work hard playing football and try to be recognised. I'm really grateful that people have shown me this recognition.
"It's down to hard work. I'm really happy that people are recognising that I'm trying to work hard and do my best for this football club. I'm really grateful for this award."
The forward has been used in a more central role for Liverpool's last two matches by Brendan Rodgers and inspired his team to a 3-1 Capital One Cup victory at Bournemouth , the attacker explained why further progress is chief among his aims.He added: "There's always room for improvement. At this moment in time, I should have a few more goals, but I've not taken some of my chances. But I'm young and learning all the time.
"This award just shows that hard
work gets you where you want to be, and that I'm on the right track for where I
want to be in my career. Hopefully I can just keep working hard and try to take
my game to the next level. posted in Liverpool forever
Someone
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Do
we have a new
legend waiting in the wings?
legend waiting in the wings?
You hire Liverpool's infamous "Transfer Committee." Established in the summer of 2012 to introduce science and collective decision-making to the club's recruitment policy, Liverpool's committee is formally composed of four individuals—Brendan Rodgers (manager), Ian Ayre (chief executive), Dave Fallows (head of recruitment) and Michael Edwards (head of performance analysis). Their collective conclusions have been little short of catastrophic. More than half of the Transfer Committee's spending occurred this last summer, when Rodgers boasted of having a "different vision" and a clear transfer "strategy" to Sky Sports (h/t ESPN FC). Yet with that spending, Liverpool have descended to ninth in the Premier League, scoring just seven times in eight home games. As they were outplayed and ousted from the Champions League by FC Basel Rodgers chose to start just two of Anfield's high-tariff summer recruits.One of them, Rickie Lambert, began at centre-forward despite, as captain Steven Gerrard put it, having "ran himself into the ground the last five games." Rodgers had such little faith in his other strikers that he named no backup to the weary Lambert for a must-win game. Watching from the stands were two Transfer Committee specials: Mario Balotelli (read about his LFC contract here), who was still sidelined with the peculiarly intransigent injury that brought a halt to the Italian's embarrassing barren spell leading Liverpool's attack, and Fabio Borini, the €13.3 million acquisition from AS Roma who Rodgers told the club's website "the supporters will love" in his first spell at the club. Between them, Balotelli, Borini and Lambert have delivered just two league goals in 40 Liverpool appearances. Forwards are by no means the sole area of underperformance. Simon Mignolet is a £9 million goalkeeper for whom Liverpool were scouting replacements before his first season was even complete. More than £45 million in fees have been spent on three centre-backs, yet Rodgers still frequently pairs the error-prone Martin Skrtel with the greatly declined Kolo Toure (brought in for free but with high wages).Still more money has been spent on midfielders, only for Rodgers to use four inherited players for five starting in midweek. The Northern Irishman's apologists like to use the committee to absolve him of blame for many of these signings. The truth is more insidious. Rodgers has the power of veto over any transfer target proposed by Ayre, Edwards, Fallows or chief scout Barry Hunter. The rest of the committee can veto any player proposed by Rodgers. In the manager's first summer at Anfield, for example, he asked for a cavalcade of his former Swansea City charges, including Leon Britton, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Neil Taylor and Michel Vorm. Purchases were restricted to an inflated £15m fee for Joe Allen. In May, Rodgers explained his significant role in the Liverpool transfer process to James Pearce of the Liverpool Echo: “Obviously, I am involved heavily in the identification of the player. The principal idea when I first came in was that like any manager you will have the first call on a player and the last call. That's the call on whether he's good enough to continue to look at and try to organise a deal and the last call to say yes or no. There is a big part that goes on in between. In modern football you need to trust other people to do the work. That's something we do here and that's why we have had the success we've had.” Edwards is the committee's other main protagonist. A former video analyst whom Damien Comolli brought with him from Tottenham Hotspur, Edwards gained the trust of Liverpool's principal owner, John W. Henry, by presenting a statistical model for analysing potential signings. Famously enamoured with Billy Beane's sabermetric approach to hiring baseball players, Henry believed that in the young Englishman he had a football equivalent. Edwards was invited to spend time with Henry at the businessman's Florida mansion. His guidance was taken seriously when Henry and the rest of Fenway Sports Group sought a replacement for former Reds manager Roy Hodgson. Aware that numbers mattered to FSG's vision for the club, Edwards appointed Ian Graham as Liverpool's director of research. Holder of a PhD in theoretical physics, Graham had developed a computer programme designed to add discriminative value to player performance statistics provided by companies such as ProZone. When Rodgers, a scout or an agent suggested Liverpool sign a particular player, Edwards would have the player's numbers run through the Graham model. If the computer said no, the deal was off. When Red Bull Salzburg were looking for a buyer for Sadio Mane in the summer, Liverpool were one of the clubs approached. Graham's analysis indicated the Senegal international wasn't good enough, so Mane ended up at Southampton instead (paid for with a fraction of the money Rodgers channelled to the South Coast club for Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren and Lambert). Mane's new club currently sit fifth in the league table, five points ahead of Liverpool.Edwards' backing of a "moneyball" approach and Rodgers' limited knowledge of non-Premier League players has led to several standoffs. Oussama Assaidi and Nuri Sahin were Edwards' men whom Rodgers assented to signing then hardly used in their preferred positions. After seven league appearances in five months, Sahin's loan was terminated. The Turkey international ended the 2012-13 season playing a Champions League final for Borussia Dortmund. Assaidi, recently identified by Raheem Sterling as his most skilful team-mate, per Sky Sports, was permitted a total of 83 minutes in the league before being loaned to Stoke City for the last two seasons. In their first summer working together, Edwards pushed for Fiorentina centre-back Matija Nastasic to be recruited. Rodgers wanted a player with Premier League experience, but during the standoff, Manchester City bought the Serb instead. Nastasic was named Manchester City's Young Player of the Year during his first season in England, while Liverpool still hasn't found a reliable central defender. For another Premier League manager whose club also utilised the Graham model, part of that comes as no surprise. "That guy was a serious nerd," he says. "And the program was ridiculous. The parameters were set from his own view of what a defender, midfielder or attacker should do. They were ludicrous and inaccurate." For two Anfield years, Luis Suarez's unalloyed excellence compensated for a multitude of recruitment and coaching sins. Yet between Edwards' faith in analytics and Rodgers' poor eye for a player, Liverpool have managed to blow well in excess of £250,000,000 pounds once payoffs and agents' fee are factored in. Even the committee's conspicuous success, Daniel Sturridge, was recommended by an unconvinced Rodgers to only be brought in on loan. If you were the man who paid this pair to run your football club, you'd be forgiven for wondering if you might not be better off replacing both of them. Duncan Castles writes for the Sunday Times, Sports Illustrated, UEFA Champions magazine and others. A respected figure with an inside track, he has built a reputation for breaking transfer stories.
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Video: Daniel Sturridge quizzed by Indian fans about rap music and who he
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LFC Xtra last weekend gave fans in Mumbai the chance to interview
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BBC - December 19
Former Liverpool player Kenny Dalglish has described the "mayhem" at Hillsborough during the disaster.
"Nobody knew what was going on," he told the inquests. "There were stories coming from every angle."
Mr Dalglish was Liverpool's manager on the day of the April 1989 tragedy when his side met Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final.
Ninety-six fans died after crushing developed on the terraces at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium.
Wearing a red Liverpool FC tie and a "96" lapel badge, Mr Dalglish was first questioned by Christina Lambert QC, on behalf of the coroner, Lord Justice Goldring.
He outlined his arrival at the stadium, telling the court how his focus was on the match.
He said at first he did not notice anything amiss on the Leppings Lane terraces, as his team were attacking the opposite end of the pitch.
But he said news soon filtered through of a developing emergency, although he did not at first understand the severity of the situation.
"We knew there'd been fatalities. We weren't told what the cause was, but we knew it wasn't people fighting or hooliganism," he told the jury in Warrington.
After the match was stopped, Mr Dalglish described being asked by police to speak to fans in order to "call for calm".
He said a microphone in the police box was not working and that he had to use a microphone in the DJ's box instead.
The 63-year-old was then questioned by John Beggs QC, who represents the retired Hillsborough match commanders.
Mr Beggs showed the jury a copy of an excerpt from Mr Dalglish's autobiography, My Liverpool Home.
He asked him about a paragraph which talks about Liverpool fans "bunking in" to Wembley without tickets for the 1986 FA Cup final between Liverpool and Everton.
Mr Beggs also quoted a Home Office report about that match, describing attempts by ticketless fans to enter the stadium as "troubling".
Mr Dalglish replied: "I'm just a normal human being. Not judge and jury on how people should behave."
Mr Beggs was then repeatedly interrupted by the coroner as he tried to ask Mr Dalglish if he agreed whether late or drunk fans contributed to the Hillsborough disaster.
Lord Justice Goldring told the hearing Mr Dalglish "can't possibly answer such questions".
On three separate occasions, the jury was asked to leave the court while the coroner and barristers discussed legal issues.
Mr Dalglish later told the court how he refused to accept a telephone call from Kelvin Mackenzie, then editor of The Sun, which published the controversial front page headlined "The Truth".
The story, printed four days after the tragedy, made false claims about the behaviour of Liverpool fans.
Such was the anger prompted by the story, Mr Dalglish said he was asked to visit HMP Liverpool in an attempt to "calm down" prisoners.
His evidence marks the first time he has spoken about the tragedy in a court of law.
The inquests have now finished for Christmas and will resume in January.
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