- Egypt and Algeria are into the play-off which is slated to be played on Wednesday. It's amazing how important this game is. It took a dramatic 2-0 win by Egypt on the final match day to force this one-game winner-take-all match where the victorious team will enter the 2010 World Cup while the loser will [. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benítez said last night that he would quit if Fernando Torres is sold against his will. Liverpool's £245m debt has led to questions about whether their US owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, would be tempted to sell, even if he was offered £100m for the striker.
"I'm confident it will never happen," the manager said. Click to continue reading...

Kop favourite Craig Johnston believes Rafa Benitez may have lost the dressing room and that his reign as Liverpool manager is hanging by a thread.
Benitez's side needed a controversial penalty to salvage a 2-2 home draw against Birmingham last Monday night and have won just once since the end of September. Click to continue reading...

For the last few months, this site has attacked Liverpool FC fan's group ‘Spirit if Shankly' for its juvenile, counter-productive approach to ousting Liverpool FC's owners. After raising awareness, putting SOS under public pressure and showing how the majority of fans are against their ‘Yank Liars Out! Click to continue reading...

Misinformation and agenda-driven exaggeration are the key factors at play when it comes to reporting the true level of Liverpool FC's debt and interest payments. The anti-Liverpool media and fan's group SOS exaggerate the figures in a bid to whip up anti-Owner sentiment. Well, Liverpool-Kop can now exclusively reveal the true state of the club's current debt/interest level under Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

Martin O'Neill has emerged as the man to replace Rafa Benitez.
American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have identified O'Neill to succeed the Spaniard if Liverpool fail to qualify for next season's Champions League.
Hicks, Gillett, and managing director Christian Purslow are standing by beleaguered Benitez despite Liverpool's woeful recent run of form. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool will brush off the controversy over England's top clubs selling naming rights to their stadiums and chase the most expensive naming rights deal in the history of sport. Despite the recession, the Merseyside club's hierarchy are convinced they can raise a mammoth £250m by persuading a leading global firm to buy the rights to name Liverpool's proposed ground. Click to continue reading...

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LIVERPOOL will brush off the controversy over England's top clubs selling naming rights to their stadiums and chase the most expensive naming rights deal in the history of sport.

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There is a growing section of Liverpool fans who believe that sacking Rafa Benitez is the way forward at the moment. TAF MCDONALD disagrees, and explains why he believes there is no real possibility that this is going to happen.
Before Rafa's future can even realistically be called into question at least two of the following three things need to happen. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's hierarchy are piecing together a £100million rescue package to try to turn round a season that has been branded 'a disgrace' by one of their own players.
Anfield bosses hope to have the cash injection in place by January and will be eager to avoid any delays after keeper Pepe Reina turned on his own team-mates and berated their Champions League failings. Click to continue reading...

"It is difficult for us to qualify, but not impossible,We have to win our game and see what happens with Fiorentina and Lyon. Then we will approach the last game." Benitez has certainly fought his corner today after the galling last minute equaliser Liverpool conceded in the Stade Gerland last night.

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The Clock Is Ticking on Rafa's Reign, here are ten ways he can buy himself more time.

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1. Put Yossi Benayoun in First Team Sheet EVEN if we have no injury problems!

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Rafa Benitez's future at Liverpool will be determined over their next three games amid growing concern from potential investors.
Liverpool's defeat at Fulham on Saturday was the sixth in their last seven matches - the worst sequence of results for more than 50 years.
And Benitez takes his crisis-hit squad to Lyon on Wednesday knowing defeat could finish their Champions League campaign. Click to continue reading...

Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots NFL franchise, has once again spoken out about the possibility of buying into a Premier League soccer club, with Liverpool his favoured destination.
Kraft, who watched Liverpool's 2-0 win over Premier League Manchester United on television before seeing the Patriots beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, owned by the Glazer family, again expressed his interest in a Premier League move, but confirmed he would not enter a league where success is so dependent on finance. Click to continue reading...

Thousands of Liverpool fans gathered in protest against club owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett before the blockbuster game against Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday.
The army of supporters gathered at the Liverpool Supporters Club on Lower Breck Road and marched to the Albert pub outside the Kop in order to urge Hicks and Gillett to sell the club, as they attributed to the club's nosedive on and off the pitch to the American co-owners. Click to continue reading...

Sheesh! Every match Sir Alex gets 5 minutes of extra time?

While each fan will be watching his club play tomorrow, it will be the Liverpool vs Man Utd knockout that will occupy centerstage. It is all about establishing narratives.

The club that most pundits, including the Guardian, that oracle of footballing wisdom, picked to win the Premiership is faced with a situation where this win if it does happen, does not salvage its season as much as it gives hope that there is a kinder God.

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Tomorrow's game against bitter rivals Manchester United is the biggest league game at Anfield in Rafa Benitez's tenue. With all the media attention on the game, 10,000 angry Liverpool fans are planning a protest march before the game in a renewed attempt to drive co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett out of Anfield.

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I believe that Spirit of Shankly's ‘Yank Liars Out! approach to ousting the owners is unprofessional, undignified, and lacking in all credibility. Please vote in the poll, which I'm re-posting in a bid to reach as many Liverpool fans as possible.
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Spirit of Shankly is made up of a miniscule minority of Liverpool fans yet, amazingly, they purport to represent ALL Liverpool fans. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benítez today shrugged off the growing pressure on his position at Liverpool ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester United at Anfield. Liverpool desperately need a win after four consecutive defeats, and Benítez will give Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres and Glen Johnson - all groin injury victims - as long as he possibly can to prove their fitness. Click to continue reading...

Robert Kraft has acknowledged that he still harbours an interest in buying Liverpool.
The American businessman owns gridiron franchise New England Patriots, but admits that the global dominance of the round ball game makes the Premier League appealing.
"Yeah, in the right situation. Click to continue reading...

Jose Mourinho has rubbished speculation suggesting he could replace Rafa Benitez at Liverpool.
Benitez has come under pressure following a dismal run of four straight defeats in all competitions that has hit their hopes of domestic and European success.
The Reds boss has insisted he feels safe in his job despite the poor results after receiving words of support from co-owner George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

Four straight losses in all competitions. One goal in nearly a month. Injuries to four of the first-choice eleven. Fading chances (in October, no less) both domestically and in Europe. Now's as good a time as any to start listening to the Cure.

Already introduced by Rob on the Premier League Offside, the issue of Rafa's job security is one that has gained momentum of late, and if results don't start to go Liverpool's way it's a discussion that will be increasingly serious.

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Liverpool co-owner George Gillett says Rafael Benitez's position as manager of the club is safe, despite the 2-1 home defeat by Lyon in the Champions League.

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There are plenty of reasons to be disappointed with Rafa Benitez right about now. Liverpool head into this weekend's match against� Manchester United with the prospect of lodging their fifth defeat on the trot. After such high expectations for this season, Liverpool have been finally exposed as a two-man team.

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Stan Kroenke has been quietly sweeping up shares wherever he can find them. He is now a mere 1.04% short of the 29.9% trigger for a complete bid for the club. Whether he can spare the £460 million, in the short term to buyout the club is a different question.

Frankly after the Tom Hicks and George Gillett hatchet job at Liverpool, you have to be very wary of someone yet to pay half of the £100m he owes for the shares that he bought last December.

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Co-owner George Gillett's push to sell a stake in Liverpool is apparently on at the moment, after reports came out earlier today confirmed that any talks between F6, the Saudi Arabian investment company owned by Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah, and Gillett regarding a sale of the club are 'on hold'. Click to continue reading...

Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna dive into the following subjects:

• Balloons at the Stadium of Light
• Tom Hicks and George Gillett versus Elliot Short
• Thomas Rosicky's health and how it has turned Arsenal into title contenders
• Chelsea looking disjointed
• Emile Heskey's future
• A derby weekend in the Northwest
• The Premier League rebirth of James Beattie
• Too big to fail: Why does West Ham always fit this thought?

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A document actually nicknamed The Doomsday Book was prepared as Tom Hicks and George Gillett flirted with catastrophe last season.
It spelled out the consequences if the owners' failed to secure their £290million refinance deal.
And it was only because the Royal Bank of Scotland feared a massive backlash if they allowed one of the world's biggest clubs to go into administration that Liverpool were able to reject a £70m bid from Manchester City for Fernando Torres. Click to continue reading...

Saudi sports investor F6 claim George Gillett's talks with them were not about buying his stake in Liverpool.
Liverpool co-owner Gillett visited Riyadh this week to discuss possible investment opportunities with reports suggesting Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah could buy Gillett's 50 per cent stake in the English giants. Click to continue reading...

Private Saudi sports investment firm F6 said on Saturday that talks with George Gillett, the American co-owner of English football club Liverpool, to buy a stake in the club are on hold.
Gillett arrived earlier this week to Riyadh sparking speculation that the visit will push towards the conclusion a deal with F6 owners, who include Saudi Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah and Saudi businessman Majed al-Hugail. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool co-owner George Gillett claims to have been ''pleasantly surprised'' on a visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss new club academies.
Liverpool recently announced they had reached an agreement with Prince Faisal bin Fahad bin Abdulla of Saudi Arabia to set up a number of academies in the Middle East. Click to continue reading...

George Gillett's recent comments have caused quite a stir amongst Liverpool fans, with the media jumping on the bandwagon, gleefully trying to resurrect the ‘Rafa vs. the Owners' spat. There is one thing, however, that I believe many fans are missing about this situation...
The basic crux of the (predictable) media response to the comments has been "Gillett blames Benitez for poor performance' and "Gillett reignites public feud with Benitez". Click to continue reading...

George Gillett's interview with a member of ‘Spirit of Shankly' has been the hot topic of debate this week, but did the alleged interview even take place? I'm not convinced.
Having re-read the transcript a couple of times and considered the context, I have now come to the conclusion that this ‘interview' with George Gillett is either:
a) Completely false
b) Cobbled together from other interviews/statements
I retract points A and B above from the list of possibilities. Click to continue reading...

I believe that Spirit of Shankly's ‘Yank Liars Out! approach to ousting the owners is unprofessional, undignified, and lacking in all credibility. What do you think?
Spirit of Shankly is made up of a miniscule minority of Liverpool fans yet, amazingly, they purport to represent ALL Liverpool fans. Click to continue reading...

Prince Faisal Bin Fahd Bin Abdullah has confirmed that he would be interested in investing his money in a football club.
The Saudi billionaire is reportedly set to invest his considerable funds in Liverpool after being caught pictured sitting with co-owner George Gillett at the 6-1 win over Hull at Anfield last month.

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