Liverpool return to league action on Saturday hoping to both extend their unbeaten run to five
games, and record a win after consecutive 1-1 draws. The Reds slipped to 6th place after last
weekend's frustrating draw against Norwich while, if extra motivation were needed, they will also
be looking to avenge last season's 2-1 defeat at the Hawthorns.
With all the talk in recent weeks of who needs to start, who deserves to start, and what the
priorities should be when it comes to deciding who needs and deserves to start, it seemed like the
perfect time for last week's poll to find who Liverpool Offside readers thought was the club's most
underrated player.
A Time for Tactics — How Liverpool Will Deploy Against Stoke
Before playing Stoke at Anfield last season, people were just starting to get a hint of how
silly it was to question Kenny Dalglish's tactical ability. After Liverpool's 2-0 victory , the
critics and cynics were left kowtowing to the King.
Liverpool are eyeing a move for Club Nacional defender Sebastian Coates, according to several
sources including the Telegraph and the Mirror . The Reds require reinforcements at the back having
agreed a deal to sell Sotirios Kyrgiakos to Wolfsburg earlier this week.
One more player leaves Liverpool while rumours swirl about potential replacements. Plus
Aquilani's agent doing what he does best, papers rehashing year old stories, and all the rest of
the week's fun as the rumour mills hit top gear again with the window heading to its close...
Sotirios Kyrgiakos
The big Greek defender left for Wolfsburg on a free transfer late on Monday, the player eager to
get more playing time than seemed likely at Liverpool and the club happy to get his wages off the
books.
Liverpool's summer of transfer business continues with the news that VfL Wolfsburg confirmed the
signing of Liverpool's Sotirios Kyrgiakos on a two-year deal.
Liverpool target Sebastian Coates to replace outgoing Sotirios Kyrgiakos
report
Kenny Dalglish will be looking to reinforce his squad at the back after he lets Greek
international go to Wolfsburg on a free transfer, reports also suggest interest in Bellamy
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Sotirios Kyrgiakos has left Liverpool to join Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg, the club have
confirmed. The Greek is not thought to feature in Kenny Dalglish's plans for the forthcoming
campaign and departs Anfield in search of regular first team football.
Wolfsburg complete Sotirios Kyrgiakos signing from Liverpool
32-year-old defender ends his association with the Reds, after 49 appearances and three goals,
to move to the Bundesliga and link-up with Felix Magath at the Volkswagen Arena.
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The final week before the Premier League season starts is an easy time for the madness of the
transfer window to fade into the background, but with a few notable holes on Liverpool's squad, a
couple of long-running sagas, and a handful of players expected to be on their way out any day now,
all because the focus is shifting to actual football doesn't mean there aren't things happening in
the tawdry world of transfers and transfer rumours.
Liverpool is to offer both Sotirios Kyrgiakos and David Ngog to Bolton Wanderers in exchange for
their defender Gary Cahill - according to Footybunker.
The Merseyside club value Ngog at £4.5m, which Bolton boss Owen Coyle is reluctant to pay
outright, but the swap deal could prove more enticing.
Liverpool is looking to bolster their defensive options this summer with a move for Croatian
international, Dejan Lovren. The Reds are keen to bring in a new centre back, with Jamie Carragher
reaching the latter stages of his career and the club sees the Lyon man as the natural
replacement.
The Lyon centre back has been capped at all levels for the Croatian national team and has shown his
potential to play in the Premier League.
Liverpool defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos has earned himself a 12-month contract extension at
Anfield.
The former Greece international, 32 next month, originally joined on a two-year deal from AEK
Athens at the start of the 2009-10 season.
However, written into that agreement was an option for a further year and Press Association Sport
understands Kyrgiakos has qualified for that having played the required number of matches last
season.
Liverpool defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos has earned himself a 12-month contract extension at
Anfield.
The former Greece international, 32 next month, originally joined on a two-year deal from AEK
Athens at the start of the 2009-10 season.
However, written into that agreement was an option for a further year and Press Association Sport
understands Kyrgiakos has qualified for that having played the required number of matches last
season.
The Reds look to Enlist new faces at the Back to Help Move the Club Forward.
by Rhydon Atzenhoffer on the Bleacher Report
March 23, 2011
Laurence Griffiths/Getty ImagesIt has been no secret this season that Liverpool have been in
desperate need of a quality left back. Roy Hodgson's purchase of Paul Konchesky was quite simply
never going to live up to life on Merseyside.
Divide the pitch into three equal zones: offensive, defensive, and midfield. Divide each zone
into a further six sectors, three across the pitch and two deep. Zone one is the left back sat in
defence, and counting right and up the pitch zone eighteen contains the opponent's corner flag as
attacked down the right wing.
Everton vs Blackpool Goodison Park, Everton- 5th February 2011 Final score:- Everton vs Blackpool
5-3 ( Louis Saha four goals, Jermaine Beckford/Alex Baptiste, Jason Puncheon, Charlie Adam) A four
goal show from Louis Saha gives Everton a 5-3 win in a eight goal thriller at Goodison Park vs
Blackpool.
Liverpool get a terrific team performance and beat Stoke 2-0.
Well that felt good, didn't it?
We knew coming in that Liverpool were going to have to put in an all-around performance today,
seeing as Stoke are one of the more challenging and relentless sides in the Premier League.
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is keen to tie up a deal for a commanding centre-back before the
end of the transfer window and is set to continue in his vein of signing young English players.
The latest player to be linked with a move to Anfield is Stoke's giant centre-back Ryan Shawcross,
who has earned a reputation as one of the toughest defenders in the Premier League.
Over the past couple of days, the biggest story of Wednesday's slate of international friendlies
has quickly shifted from the meaningless matches themselves (which, let's face it, where never a
huge story to begin with) to the England versus Holland game scheduled for Wednesday evening at
London's Wembley Stadium facing the threat of cancellation due to the imminent collapse of western
civilization.
Liverpool 4:Poulsen 19′, N'Gog 22′, Coady 72′, Carroll 85′
Guangdong 3:Steer 46′, Lin 90′, Hongbo 92′
And so a new season begins. Or at least the road to it does. Certainly without the extended
break forced by the European Championships and World Cup in recent years it doesn't feel like as
much of a wait as in the past, when half the players would have just now been starting into their
short summer breaks following international commitments.
Liverpool have been told that they will need to bid £12million if they want to land Birmingham
centre-back Scott Dann who is keen to secure a move back to the Premier League.
Dann was one of Birmingham's star performers last season and along with fellow centre-back Roger
Johnson was viewed as one of the best hottest properties on the transfer market after the Blues
suffered relegation from the Premiership.
Liverpool head to the Czech Republic to face Sparta Prague.
And let's just get it out of the way "THIS IS SPARTA" is not an acceptable joke anymore.
Questionable whether it ever was. Fight the impulse. Okay, we know you did it anyway at some point.
Get over it.
European football returns for Liverpool after what seems like an eternity, and it's at a great
time.
Liverpool head to London to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Before you get into this, there's the possibility that a Roundtable feature might go up on the
main Offside page last week they kicked it off with the Asian Cup final between Australia and
Japan, and it's basically a way to connect the bloggers from the different sites in the build-up to
matches of some consequence.
Everything is connected. Everything is related. The system works because it is the perfect
system for the opponent and the players are effective in their roles, not because any one player
grabs the game by the scruff of the neck and carries the team to victory.
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In defense, three central defenders comprehensively negate Stoke's solitary target.
Hull City 3:Brady 21′, Koren 33′, Simpson 58′ Liverpool 0
Let's just get the standard "doesn't mean anything unless someone looks good, then we'll get
really excited" proclamations out of the way few conclusions can be made from any preseason match,
and after the display today we'll have to hope that the Liverpool we see on August 13th has little
in common with the one we saw today.
