George, rafa would agree he has good players and that they all need games, but i think your missing what rafa is saying, he wants young players who he has identified to be bought or signed up at the very least. He also needs a centre back because its obvious we weak there, with jamie playing every game. If rafa can get a great young centre half who will serve the club for yrs to come, and for a good price eg: agger, then he needs to get him,
Liverpool has always been a club which when winning leagues we always had a ready made replacement for an ageing player, therefore we kept our consistancy. If rafa just keeps going along, we will be stuck in the summer looking for a centre back which will cost us big money, we prob wont win league casue jamie and agger cant play every game, and sami is doing great but he needs to be rested we got to look at replacing him sooner rather than later, bringing in a young lad to play beside him and jamie for a season or so to learn. Jamies legs are going, now he still at top of his game but he got about 2 yrs left there, he peaked in 2005 and is on the crest of his career now, so now is the time to be recruiting inorder to keep consistancy when jamie and sami drop down to playing bit part roles.
Manure, got rid of beckham to quickly and ronaldo is only now in last 2 yrs showing what he can do, his first season wasnt that good, look at scholes he is stepping down and fergie bought hargreves carrick anderson nani in order one of them learns from scholes and is at the right level to just walk into his shoes. Henry at arsenal with their young stars, fabregas with viera etc, its good business to do this.
To get to the point i reckon we are 2 players short, we are missing a centre back and like Criticalmind been saying for long time, Mascherano is not ours yet, so we got to sign him first of all, he will serve this club for yrs to come, and is already a great looking prospect,
If want to get 3 then a 20 goal a season striker be good, but i have faith in torres crouch babel kuyt voronin to score the goals, its giving them games that we lead to this.
SO rafa really only asking for 1 new player (centrehalf from spain) and mascherano to be signed permanently. Not alot to ask, for the sake of consistancey.
Next yr i will be championing the search for gerrards replacement, he will be 28 yes but if we can identify a yound lad who looks the part early then we can ease him in along gerrard in yrs to come, therefore maintaing our consitancey and hopefully leading ot our 4th prem title.

H&G are not wrong either. As owner, you have to make sure you have return for your investment. Rafa is not wrong either to say that they needed to learn about the transfer market. The two parties should keep this type of comments private. It does not do well to our beloved club. It only provide ammo to our enemies to fire upon us.

I CANT SEE HOW GILLET AND HICKS ARE RIGHT, WE NEED TO TIE MASCHERANO UP AND WE ALSO NEED DEFENSIVE COVER. IT'S OK THEM SAYING THAT THEY SPENT A RECOLD AMMOUNT ON TRANFERS IN THE SUMMER, BUT IF YOU TAKE AWAY SALES THEY ONLY REALLY INVESTED AROUND 20M WHICH IS VERY AVERAGE IN THE PREMIER THESE DAYS. I CAN UNDERSTAND RAFAS FRUSTRATION, THESE YANKS DONT HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF RUNNING A FOOTBALL CLUB, RICK PARRY SHOULD HAVE A QUITE WORD AND GET RAFA TOM AND GEORGE BACK ON THE SAME WAVELENGH AGAIN, OTHERWISE I WORRY FOR RAFAS
SURVIVAL.

WHY DONT HICKS AND GILLET JUMP ON A PLANE AND SORT THIS MESS OUT ?
ALL THIS BACK STABBING AND AUGUMENT IN PUBLIC IS NOT THE LIVERPOOL WAY. IT IS OBVIOS THAT RAFA NEEDS TO TIE UP THE MASCHERANO TRANSFER AND ANY MANAGER WANTS TO KNOW WHAT FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE SIGNINGS. I CANT SEE WHY HICKS AND GILLET HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS.

hicks and gillett, are to blame for this disgrace. the yanks are so loud, they have not got a clue how to run a football club. they should let rafa run the club, parry should f..k off lets all get behinde rafa, and show the yanks who we surport.

Rouman, why you putting down Parry, you must realise he is a die hard fan, and someone who only got our best interests at heart, he also has experience of managing huge events such as the manchester games and is involved in the new olmpics in london, so is a great asset to our club