Robbie keen on Reds
Tuesday, 29 July 08, 07:43 PM
He's always been a red but now it's official. Rafa's signed a premiership star who's going to drive us crazy with his goals and passes. He wants the premiership. As Captain Picard would say, "make it so". 
Love at first sight. The BBC website has a video of his press conference. The money quote from Robbie's unveiling: "My whole family are Liverpool fans. I remember every Christmas asking for
jerseys and tracksuits – it's great now that I get the tracksuits for free!" Good to see he's remaining true to his roots, although, there's no accounting for taste. Chris De Burgh? Jaysus.
Check out some of Keane's goals here, here, here and here.
Here's what Lawro said about Torres last summer. Now he seems unimpressed wiht the Keane signing. Hopefully he'll be equally wrong this time around. Personally I'm very excited about the signing. I think his record shows us that he almost guarantees you around 15 league goals per season. It's interesting to note that he gets as many goals away as at home. I think he'll be another match winner to add to Torres, Gerrard and hopefully Babel if he continues to improve. This added goals and attacking threat should help us to win matches we drew last year.
I listened to some of the Hertha Berlin 0-0 draw on the e-season ticket. The only real incident of note seems to be the Voronin penalty miss. You can read the Liverpool Echo report here.
Rafa continues to hoover up Spanish teens like there's no tomorrow. The latest addition is Emmanuel Mendy, an 18 year old right/left back who'll go straight in the reserves.
Here's a good Rawk article on our defence. He thinks it'll be Agger and Skrtel and I'm inclined to agree, but I'm sure Carra will get his fair share of games. He's still the best organiser and leader in the defense.
The Ngog deal was completed for £1.5m as he only had a season left on his contract. Rafa says that he'll make a contribution to the first team. I expect him to get games in the Babel and Kuyt positions last season.
The Guardian have reprinted an old interview with Bill Shankly. Fantastic stuff.
The official site had an interview with Rafa's chief scout, Eduardo Macia. Keep up the good work.
Olympiakos officials laud Liverpool loanee Leto land, as a cheap tabloid might say. So Seb is Athens bound for the year. It seems that passport problems are limiting his chances with us for now. I hope he gets some experience in Greece. He's a hard one to figure out. He clearly has talent but the end product is missing at the moment.
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1 Comments
So finally we've made a signing that could actually make a difference this season. Not that others like Degen and Dossena aren't important, but they may not feature in the line-up as regularly as Keane.
Now that we have two strikers in the team, I wonder what Rafa's preferred formation will be. Maybe 4-1-3-2 with Masch, Gerrard, Kuyt and Babel forming the midfield. What do you think?