half of whom, it must be said, are off-field disasters just waiting to happen.
YES - pennant is
extremely talented, but that ain't enough. not for a club of LFC's size and importance. and he's a complete twit.
YES - ditto kewell. but when do we actually get to see enough of it, week in, week out?
bellamy - see pennant.
gonzales - hmm, he needs at least a season to adjust. and his pedigree reads "one good season at sociedad" - themselves hardly a dominant force
Fowler - see pennant, plus 31, plus never really achieved all he should have, so won't no.
garcia - Ok, but not enough on his own, and doesn't really impose himself on games like liverpool need someone to do there and like, in fact, barnes used to, at his peak (jesus, you lot REALLY specialise in beautifully, romantically unfulfilled talent, don'tcha?

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crouch - sory but HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
The point I am trying to make here is; YOU ARE HAVING A FUCKING LAUGH.
more seriously, the last thing english football needs is a return to ye traditional clumping giant centreforward - and, to me, crouch is a slightly more skilful version of that, with a better training regimen.
to sum up; your one totally solid, superb, world-class, faultless player is gonna have a really, really tough season. and he's gotta captain that bunch of human fireworks as well. g'luck guv'nor, you'll need it.
good defensively, tho', and that's where all great teams start, in their building, and rafa's a canny bloke