Reds ages - a promising future?

Remember the days of Kenny Dalglish's management when he left us with a bunch of 30 year olds?

Just look at some of the reds most important players and their ages.  No wonder one of the new owners' first jobs was to get them on long contracts.  If we can get things right with this side we could have a strong nucleus of a side for the next 5 years! Good work Rafa!

Agger (22)
Torres (23)
Alonso (25)
Masch (23)
Sissoko (22)
Reina (25)
Babel (21)

And the old bas**rds (hardly!)

Gerrard (27)
Crouch (26)
Carragher (29)

And Rafa will never stop recruiting young talent.  We are assured for the next 5 - 6 seasons ahead that we will be ok.

Planning for the future is essential!!

Carra is going to be the big one to replace.  But he isn't a player who relies on his pace, and as Hyypia at 33 is still showing he can do a job you would imagine Jamie could have another 5 years in him.

Quitting England in my opinion will only help his LFC career.

Apparently Rafa has asked Stevie if he can buy one of his wife's eggs....

Remember the days of Kenny Dalglish's management when he left us with a bunch of 30 year olds?

Just look at some of the reds most important players and their ages.  No wonder one of the new owners' first jobs was to get them on long contracts.  If we can get things right with this side we could have a strong nucleus of a side for the next 5 years! Good work Rafa!

Agger (22)
Torres (23)
Alonso (25)
Masch (23)
Sissoko (22)
Reina (25)
Babel (21)

And the old bas**rds (hardly!)

Gerrard (27)
Crouch (26)
Carragher (29)

Totally agree with you on this. It could be the start of a remergence of domination of english and European football, we have waited too long in the dark for something to happen like this and after seeing the first couple of performances we have to look forward to even better ones. I am pleased with the fact that Torres has so far seemed to settle after looking a bit uncomftable pre season, this can only lead to better things. This has to be our best squad for years to be honest, and Im really looking forward to watching how things develop, and how Rafa shapes and moulds the clay into something really special.

definately, I cant see any other team that has a squad that strong at those ages. when I look at those names I think of amazing footballers and even better, a bright red future!

oh and noice signiture pragmatic!

It's a really good thought for the future, when you look at how they're handling the pace at the moment!  Happy days! 

They're only going to get better over the next few years, and Carragher has got a while left in him yet! You never know, he might do a Teddy! But stay at the one club!

Rafa's brought in quality, quality youngsters who can play and grow together. Alonso and Mo settled in the prem playing next to Stevie, Agger played alongside Carra and Sami. These players can in turn help the new boys through the adjustment phase...although some look like they've already hit the ground running (referring here to our record signing, one Mr Torres).

It really looks so positive, I can't help but feel that the title will be in our grasp in the not too distant future...

 

Things are looking good now if only we can blood some young english talent to the squad.

Not only have we got a whole bunch of young twenties in the team, but Rafa has bought around 20 youth players from all across the world, and if only a few of them come good then he's done well and we'll have even more reason to be happy.

And with the youth team that has won the Youth Cup two years in a row, we clearly have quality down there. Hopefully a few of those winners will be knocking on the first team squad's door this year.

i hope hammill or anderson will get their chance next season..

that will be great for me!

doesnt always work that way tho does it? years ago whem Fowler macca matteo thompson owen redknapp berger were all young and palying together youd have thought hang on this will be some side theyll win lots but it didnt happen. in saying that we didnt have rafa in charge then so shut up Brian  :

Yeah well, back then we had Houllier, who totally messed up a very promising Liverpool team.

Yeah well, back then we had Houllier, who totally messed up a very promising Liverpool team.

I personally think people are too quick to slate Houllier. Ok he made some very strange decisions towards the end of his tenure, but he dragged the club into the 21st century & improved the club a lot whilst not being able to take us back to the very top. The team that Brian's talking about was under the management of Roy Evans, to be honest I feel we could have won the league with a better manager in place.

yeah i meant the 95-97 period under Roy perhaps should have won a league. tho i wouldnt ever slate roy evans

yeah I meant the 95-97 period under Roy perhaps should have won a league. tho I wouldnt ever slate roy evans

The guy was just too nice for his own good unfortunately, he let the lads get away with murder. If Rafa had been in charge back then I think our number of titles would be a fair bit higher.

People also forget it was Houlllier's team that won us the Champions League, although had GH been managing that year, not Rafa, I don't think we'd have come close the CL title. Just shows you what a good manager brings to the team.

if i'm not mistaken.. the manager when the time we won champs league was rafa benitez.. how come g. houllier was the manager ? ... >.<

if I'm not mistaken.. the manager when the time we won champs league was rafa benitez.. how come g. houllier was the manager ? ... >.<

No-one said he was the manager, Artaylor simply made the point that apart from Alonso & Garcia pretty much all the players that played in that campaign were Houllier's signings.

Yeah well, back then we had Houllier, who totally messed up a very promising Liverpool team.

Sorry dont know how you can say that about GH. After winning that treble people expect more of the same the following season and as we all know football just aint like that. I also cant see how you can go about making hypothetical assumptions like this based on very little evidence and just an anicdote of one line. Although I hate to admit it I happen to agree with a lot of what Eddie is saying with regards to the different types of managers they both were with strenghths and weaknesses. GH for being a more fatherly figure (read Gerrards Book) and Rafa for being the more distant and seeing things as a Red Machine not getting too close to players but letting them know where they stand as a cog in that red machine.

i think the diouf and diao signings were what turned peoples feeling towards Gerard if they had have worked hed be still a fan favourite

Tho reading Gods book kinda turned me off him more then anything else but in saying that I fookin love Fowler

I know it's completely my own fault cos I started the Houllier discussion, but:

 

I hope hammill or Anderson will get their chance next season..

that will be great for me!

I was hoping to see some of the new lads this season but now we have made more signing for the title push I think they now need to concentrate on the reserves.  Anderson is supposed to be sh*t hot along with Hammill and Threlfall.  Maybe Rafa will play them in a cup game who knows?