Liverpool's New Signing of the Summer::Glen Johnson

Pay £ 17m for a right back? If you are currently spending 20 million pounds? At least Rafael Benítez has not disguised the fact Liverpool paying a premium for Glen Johnson to Portsmouth. "Sometimes you have to spend a little more," the Liverpool manager, said today as he waited for the England international to £ 80,000 per week, four-year contract-signing, and reduce frustration and to transfer the Anfield over the next days. Liverpool do not spend a little more. You will spend 7 million pounds more than they were recorded in January. However, it should not affect the total amount, which is an important conclusion for Benítez Johnson is in many ways.

Es sind Ereignisse rund um Liverpool, und nicht im Inneren, die ein Gefühl der Angst um das Geschäft an der Anfield Road in diesem Sommer gefördert haben. May change and, without prejudice, with Javier Mascherano in Barcelona to lift her skirt, while the search for a pay rise of Liverpool, Xabi Alonso and a serious purpose for Real Madrid. But now Benítez is exactly where he intends to be in the transfer market. Liverpool, as manager, said in the last months of last season, well only if a substantial part of the agreement this summer. Johnson, despite the costs met this requirement perfectly, we propose an affair with a finished product that was missing since the Reds defenders Markus Babbel, has been affected by the disease.

Financially Johnson is not the hit drama over the budget Benítez, it seems. Liverpool still had 7 million pounds of Peter Crouch to Fratton Park last year, money that now will travel to the transfer of Johnson written off, and the Spaniard is just, the poor, this summer. Even if he resists the advances of the Spanish giants for Mascherano and Alonso, Benitez could still spend approximately 30 million pounds to more aggressive targets if, as expected, he blows his finances with the remaining sales Alvaro Arbeloa, Andrea Dossena Andriy Voronin and Sebastian Leto .

It is rendered if the wealth of Chelsea and Manchester City, two clubs that the extension will require more than Liverpool, Benítez will struggle to be competitive and Gareth Barry Eastlands step would be a loss of more than Alonso represent the push for a transfer Madrid. With the rejection of a return to Chelsea and not entertaining the city to move when he wants the Champions League, Johnson has the Liverpool manager and his team early confidence vote. Neglect of all, it also adds another record in the English language by a team to meet the difficulties for the ratio of UEFA for "locally trained" or "association-trained" players a problem that Benitez could not afford to be.

"We are not in the first four of the Premier League can compete, if you spend money," said the Liverpool manager. "We were for a quality player and also someone who is Colombia because of the new rules of the Champions League. Glen Johnson fits both categories.

Aquilani promises Liverpool he will be worth the wait

Alberto Aquilani, the proposals on which it is a pity, themes and promised to Liverpool, it proves the value of money but probably one of the first two months of the season, sitting in the sidelines.

With around £ 20m Roma, Aquilani Rafael Benítez is the most expensive since the signing of Liverpool guaranteed runners-up place in the Premier League until the end of last season. But one fourth of the season could be in front of the Italian competition for the strengthening of a midfield player Xabi Alonso weakened by the issue of Real Madrid, is calling the spread ankle problem, which by him for the last five months, and the arch over the Copy

Aquilani is convalescent after an operation on his right ankle in May, on his time after the Roma mitigated by an injury problem. He played only 73 games in three years and his last appearance came as a substitute, 11 March, against Arsenal in the Champions League.

Aquilani, 25 years old, he would have been in the queue on Sunday Tottenham fixture on television was not errors, by the doctors of Rome. "Originally the problem was that my ankle has been neglected," said Aquilani, who was forced to embark on a thorough medical before signing for Liverpool. "We thought it a simple injury and I to play. Then I had to stop because he has not felt good.

"There was a problem with the Roma camps in medical devices that doctors no longer change, I have never been maintained by the same person. Perhaps it is at this time I began to have problems."

Aquilani believes he is wrongly attributed to the reputation, to hurt subjects. He admits that his problems were, but no more than any other player. "The injuries are part of the work of a football player," said Aquilani, which has worked with the former Roma-Liverpool player John Arne Riise before the transition to Anfield.

"Liverpool was, I had some injuries, but they recognize that they are not serious," he said. "It's a shame that I did not play. But I work very hard on this to problems in the future."

Benítez rubbished suggestions the arrival Aquilani is a result of the use of the player's injury record. Liverpool must travel to the other end of the East Lancashire Road, to the risks associated with the issue of sums of money on a player with a history of injuries.

Owen Hargreaves' career at Manchester United, has been hit hard by a tendon inflammation since midfield player in England, £ 20.2 from Bayern Munich two years ago. But Benítez Aquilani has no doubts about his talent and sees in him a greater threat, Alonso, and a greater physical presence.

The Liverpool manager also believes the recent signing of the unfortunate situation. "Perhaps it may help Alberto, that he has not thrown in the right," said Benítez. "It is never easy, in a new club in a new country, so that if he should play, it would be difficult for him and the people begin to speak, not be ready.

"We were playing Oldham in a friendly atmosphere on Wednesday and he looked at me with. We have before the season, the role of actors and he knows now. Not everything in it also an opportunity to improve their English, and make it easier."

Aquilani is hoping that it is not compared to Alonso. "It was a very important player in this club. But I'm not his deputy, of course, that I did not have the same properties as it," he said. "I have a different style that I love to move and not on the same place to stay. "

Italy said that he had opposed alongside Steven Gerrard after his new team, marking the strongest midfield players in the world. " Yet Gerrard is in his own personal fitness race at the head of the team on Sunday.

The captain of Liverpool has an intensive treatment since the retreat of the team for England friendly on Wednesday in the Netherlands due to an injury in the groin area. "How is our game on Sunday, then Steven has a chance," said Benítez. "If it's on Saturday, it will be difficult."

Real Madrid hold Alonso talks with Liverpool

Liverpool have conversations with the CEO of Real Madrid on Xabi Alonso proposal Spanish League giants.

Jose Angel Sanchez met the Christian Purslow Reds CEO, this morning in Barcelona at the Hotel Juan Carlos I in front of the Anfield club from the pre-season friendly with the RCD Espanyol tonight.

Talks had Alonso arrived in the Catalan capital with the rest of the team, but he has refused to talk about where his future is as' serves only to exacerbate the situation. "

Spanish football journalist Guillem Balaguer, with the history in England and his country believes that is now a matter of time, as if Alonso Anfield for the Bernabeu.

"It seems like its set for him to go. It has to look pretty obvious now that the player would be happy to go," he said.

"Also the fact that Rafa Benitez has accepted that [Alonso is leaving], that's the case so it's just a matter of everybody reaching an agreement."

Liverpool are set to play Espanyol to officially open the Spanish club's new stadium. Kick-off time at the Estadi Cornella-El Prat is 8:00pm BST.