The Daily Antoine: 3rd July 2011 – Liverpool F.C. News update

The call for a Daily Mail boycott grows as the scum bag joins them more…
(I can’t believe the Daily Mail would do that after they had Kenny writing for them)

Kenny hails Gerrard’s fantastic progress more…
(EXCELLENT)

The King cools down transfer worries more…
(YNWA)

Luis Suarez will be ready for the EPL season despite Copa America more…
(YNWA)

Charlie Adam gets closer to Anfield more…
(YNWA)

3 LFC players got new contracts more…
(YNWA)

According to reports from Italy the deal for Doni is still on more…
(I had a feeling this wasn’t over)

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EOTKPodcast – June Update (Free on Itunes!)

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We both hope you’re all enjoying the summer ‘sunshine’ and we thought we’d update you with a short reflection of June’s events. We discuss the transfer policy, suggested targets and the return of Alberto Aquilani.

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Don’t we deserve better?

This morning I woke up to read an article on LFC.TV taking a shot at the fact that the various journalists, ‘in-the-knows’, fans and twitterati in general have linked LFC to 66 different players in the last one month.

Being a sucker for gossip and twitter, I would have to admit that I’ve read most of the links and have been excited by most. I have also been disappointed when links like Young, Jones and Wickham didn’t come to fruition.

What the Wickham story and the aforesaid article made me realize was how we fans have this insatiable desire for information and how most of the papers/journalists (specially) tend to take that for granted; rather abuse it. Tweet something about a Liverpool link and see your follower count go up by thousands. Or, post that as a news piece on your paper/ website and bask in the glory of web-clicks and impressions. Fans invest thousands of minutes going thru these ‘stories’ and feel humiliated in the end.

That we, as fans (most of us), have fallen for these underlines the role that the club has to play in times like these. It was good on John Henry’s part that he took the time out to explain the transfer policy, to indicate that some links really don’t make sense, and to reassure us. It is all well and good that the Liverpool way is to do business behind closed doors but what we would appreciate is for us fans to be kept informed to a certain extent (note: a very very minor extent would be enough).

I find the ’66 links’ report slightly offensive. It is basically that the club is telling us: “Look guys, we would keep mum and see how the journos and the ITKs fooled y’all? Wayne Bridge??” The club should understand that we are the most important players in their system and if there are external sources taking us for a ride, the club should step in and help us avoid some of the delirium.

YNWA!

@kaushal__

The Daily Antoine: 2nd July 2011 – Liverpool F.C. News update

We have a new author on EOTK, welcome aboard Michael, his first posting can be found here

I met John Flanagan last night, he is a great young lad. Was a bit shy but overwhelmed by the LFC fans here in Malta.

King Kenny becomes a doctor more…
(YNWA)

The New York Times have sold some of their stake in FSG more…
(Wonder who the buyer is)

Carra backs Henderson’s signing more…
(YNWA)

Defour is being linked again more…
(Humm)

And so is Niang more…
(Humm Humm)

Suarez admits that it would be a dream to play for Barca more…
(Don’t worry Luis under Kenny we will become better than Barca)

Luis also claims that Torres convinced him to join LFC more…
(And then he left!!!!!)

Luis Garcia has joined Puebla more…
(Good luck, YNWA)

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The Daily Antoine: 1st July 2011 – Liverpool F.C. News update

Kelvin MacKenzie has joined the Mail more…
(One more reason to hate the Daily Mail)

Andy Carroll has returned back to training already more…
(YNWA)

Alberto Aquilani is looking forward to returning to Liverpool after his loan spell at Juve more…
(Not sure how I feel about this)

Ian Ayre talks about the stadium delay more…
(Let’s get it done)

Morgan & Sterling both scored for England’s U17 as they beat Argentina 4-2 more…
(YNWA)

Villas-Boas expects LFC to challenge for the title more…
(Yes we will)

The club has confirmed the departure of Sammy Lee more…
(Good luck Sammy)

Paul Clement is expected to replace Sammy Lee more…
(I would have thought that Clarke was get promoted and a former player (like Sami) will take the role of coach)

According to a report failure to sell our dead wood prevented us from buying Wickham more…
(I don’t buy it)

According to the Star Peter Gulacsi has joined Hull on loan more…
(We need  a backup keeper urgently)

And according to the Daily Mirror we are after Chivu more…
(LOL, this is after John W Henry said that we will not buy veterans)

And finally Lucas & Suarez will not be rushed back following the Copa America more…
(Hopefully they will be available for the start of the EPL)

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