Fri 18th Dec 2009 Liverpool News, Rumours and Rants (The Daily Antoine)

I am getting tired of writing the long title every day so I will be changing the name of this daily column to “The Daily Antoine” :-)

The Europa Cup draw is today (at 12PM UK Time), we will Tweet as soon as we know, unfortunately we did not make the seed more…
(That late goal against Fiorentina cost us the seed so we now can face  teams like Benfica, Juventus, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Valencia, Marseille, Roma or Wolfsburg)

Masch claims that Torres can fire us up the table more…
(Could not agree more)

Carra will make his 600th LFC appearance tomorrow more…
(Congrats Jamie, I am sure we can see another 100+ games from you)

And Rafa gives a glowing tribute to Jamie more…
(YNWA Jamie, you are a Liverpool Legend)

Not sure Capello is going to give Jamie a tribute though more…
(Carra snubbed him after the Italian asked him to come out of international retirement, YNWA Jamie great decision)

Rafa claiming that his system works more…
(It worked last year and the years prior to that)

And Bloomberg claims that Rafa must sell before he can buy more…
(Yep we knew that)

And more about our financial woes as H&G seek an investor more…
(The debt might deter investors)

Hicks & Gillett’s new year resolution revealed more…
(How many resolutions are broken? Do you think they would really start in the new year)

And if the stadium is not built by 2018 then H&G will resort to plan B more…
(£15m to redevelop Anfield!!! What can you do with £15m? I do not think you can even buy a JumboTron for that price)

Lucas expecting though game tomorrow more…
(Yep, not going to be easy but we can do it. Come on Reds.)

And finally if you missed it yesterday but EOTK writer Amanda Musch recently interviewed Sami Hyppia here it is…