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[adamnbarrett]

RAFA CONFIRMS STELIOS INTEREST
Paul Eaton 24 August 2005 
  Rafael Benitez has this afternoon confirmed his interest in signing Bolton winger Stelios Giannakopoulos. 
The Reds boss is hoping to bring the Greek international to Anfield before next week's transfer deadline as he looks to fill the right midfield berth in his team.
 
Benitez, who is also hoping to recruit a new central defender before the transfer window closes next Wednesday, has revealed he spoke to Bolton boss Sam Allardyce after last night's game at Anfield to see if a deal is possible.
 
He said: "Our chief executive Rick Parry is talking with their Chairman about the possibility of a deal.
 
"I also spoke to Sam Allardyce about the player last night because we need to know if he'd be available. At this moment Stelios is one possibility for us.
 
"We are working hard to strengthen the squad before the deadline."

[red37]

glad about that. if it happens stelios would do a job. 

[mistyred]

We might aswell go and get every £1 pound signing we can from every crappy premiership club just to make up the numbers and save money

Ahh well such is life as European Champions.

[mistyred]

Stelios is good but is he LFC good that is the question

[adamnbarrett]

IMO he is a good squad player but nothing beyond that. He did impress me for bolton last season though. I can only see this being a short transfer as stelios is 30 and I don't see us offering him a 5 year deal.

[Ciggy]

Feck I know we are not Chelsea but FFS talk about bargain basement players, Crouch, stelios, Zenden, wheres all the money gone?
These players would have been brought in whether we won the CL or not, so whats happened to the money, around 30 million pound?

[mistyred]

Feck I know we are not Chelsea but FFS talk about bargain basement players, Crouch, stelios, Zenden, wheres all the money gone?
These players would have been brought in whether we won the CL or not, so whats happened to the money, around 30 million pound?

Unless Rafa suprises us all and brings in some real quality, But wouldn't the Jurno's have picked up on it yet 

[stoney]

Exactly we should have a lot more money to spend due to the champs league win last season, the money the board give for the summer anyway, the sale from baros and a number of other players and also the money from qualigying for the groups which rafa seaid has already been allocated for his transfer plans... and then we hear 1m stelios    Now unless we are signing an established world class centre back which i doubt then something seriously dont add up. However some of the money could be getting saved for january.

[craig da Toxteth iron]

stelios will be a great buy. He will show hunger and determination

[Anfield rapper]

Arhhh! not more ?

[stoney]

Arhhh! not more ?

 

[2520years]

Rafa said he wants hungry players, not ones who've already made their mark.  He had no choice at Valencia, so my only worry is that we'll only achieve the standard they did, which was good for them but not for Liverpool.
At the end of the day, I trust Rafa for now.

[7_Kewell]

in rafa we trust! 

[adamnbarrett]

On SSN before, I can't believe this, bolton have branded us unprofessional for saying we want stelios. They said

"I can't believe a premiership club we have so much respect for announces they want one of our players on a match day, it is totally unprofessional."

They also said that they won't accept a fee unless it is over £2 million.



I say we offer £2 million and a pound

[drummerphil]

It makes you wish even more.....that kewell can finally come back from injury and be the player he was at Leeds.......but  sadly i,m not that optimistic....

strange how he has been picked for Australia next week though