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The last south african to play fro liverpool was sean dundee, he is voted as the worst player ever in the history of liverpool lol

Id rather shop somewhere else:)

Ones that have done alright overseas are Lucas radebe, benni mccarthy,pienaar and mokoena.
I dont expect any South africans to play for Liverpool again anytime soon.

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks appears to have made a u-turn in his quest to sell his Texas Rangers MLB franchise.

Hicks has been trying to sell the franchise since he was forced to dissolve the Hicks Sports Marketing Group at the beginning of July but a buyer for the US$600 million-valued majority stake in the baseball team has been unforthcoming.

Hicks' financial woes were such that Major League Baseball is reported to have made US$15 million available to the Rangers to help pay operating costs, including player wages.

Speaking on Sunday after attending a Rangers win over Boston game, however, Hicks now seems determine to hold on to the vastly improving team.

There is a way [to keep the team], and I’m working on that," Hicks said. "So we’ll see."

Indeed, Hicks dismissed out of hand the notion that his financial situation was such that he had to sell immediately. Let’s not talk about that. We’re not going to talk about that," Hicks said. "I’ve always said I hoped to stay involved in a significant way with the Rangers because I want to be here to watch this plan finally happen."

Allow me to be positive for a second. What if the Yanks have found a buyer for the club and therefore haven't put any of their own money into the transfer kitty and have taken the profits from player sales. Obviously they wouldn't invest money into the club if they were about to leave!
Thats' my belief and I'm sticking with it, so don't try and change my mind because you won't be able to...........I think.

If there is any truth in this then Benitez will make a massive fuss in his next press conference. If he stays quiet then we will know it is probably [oops].

but when RAFA signed the kne contract there were clauses in there that prevent him from going public about internal issues.

I have been listening to the stories of the yanks selling out for far too long now, i will believe it when i see it.

Just imagine what these guys could do for our club:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2IXgUebt...PL&index=15

Not saying i want to be a new man city beacause i don't, and we never would be either. The big difference would for example be that this summer we would have bought Silva and Villa without a problem. Or anyone else that Rafa thinks we need....

For f*cks sake yanks, do the right thing and sell!

And do you not think there were probably some kind of promises regarding transfer budgets in those contract discussions too?

im not sure if the promises for transfer funds were made specifically, think of it from the businesmans point of view.

Instead of commiting to a figure in a contract " We will gie you 20m to spend annually"

the shrewed guy will stipulate " we will support the manager with funds that are available based on the profits and future expenditure forecasts"

Contracts can be very manipulative a the fine print needs to be read carefully.

Considering that transfer funds (quite rightly BTW) were something of an obsession of Benitez then he and his agent and advisors would or should have picked any term like that to pieces.