The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[Aghdavoyle]

Ryan Babel's agent claims the Liverpool winger has failed in a bid to engineer a loan move back to Ajax.

Babel moved from the Amsterdammers to Liverpool in July 2007 but has been unable to hold down a regular starting place at Anfield.

He has made 17 appearances in all competitions this season but the majority of those have come off the bench.

According to his agent Winnie Haatrecht, the 21-year-old would relish a temporary return to Holland in January but Liverpool dismissed the possibility out of hand.

"Ryan finds that he sits on the bench too much at Liverpool, he wants to play more and asked me to see if Ajax were interested in a temporary return," Haatrecht told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

"After we got an enthusiastic reaction from Ajax, we asked Liverpool for their co-operation but the club don't want to see him go.

"Rafael Benitez finds Ryan too important. Hopefully we will see that in more playing time.

"Let's be clear: Ryan feels great at Liverpool, but for him to develop further he needs to get playing time."

How much did babel cost?

[Old Bill]

11.5m round half of what they paid for keane. Neither have proved to be worth that money YET.

[gawa316]

team according to RAWK

Cavalieri

Arbeloa
Carragher
Agger
Dossena

Babel
Lucas
Mascherano
Riera

N'gog
Keane


Nice to see Babel gettin a round out on the right. Thought Darby should've started cause Arbeloa had played a lot of footy lately and has a lot coming up

[Chrisowc]

I'm expecting some comedy capers at the back tonight with Dossena and Cavalieri on the pitch.

[charlie stubbs]

match not on itv or rte2.anyone know where you can see it??

[gawa316]

match not on itv or rte2.anyone know where you can see it??

ITV 4

[el_cuervo_fc]

some goal from Riera

[Minder]

Well done Albert

[Minder]

Fair fucks to N'Gog, he looked pretty useless for long parts. Great ball by Keane

[Harold Disgracey]

Well taken Ngog, good pass by Keane.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Not too bad. Top the group and all after Atletico only drawing.

[The Real Laoislad]

Thought Keane had a good 2nd half,If Babel hadn't been so selfish Keane might have got one himself.

[gawa316]

Thought that was a great second half from us. Lucas played really well as did Dossena. we played with ten men until Ngog finally got his act together around the 70 mark. keane had a great second, felt a bit for him when it wasn't going his way. Nice to see the 3 local lads get some CL experience. To be far though PSV were awful apart from a couple of lads up front who looked dangerous at times.

Top of the group though so happy days, hopefully we can avoid Inter. No doubt chelski will get Panathinaikos!

Some goal by Albert

[The Real Laoislad]

That Martin Kelly is some big f**ker...There must be some Irish in him is there?

[gawa316]

That Martin Kelly is some big f**ker...There must be some Irish in him is there?

Not unless Robbie keane is slipping him one He's from Bolton

Anyone know who our list of potential opponents may be?