I think that's the fastest 50 for Liverpool too. Quicker than Kenny and Ian Rush.
Yep, quicker than King Kenny, Owen, Aldridge, God or Rush. Amazing achievment.
Can't see us getting rid of Riera, not if we get rid of Babel. Who would that leave to play down the left, Aurelio? Dossena? No, that would leave us too thin there. Babels been given a good chance and hasn't pushed on from an ok first season. Riera has only been here a season. Give him one more to improve and then ship him if he doesn't. The only possibility would be if we bought to fill that role. Silva could play there but he says he wants to stay at Valencia and even if he moved Real are also interested. Sounds too expensive. Especially if Rafa wants both Tevez and Barry (which it sounds like he does).
Also read this from Rafa:
"The Liverpool manager has also re-iterated he does not want to sell Xabi Alonso, insisting that funds for transfers can instead be raised by offloading Anfield's fringe players and those out on loan.
Benitez has admitted to a ''private'' conversation with Alonso's agent, but said: ''Xabi is not for sale, we want to keep the key players here. The spine of the team.
''We will want to sell other players, maybe those who are out on loan. We do not want to sell key players.''"