Ronald Leonard Egesa

Just the past few days there has been a lot of talk around town about the hair-raising transfers of Christiano Ronaldo (GBP 80M) and Kaka (~GBP 56M) to the spanish capital to ply their trade at the santiago-bernabeu -home of Real Madrid. Based on records and results, Ronaldo stands out as United’s greatest player of all time and no one can argue about it. Man Utd will have to contend with the fact that CR9 is gone and Sir Alex Ferguson will have to try and nurture a new ‘kid’ to replace Ronaldo.

In addition to losing Ronaldo, the guys from Old Trafford will also go to the new season without the services of Argentine goodboy Carlos Tevez. This ofcourse may turn out to be bad news to all United supporters around the globe and it also goes down as good news to us -the Liverpool fans. It is common knowledge that the season of 2008-9 was our best season since the last title in 1990. We pushed the title to the penultimate weekend and in the same season we had a double over Man Utd and Chelsea. That was not all, we defeated United by 4-1 at the theatre of Dreams!

The heart of our team has remained intact - The same players that scored the highest number of goals in England are still at Anfield as I write now. The likes of Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Yossi Benayoun, Dirk Kuyt, Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano, Albert Riera, Pepe Reina are all around and they are going to go for a “win and conquer” season. Last season was so painful to these players as they saw the title slip into United’s hands and they wished they had done better against the weaker teams at Anfield.

Apart from the players staying around and carrying their painful experience forward, there is still one Rafa and he is currently at Anfield- the same place he was last season. There will be a few brilliant names showing up on the teamsheets at Anfield . We should prepare to see people like Glenn Johnson, Jay Spearing (from the academy) and Stephen Darby (also from the academy at Melwood).

Will all this in mind and looking at the changes that have been taking place at Chelsea and Man Utd, If I were to put money for who will walk with the Premier League in 2009-10, my money would go on Liverpool. This is not because am a Liverpool fan, but it is naked reality.

Tags: Egesa, Kuyt, liverpool, Reina, Steven Gerrard, Torres

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