Ryan Babel: I can take my game to next level(另加轉會消息)

Ryan Babel celebrates after scoring Liverpool's 4th goal against Marseille _320

RYAN BABEL believes he is ready to take his game “to the next level” – with Rafael Benitez confident Liverpool will see the best of the Dutch forward this season.

Babel returned to Melwood this week after missing the start of the Premier League campaign while appearing for Holland in the Olympic Games.

The 21-year-old scored in the group stages and helped his country to the quarter-finals, where they were beaten by Javier Mascherano’s Argentina last Saturday.

Babel experienced a testing debut campaign at Anfield after arriving from Ajax for £11.5million last summer, rarely playing a full 90 minutes and limited to just 15 league starts.

But with 12 months’ experience of English football now behind him, Babel is eager to make a bigger impact this year.

“This will be my second season at Liverpool, and hopefully I can take my game to the next level,” said the Holland international.

“I’m just focusing now on getting my fitness levels back up to 100%. After that, we will see what players the manager brings in during the transfer market and what my role in the team could be.”

Babel will go straight into the first-team squad for Saturday’s home Premier League game against Middlesbrough.

And Rafael Benitez is expecting more from the player, who netted 10 times in

“We can maybe see the best from Ryan this season,” said the Liverpool manager. “I can see Babel emerging this season, we know his potential. With Babel improving, Daniel Agger coming back, the younger players coming through with the senior players of more experience, we have a good balance.

“Ryan’s a player that can change a game. He can be a second striker or a striker, or as a winger on either side. We can use his versatility. We know Ryan prefers to play as a striker, but it’s important to have experience in other positions, and it’s always better to play as a winger than be on the bench.

“It’s bad news for Holland that they went out but it means we get a player back.

“He has been playing important games so I don’t think there will be any problems with his fitness, but our doctor and fitness coaches will check with him and then we will see about the weekend.

“I am sure he will be okay. If he trains normally then he can be available for

Middlesbrough,” he added.

Meanwhile, Martin O’Neill believes Gareth Barry’s future is “not completely resolved” despite Liverpool cooling their interest in the Aston Villa midfielder. The Anfield hierarchy’s refusal to meet Villa’s £18m asking price has forced Benitez to look elsewhere to reinforce his team’s left flank.

But Villa manager O’Neill intimated yesterday that Barry may still yet end up departing the Midlands club.

“We want him to stay I think that’s obvious,” O’Neill said. “I think the fans want him to stay and for the length of time it has gone on it is hard to pre-empt anything. At this minute it’s not completely resolved.”

Benitez remains keen on bringing in another player before the transfer window shuts.

However, a move for Stewart Downing seems unlikely given Boro’s reluctance to sell so near the deadline while Espanyol are asking £16m for Albert Riera, a player Liverpool value at nearer £9m. Reports in France have claimed Benitez is again keeping tabs on Grenoble’s highly-rated 19-year-old midfielder Sofiane Feghouli.

歡迎巴布番黎
不過我覺得佢對米堡未必正選
我關心既問題係人齊後到底係踢4-4-2定4-3-3...

另外巴利雖然未正式宣布留隊
但似乎有7成機會都買唔到了

而米堡亦無意放唐寧
愛斯賓奴就要高價放利亞拿
最後rafa想買個法國新仔Sofiane Feghouli...

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