Sacked mid season ? Must been at odds with the board or something. Didn't we just promoted Borrell just recently ?

Liverpool star can join Real Madrid for €47m

Liverpool forward Luis Suarez can join La Liga giants Real Madrid for €47m

Real Madrid can have Liverpool striker Luis Suarez for €47 million, according to Marca.

The Spanish press had previously revealed that the Uruguayan striker would be made available to the Bernabeu outfit and now they have suggested that Madrid can have the controversial forward for €47m.

The Liverpool ace was the subject of interest from Arsenal and Real last summer and Marca believe that the striker only didn't move to Spain because Mesut Ozil's move to the Gunners didn't go through until the very final day of the transfer window.


Suarez has been in sensational form for the Reds so far this season, having already notched up eight Premier League goals.

Liverpool have been rewarded for their striker's form as Brendan Rodgers' side currently sit second in the table.

However with Madrid looking to split up the partnership of Suarez and Daniel Sturridge, Real boss Carlo Ancelotti could have the dream trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Suarez in attack.

Rodgers took the unprecedented step of addressing the speculation as he felt it was becoming unfair on the teenager.

"I never normally say anything about players but I do really feel for this young guy," said the Reds boss.

"It is something which has been ongoing and I don't normally comment on speculation but (I will) because I have the interest of the player at heart.

"This is a kid who if he picks up the paper every weekend he is linked with coming to Liverpool.

"This is a very talented young player that either a person or a group of people aren't doing him any favours whatsoever by constantly linking him with coming to Liverpool.

"I read we had put in a bid or something had been agreed and there is nothing further from the truth. There is no bid, there has been nothing.

"This is a young kid learning the game, he is at an outstanding club at Derby, he has a great manager there and we sent one of our young players (Andre Wisdom) there to develop and learn.

"I think Will Hughes is a wonderful young talent who just needs to play football and for me he is probably at the best place he could be.

"We are always looking for talent - young players, senior players, and he along with many other players is probably one we've looked at."

Liverpool have declined to comment on the situation at their academy, although it is understood McParland, previously the club's chief scout, and Borrell, a former coach at Barcelona's La Masia academy, have been sacked.

Both were remnants of the Rafael Benitez era, having been appointed to the academy in 2009, and were perceived to be doing a good job.

Last season no fewer than seven youngsters - Suso, Wisdom, Adam Morgan, Samed Yesil, Jerome Sinclair, Conor Coady and Jordon Ibe - made their first team debuts.

This season the likes of Wisdom, Coady, Suso and another former academy graduate Jack Robinson have all been sent out on loan to gain more experience.

Rodgers did not expand on what was happening at the academy but did say he had kept a close eye on things a few miles up the road from the first team's Melwood training base.

"I've been heavily involved within the academy," he said.

"My first look is always within, whether it's for players or staff.

"The biggest thing I can give people is an opportunity and then it is a case of taking that opportunity and giving young players hope.

"A lot of my life was spent in youth development, I was an academy director at Reading so I understand all facets of development.

"It is something which is very important to us and it is something we will never change and I will always look for.

"It is very difficult for young players now but they will always get a chance and opportunity here if they are professional and have shown that quality.

"If it is not at that early stage - we had players (last season) at 17 playing in the team which is really unprecedented in the Premier League but there will be a pathway here for all the players.

"If they breakthrough early and can't sustain that can be natural and they may need a loan period.

"As long as they are ready by 20, 21 then that is what the academy is all about - a place to learn and develop and ultimately get through into the first team.

"It is why we have invested so much in it, why we put so much work into it, in order to get the players through."

Meanwhile, Rodgers' preparations for this weekend's Merseyside derby have suffered a blow after defender Jose Enrique was ruled out with a long-term knee injury which is likely to require surgery.

The Spaniard has been struggling with the problem for some time and has featured just twice in the Reds' last five matches, with one of those appearances a 30-minute substitute appearance.

"Jose Enrique has been struggling for a little while with an injury," Rodgers told talkSPORT.

"He will probably need an operation. It's a blow for us because he's a very talented player."

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Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is a doubt for Saturday’s derby with Everton because of a dead leg.

Rodgers said: “He went to England with an injury. He’s had a dead leg for three to four weeks, and he’s been playing through with it. He hardly trained when he left after the Fulham game.

“But sometimes managers are led by players as well. You as a manager can only ask the player how they feel.  If they say they’re happy, they want to play – and want to play 90 minutes – then that’s something you’ll consider.

“Roy’s obviously spoken with Daniel and he’s played the game. We’ll assess him. He’s obviously back recovering after that, and we’ll see how it is over the next couple of days.”

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"Spaniard Borrell in particular being very highly-rated and having only been promoted to his role of academy technical director earlier this year."


If it's the Yankees thinking that those 2 are not good enough, they would have been sacked earlier on. Why now? 

Beer sessions went wrong maybe. That's why you should never get drunk when your boss is around

Sacked mid season ? Must been at odds with the board or something. Didn't we just promoted Borrell just recently ?

Sawadeekap! Just got back from Bangkok, the city that never sleeps. Met a chick who after seeing my LFC tattoo was overcome by joy. Lot of Liverpool fans there. I'm going back next month. I've decided to find a Thai wife 

Merseyside derby. Our 1st pick, Roberto Martinez vs. Brendan Rodgers. No Sturridge? #gutted.

i have my theory, i believe i have mentioned this before in the past.

markblurberry is quite right. the end of any ties to RB.

Probably true in regards being american, its about "results". Hope we become or improve a level up. (if FSG believes it may be the way), though i hope it won't be another 'Roy Woy episode/situation' at the academy before it get (any) better.
jeeezz

would you sell suarez for €47m?
http://sulia.com/lfc_proudnews/f/2a058b17-...9-001121d9d685/

I read somewhere on the net, mcparland and borrell were caught negotiating with man citeh.

It could be man citeh director of football, Txiki Begiristain who lure Borrell to come and work with him again..just like the old time at Barca.

But Mc Parland...i belip his blood is Liverpool Red through and through...

and when the management found out this, so they sacked them.

dont know if true or not...such a story huh.
feel happy for you, but just be careful to check her through and through ya 

I'll do a ball check first though with the technological advances in surgery these days, I might need to get her to do an x-ray.

Baffled over the sacking of the two but there's no point in speculating now. Official word should be released days from now. Considering the number of young players we've had feature in the first team recently, I'm amazed that they've been asked to leave. When was the last time we saw this many academy graduates in the first team? Not since I've followed the club, that's for sure.

Dont worry. Surgery is so advance now that everything can be change, even internally. If he(she) is as hot as Nong Poy. I wouldn't mind too.
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I'm still puzzled why we sacked them both midway through the season. Whatever they did, we need an official statement from the club.

Losing Enrique and with Sturridge doubtful for the derby, I just hope we can still nick it from Goodison. I would put out Glen on the left and Kelly on the right. Cissokho wouldn't even make the bench in Everton's team now.

I agree with your choice of fullbacks. Kelly is a competent defender, arguably a better one than Johnson and he'll have Pienaar in his back pocket. Worried about the double threat from Lukaku and Mirallas. Our choice of centrebacks will be key here. I fancy Dagger back in the squad. He used to play really well against Drogba. I reckon Skrtel will definitely get the nod as well.

It's going to be a close one this.

Having played alongside both prolific forwards, Daniel Sturridge is in a unique position to draw a comparison between Reds talisman Luis Suarez and his predecessor, Fernando Torres.

Liverpool's No.15 shared a dressing room with the latter - who fired 81 goals in 142 appearances here - for two years at Chelsea before completing a switch to Anfield in January 2013.

Sturridge has worked at close quarters with another of the world's finest strikers ever since, forming a lethal partnership with Uruguay international Suarez during the opening months of the season.

The question is: how would the Englishman, who has already found the target 10 times himself in 2013-14, compare his current teammate with former Kop idol Torres?

He told FourFourTwo: "I don't feel there is that much difference between them as they are world-class footballers, although obviously they have contrasting styles.

"Torres is more of an out-and-out goalscorer and Luis is a bit more like me, where he can play through the middle but drop off and have a dribble at different times.

"They have both scored goals for fun in the Premier League and Torres was frightening at Liverpool.

"They are great finishers in their own right but I didn't play in a front two with Torres, so it's difficult for me to make an accurate comparison.

"I love playing with Luis and we link up so well together, but I was out on the wing a lot when I was in the same team as Nando.

"It's worked out better for me at Liverpool and it's really clicked with Luis. I feel privileged to have shared a pitch with each of them."