Benteke? Are you serious?

A perfect fit for Rodger's style of play. Not.

I just don't get this.
Apparently, we're about to splash the vast majority of our Sterling windfall on Villa's Christian Benteke.
Not that he's a bad player, because he's a great player. Is he worth the £32.5M required to release him from his current contract? Well, possibly not when you consider the calibre of player that kind of money buys you.
More to the point, how would he benefit the side?
When Rodgers took over at Anfield, the first thing he did was to end the Liverpool career of a very similar player: one Andy Carroll. Both Carroll and Benteke thrive in aerial combat, winning headers, beating-up centre-backs and hitting pile-drivers towards goal. Neither of them fit into Rodgers' system of quick-passing interplay in the final third. So if Andy Carroll was the wrong kind of player for us, how is Benteke the right player?

Sterling Out, Pounds Sterling In

Bye-bye Raheem...

Thankfully, the long-running Raheem Sterling saga is over. On the whole, I'm happy with the outcome.
In fact, it seems to have been a win-win all around: Sterling gets to increase his salary from a miserly £30K/week to £200K/week (I don't know how he made ends meet!), his agent gets well rewarded for what must be the most unprofessional player representation in the history of the club, QPR even get to make a few quid on the deal, and Liverpool gets a hefty chunk of change to splash on some more professional players.