Monthly Archives: July 2012

Joe’s video diary (YouTube)

July 31

Joe on returning to Melwood and reflections of the North America tour…

Joe talks Roma, meeting James Bond and Fabio Borini…

July 23

Joe talks about a players’ night out and the presents he’ll be bringing home from the tour…

July 20

Joe explains why he and Lucas were screaming like babies on Friday…

July 18

Joe talks about Raheem Sterling’s talent, Jonjo Shelvey the ‘ringleader’ and how the Cockney team fared in training against Latinos, Scousers and the Rest of the World…

July 16

Find out which player watched Toy Story on the plane to the US in Joe’s first update…

Click back on this page soon for more updates.

Rodgers’ transfer update

Brendan Rodgers insists there is a lot of hard work going on behind the scenes to enable the manager to strengthen his squad ahead of the 2012-13 season.

Liverpool have been linked with a number of players during pre-season and, while keeping his targets close to his chest, the manager is confident he will get the players he desires.

Rodgers told Liverpoolfc.com: “There’s a lot of great work going on, obviously with the board and Ian Ayre in particular doing a lot of work behind the scenes. I’ve got regular contact going with our American owners and, in particular, Mike Gordon from Fenway Sports Group.

“Obviously when it’s a club like Liverpool prices are always increased and so on, but I always felt it was important by the beginning of the season we could have the squad we want – and certainly by the end of the transfer window I would hope that will be the case.

“There is lots of speculation. I’ve seen hundreds of names linked with Liverpool and there’s very few of them that were even close to coming here or we have even looked at.

“Unfortunately for the supporters they’ve got to read it and put up with it. But the message is there is a lot of work going on, on a number of deals and hopefully we can get those completed by the end of August.”

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Jonjo’s diary: Back at Melwood

July 31

Jonjo delivers his final tour diary and reflects on the trip to North America…

July 26

Jonjo reflects on the experience of playing at Fenway Park, coming up against Roma legend Francesco Totti and looks forward to facing Tottenham in Baltimore…

July 24

Jonjo talks about his pride at Adam Morgan’s Toronto strike, explains why Jon Flanagan turns the air blue when playing golf, and why he’s looking forward to linking up with Fabio Borini…

July 20

Jonjo compares the CN tower to a Liverpool landmark and talks about the reception the players got at the Rogers Centre during training…

July 17

Jonjo talks about tanning, jet lag, Nathan Eccleston’s training hat-trick and loads more in his second tour diary entry.

July 16

In his first diary entry of the North America tour, Jonjo Shelvey explains who did his packing, why he’s Sky plussing Geordie Shore while he’s away and why he has decided to rejoin Twitter.

Stay logged on to lfctour.com for more updates from Jonjo.