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A lack of depth at the full-back position apparently forced Roy Hodgson’s hand today, as the manager agreed to a £2.5m with Aston Villa for full-back Luke Young. Whilst Young isn’t the most known player, Insua’s pending departure to Fiorentina, coupled with Aurelio’s free, leaves the club in a precarious position.

At 31-years-old, Young is no spring chicken; however, he does have the ability to play both full-back positions, as well as giving Liverpool another homegrown player. I’m certain there are a number of supporters out there questioning the move, but at this point there really aren’t a whole lot of other options out on the market.

The waiting game is over for Roy Hodgson. The club and all of Merseyside had been waiting with bated breath for Fernando Torres’ decision to stay or move on next season, and on Tuesday night they received the news: Liverpool’s No.9 will be staying on at the club for the foreseeable future.

Radio 5 broke the news in the past couple of hours that Torres met with Hodgson and confirmed that he will be returning to the club with the intentions of playing next season for the Reds. He expects to return to training on Monday.

Whilst that’s all the information I have at the moment it is a great bit of news, and caps what surely has been a fantastic fortnight for the club. Gerrard and Torres confirming their commitments to the club, as well as the signing of Joe Cole, has things looking up at the moment.

The Spanish Football Federation have confirmed the extent of the injury picked up by Fernando Torres in the World Cup Final.

In 2002, Liverpool Football Club announced their plans to build a new stadium on Stanley Park; however 8 years later we are still nowhere nearer to having that new stadium, and the Official timeline provided by the club makes depressing reading.

Transfer rumours get thrown around day after day during the summer; and the latest one to come out is Joe Cole to Liverpool (according to one bookmaker anyway).

The agent of Fernando Torres has denied today’s reports apparently quoting him saying Torres may be playing for another Premiership side next season.

Stevie Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have today spoke out about the appointment of Roy Hodgson as Liverpool manager, saying he is the right man for the job and how they are looking forward to working with him.

Liverpool confirmed Roy Hodgson as their new Manager today; but what do you think of Rafa’s replacement?

Roy Hodgson has today finally been confirmed as the new manager of Liverpool on a 3 year contract, replacing Rafa Benitez who was forced out of the club.

Rafa hosted his opening press conference with the Italian media earlier today, marking the beginning of his managerial reign with the Serie A giants.

Seriously, how strange is it to see him holding up that kit? I still can’t get over the fact that it’s not ours.