Very, very good bit of business for Liverpool - especially on a free transfer. Should give the whole club a lift and if they're able to offload a few more of the flops like Riera and Lucas and bring in a couple of shrewd buys with the limited money available, things might not be too bad for them next year.

I'd be interested also to see how Aquilani and Babel get on under Hodgson next season.

Lose Benayoun and get Cole?

Not a bad bit of business from Liverpool really. In essence it's Joe Cole and 5 Million quid for Yossi Benayoun

Is Cole really going to be on £90k a week?

Id rather have Benayoun myself. Never let liverpool down when called upon.

Joe cole is so overated its unreal

He wanted more out of Chelsea I think.

I don't have any opinion on Benayoun to Chelsea. I simply haven't seen enough of him to make a judgement and I'll wait until he puts on a CFC shirt before worrying if it's a good buy for us.

But I am absolutely delighted that Joe Cole has left Chelsea. I am absolutely delighted that he's gone to Liverpool. If Joe Cole performs at last seasons level, and the level of the World Cup, then Liverpool have just bought an absolute dog and the money they're spending on his wages is money down the drain. But even if Hodgson is a good manager for him and he performs at a good level, he still isn't good enough to propel Liverpool back up the league.

The talk was that he was on £80k and wanted parity with John Terry and Frank Lampard.

On going to Liverpool he was said to be asking for Gerrard money.

£90k doesn't sound unreasonable. Especially when Man Utd, Arsenal and Tottenham were all sniffing around and saying they wanted him. I think it's just his outrageous demands which made Chelsea wave goodbye and all the other sides to to pull out when they couldn't make him see reason.

Been having a good chuckle at both the SSN emails and friends facebook updates about Cole going to Liverpool. Picking him up on a free is not a bad piece of business but he's hardly going to turn them round is he? Chelsea got shot of him and he couldn't get into a struggling England starting XI then flattered to decieve in the brief appearances he made. Liverpool fans seem to be seeing him as a saviour which is nearly as laughable as those who saw him as the saviour of the England side this summer.

Yep.

You need the ball to win matches, Cole loses it so much it is untrue, I've never seen a player who tries to pass the ball through an opponent so much, it's as if he thinks that by kicking the ball it will go through the defender and not just hit him.

I think Benayoun is an underrated player, Cole is over-hyped because he is English, about 5 or 6 years ago I thought he'd make a great player, but he's not improved since.

How much football did he get last season though? for the most part it was off the bench, wasn't it. plus he made one or two appearances at the World Cup, can't really judge that form. Everyone from England was . Joe Cole is a very good footballer, I don't think that can be denied. I hope he doesn't but I think he has every chance of proving you completely wrong.



I'd take the £5 million and Joe Cole tbh, I was surprised how good Benayoun turned out at Liverpool but it's not hard to pick up his type of player, he has nothing special to his game, he's am average footballer the PL is full of them. From a Liverpool point of view it has to be worth taking the risk on Cole, if he stays fit he could be an excellent addition for them.