Liverpool's Breakthrough

After the signing of Charlie Adam, my friend James Malvern urged me to do something on Liverpool. Here goes. Liverpool have had it tough as a number of poor results left them at 17th place last season with January's transfer market fast approaching - but they turned it around by signing Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez. This brought them up to 6th place. Caretaker manager Kenny Dalglish was then appointed permanent manager for good. With new, rich American owners they are allowed to 'spend big'. They then signed Sunderland's former wonderkid Jordan Henderson and also Blackpool's key man Charlie Adam. The combination of Dalglish and the big bucks make the Reds a force to be reckoned with next season.

The Chase for Nasri

Samir Nasri has amazingly attracted the top two clubs in the Premier League, Chelsea and Manchester United. As I am a Chelsea supporter, I won't dwell on Man U, but I will talk about Chelsea hopefully getting Samir Nasri. I can imagine Chelsea wiping the floor with a stunning bid (well, not too expensive...) that the Red Devils can't match. Just imagine next season's midfielders. Neymar on the left wing, Nasri and Lampard attacking in midfield with Ramires on the right. That would be so good they might even win the champion league - a wild prediction, but anything can happen in football.

Turning now to tennis, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal battled on Centre Court for the £1.1 million prize that goes with the Wimbledon trophy. Djokovic eventually won by 3 sets to 1. For now Novak Djokovic will be thought of as the indisputable world number one, whatever the statistics say - the best tennis player in the world. Yet in his interview he said that he had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon, not of becoming the world's best player. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

The Captain's Armband

John Terry will stay as captain of Chelsea. There have been some silly rumours that he won't. Andre Villas Boas said in an interview that he is a successful captain of his club and his country. In my opinion John  Terry is amazing - and if he does get stripped of the armband then I'll have to think twice about supporting Chelsea. Come on! Stop spreading stupid rumours. It's not fair on the coaching staff or the managers. Football is a beautiful game. Don't ruin it with through lack of sportsmanship and loyalty.

NEW CHELSEA MANAGER

Finally the new manager is with us! He is Andre Villas Boas. Okay, you've never heard of him. He probably doesn't even speak English. That's what a lot of people thought... that we'd probably have one long season ahead of us. Broken English and broken promises. But I've done some research. He won four trophies last season with Porto, and he won the league with Porto by 21 clear points above second place - and he IS FLUENT in English! He is a "cultured" man and probably speaks English better than a lot of his critics. But let's see if he can speak some good sense at Stamford Bridge - and bring in some fresh Blue Blood, starting maybe with:

1. Neymar, from Santos
2. Luka Modric, from Tottenham
3. Romelu Lukaku, from Anderlecht
4. Carlos Tevez, from Manchester City
5. Kaka, from Real Madrid
6. Wesley Sneijder, from Inter Milan.

Champion League Next Season

Next season the Champion League will be tough as Chelsea once again fight for the title with Barcelona making a total fool out of everyone they face. Arsenal will hope to avoid Barcelona after they have been knocked out this season and the last season by them. By the way, I am still laughing at how Nicklas Bendtner says he is the best striker in the world...