Football Corner

After a cracking start to this season Premiership, many people have been asking themselves, will this be the year that Liverpool finally challenge for top honours in the league. Over the past few years it has become increasingly apparent that Liverpool have been under achieving in the Premiership but perhaps over achieving in the Champions League by winning it in 2005 and finishing runners up in 2007.

It was no secret that Liverpool were on the look out for investors to try and bolster their squad and now that they have received this, they now look a threat. Liverpool fans weren't happy with just finishing third every season and having a good cup run here and there, they wanted the team to deliver in the league. Ever since Tom Hicks and George Gillet took over earlier this year it has been all change, with the club spending big on and off the pitch.

They have spent nearly 50 million pounds on new players and have also put up plans for a new state of the art stadium which can only be good for the club. The players they have signed all look very capable of performing in the Premiership and can hopefully give them a better chance of competing for top honours. The signing of Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid earlier in the summer sen out a message to both Chelsea and United that they were a force to be reckoned with this season and so it has proved in the first few games.

They have also signed Ryan Babel, who performed so highly at the European under-21 championships, but is he ready for the challenge that awaits? Also, Andrey Voronin who performed very well whilst playing for Bayern Laverkusen and in my view was one of the best bits of business of the summer costing Bentiez nothing.

They have picked up ten points from a possible twelve but perhaps should still have a 100% record this season if it hadn't of been for Rob Styles who gave a controversial penalty to Chelsea when they visited Anfield a couple of weeks ago. The performances against Derby and Sunderland were very impressive even if they were against newly premoted sides. They definitely have depth in numbers and if they can keep up this early season form then why shouldn't they challenge both Chelsea and United for the title?