palying silly buggers

[Busaras]

Liverpool need Christian Ziege's registration within the next two days if he is to feature in European action for the Reds. The German international signed a four-year deal for Liverpool on Friday night, but the loose ends still need to be tied up before he can pull on a red shirt. There are mounting fears that Middlesbrough intend to hang on to Ziege's registration beyond Thursday, thus making the player ineligible for the early rounds of the UEFA Cup, but the unofficial word from the North East is that while Boro are resigned to losing the player, the reason the transfer hasn't gone through officially is because they are not happy with the fee that appears to have been forced on to them by the release clause in the players contract.

[Sparky]

29/08/00: Liverpool have confirmed tonight that Christian Ziege has finally been registered as their player. The long-running saga concerning Ziege's release by Middlesbrough, despite the fact that he signed a contract with Liverpool at the weekend, has at last come to a conclusion.

A Liverpool spokesman said: "We can confirm that Christian Ziege is now a Liverpool player." Ziege last week won a High Court action against Middlesbrough, who had been blocking his Stg£5.5million move to Anfield.
Ziege's claim that he had a release clause in his contract that he could move to a club who met the Stg£5.5million price, and this clause was upheld by the court.
Middlesbrough have bitterly contested the move for almost two months, and have asked the FA to look into the details of the move, and Liverpool's involvement. The Riverside club are particularly angry that the Anfield club were aware of the contents of Ziege's contract. But the German defender's departure from Boro was confirmed tonight when Liverpool received notification from the FA and the Premier League that the player was registered with them.

Ziege will now join his fellow German internationals at Anfield, Markus Babbel and Dietmar Hamann, and comes into contention for his debut against Aston Villa on September 6.
However, he may be considered short of match practice. He has remained in Germany since the summer and trained with a local club, having played just one match - for his country this month - since he was part of the German side that lost to England on June 17.
Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier said: "I am pleased to have him, he's a very experienced defender and will add something to the left side of our team. Obviously I would have preferred to have had him at the beginning of the season."
Liverpool sold left-back Dominic Matteo to Leeds when they believed the Ziege deal was going through. But the delays have meant teenager Djimi Traore has been blooded at left back, and Ziege's arrival will allow Houllier to take the youngster out of
the firing line.-PA

[Dundee]

i don't think Liverpool is gonna go that far in Europe anyway.


Ziege is ok, nothing to write home about.