10 Things you need to know about new Liverpool signing Albert Riera By Dan Silver, Mirror.co.uk 29/08/2008
Spanish winger Albert Riera will finalise his move to Liverpool today, pending the successful completion of his medical. Here's your essential need to know 1) Albert Riera Ortega was born on April 15, 1982 in Manacor on the popular British holiday island of Majorca. So at least he'll have a fair idea what to expect come kicking out time in Merseyside, then. 2) A left-sided midfielder, he started his career at local side Real Mallorca and made his debut as a substitute against Racing Santander on February 25th, 2001. 3) He became a regular in the side during the 2002/03 season, playing in 35 of their 38 La Liga matches (with a return of four goals) and also helping Mallorca to their first ever Copa del Rey triumph. 4) He was snapped up by Bordeaux in the summer of 2003, where he enjoyed a successful two-year spell. Riera was the driving force behind the French side's run to the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup in 2003/04, scoring five goals in the competition's 10 matches. 5) He returned to Spain at the start of the 2005/06 season, signing for Espanyol, but only made four starts before being loaned out to Manchester City in January 2006. Despite being a first team regular at Eastlands - Riera made 15 starts for the Sky Blues and scored in a 3-0 victory over Newcastle manager Stuart Pearce neglected to make the deal permanent, and he was sent back to Spain at the end of the season. 6) He had a much happier spell in Spain upon his return, however, and displaced Ernesto Valverde in the Espanyol first team. Riera made 28 league appearances, scored 4 goals in the 2006/07 season and became a firm fan favourite in the process. 7) And this compilation clip shows just why: Advertisement - article continues below » Click here to find out more! 8) He also played a major part in Espanyol's UEFA Cup campaign. He scored a goal in the all-Spanish final at Hampden Park, but Juande Ramos' Seville side eventually won the trophy after a penalty shoot-out. Here's the highlights (Riera's goals comes around the 2:30 mark): 9) He was handed his Spanish national debut in a Euro 2008 qualifier against Denamark on October 13th, 2007 by coach Luis Aragones, who was also manager of Real Mallorca when he made his league debut. Riera came on as a second-half substitute and scored in the 88th minute, as you can see here (apologies in advance for the dreadful Eurobeat soundtrack). Riera has since won four more caps, but didn't make Spain's squad for Euro 2008. 10) Liverpool fans will be more than happy if he scores goals like the long-range stunner in this compilation (he's the mystery number five, by the way, at 2:37): WELCOME RIERA !!! --- In [email protected], omar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- El mar 2-sep-08, yolana11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > 01/09/2008 23:35, Report by Steve Bartram > > Reds sign Berbatov > > Manchester United are delighted to announce the signing of Dimitar > Berbatov. > > =============== > > Reds itu MU ya sekarang.....bukannya Red Devils...harusnya judulnya "Devils sign Berba" gitu donk hehehe.. > > anyway, hasil transfer lengkap EPL (btw, gua gak demen nyebut BPL, ntar kalo ganti sponsor PT Kondom 25 apa jadi K25PL apa): > > In: Blackburn (Bunn), Everton (Saha, Nash), Hull (Cousin), Liverpool (Flora, Gulacsi, Riera), Man City (Robinho), Man Utd (Berbatov), Newcastle (Gonzalez, Xisco), Portsmouth (Belhadj), Sunderland (McCartney), Stoke (Higginbotham, Soares), Tottenham (Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Campbell), West Brom (Donk) > > Out: Bolton (Dzemaili), Fulham (Zakuani, John, Smertin), Liverpool (Finnan, Voronin), Man City (Corluka, Vidal), Man Utd (Saha, Campbell), Portsmouth (Cranie, Christophe), Sunderland (Higginbotham), Stoke (Parkin), Tottenham (Berbatov), West Ham (McCartney), Wigan (Bouaouzan, Nash, Sibierski) > > yang kejutan itu Man City bisa dapetin Robinho ngalahin Chelsea yang juga ngebet dapetin Robinho. Gila duit yang dibawa ABu Dhabi United Group. Man City bahkan sempat nawar Berbatov dan sebenernya sudah diterima Spurs. > > Liverpool...hemm, dapet Riera, yang diharapkan mampu mengisi sayap kiri. gak tau siapa ini pemain, hoping for the best ajalah. Pool ngelepas voronin dan finnan. > > -omar- > > __________________________________________________ > Correo Yahoo! > Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! > Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.com.mx/ >
