Its hard to say whats gonna happen because its all about who we sell first, I've heard Rafa has quite a kitty if we are accepted into the Champions League.
The goalkeeper situation is strange, because I can't see us having 4 quality keepers on the books. I can't see Dudek playing second fiddle to Reina, so my guess is he's off. Kirkland's supposed to be going to West Brom on loan for the season as well. Mind you, everything could change, because we've released Luzi and Harrison. The talk on the LFC board is using Dudek has a make weight for a bid for Dirk Kuijt but I'm not so sure.
Diouf is gone, probably for about 3 million, Cheryou is bound to be off to Marseille or wherever, but we wont get much more than a million for him. Diao will probably go as well.
Then we have the maybe's.
Now, I have a feeling that if Didi does leave (and I have a strong suspicion that he will) we might bring Alou Diarra back. Played brilliant for Lens and has broken into the French National side, so he mau come back. On the other hand, if Rafa has no plans for him, his stock will have risen in France, so he could be worth a couple of mill.
Dudek may leave, but again, it wont be for more than 2, 2 and a half million. Baros may go, probably for around 5 million, maybe Kewell off, but no-one knows how much we'd get for him.
We are releasing or probably releasing, Smicer, Pellegrino and Didi, which'll save us a 100,000 a week on wages.
So, assuming all of those players left, we'd get about....£15 million maybe.
Then we can look at buying players.
The thing about Aimar.....is he's a Rafa player. Benitez loves the idea of 4-5-1, and Aimar is one of the best players in the world for that position behind the strikers. But I just don't think 4-5-1 works in the Premiership. Its down to Rafa to think, does our European style work in the Premiership? And last season showed that it doesn't. So I think he may think twice about signing Aimar.
I think Joaquin is gonna go to Madrid anyway, there was just something on the LFC website about him maybe signing from us, from a fairly good source usually, it was basically him saying he loved Benitez and thought that Liverpool played a great style of football, nothing to suggest he'd sign for us though.
Milito and Evra would be great additions, plus we could probably get them both cheap (ish) considering Zaragoza and Monaco have money problems. At least, thats the theory.
We were linked with Figo back in January, so its a possibility. I wouldn't be disappointed if we signed him, although it might push Luis Garcia out of the side, which would make me cry
We'll have to wait and see, there are so many factors to consider, and things to happen before you can say what we need, and what we'll have to get it.
Suffice to say, I think Merseyside will be the busiest place for transfers this summer.