That’s right people, in a piece of prediction that would have Mystic Meg quaking in her boots Liverpool’s latest (and only significant) summer signing has declared that this year will be Liverpool’s year to win the Premier League title! Of course anybody who has been on Earth for more than 6 months will realise that the exact same thing has been said by every player signing for Liverpool over the last 15 years. In fact if you have any friends who support Liverpool you will no doubt have heard it from them as well – every year is Liverpool’s year.

So will this year be Liverpool’s year? Probably not. They may have stood a better chance if they hadn’t wasted 18 million pounds on a second rate fullback and instead concentrated on providing some overall depth to their squad. But either way there is no doubt that Glen Johnson will be very popular in the Anfield changing rooms after predicting a league win so early in his Liverpool career, rumour even has it that he is likely to push Fernando Torres out as Jamie Carragher’s “bit on the side”.