Chelsea Schedule and Results - English Premier League Soccer - E. Yossi Benayoun completes £5m transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea. Yossi Benayoun has completed his move from Liverpool to Chelsea.
The two clubs agreed a fee for the player last month, believed to be in the region of £5m, and the deal has been confirmed this afternoon. The 30-year-old Israeli international made 172 appearances and scored 37 goals during his three seasons with Liverpool but fell out of favour with the former manager Rafael Benítez during the last campaign and had agreed personal terms on a three-year contract with the Premier League champions, also last month. "Yossi's departure was agreed between the player and Rafael Benítez a number of weeks ago," a Liverpool spokesman said. "Everybody at Liverpool FC wishes him well for the future. " Benayoun joined Liverpool from West Ham for £5m in the summer of 2007. Five things Roy Hodgson must do to succeed at Liverpool. 1.
Convince Gerrard, Carragher, Torres and Mascherano to stay at Anfield Only one piece of Liverpool's uncertain future was resolved yesterday, and Hodgson showed where the next priority lies by heading off to meet Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher as soon as his public unveiling at Anfield was over. Calls to Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano will soon follow. Hodgson injected refreshing honesty, reason and a keen sense of Liverpool's history and potential into his first press conference as manager, all of which should appeal to the stellar names who have grown tired not only at the lack of investment in top players, but the broken promises from the Anfield hierarchy.