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LIVERPOOL FC : RAFA: CISSE STILL PART OF MY PLANS

/noticias.info/ Rafael Benitez has told striker Djibril Cisse not to take any notice of newspaper speculation and said the club record signing is still very much part of his plans.
Newspaper speculation has linked Cisse with Gerard Houllier's Lyon but Benitez said there has been no bids for the French international who is happy at Anfield.

Benitez said: "Cisse is happy here. We are not thinking about him not being here.

"We need to use all our players and Cisse is working well and scoring goals. I've told him that we don't have any offers for him, so he must work as normal.

"It's not easy for him or any player to read newspapers and hear stories about new players or players in their positions. I said to him, don't read the newspapers, that will be the best thing for him.

"We have six strikers here now, but even if we have five it will be the same. Sometimes you play with only one striker and you do that and have four more, really you don't need a centre forward. We need players in other positions."

Benitez once again played down talk about speculation linking Michael Owen with a return to Anfield and said his priority is a centre half and a right winger, not another striker.

Benitez said: "I am not doing anything about Michael at the moment, I am waiting and talking to my scouts about centre backs, but I am not talking about Michael or centre forwards. We need a right winger and a centre back.

"I need to improve the strikers I have at the club at the moment, I cannot control the positions of players not at the club. If you're always thinking about players at other clubs, you wouldn't be able to sleep. I must be focused on my team, working with my players.

"If we can sign players good enough for us, okay we will try, but at the moment it is the same answer, we have six strikers. I do not expect us to have sold two strikers before the transfer deadline.

"We will be in contention for six trophies, so we need a lot of strikers and a lot of players in all the positions.

"But we have Mellor, Sinama-Pongolle, Crouch, Morientes, Cisse, Baros, as well as Luis Garcia and Kewell,who ar two options as second strikers."
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