Source: FOOTYMAD
Carragher wants more Liverpool signings
Jamie Carragher, the Liverpool defender, has suggested the signing of Joe Cole is a sign that the Reds will be able to add further quality players to their squad this summer. Cole agreed personal terms on Monday and will sign a four-year contract so long as he passes a medical this week. He was a free agent after Chelsea refused his wage demands to stay at Stamford Bridge Despite the Anfield club having debts of £350million, Carragher joined several former players who have used the media to call for money to be spent on new players. "It's great news and it is a message that Liverpool mean business," Carragher told Liverpool's official website. "We have signed a top international player who has been really important for Chelsea. It has been a long summer and we have been in a transitional period but now the World Cup is out of the way, we can start to look forward again. "Joe is a player who has the ability to get supporters off their seats and I've no doubt he will do that here. The fact we have got him has given everyone a boost around the city. "It's good news again and, hopefully, there will be more to come. It's the kind of signing that we needed to make." Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham Hotspur manager, had offered Cole a deal that would have made him his club's highest-paid player. "We tried our very hardest to get him. The chairman made Joe a fantastic offer," Redknapp said in The Sun. "I think he wants to move for football reasons. He wants to be part of a transformation at Liverpool. I think maybe getting away from London and a clean break was part of it too."
