Despite the on-going board room trauma at Anfield, Rafael Benitez has revealed that he has continued planning for next season and has already secured the signing of one, as yet un-named player.
 
while Rick Parry, Tom Hicks and George Gillett air their dirty linen in public, the Liverpool manager is busy behind the scenes working closely with the club’s recruitment department in order to swell the ranks in preparation for the forthcoming campaign.

Benitez said that one player has already been signed while two or three others are under consideration, with two in particular seemingly imminent.

The Spaniard revealed that Liverpool’s foreign legion will be enhanced with the new signing, who is definitely not English.

Concerns were raised recently about Liverpool’s ability to repay the loans required for the transfer fees of Ryan Babel and Fernando Torres but Benitez showed no signs of downsizing his recruitment ambitions for next season.

He said:“We are working on trying to improve the squad for next season. We have some movements for next season, so we will continue trying to do the same. At least we are trying to go forward.

We have had meetings with the scouting department, we talk about targets and they travel all around the world talking with players and agents. We are trying to do our job. We were this morning progressing in some issues and we will do the same.

We have some signings for the next season done. They are senior players for the first team and young players for the first team and reserve team. Two of them are really close, young players, and one senior player is done. He talks good English, but is not English.”