Debuts likely for Liverpool new boys

Michael Owen’s transfer to Real Madrid gives new Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez the chance to open the Premiership campaign at Tottenham with Djibril Cisse and Milan Baros up front.

New signing Josemi is also likely to figure.

The only likely addition to the squad that played in Austria against AK Graz in midweek will be the inclusion of midfielder Igor Biscan, who was suspended from the Champions League match after being sent off against Marseille last season.

PROVISIONAL SQUAD: Dudek, Josemi, Carragher, Henchoz, Hyypia, Riise, Finnan, Gerrard, Diao, Biscan, Hamann, Kewell, Cisse, Baros, Sinama-Pongolle, Kirkland, Warnock, Potter, Whitbread, Welsh, Traore