Skrtel ready for Anfield

Martin Skrtel has admitted he is looking forward to beginning his Liverpool career and thanked his old club Zenit for letting him go. Skrtel joined Liverpool today for an estimated £6.5 million.

The Slovakian quipped: "It is going to be hard for me here, there is great competition in defence, but I will give everything to prove I can play at this level for Liverpool.

"Obviously I was aware about the competition for places. Jamie Carragher, Sami Hyypia and Daniel Agger are players with immense quality.

"I will do my best to get into the team as soon as possible. For any team to have competition in all positions is good and I will work as hard as possible to challenge for a place. Rafa hasn't said too much to me about my place just yet.

"The past few days have been full of anxiety and wait but I'm glad it's all sorted now and I am finally a Liverpool player.

"I would like to say a big thank you to Zenit St Petersburg for allowing me to come to Liverpool. I was under contract at Zenit and they helped me with this move."