The Irishman has been a goal machine at every club he has played for – and at 28 is good for four years at least.
The idea of Keane and Torres up front does sound very exciting and threatening.
Keane is a work horse and will give you 100% all the time - a quality we all know Rafa rates highly. This would be a player I would expect to hit the ground running.
He bailed them out of the mire so many times last year and I think he's just what we need.
It could be a great deal all around and if we can get him for around £5m plus Crouch that would be fantastic business.
I think he would be an improvement on Crouch and it would represent good business for Liverpool. He would definitely add a great deal of strength to our domestic campaign.
Mark Townsend, Wirral
KEANE may well be a great signing, but I just can't see it happening.
He is a great player, a model professional, a player with enormous team spirit, a leader and a goalscorer.
But I think that Rafa wants to keep 4-2-3-1 with Torres as the single forward and I don't think Keane would like to be second fiddle in our team.
We need wingers and one central midfielder,because at the start of next season Lucas and Mascherano are likely to be playing in the Olympics and we will have only Steven Gerrard and Xabi Alonso, if he has not already left.
Jim Wilkinson, Tuebrook
IT’S very clear that Rafa is focusing on players from the Premier League this season.
We know we're doing okay in the Champions League, but we need a little more domestic muscle for a Premiership title tilt.
Players like Barry and Keane are expensive but it is good to see that they trust Rafa.
Carl Frodsham, Allerton
IF Keane signs, what a career he will have had!
From Wolves to Coventry to Inter Milan to Leeds to Spurs and then to Anfield.
Captain and record goalscorer for his country, he is loyal, a great team player and leader on the pitch, can score goals and wants to join the Reds. Throw Crouch in and I can see this happening.
Joe Turner, Hunts Cross
MARTIN O’NEILL is getting an awful lot of flak over the Gareth Barry move but let’s face it, he’s just doing the best for Aston Villa.
If the roles were reversed, Reds fans would be screaming at Rafa to do exactly the same, extract every penny for a player wanting away.
Reds fans are the first to complain about how we always seem to allow our players to leave too cheaply.
Football is no longer a sport, it's big business, and that's the nature of the beast.
Liverpool fans often claim to be the most knowledgeable in the game, so we should easily comprehend that.
In a greedy business, low on ethics and honour, O'Neill, is one of the more honourable people left in it.
Let's not decry him, for doing exactly what we would require of him if he was our manager.
Terry Jones, Fazakerley
I KNOW Mauricio Pellegrino was not brilliant for us, but none of the greatest football managers were great players.
Some of the greatest players turned out to be poor managers. Give this lad time to prove himself. If Rafa wants him, that's good enough for me.
Mo Hanlon, Dovecot
I THINK bringing Pellegrino back is a really clever move by Rafa.
All he can do is look at what needs to improve and last season we kept conceding goals from set-pieces, so it makes sense that we address this.
But Pellegrino must have had something about him because I doubt if Rafa would bring back someone who will rock the boat.
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