by Santa » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:45 pm
I say one-nil to Liverpool. I think Rafa and Perry handle it absolutely right. They can see there was no doubt Stevie planned to move out and was draging his feet until we have no choice but to do a fire sell on him (remember Owen on this one?) with a possibly lower fee and a hefty bonus to be paid out. So the club made him a lucrative offer (knowing he probably won't take it) or force him to put in a transfer request (which he did) and allow Real Madrid and other clubs to come in and start a (possible) bidding war...at least this is how I analyse the situation.
There was never a doubt (although I wished for otherwise) he will be leaving us after sending all the wrong signals throughout the season, so this transfer request should not come as a surprise to many of us here. He thought he could use our lack of success as an excuse but that was blown away at Ataturk so what's the excuse now heh?
I believe in time we will see this as a blessing in disguise as Rafa's team are never about just one man anyway...walk on
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Santa on Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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