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[Greavesie]

wah?? did i miss something? were is this stuff on lfc.tv? 

Rafa said a while ago on .tv that Xabi if NOT for sale and will not be leaving, it's probably a few pages back on this thread

HE IS NOT GOIN ANYWHERE

I hope we're working on signing players rather than making sure the wantaways won't go

[DrPepe]

Chelsea have officially announced they have NOT bid 73 million for Kaka, implying they havent bid at all.

72.9m? 

I don't believe any of this transfer shi te until i see the player holding up the shirt...


.. and that includes Rafa and LFC 

[mjlfc09]

Real Madrid go public after making £20m bid for Liverpool's Alonso

By Sportsmail Reporter

Real Madrid have tabled an offer of £20million for Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso.

President Florentino Perez is determined to press ahead with his move for the Spain
playmaker and sees him as the perfect anchor to a new-look midfield that could yet contain Chelsea target Kaka.

Perez said: ‘As a fan, I would say that Xabi is a great player. I think he is the best passer of the ball in Europe.

‘I would be happy (to have him), but I cannot talk about the player without having spoken first to Rafa Benitez, as he is the one who needs to know that we are interested in his player.’
Liverpool's Xabi Alonso

Pass master: Alonso is the subject of a £20m bid from Real

Though Benitez may well be angered by a familiar Real tactic of going public with their
interest in a transfer target, he knows Alonso’s thoughts are now focused on his next
move.

Alonso, 27, is a key figure at Anfield, particularly after they missed out on Gareth Barry, but has grown concerned with continued speculation over his future.

He is keen to stay in England but is due to join up with the national side for the
Confederations Cup in South Africa next week and Spanish sources say Madrid will try to persuade him that now is the right time to return to La Liga.
Middlesbrough's Tuncay Sanli

Target: Tuncay

Benitez, meanwhile, is ready to offer Turkey’s Tuncay the chance to extend his Barclays Premier League stay by bidding around £5m for the Middlesbrough striker.

Asked about the possibility of a move to Anfield, Tuncay said: ‘I have heard something about that, but there has been nothing official so far. Of course, I would like to play for a big team.’

Benitez, who is also considering an approach for Middlesbrough midfielder Gary O’Neil as an affordable option for increasing Liverpool’s attacking threat, has not given up hope of agreeing a fee for Valencia’s Spain winger David Silva.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport....so.html[B]

[Greavesie]

FFS here we go

If we dont let Xabi go they'll just offer loads for Silva to spite us

[NANNY RED]

Alls im gonna say is feck off with your 20 million, peanuts

[maguskwt]

FFS here we go

If we dont let Xabi go they'll just offer loads for Silva to spite us

So what... let them...

[DrPepe]

the quotes fro Perez are days old... move along, nothing to see here

[Reg]

Didnt even have the balls to fight for his place.
++

The TimesJune 4, 2009

Gareth Barry feared for place if he joined Liverpool

Midfield player chose Manchester City over Anfield in order to play regular football.

Gareth Barry has claimed that he rejected the chance to join Liverpool in favour of a £12million move to Manchester City amid fears of becoming a victim of Rafael Benítez's rotation policy at Anfield.

Barry implied yesterday that he was concerned he may have been asked to play out of position by Benítez, rather than in his preferred role in central midfield, and was worried about how that would affect his place in Fabio Capello's England team before the World Cup finals in South Africa next summer.

“The World Cup next year has always been a major part of my thinking,” said Barry, who flew to Almaty with the England squad yesterday morning before their qualifying match against Kazakhstan on Saturday.

“I feel at Manchester City I will get the chance to play regularly in my best position and play a big part in a successful side.” City are understood to have clinched the deal in Dubai last week, when a club delegation met Barry, who was on holiday with family and friends.

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The move has provoked an angry reaction from Aston Villa fans bemused by Barry's decision to join a club that finished tenth - five places below Martin O'Neill team - last season, when he had always maintained that the reason he wanted to leave Villa Park was so he could play for a club offering Champions League football.

Barry was so concerned about how his decision would be perceived that he wrote an open letter to Villa's supporters in the Birmingham Mail yesterday explaining his reasons for rejecting the offer of an £80,000-a-week deal to remain at the club and instead join City. He claimed that he feared he would go “stale” if he stayed.

“I feel Villa are in the best position they have been in during my time here,” Barry, 28, said.

“I think we have a group of very good young players, we have a fantastic chairman [Randy Lerner] who is here for the good of the club and one of the best managers in the game. Obviously people will ask why I am leaving if I feel like that.

“I have honestly been very undecided what to do. The manager and the whole club have bent over backwards to try and persuade me to stay and made me a fantastic offer which I am extremely grateful for.

“But, after changing my mind lots of times, I came to the decision that the time was right for me and for the club to part company. I need a new challenge. I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.”

Barry, who has signed a five-year contract worth £100,000 a week with City, also claimed that the lure of Mark Hughes's revolution at the club was too great to resist.

“A lot of people will question my decision to join Manchester City, but they were the club prepared to meet the valuation, which, for a 28-year-old with a year left on his contract, I think shows how much they wanted me,” Barry said.

“Once I had spoken to Mark Hughes [the City manager] there was nowhere else I wanted to go and I was also desperate to avoid any long drawn-out saga. I feel I am joining a club that will seriously challenge to win major honours.

“People might doubt that, but I am convinced with the plans the club has short term and long term.

“The backing the manager will receive from the owners tells me that we will be a major force.”

Hughes is prepared to let Joe Hart, the goalkeeper, go out on a season-long loan, with Birmingham City, who were promoted to the Barclays Premier League in May and are one of several clubs interested in his services.

[DrPepe]

not enough ambition- he'll never play at a top club without "suffering" rotation

[Greavesie]

Barry's shown himself to be a t!t this week, feck him

[Lando_Griffin]

£100k per week?

ONE HUNDRED FUCKING GRAND PER WEEK FOR THAT OVERRATED, JUMPED-UP CROCK OF SHITE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

What a f*cking joke.

[Octsky]

wat's up with Real scu.m..s bidding 20 mil for Alonso? and waiting in the wing for a bid of 18 mil for masch.
they can bid 100 mil for a diving king but for a true footballer only 20 mil?
if must have been alonso wont be selling that much of shirts or in their eyes we are a "small" club and will be beaming with joy on the 20 mil bid.

i said F off you lousy buggers.

i hope we play them in the champs league every season and get to whack their lousy galati-sh.i.t. team.

[HacksawJimDuggin]

I don't mind all the stuff surrounding Real, Man City and Chelsea going public and it being all over the back pages of every newspaper. I'd prefer Rafa and co not to comment and get on with their own business on the QT. Man Utd have been past masters at going about their (transfer) business quietly behind the scenes and then announcing the signing once they've put pen to paper. Rafa likes to give nothing and i reckon he's playing that game and there are movements afoot behind the scenes to tie up the players he is after.

[HacksawJimDuggin]

Real Madrid go public after making £20m bid for Liverpool's Alonso

By Sportsmail Reporter

Real Madrid have tabled an offer of £20million for Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso.

President Florentino Perez is determined to press ahead with his move for the Spain
playmaker and sees him as the perfect anchor to a new-look midfield that could yet contain Chelsea target Kaka.

Perez said: ‘As a fan, I would say that Xabi is a great player. I think he is the best passer of the ball in Europe.

‘I would be happy (to have him), but I cannot talk about the player without having spoken first to Rafa Benitez, as he is the one who needs to know that we are interested in his player.’
Liverpool's Xabi Alonso

Pass master: Alonso is the subject of a £20m bid from Real

Though Benitez may well be angered by a familiar Real tactic of going public with their
interest in a transfer target, he knows Alonso’s thoughts are now focused on his next
move.

Alonso, 27, is a key figure at Anfield, particularly after they missed out on Gareth Barry, but has grown concerned with continued speculation over his future.

He is keen to stay in England but is due to join up with the national side for the
Confederations Cup in South Africa next week and Spanish sources say Madrid will try to persuade him that now is the right time to return to La Liga.
Middlesbrough's Tuncay Sanli

Target: Tuncay

Benitez, meanwhile, is ready to offer Turkey’s Tuncay the chance to extend his Barclays Premier League stay by bidding around £5m for the Middlesbrough striker.

Asked about the possibility of a move to Anfield, Tuncay said: ‘I have heard something about that, but there has been nothing official so far. Of course, I would like to play for a big team.’

Benitez, who is also considering an approach for Middlesbrough midfielder Gary O’Neil as an affordable option for increasing Liverpool’s attacking threat, has not given up hope of agreeing a fee for Valencia’s Spain winger David Silva.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport....so.html[B]

Tuncay 
G O'Neil 

No thanks.

David Wheater possibly

[GYBS]

I think tuncay would be a decent option coming off the bench - the guy does have talent and ability and was able to show it in a poor team and could do even better in a very good team .