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john craig wrote:Milner??  Jesus.

I don't think he will be our saviour John 

s@int wrote:

john craig wrote:Milner??  Jesus.

I don't think he will be our saviour John 

I'll say it again though, Milner??

s@int wrote:Crouch set to say 'bye, buy Kop'

EXCLUSIVE

By Dave Kidd

Peter Crouch is considering buying out the final year of his Liverpool contract and moving abroad to avoid another year on the Anfield bench.

The England striker is furious that Kop boss Rafa Benitez has slapped a £15million price tag on his head, despite rarely featuring in his first-team plans.

Now Crouch, 27, is weighing up the option of becoming the first high-profile English player to buy out his own contract - a move which would cost him around £3m.

Under FIFA-adopted EU law, that would mean Crouch becoming a free agent. He would not be able to join another English club, but a foreign club could secure his services for nothing and give him a big wage rise and signing-on fee.

Crouch's representatives will meet Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry this week and still hope the club will allow Crouch to move for far less than £15m as he has only one year left on his contract.

Parry is said to be embarrassed by Benitez's claims that Liverpool want £15m for the player. It is believed that Benitez's public claims that Crouch has been offered a new Anfield contract, but refused to sign it, are also incorrect.

Portsmouth remain front runners to sign Crouch but Aston Villa are also interested along with Spanish club Villarreal.
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If Crouch does buy out his contract there is only one person to blame and its NOT Crouch. Crouch has been poorly treated this season IMO and maybe its something you shouldn't do when someone is running down their contract.

Bamaga man wrote:Amazing !

The responsibilty of Rafa not signing the right players will be another excuse in the waiting if we dont sustain a serious title challenge next season. Its absolutely fair enough if the purse strings are tigtened, no doubt. But he has spent a vast vast amount of money on this squad down the years. And arguabley since the signing of Alonso Rafa's top siginings have been Torres and Mascha and it was funnily enough the Yanks that allowed both transfers to go through, so rather than praise Rafa for sighting them, do we give the Yanks a big fat pat on the back for signing them then ?

Igor Zidane wrote:

s@int wrote:Crouch set to say 'bye, buy Kop'

EXCLUSIVE

By Dave Kidd

Peter Crouch is considering buying out the final year of his Liverpool contract and moving abroad to avoid another year on the Anfield bench.

The England striker is furious that Kop boss Rafa Benitez has slapped a £15million price tag on his head, despite rarely featuring in his first-team plans.

Now Crouch, 27, is weighing up the option of becoming the first high-profile English player to buy out his own contract - a move which would cost him around £3m.

Under FIFA-adopted EU law, that would mean Crouch becoming a free agent. He would not be able to join another English club, but a foreign club could secure his services for nothing and give him a big wage rise and signing-on fee.

Crouch's representatives will meet Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry this week and still hope the club will allow Crouch to move for far less than £15m as he has only one year left on his contract.

Parry is said to be embarrassed by Benitez's claims that Liverpool want £15m for the player. It is believed that Benitez's public claims that Crouch has been offered a new Anfield contract, but refused to sign it, are also incorrect.

Portsmouth remain front runners to sign Crouch but Aston Villa are also interested along with Spanish club Villarreal.
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If Crouch does buy out his contract there is only one person to blame and its NOT Crouch. Crouch has been poorly treated this season IMO and maybe its something you shouldn't do when someone is running down their contract.

Disagree saint , crouch needs to show a bit of respect to the man that bought him and kept faith in him when he was being called a freak and how many games was it before he scored in his first season 17 or 18 wasn't it. Who was the manager taking all the flak for playing him and for buying him . Crouch needs to remember these things , he's got to knuckle down and proove rafa wrong , or feck off and let his career go down hill from here on in , because it will once he leaves .

Bad Bob wrote:Yes, well done to Hicks and Gillett for buying us Torres and Masch--credit where it's due, those were two fantastic signings that they sanctioned.  But, my point, Bamaga Man, is that there is no assurance that the Yanks will give Rafa anywhere near the kind of money that landed us Torres and Masch when it comes to transfers this summer.  For one, they're a bit strapped...as Hicks's hat-in-hand visit to every bank in London at the time of the Arsenal matches surely indicates.  For two, they fooking loath each other now and are thus likely in no position to set aside differences and collectively sanction the funds Rafa needs to buy top quality players (which, you'll agree, is what are needed).  I think it's far more likely that they'd batter each other in the press ("I wanted to give Rafer the funds to buy Henri, Villa and Joaquin but he blocked it in the board room...") than it is that they work together to get big money transfers done.  No, unless they sell up soon I predict it will be a summer of selling before we buy, with a series of rather modest transfer targets in our sights.

Kash_Mountain wrote:Rafa needs to hold onto Xabi (hope he stays anyway), but if as suspected that Mascher and Lucus go off to play for their respective countries in the Olympics, then we'll be short in midfield.

JoeTerp wrote:

Kash_Mountain wrote:Rafa needs to hold onto Xabi (hope he stays anyway), but if as suspected that Mascher and Lucus go off to play for their respective countries in the Olympics, then we'll be short in midfield.

I want Xabi to stay as well, but even if he left, during those 3 weeks we would have Gerrard, Plessis, Guthrie, and possibly Gareth Barry still at the club, so I think we could make due as long as the schedule favored us

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NANNY RED wrote:Looks like the gooners are gonna crumble Kleb has said he wants to go.

Fantastic player and if he leaves they will find it very hard to replace him

Hope they don't replace him with Ben Arfa, he has the potential to be a much better player than him.

Plus the fact that we were supposedly after Ben Arfa. By the time Rick has found his phone, remembered how to switch it on, realised it needs charging up and phoned them, he will probably have already played a couple of games for Arsenal

pmsl

He's a cracking little player but no where near hleb , we should get hleb

NANNY RED wrote:Ah im distraught my mates just phoned me from Madrid and there reporting on Madridtv that Xabi has a agreement with them Gutted.

He wasnt even on the bench today does anyone know why or any news about it.

Sabs were are you when i need you