by Owzat » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:44 pm
Bad Bob wrote:Toffeehater wrote:LIVERPOOL have offered Jermaine Pennant a new 12-month deal — to protect themselves if he turns into a loan star.
Reds boss Rafa Benitez is prepared to let Pennant — out of contract at the end of the season — leave Anfield but was hoping to bring in up to £4million for him.
With no one approaching that figure, Benitez could now loan him out.
And if he can get Pennant to agree to a new deal, the Reds would get a fee for him if the winger was a hit and joined another club on a permanent basis.
AC Milan have already offered Pennant a pre-contract agreement to join them on a free in the summer though.
And Pennant may sit tight in the hope of negotiating a hefty signing-on fee with a new club.
Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina wants a treble of Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.
He said: “Our ambition this season is to challenge for every competition we enter. At Liverpool it’s the only way you can be.”
Not a chance in hell he'll sign anything with us, IMO--it's not in his economic interest to do so and, as we've already seen with his rejection of Madrid, Pennant is primarily concerned with his economic interest. He'll stick it out with us until the summer and walk for free, probably to go warm the bench at the San Siro for a hefty weekly sum. I'm sure Milan has an amazing club scene and all. 
I gather from the fact someone I work with is reading that in the s*n that that rag is the source. I think he might sign, depends on how much money he might make out of it.
It's illogical for many reasons even if true :-
a) he holds all the cards, he doesn't have to accept a contract offer and even if he does then he can simply spend another 12 months picking up his wonga and doing nothing to "earn" it. I doubt he will sign a clause to have to join anyone who bids £Xm since you can't get the prospective club to agree to terms in the contract re wages
b) if he wanted say £50k a week, it would only take 10 weeks to end up giving him half a million in wages. Not to mention the signing on fee he'd want. We might get what £5m for him, even with a year on his contract we'd not get markedly more than we might with six months on his contract - IF he agreed to join any clubs who offered money or a loan deal for him
c) what are the odds of him proving a hit enough to raise a sizeable fee? He might equally be a flop, if a club that took him on loan could afford all his wages and he agreed to go on loan.
Let him go, he's not worth it. For what might prove a maybe £5m fee we would have to spend likely a million minimum to engineer it. We could profit by a few million, we could end up looking stupid and paying him £2.5m in wages (£50k a year for 50 weeks) He can go to the best bid, I really can't see him doing us any favours given how many games he's played this season.Never buy from PC World, product quality is poor and their 'customer service' is even poorer
off hes not needed but he better be back next training session r hell be docked pay then id get a security guard 2 meet him at the entrance every time after that & say "Rafa said r a twa.t now 
