http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5360063,00.html

£12million... Your Thoughts?

I think arsenal have missed the boat there. Think he would have been good for them

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great news

means we wont be linked with him all season and should hopefully end the alonso saga

think Rafa is keeping his head down.....dont want to lose Alonso by being linked with his No1 target of all last season again.

Or he just dont have the readies available at the mo?
Maybe Villa his main target this season

nah rafa is going to stick with 1 up front, he wants a back up striker. his main target will be a top class winger. as for alonso, perez has 300m to spent on 6 players, he said he wants alonso. hopefully we can get stupid money for him (30m)

wow surprising. Thought Barry wanted champions league football next season? He'll be lucky to get it in the next 5 years at city

Are you mad,you are really hoping we sell Alonso ? I'd still be pissed if we sold him for£40m + Sneijder,Liverpool cannot afford to let Alonso go & the only way he will go is if he insists he wants to go to RM and we get silly money (£30m is NOT silly money) and considering Xabi is Basque it would be shocking if he did go to RM,remember he turned them down to come to us in the first place.

well unlucky barry, cudnt of gone to a worse club

barry is a traitor, all that nonsense about only wanting to leave for cl football lol

here is something i wrote on another forum, What is wrong with you people? Do you think Rafa is well stupid? he is a very smart man. For Liverpool to get to the next level and catch united he needs world class quality, not 10-15m players but a 20-25m player who will win us games. by rafa now saying Alonso is not for sale, it will push his price up and up. Franjly, every person has their price, 25m for alonso is a very good deal for us and Rafa can spend that money to get a replacement and part fund a Move for a superstar on the wings

Have faith in Rafa

no amar, rafa is a retard. if you require proof i will get it for you, but theres alot of it.

cant be asked to argue today, drop it for today?

im still hoping silva will be our main target but we have to get in quick and quietly before madrid

i will be gutted if alonso leaves

say please

he said he will bid for silva as well....i think we can get a agreement that madrid dont go for silva if they get alonso which i believe they will

erm............barcalona, man utd.........yeh, these to clubs have the biggest appeal to any player right now so the big names will wait before signing for shite like madrid and city.

I don't care what your write on another forum (i think i read that shit by the way) because it's all assumptions on your part the FACT is you think we can replace Xabi when the truth is we wouldn't be able too,we don't need a fucking superstar winger we need a little trickster.

For some strange reason you're completely missing just how important Xabi is to the way we play.

I have faith in Rafa lad but you obvously don't else you wouldn't try to 2nd guess the guy when he cannot be any clearer

Here's an Idea tell them to fuck off and sign Silva and we will keep Xabi

BOSS RUBBISHES ALONSO DEAL CLAIMS
Paul Hassall

Rafa Benitez has rubbished reports in the Spanish media that an agreement has been reached with Real Madrid for the transfer of Xabi Alonso.
The midfielder has been linked with a move away from Anfield this summer but the Reds boss has poured cold water on suggestions the Spain international is set to leave.

The Liverpool manager said: "The situation is clear, we do not want to sell our best players and that includes Xabi.

"He had a very good season for us and can be an important player in the future. There is no agreement with Real and we want him to be part of our plans going forward.

"Xabi himself told our club magazine only two weeks ago that he was looking forward to his sixth season as a Liverpool player. Why should he want to leave now?"

Benitez added: "Xabi's agent came to see me recently to talk about the future. It was a surprise for me and I pointed out to him there were three years left on Xabi's contract.

"I asked him if the player was happy in Liverpool and he said yes. It was a short meeting."

rafa signs alot of shit, his ability in the transfer market is inconsistant to say the least.

you will end up signing nicky butt

skamp raf is trying to raise the price. only if a mega bid comes will he sell because he knows what alonso is worth....trust rafa in the decisions he is going to make because i know you arent going to like them

Oh so now you are ITK eh Amar,but the fact is i know who you really are mate and an ITK you aint even though you have tried and tried to portray yourself as one on other forums (and been mocked) Make you mind up with what in your world counts as a MEGA bid because you keep changing your figures from £30m now to £25m when neither are MEGA bids

All you are doing is 2nd guessing Rafa when the fact is you don't know shite mate,stop stating things like they are facts and admit all you're doing is guessing with a scattergun approach.

i agree with Skamp here............if you sell Alonso it is a step backwards regardless who you sign.

lets hope he sells him

It would get a massive cheer down your end of the east lancs & that in itself says alot more than anything else,Amar is a child from the village of the damned though as he's been reading Rafas mind.

last year alonso was worth 16m to rafa

how much is he worth this year?

25-30m anything between that figure is a great deal. just wait and see...perez wants alonso

he wanted zidane, figo and fat ronaldo and he got them. he wanted kaka and now almost has him. he will get alonso, WTF IS A ITK?? what other forum are you on about btw? people need to see the bigger picture...we need a top class winger which will cost 20+m. back up striker and perhaps a right backk. we dont have a money tree

how does it feel living in a box lol?

when barce sold big stars people said it was the end

when united sold big players people said it was the end

you obv cant see the biggerpicture so im giving up with you, when alonso is sold i expect a apology, no wait i will demand one kid

You must be fucking old to call me a kid man,the bigger picture is not selling your most influential midfielder,the player who makes your side tick,draws fouls,holds the ball up better than any other player and can pass like big Jan and if you do you cannot replace him because cultured CMs in that mould are not 2 a penny.

Name me this world class winger you want us to spunk/gamble £20m+ on and i hope you don't want a right winger because that will screw up our balance big style,i honestly don't think you understand Rafas football philosophy.

Amar cant see that Alonso gives Gerrard the freedom to play the game he wants hahahahhahahhahha.


he calls everyone "Kid,Son"......dunno why it a Manc thing really....our kid

and if we sell xabi we need another top class center mid player to give stevie the freedom he has

even liverpool fans think amars a tit.

LMFAO

started as a post about gareth barry and man city and ended up with the mancs and scousers arguing.

sometimes i enjoy it but it can become every so slightly monotonous.

i think you will find it is scousers arguing amongst themselves wit a manc agreeing with one scouser.

we can get that and have some cash left over for a top winger

i am saying if alonso leaves it wont be a bad thing, obv i want him to stay but if the worst comes true then it isnt that bad when you look at the bigger picture is what i mean

its called people debating you fool lol you wont know what that means as all you do is post stupid things like united are better than barce in every way lol and then just swear

Finally!!!! You admit UTD are better

even if they sign iniesta? LOL

Haha This says it all



Yeah sure Gareth. Your desire to move to liverpool was all about Champions League football.

If the above is true, he now earns a basic salary higher than that of Ronaldo. What a joke

amar you couldnt debate your own name with yourself.

i was just stating, not debating because there is no debate here, that your a tit, and even liverpool fans think so.

as for barry, end of his career i would say, will be playing for a club where he will soon never get a start if city just keep buying ( shit as they have been basically, bellamy? hahahahahaha okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ) and will be constantly doing so, never letting players settle.

city are a joke club just like madrid

for once, i beg you, just for once stop acting like a damn 5 year old. is it too much to ask for you not to attack people? you post is just so stupid, how the hell do you what liverpool fans think? this is a forum, debates is what happens on forums. you stated united would easily beat pool. WRONG. MADRID would easily beat pool. WRONG. united would beat barce. WRONG. united are better than barce. WRONG.

and so many other times, before you go call other people a tit, go look in the mirror

i also stated united would win the league RIGHT
united are best team in england RIGHT
liverpool will not win the league RIGHT

and exlplain how barca are better than united, you going off the single game theory? so stoke as good as yourselves then? makes sense............hmmmmmm

single games mean nothing, the fact your still going on about single games shows how little you know about foorball. 38 games pal.....not 1. sooner you realise sooner i will treat you like someone with half a braincell.

and i know what liverpool fans think, because saying sell alonso, is about as spasticated as saying sell gerrard or torres.

you have mistaken me

i never said I WANT alonso to leave because of course i WANT him to stay, what i was trying to explain was IF alonso DOES leave then it wouldnt be as bad as everyone is making it out to be...

when athelico lost torres they were a mid table team, everyone was like this is the end but they used the money from torres to buy 3 players and made them self into a top 5 team...

that is my point, if we lose alonso, who is to say we wont be 2 quality players with that money to become better? and i also brought up the point about transfer funds, how are we going to afford a top winger without big sales

no you would have to fund your increasingly unlikely stadium more than likely. considering you dnt actually have the full funds for it.

and alonso is unreplacable, the players you would want play for better clubs already.

keeping him and selling 5 or 6 of your rubbish players would be a better idea, decrease squad size and buy 2 decent players. also i can assure you you have 25-30 million waiting to be spent on 1 big name. your club isnt poor at all, and it has the funds to comete with chelsea and city if they chose to. just your manager isnt good enough to persuade major names as well as others are.

£130,000 a week????

common. really.


i suppose they are meant to be payin wayne bridge something ridiculous like £90,000, making him one of, if not, the highest paid full back in world

Prolly why the Gooners weren't interested.

stupid wages ill sit on he bench each week for that please

lend us a quid barry lad

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