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Originally Posted by Xgenre
Bro, my view is that besides the price, it's also about timing. So what if we get 85M? Got time to buy good replacements? If this uncertainty drags on, it will affect morale. Don't wish the Keane sage to happen again. We sold him so late that we got no time to find replacement. End up 4 points to heaven.
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got ur pt. you are right but i guess the club cant stop other teams from making baseless statements to buy our players, which in turn unsettle and lower their morale.
Unless they want to take action and sue them eg like the recent manu case vs real. But its true we do not wish for the players to go unless its for arboela case. but as for our midfield players, masch + alonso we dont need to sell them to raise cash for new players anyway. Perhaps they just have some pay increment issues and therefore their agents are using this to enginneer something out of nothing.
Unless some club offers concrete deals like 50M for either 1, then screw all those bullshit news and just keep our fingers crossed. I think alonso has told his agent that he has given time to REAL to make a deal by 19july.
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Xabi Alonso has reportedly told his agent: Finalise my transfer to Real Madrid by July 19 or I will stay at Liverpool.
In a highly-detailed account of the emerging saga, The Daily Mail reports that 'The Liverpool midfielder, who has been on international duty with Spain at the Confederations Cup in South Africa, met his representative Inaki Ibanez immediately after flying back to Madrid yesterday. Alonso went straight to lunch with Ibanez at Madrid's Hotel Melia Barajas after getting off a 10-hour flight from Johannesburg.'
It was at this meeting that Alonso is said to have set a deadline - July 19 is the date on which he is scheduled to return to Anfield for pre-season training - for his proposed move to Real. He is quoted as saying to Spanish newspaper AS: "I don't know what will happen. The clubs now have to negotiate."
According to the Mail, 'Madrid are considering a £55million combined bid for Alonso, Javier Mascherano and Alvaro Arbeloa, but are prepared to negotiate players separately as Liverpool are unlikely to even contemplate losing both Alonso and Mascherano. In a bid to scare off suitors, Benitez has quoted a price-tag of £50m for Alonso, but sources in Spain say the actual valuation coming out of Merseyside is £35m.'