are you living on cloud 9 the man was pushed out the door over the garreth barry deal which fell back on mr benitez face and he was a great servent to liverpool and a class player and the type of player he is he could carry on playing at that level for another 4/5 years and me personaly id have him bace in the morning....
I'm not the one living on cloud nine. Which season did Rafa try to get Barry, during which season did Alonso play well, and during which season did Alonso leave?
Once you have your facts straight you will find that an average midfielder got a rocket in the form of an attempt to replace him, the result of which was that he played extremely well the next season (form which he has maintained, showing he was clearly lazy to some degree prior to the events), and only THEN did he leave. Had he left during the same window as Rafa tried to sign Barry I would agree with those who believe he was pushed out the door. But he didn't. Based on no prior evidence he thought he was bigger than the club, that the manager had no right to choose who should play in his team. He took his opportunity to prove his doubters wrong, spent an entire season engineering a move back to Spain, and then deserted us when we began to dream of winning the title.
He could have buried the hatchet with Rafa, or at least let bygones be bygones, but he chose not to. That doesn't smack of someone who cares about Liverpool football club and its fans to me, so the more he pull on our heartstrings the less I like him. And I didn't like him much to start with because he was nothing special until Rafa tried to sign Barry. Alonso showed me nothing to suggest he would die for the LFC shirt, and that's not the kind of player we need. He talked the talk, but he hasn't walked the walk. Now that we look like a team again, and given the fiasco that Real's season turned into, I'm hardly surprised to hear this kind of talk from such a turncoat. His conduct was as unprofessional as that of certain other players who have left recently, he's simply been more diplomatic about it, and I hope that Kenny is never tempted to sign this traitor.
