Agreed, would have been an injustice had we not agreed to his signing,
Could be the Gary Mac old head settling factor we need as well sometimes,
Champions LeagueSeeded teams cant meet in the Qualifying rounds, so we could only get Everton. Here is the 3rd Qualifying round buttuming all of the seeded teams get...
As I said elsewhere:
He has 2 choices at this juncture in his career,
1. Sign long term contract and forget moving anywhere else, he could move later, but would he make an impact somewhere else later?
We're inYou ungrateful bastard, you're nothing better. You got UEFA to bend rules, rules they never bent for the Spanish FA - leaving the Spanish FA to unfairly...
2. Being the Capt of the reigning ECL winners, move whilst the iron is hot, maximising for both club & oneself,
poo, even I would find that hard to choose between, doubling my wages and-or experience(s) or staying loyal, good luck to the lad in whatever choice he makes, just give him a break and wish him well, I mean how many Scousers do you know that has topped what he has achieved, and he is young. Not many lads from the locality go on to lift the ECL.
Chill, have a beer & relax, the boss knows as well as we do what is required.
We survived Roger Hunt, Kevin Keegan, Grahame Souness, YMO all leaving & moving on, and we go & win the big eared one in 2005,