"It's disappointing because we made it clear we wanted him to stay. There's no question about that. He's made it pretty clear now that he wants to go and so we have to move on. "I remember sitting with him last summer and underdstanding his frustrations, which were deep at the time. He came close to leaving then but we asked him to stick with us and see what we could achieve. We thought we had achieved a fair bit last season. "To be fair to Stevie this hasn't been about money. Money hasn't been a problem. It's about his commitment and about a feeling of where he wants to be in the long term. He feels he has a better chance of winning trophies and being successful somewhere else. It's our job now to prove him wrong. "People might think winning the Champions League is a good marker that this club is moving in the right direction. I told him to think of the fans, to think of Istanbul and to think of the twelfth man which has been with us all season. "We're all disappointed but the club has to move on now and we'll have to see what tomorrow brings. We're all calm."
Parry interview 1607RICK PARRY: It's disappointing. Personally it's disappointing because we really did make it clear that we wanted Steven to say, there's no question about that. It's the ups...
Cya Stevie GHow many of us have loved the club from being babes? I know i have and SG as been a boyhood fan he says. Strange way of showing it eh...
-- "If you talk about anything other than football to Carra he's not interested. He won't even pretend to be interested. He'll tell you to shut up. But if you asked him to tell you the starting line-ups for the 1965 FA Cup final he would reel them off." - Michael Owen
