I said several days ago that Keane would not play anymore for Liverpool FC. I said several weeks ago that Keane probably would be leaving the club during the transfer window. If you recall correctly, several of our regulars gave me some stick about this, saying that Keane was a quality player, etc. The fact is that he was a square peg in a round hole. C'est la vie. Everyone wanted this to work out positively. It didn't. What do we learn from this? Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while...
Well thats a shame that it didn't work out- but life goes on. Our club is still the most important thing here- lets move on and win this god damn league!
Hero, not legend. He's in the same breath with players such as Waddle and Klinnsmann. Not in the same breath as, say, Perryman or Hoddle. Opinions are split all over the Spurs message boards. People didn't like his comments about wanting to stay here for the rest of his career, only to jump ship at the first chance he got. Me personally, I think we need all of the help we can get. And I take a particular joy in Daniel Levy looking like an idiot.
Hopefully Babel turns into the striker we all know he can be. He's fast, strong and he has a good shot. He's scored some great goals. Hopefully he gets more time now that Keane is gone. But I def. have hope for Nemeth and Pacheco.
Darren Bent must be going crazy. He was brought in to Spurs and took a while to settle in. The manager who brought him in, Jol, was then axed. He then found himself unfancied by Ramos who preferred Keane, Berbatov and Defoe ahead of him. Defoe was then sold, as was Keane and Berbatov. Frazier Campbell came in on loan. Bent must have been pretty content. Then Pavlyuchenko comes in and then Defoe comes back and now Keane as well. So Bent is now back to 4th choice and is the only one of the 4 who was not bought by the current manager! When is Lineker going back?
great just ********ing great we buy him for 20-million and we sell him for 12-million great business that, after 6 months 8-million down the pan
TBH, Jol never wanted Bent. It's the former director of football who brought him in. Jol wanted a left midfielder.
what the HELL are you talking about? We bought him for 19M + add ons that could have seen the deal reach 20.3M. Now most, if not all reports are saying we sold him for 16M. I'm ok with spending 3m in what could have been a great move....and he still scored 7 goals.
Re: Robbie's gone - Are you happy now, Rafa? I think you accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan anyways, don't worry about it. (US Politics joke...)
Re: Robbie's gone - Are you happy now, Rafa? Argggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh! OK, I'm all better now. Oh, and I vote "Aye"
Ok - I see what you are saying. We hadn't actually paid the 19M in full yet - so we are getting a part written off - i.e. from between 3-4M from what is being bandied about on RAWK. So they are paying us 12M up front and it could go higher with add ons that Robbie is likely to make since Spurs won't sell him again (speculation here on my part) and writing off 3-4M = 15-16M. Still fine as I look at it.
Re: Robbie's gone - Are you happy now, Rafa? Who died and made you moderator? Sorry, I don't subscribe the "Rafa is God" line you seem to toe. Unsurprisingly, you have offered no counter argument/claim to anything I've said. I'd love to hear an explanation as to why Fergie can assimilate a new striker from Spurs into their system but we can't. I'd love to hear how Babel & Kuyt will suddenly start scoring goals and save the day. I'd love to hear how we are in a better position without Keane. Go on, I'm waiting with baited breath.
Re: Robbie's gone - Are you happy now, Rafa? 653221 died and made me moderator. Don't start arguments over this. You could have easily put your post in the "Robbie Keane Thread" and not drawn the ire of everyone on the board. Take a deep breath and count to ten.
I'm surprised at some of the criticism of Robbie over a relatively minor misdemeanour of being pissed off at being substituted. Remember, at the beginning when he was substituted there was absolutely no reaction. The reactions only came after he was being subsituted in every single game, whether he was playing well, playing badly, scoring goals, missing sitters, and whether the team were winning or losing. There are not many players, who having signed for £20 million pounds and at their physical peak would appreciate only playing 75% of every game. I am not justifying the reaction, but he's a human being and prone to the same frustrations as all the rest of us. I never saw him do anything completely off the wall with these reactions. All I ever saw was a reaction of initial disappointment and frustration when the substitutions were beginning to get relentless. Nothing more nothing less and for me, these reactions are to be expected given the circumstances. He was visibly annoyed, he composed himself, then he ran off the pitch. Nothing crazy there. He worked his ass off playing in every position that he was asked to, he was always ready to come on off the bench (no sitting around sulking like certain other Liverpool players) by being warmed up, and he never at any stage moaned to the press about his predicament. On the other hand, how was Robbie treated by the club and manager? Was he shown faith by the manager? Could one describe repeatedly being subbed, not being used when Liverpool are chasing wins, and being dropped after scoring a few goals as displays of faith from his manager? Not one bit. Especially if one compares this to how Berbatov was treated, in similar circumstances at Manchester United. It has been a great shame that it hasn't worked out. However, there was clearly much more than meets the eye to this one. Personally, I dont think that Robbie was managed well by Benitez to the extent that every football hack in the country was trying to work out why Benitez was treating Keane in such a way. Let's just hope that Liverpool go on and win the league, and that Robbie Keane scores a hat-trick of OGs on the final day of season to give Liverpool a 3-2 win at Anfield and clinch the title. Oh what an interesting game that could turn out to be if the League goes to the wire.
Personaly I'm glad he's gone. Not for anything he's done, but because it was just one more thing in the long list of crap that makes our club a laughing stock. At least now the only bad thing we have to endure is Kuyt up front on his own when Torres gets injured. Second thoughts!!
Re: Robbie's gone - Are you happy now, Rafa? Although I am disappointed that Keane didn't work out, well . . . it didn't work out. I see it as more of a failed experiment than a disaster. He was not playing much, so I'm not convinced that this move will have much of an effect at all. Good luck Robbie, thanks for the effort. Bring on the Bitters. I wondered what happened to him.