Keep Xabi Alonso Thread

[The Erectile Banana]

by all means buy Barry, but Xabi must be kept. I keep on saying that the fact the mancs bought Anderson and Hargreves last year did not mean the end of Scholes and Carrick, it in fact made them a much stronger unit than before. We need the quality in team.

We don't need both. Scholes is coming towards the end of his career, Anderson just starting his, neither of them expect to start every game.

If we bought Barry and kept Alonso that would leave 4 players - Mascher, Alonso, Barry and Lucas competing for two places - 3 of whom - Mascher, Alonso and Barry will expect to play nearly every week.

[friedk]

If we're going to pay £15-18m for Gareth Barry and sell Alonso for £15m, what is the point?

I mean, I don't know about anyone else but I'm not all that fussed about Barry, I don't think he is any better than Alonso at his best, I think Alonso at his best offers more to the team.

The only way thses transfers make sense to me is if we make profit and get a better player and I don't think we would be doing either.

Agreed, no way should we be held to ransom by Villa.

[BrooklynRed]

Agreed, no way should we be held to ransom by Villa.

Unless it's David Villa, then by all means, WHATEVER IT TAKES....

[tomasjj]

Good thread!

[Boogs]

You get the feeling that Xabi and Rafa have had a lover's tiff...I cannot see replacing Xabi with Barry as a pure footballing decision. There must be other factors.

Might be something to do with him wanting to be with his wife while she gave birth instead of travelling with the team for that CL game. There was a lot of talk at the time of Rafa being hacked off with his decision

[Exiled_red]

If Barry is going to cost more than we'll get for Alonso we should stick with Alonso and not go after Barry IMO

[The Aardvark]

If we can get Barry in for the same price that we sell Xabi I will be fairly happy. Barry and Stevie look good together. In my opinion Xabi hasn't been as good in the last two seasons as the first two.

Would be nice to keep them both, but a) its not financially viable at present, and b) we can't keep that many quality central midfielders happy.

[Nic83]

I'm in, ElRobbie you ****ing legend

[Jayesh87]

If we're going to pay £15-18m for Gareth Barry and sell Alonso for £15m, what is the point?

Because Rafa knows best

[Sarb]

Im in. Keep Xabi

[Nic83]

What makes you say that?!

[Jayesh87]

What makes you say that?!

Because he has a goatee

[Nic83]

What makes you say that? He's made more mistakes at LFC than disxleyc

[Nic83]

Because he has a goatee

I'll accept that

[Sarb]

Because Rafa knows best

Rafa knows jack if he thinks swapping one central midfielder for another is going to win us the title. Every man and his dog can see our main priority is to get a player to play off Torres, hence move Gerrard in with Mascherano, keep Alonso as back-up and get a couple of wingers.

That is every man except Rafa who yet again spends a summer chasing a central ****ing midfielder yet again.

If he spunks £20m plus on Barry and Milner then next season should be his last chance. If he doesn't win the title then he should be sacked