Xabi Alonso - Fee Agreed (Official)

[RedReet]

I thought we had bought him back.

Same here

I somehow missed the post match thread and thought no one had mentioned it and I didn't want to start a new thread. I do apologise.

[SB]

Good to see Xabi back at Anfield last night.

Cliffy, that's just not cricket mate

Your messing with my mind

[banditos]

Cliffy, that's just not cricket mate

Your messing with my mind

Why the **** did you mention the cricket Steve? It's terrible over here, surrounded by poms making snide remarks.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Xabi making a move into management come the summer.


https://www.theguardian.com/football...h-manager-june

Xabi Alonso agrees to become Borussia Mönchengladbach manager in June


Xabi Alonso has agreed a deal to become manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach this summer. The former Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid player is in charge of Real Sociedad’s B team but will return to Germany in June to take the top job at Mönchengladbach.

Alonso will replace Marco Rose, who signed a deal last month to become Borussia Dortmund manager at the end of the season after activating a clause in his current contract.

Gladbach were challenging for the Champions League places before Christmas but have fallen to 10th in the Bundesliga after an alarming downturn in results.

Alonso won three Bundesliga titles with Bayern after being signed by Pep Guardiola in 2014 and ended a glorious playing career three years later.

Bayern’s chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, told Kicker in 2019: “I think we have to make an effort to bring Xabi Alonso back to Bayern at some point. He is the best central midfielder we’ve had in recent years. He wasn’t the quickest, but he was the best strategically and the most intelligent I’ve ever seen in our midfield. He was a marvellous player, who speaks four languages and German fluently. He was a real personality. I’d really like him to return to Bayern one day, he’s a true gentleman.”

[Shaggy]

It's not happening. Another Romano clanger.

[Doc_Piptorious]

It's not happening. Another Romano clanger.

Really?


Should have punned using Romero instead then, zombie thread and all that

[Rich]

Although it was inevitable.............

This is a huge week. I hope we bring in Aquilani immediately.

This post aged well.

[Kenneth]

Ouch

[SB]

[Fosterbloke]

Fee agreed subject to medical


official

Fabinho was 15 when this was posted. All good things hey

[Shaggy]

This post aged well.

[Alex]

It's not happening. Another Romano clanger.

I see this name all the time.

Isnt he just a Jenkins style blagger with the persona of it actually being legit?

I mean, most of what he says is either obvious our an educated guess.

[Shaggy]

I see this name all the time.

Isnt he just a Jenkins style blagger with the persona of it actually being legit?

I mean, most of what he says is either obvious our an educated guess.

He's got about 2m followers which obviously gives him (a veneer of) cred, and throws out 'scoops' left right and centre. It's obviously not possible to have contacts at every club in every big league in the world, but he implies that to be the case with the amount of 'scoops' he claims. It seems he assiduously follows all the regional reporters and follows hot on their heels with the so-called scoop. So the local reporter for, I dunno, say Lyon, has 20k followers but he throws out the same info 30 seconds later to his 2m followers and it flies around the world as his scoop. I used to do that with DJ's tweets and it's mad how people fall for it - although I've never followed Romano but would see him RTd sometimes, and I fell for it initially too.

Ornstein does the same (he is legit with Arsenal but like FR feels he has to cover every major transfer....fraud territory!), and Fjortoft too.

[Saveloy]

And he's got a catchphrase FFS!

[Roboklopp]

“It’s good but it’s not right”?