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"Desperate Newcastle go after Morientes"

Newcastle have joined the race to sign Real Madrid striker Fernando Morientes after their desperate £8m bid for Boumsong was rejected. HAHA

But the Liverpool Echo has said Anfield boss Rafa Benitez will avoid a bidding war and instead turn his attentions to Nicolas Anelka. Real are believed to still want £7m before selling Morientes.

Reports suggest Liverpool will lift their offer to £5m - the highest they are willing to go before bowing out of any deal. Benitez could yet turn his attentions to the younger Anelka should Morientes be reluctant to pledge his future to Liverpool, even tho he is already praising Liverpool and how he'd love to play for us.

Sorry, my intent wasn't to question Alonso's qualities and what he's given to the Liverpool team already this season.

It's still a little much for a "little known" Spaniard, though, wouldn't you say...?


Where's Gerrard on that list, eh? :)

Xabi was worth it, he's been outstanding this season. And as for Josemi...I have no comeback. Biggest disappointment of the season. AT least we've got Stevie 3 (Finnan). He's been good so far, done his job without making too many mistakes. I like Finnan.

Stevie code:

Regular Stevie - Stevie
Stevie 2 - Stevie Warnock
Stevie 3 - Stevie Finnan
Fat Stevie - Neil Mellor

I never realised you payed so-much for Xabi Alonso - and the same goes for Josemi, you're right-back! (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!)

The board posted a £30 million loss at the last AGM. Admittedly, a lot of that was due to the ridiculous sums of money paid and still owed to Houllier - dirty French money-grabber. And we did spend upwards of £30 mill in the summer:

Djibril Cisse - £14 million
Xabi Alonso - £10.5 million
Josemi - £2 million (Why? Rafa, just tell us WHY?)
Luis Garcia - £6 million

Then we only recouped a measly £8 million for Mikey Owen. Steal of the century. OK, century's only been going 4 years. Still. Dirty Spanish. We hate the Spanish. Except the one's at Liverpool and Morientes, of course (that's excluding Josemi..waste of space)

I'm just thinking the board will be a little reluctant to sanction £7 million. But from what the media say, I get the impression everyone at Anfield is really impressed with Benitez. So who knows? I don't think I'm alone in the Liverpool fanworld in wanting a player of Morientes' calibre.

Liverpool haven't seriously got some kind of financial trouble, have they?

I know there's been all this talk this year over various proposed takeovers and that but, I'd have never thought they could be worse-off than many others around them, so I can't see why matching the £7m valuation would be so hard?

Then again, I guess you don't want to give into to the biggest clubs too easily, do you. And they must have their own valuations on a 'surplus to requirements' Spanish international who can score goals, spending his season wasting away on the subs' bench.

Grëén ƒérð¢it¥ wrote:
> Liverpool are just being cheapskates. morientes is worth more than 5
> million. Anyway, If he goes to Liverpool he'll sadly turn into a
> boring, souless player like all the rest of them. Shame really.\

You absolute fool, the whole point of a football transfer is to get a player for as little as possible. Yes I'd like Morientes for £40m please. We aren't cheapskates, we just simply don't have the money. And now that Morgan has done one. We are screwed...Bring on the Hollywood people

Pfft. Kewell rules.

Do shut up, you feckless fool. As if Stevie, Alonso, Garcia, Baros, Cisse and Riise are boring. We've plenty of flair players.

I'll give you Kewell though.

Liverpool are just being cheapskates. morientes is worth more than 5 million. Anyway, If he goes to Liverpool he'll sadly turn into a boring, souless player like all the rest of them. Shame really.

Well they tried for Rooney, though he was young.

Morientes is old. He'll replace Shearer for like 3 years? Then they'll have to buy someone else.