Clocking off time at The Transfer Tavern sees Carlos D. Salas from MARCA rushing in to tell us of the latest plans by Real Madrid in their struggle to sign Liverpool’s Xabi Alonso.
According to the Spanish paper, the saga over Alonso’s protracted tranfer to the Bernabeu is nearing the final furlong with his inaction on the Reds’ pre-season tour of Asia showing that Rafael Benitez is prepared to enter negotiations with the free-spending Real.
Los Blancos are keen to sign Alonso up immediately asthey believe he is the ‘missing link’ in their star-studded midfield and it appears that they are reducing their initial offer of €27 million to €25m. This is due to the insistence of the Anfield outfit that Alonso would not leave the club for less than €36 million.
The reason for Real’s reduced offer is due to the fact that the player himself has told Benitez that he wants to leave Merseyside in favour of a return to his homeland, despite a strong show of support by supporters in Asia when the Reds played in Thailand and Singapore.
When asked about the future of Alonso, Benitez refused to comment on the playmaker’s Anfield future, insisting that it is up to the player whether or not to comment on the speculation surrounding him.
“It’s a question that you have to ask him,” said the Liverpool boss.
“Honestly, we’ve been talking about this for two months but I think that it is a question for him and not for us.
“He has three years on his contract and we know he is a great player – that’s why we signed him and renewed his contract. So you have to ask him.”
So which variety of liquid refreshment led to this tale? Will Real get their man for less than the asking price? Will Benitez sell grant Alonso’s wish to move to the Bernabeu? Should this rumour Fly or Die?
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this is just a rumour and alonso won’t join real madrid because he know he is very important to liverpool.He will definitely be at anfield the next season!!!, by the way real madrid is just shit in europe and here he is playing in the best team in europe and even in the world!!!!, COME ON LIVERPOOL THIS YEAR IS OUR YEAR!!!!, YNWA!!!!!
Xabi Aloooonso,dont go we need you!
YNWA
real madrid , as we showed last year , home and away are not in are class. even with new players they won.t beat us there owners are a disgrace they want big money for there players, yet won.t pay the going rate for ours. alonso has A CONTRACT FOR 3 YEARS ITS 30MIL OR GO AWAY SIMPLE. OR ROBBERN. AND SNIDJER PLUS 10 MIL. THE TEAM IN SPAIN IS BARCA NOT MADRID, THE TEAM IN EUROPE IS LIVERPOOL…YOU PAID 20MIL FOR DAIRRA FROM POMPEY ALONSO IS WORTH TWICE HIS FEE…
I love alonso but if he was sold we might be able to add to our strike force with david silva or someone else
we need you in real madrid xabi, please come in and if you come in mwnuel pellegrini can make you this offer <> that means the champions league , la liga , and the copa del rey. please we need you there you have your place in real madrid
Thank you We wait for you.