GYBS wrote:I dont think it was the fact he left the club Bav i think its the way he let his contract run down and we had to sell him on the cheap in the end and prob lost about 12 mil on him .
Yeah that left a sour taste in the mouth but the club have to accept responsibility there as well. Who lets their best player (or joint best) run his contract down any lower than 12 months? I'm not especially bitter on that front, although I can understand why some posters are. My opinion is that he gave the club his best years, watched it all turn sour under Houllier (having also been a key player in the Evans years) and couldn't pass up the opportunity to go to Madrid. Things got so bad in Ged's last two years at the club so I didn't really blame him too much and we were very lucky not to lose our talismanic Captain in the same summer for exactly the same reasons.