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PabloAimar wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/footbal....ontract

The Israeli anticipates the completion of his move to Stamford Bridge over the next few days having indicated last week while on international duty that Chelsea were keen to sign him. "Ancelotti wants me for next season and now everything depends on Liverpool," he said. "Chelsea will have to pay some £6m, but I believe that, in the end, I'll be moving there."

His market value probably is around £6M - but we shouldn't be selling him for less than £15-20M because that's how much [b]rafa would need to find an adequate replacement.[\b]

dawson99 wrote:Benched him too often, played him out of position, played football so dire no one is allowed to be creative (just playnig devils advocate here)

Played him out of position? 

Emerald Red wrote:

PabloAimar wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/footbal....ontract

The Israeli anticipates the completion of his move to Stamford Bridge over the next few days having indicated last week while on international duty that Chelsea were keen to sign him. "Ancelotti wants me for next season and now everything depends on Liverpool," he said. "Chelsea will have to pay some £6m, but I believe that, in the end, I'll be moving there."

His market value probably is around £6M - but we shouldn't be selling him for less than £15-20M because that's how much [b]rafa would need to find an adequate replacement.[\b]

Hardly. How much did Benitez buy him for in the first place? 4 million? So why would it take 4 times that amount to find someone the same or better? In fact, it wouldn't be too difficult to find someone better for the 8 million supposedly offered for him, which should be taken. It's amazing how you value a average player to be as high as 15 million pounds worth more so than the judgement of a manager that bought him for virtually peanuts and will most certainly get close to double the amount paid.

haps wrote:I think it's very sad to see where we've come to:  All this talk of selling players. .. Do we take £6m or £8m?  Blah blah.  Benayoun is a quality player JUST turned 30.  He's a potential matchwinner.  He's great on the ball and in form, he can run a game for us, score goals, everything.  He's also been seeing plenty of action on the pitch this past season.  Put it the other way - say Villa had Yossi and we heard he was going for around that price, we'd jump at it.  Wouldn't we?  Why are we selling these players??  Aurelio's about to go through necessity / injury concerns.  Good luck to him.  Did a good job when fit and called upon but Yossi's different.  I know it's just a different time now in football but it's still sad to see LFC selling on it's talent.  What's Rafa going to do with £6m?  Buy a quality midfielder with proven Premiership experience that can score 10 goals a season and contribute immensely to the team's attacking qualities?  Is he f##k!!!  Someone PLEASE come in and buy our club!!!!

akumaface wrote:This is so depressing. If we can't even hold on to Beni, next season would be worse than this one for sure. Obviously Hicks and Gillette will only look after their interest and not the club's interest. Now that some kind of truth had revealed itself, they no longer need to pretend to be innocent bystander and will just show their evil self if it means selling Gerrard or Torres to cover their big fat old American A.sses.

Emerald Red wrote:

PabloAimar wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/footbal....ontract

The Israeli anticipates the completion of his move to Stamford Bridge over the next few days having indicated last week while on international duty that Chelsea were keen to sign him. "Ancelotti wants me for next season and now everything depends on Liverpool," he said. "Chelsea will have to pay some £6m, but I believe that, in the end, I'll be moving there."

His market value probably is around £6M - but we shouldn't be selling him for less than £15-20M because that's how much [b]rafa would need to find an adequate replacement.[\b]

Hardly. How much did Benitez buy him for in the first place? 4 million? So why would it take 4 times that amount to find someone the same or better? In fact, it wouldn't be too difficult to find someone better for the 8 million supposedly offered for him, which should be taken. It's amazing how you value a average player to be as high as 15 million pounds worth more so than the judgement of a manager that bought him for virtually peanuts and will most certainly get close to double the amount paid.

PabloAimar wrote:

Emerald Red wrote:

PabloAimar wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/footbal....ontract

The Israeli anticipates the completion of his move to Stamford Bridge over the next few days having indicated last week while on international duty that Chelsea were keen to sign him. "Ancelotti wants me for next season and now everything depends on Liverpool," he said. "Chelsea will have to pay some £6m, but I believe that, in the end, I'll be moving there."

His market value probably is around £6M - but we shouldn't be selling him for less than £15-20M because that's how much [b]rafa would need to find an adequate replacement.[\b]

Hardly. How much did Benitez buy him for in the first place? 4 million? So why would it take 4 times that amount to find someone the same or better? In fact, it wouldn't be too difficult to find someone better for the 8 million supposedly offered for him, which should be taken. It's amazing how you value a average player to be as high as 15 million pounds worth more so than the judgement of a manager that bought him for virtually peanuts and will most certainly get close to double the amount paid.

£8M? similar to the amount spent on Riera? Dosenna? Pennant? Lucas?

I honestly hope he can find a replacement for the same value but his quotes of needing 4-5 players costing £15-20M earlier in the season don't fill me with confidence in his own confidence in the transfer market. The point I meant to make was that to me, Benayoun should be a starter every game (as he became last season - 2008/09) and rafa is rarely successful when looking for bargain players for the first team.

Maybe if rafa spent less time complaining about not having £80M to spend this summer on 4/5 players, Adam Johnson wouldn't have ended up at City for £7M. Maybe he'd hear the cries from Arda Turan and maybe he'd realise Joe Cole is available on a free transfer this season. But that's another topic.

haps wrote:I think it's very sad to see where we've come to:  All this talk of selling players. .. Do we take £6m or £8m?  Blah blah.  Benayoun is a quality player JUST turned 30.  He's a potential matchwinner.  He's great on the ball and in form, he can run a game for us, score goals, everything.  He's also been seeing plenty of action on the pitch this past season.  Put it the other way - say Villa had Yossi and we heard he was going for around that price, we'd jump at it.  Wouldn't we?  Why are we selling these players??  Aurelio's about to go through necessity / injury concerns.  Good luck to him.  Did a good job when fit and called upon but Yossi's different.  I know it's just a different time now in football but it's still sad to see LFC selling on it's talent.  What's Rafa going to do with £6m?  Buy a quality midfielder with proven Premiership experience that can score 10 goals a season and contribute immensely to the team's attacking qualities?  Is he f##k!!!  Someone PLEASE come in and buy our club!!!!