by bigmick » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:19 am
I think its quite important to bear in mind though that he doesn't really owe us anything at present. He didn't cost a fee, he's been a fantastic player for us and lets not forget, last night wouldn't have happened at all were it not for his herculean efforts of last season.
The key is, as long as we get a realistic fee for him. No stringing along, poncing about, got to talk to me little brother first, depends what my agent says and all that old bo!!ocks, a proper and fair price. If we get that, then I don't begrudge him his move. I think he's misguided but I don't begrudge him.
On the question of a large family and showing his sons his medals, is it me or doesn't "look at this son. this is a championship medal I won with my hometown club.You know your Grandad? well he first took me down to training when I was eleven years old. he used to come and watch every game. And your grandma. Come rain or shine they cheered me on, just like I come and watch you when you play for the school. Anyhow it took me a whole career. We were rubbish at first but we gradually improved each season until in my last couple of years we were the best. I still remember the day we won it, your Grandad cried his eyes out, said it was the proudest moment of his life. One day I hope you'll play for Liverpool son. That'll be the proudest moment of mine," sound better than "see these son. Six Championships. What happened was, this Russian bloke came over and bought all the best players. One season we won it by twenty five points! Had a squad of seventy six players. I did well that year, played fourteen games."
If ever I had been good enough to make it as a pro, I would have definately been a glory hunter. Just depends what you call glory I suppose.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".