bigmick wrote:The whispers have been kicking around for a few days now. I know the tabloids and even the broadsheets print sh!te, but there has been no denial from Anfield and it has appeared now in a number of papers.
If there IS anything in it, is it a good move? My suspicion has been from the very early stages that we paid way over the odds for him (I think we'd get maybe 7 or 8 mill tops if we sold him tomorrow) but despite this, I like his attitude and think he is showing promise with every game. My preferred option, if cash is tight would have been to sell Morientes (I think we'd get our money back to to a Spanish club), keep Baros and sign Owen. I think then in Baros, Owen, Crouch and Cisse each striker would offer something different.
Surely if we sell Baros AND Cisse then we are left with three strikers and will be relying on the likes of Mellor if we sustain injuries.
The only justification for selling Cisse in my book would be to sell him to Lyon as Houllier would probably pay through the nose to get him and to prove he was a good signing in the first place.
i hardly think it would be fair to sell him now considering he missed pretty much the whole of last season through injury.
however i've said it in the past and i'll say it again. i don't think rafa is a big fan of cisse. that's why he didn't play him against sofia at home or at boro, despite him scoring 4 goals in his previous 5 games.
i also agree that we paid over the odds for him but that was houllier for you. if rafa was here 2 years ago he would never have brought cisse here in the first place so we can thank our lucky stars that we have him.