Xabi Alonso Return?

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trouble is he'd be playing in gerrard's position and gerrard is in the best form he's been for a few years atm.

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Fantastic servant in his day for the club. International class player too. Scorer of fantastic goals (esp Istanbul) take him back, home? Having removed the rose-tinted spectacles, sadly for me the answer would have to be no. Unless that is, BR decided to 'rest' our skipper more often. Xabi could do that job. JimmyTheRed

Get him back

We would only have Gerrard, Lucas, Allen, Henderson and Xabi.

Looks clear that Sahin isn't staying and Shelvey isn't going to start every game right now. What a player Xabi is to learn from.


Lucas Alonso
-- Gerrard

(Back up Allen, Hendo, Shelvey)

Squad.

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He said in an interview with LFCtv that he left because in the summer of 2008, he realised that he had gone from being an important player to a player who could be sold to raise transfer funds.

Maybe family reasons came into it as well, but it always seemed to me that he was just hurt that Rafa tried to sell him.

It was what Rafa had to deal with as well at that time.

He almost always had to sell to buy.

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Maybe family reasons came into it as well, but it always seemed to me that he was just hurt that Rafa tried to sell him.
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Yes, that’s true, but Rafa’s version of the story is that Xabi was always going to go back to Spain anyway, so he tried to sell him while the price was optimum for LFC (as opposed to letting Xabi decide when it was time to go).

Xabi was bought for 10m, and we got 5 years good service out of him, before selling him in his late 20's at a profit of 20m. The only thing bad about such a deal is that the money was not re-invested in the transfer-market. It was diverted towards interest payments on a loan that was of no benefit to LFC.