Re: Xabi Alonso will stay at Anfield, says Rafa Benitez
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I'm too busy this month to bother about this, but this thread, full as it is with the mood-shifting contrariness that comes from (a) wanting to fetishise pessimism to inure oneself to anticipated pain or (b) wanting to fetishise optimism to ward off thoughts of said pain, was bad enough as an unsolicited display of a disturbingly humour-free person's therapy, but the recent addition of sanctimonious, almost Biblical, 'we're all to blame' wailings is too much.
This is what Benitez said about Barry. I know it's part of the above mindset to regard the manager of this club as not only more stupid than they are but also little more than a brazen liar, but, for those whose feet are still in touching distance of planet Earth:
I want to make things clear over what has happened between us and Aston Villa.
‘I talked to Martin O’Neill about Barry in April but have not spoken to anyone at Aston Villa since. In the intervening months, all the talks have been between Rick Parry and Aston Villa’s owner and chief executive. The talks have been pretty good, but they are the ones involved, not me. I was not conducting any talks with Villa about Gareth Barry or with Arsenal about Xabi Alonso. If you want to know about negotiations over players, you must contact Rick Parry.
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Your Barry point is void as the player wanted to leave,
as far as we know Xabi is happy, when a player wants to leave of course the buying club are going to act in this way.
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Macca's point isn't "void" in the slightest, because we don't "know" anything of the kind yet.
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Barry came out and declared interest and was then courted by us, from the offset he said he wanted to leave, Xabi has said in an interview he is happy here, so until Xabi comes out and says he wants to join Madrid the point is void.
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There is a point in what you say Peatcheo, but Barry never would submit a written transfer request , Villa said if he did that he could go.
The other point is that until we came sniffing around there was never , as far as is documented any thought of Barry leaving.
The only difference is Alonso has remained largely silent, and it is that silence that is deafening
regards
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To be fair George during the Barry ordeal there was confusion over who was right and wrong considering that Rafa claimed that O'Neill leaked our interest before we did.
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I may be mistaken but I actually thought that Barry did hand in his transfer request and we could not or would not meet Villa's valuation.
