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Xabi to hang up his boots

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[article]Xabi Alonso is likely to retire at the end of the season and join Bayern Munich’s board of directors.

Sportbild claim that the 35-year-old – still part of Bayern’s first team – will hang up his boots when his contract expires at the end of the season.


The Spaniard apparently informed Bayern of his decision ahead of the Bundesliga’s mid-season break.

Alonso’s list of honours is phenomenal – he won the World Cup with Spain in 2010 and the European Championship in 2008 and 2012.

At Liverpool, Alonso won the Champions League, FA Cup and Super Cup, before joining Real Madrid, where he won the Champions League, La Liga, Copa del Rey twice and the Spanish Super Cup.

At Bayern, he has won the Bundesliga twice, the German Cup and the German Super Cup.[/article]

One of the most elegant, classy midfielders to wear the Red shirt ... He should have retired a Red ... what a fucking great player.
 
I still always remember the look of terror on his face before he took the penalty in Istanbul. I thought to myself "This fucker's gonna miss it".
 
He's joining the Board of Directors ?
Thats a great start to a post playing career.

I love talented, intelligent, understated footballers. So Xabi is my favourite LFC player of the last 15 years.
 
yeah the opening line speaks volumes about the man.

best of luck to him, im not sure there's been a season since he's left that we haven't needed him , what a classy player he was
 
Rosco said:
He's joining the Board of Directors ?
Thats a great start to a post playing career.

I love talented, intelligent, understated footballers. So Xabi is my favourite LFC player of the last 15 years.
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Yeah, he was a wonderful player and is a splendid person too.

It's a shame he didn't stay at Anfield for many more years, but I'm just grateful we saw him play in Red for as long as we did.

A true great, who was a credit to every club and manager he played for, and deserves every success he had.
 
Can see him becoming a sporting director at Bayern. Would have been a decent manager I reckon.
 
Hansern said:
Can see him becoming a sporting director at Bayern. Would have been a decent manager I reckon.
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Or player manager. Something which was attributed to my insanity at the time, but now after everything that has happened for shit year upon shit year, you can see that one ought to have been attributed to my genius instead.
 
The absolute epitome of what I like in a player, intelligent, elegant and a complete professional.
I have never been so gutted to see a player leave.
I was distraught when Torres left but that was like saying goodbye to woman that the sex was great with.
Xabi was like losing a love.
 
One of my favourite players ever and a true gent, I wish him all the very best of success. What a great career he's had.
 
Not too many footballers have class and style but Xabi always oozed it.
He was the quarterback of that fantastic 08/09 team and provided the platform for other players to raise their game to his level.
Fantastic footballer.
 
Will always remember him with much fondness, one of my all time favourites. As someone on here once said, surrounded by bluster and madness, Xabi kept his internal radio channel dialled in on classical.

I loved his 'own half' goals, especially the Luton one. Also the look of confusion on his gorgeous bearded face as he tried to stamp off the effects of a broken foot!
 
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Yeah that performance gave me a boner.
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Me too.
Worst thing about that was seeing Salif Diao coming on in his place...useless twat shouldn't have been in the same fucking changeroom as Xabi.
Back to Xabi, what a wonderful footballer and a true gent who genuinely got what it meant to be a Liverpool player.
Wish him the best in whatever he chooses to do after retirement.
Man, I wish we had someone even half as intelligent and talented as him in our midfield now.
 
Without doubt my favourite football of all time, he's an absolute master of the ball, so effortless yet so deliberate, he's a joy to watch and a role model to anyone anywhere. Legend.
 
manwithnoname said:
There are so many highlights, but I'll never forget that first proper introduction to a Xabi Alonso Midfield Masterclass vs Norwich.

This was football re-wrought as intellectual art.

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Christ, I always remember that performance against Spurs in his first season, but this is something else, it's breathtakingly easy for him, it's like he's watching the play on the TV and drawing his passes on the pitch with a pencil, it's beautiful.
 
That performance against Norwich, I can't remember who their manager was now, but he was saying after the game that Alonso was worth the entrance fee alone for the punters.
 
Yes - I can only echo what I'm sure 100% of reds will say. What a fantastic player and a proper gentlemen by all accounts. Brilliant career with befits the many talents of the man.
 
His performance away against Juventus in the CL quarter final. He was out for 3 months with a broken angle. Played 45 minutes of reserve football, started in Turin.

I remember a quote from him after the game something along the lines of him having to conserve the energy and pick the times to run and to tackle. He knew he had to last 90 minutes while being unfit with no Steven Gerrard. Given the circumstances, one of the great European midfield performance.
 
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