Rafa is not at fault. He may have wanted to sell Alonso to raise funds but in every walks of life people have misunderstandings and deterioration in relationships. Things like that happen and are deal with.
I think Alonso has the right to decide whats right and wrong for him, maybe he views what happened way differently than me and maybe he does want to go to Spain for his family but Rafa is not the villain here and Alonso's not the hero. Not that simple.
Alonso had the
choice b/w us and Madrid. He
chose to go to Madrid, when both the fans and the manager wanted to keep hold of him.
A sharp contrast to the season before and all things considered it was his best season with us, universal recognition and love as a player for us. Why not take that into perspective as well with the "bad" treatment over the Barry saga.
It's not covered or mentioned anywhere in the media or by the fans.
He is not wrong to leave the club for whatever reasons but Rafa's treatment, his wife and spain etc don't make it a right either. His departure is different to others, he was one of our most important players and the vital cog in the great team we had last season.
This season is our most important season in many years and no amount of money will get Aquilani to fit into our team straight away (maybe he will, but we are left in uncertainty). Rafa has to go out there all over again and get it right and I think our sympathies should lie with Rafa Benitez and ourselves. Not Alonso.