A big part of my issue with this is consistency, I take your point but were you one of the people around me at Stamford bridge screaming abuse at Torres when he warmed up ?
No because A) he went to a local rival and B) he's a joke.
If we play Barcelona Mascherano would get applauded, to me that's wrong
He should get applauded, he's ace.
I think it matters how a player leaves a club, and geting the fair amount is as much down to the player as the club. As has been pointed out the only thing we know is that we got fucked in this transfer and I think it's more likely to because of the players actions than anything else.
As I have repeated, again and again and again; it's not his business to get the best price from the other club. That is *our* responsibility. He gave us an extra year, out of respect for Rafa and that we were losing Alonso, he put another year of effort in and didn't lie or mislead the club at all (unlike Mr I'm signing another contract Owen). Every man and his dog knew that he wanted to move, and that he would move.
None of my posts were in support of Purslow.
I should be clear; I'm not saying you 'support' Purslow (which would be a vile accusation to throw to another Red), I'm saying you're 'advocating the business acumen of the man who referred to himself as the 'Fernando Torres' of finance ' and was quite clearly ... not ... or was if we're talking about Torres of Liverpool or Torres of Chelsea.
Put it another way; there is absolutely nothing, and I want to be clear here
nothing in the recorded history of the Christian Purslow football business playbook that would indicate, even for one brief moment that he wasn't such a big a bell as to actually close the door on Inter's interest to Mascherano. The man was a fuck up from top to bottom.
