Author Topic: Xabi Alonso (Read 339297 times)

And Could He Play · « **Reply #2920 on:** November 11, 2012, 03:12:01 am »

Fucking hell get over him.

Xxavi · « **Reply #2921 on:** November 11, 2012, 03:13:27 am »

Alonso has actually improved since going to Madrid, especially defensively. He is their most defensive midfielder now, and tackles a lot. Doesn't attack as much as he used to at Liverpool though.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KmldYvqoiDY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/KmldYvqoiDY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0</a>

I wonder if he likes Mourinho. He has too much class to like Mourinho's methods, IMO. I cannot hate him even if he plays for Real Madrid.

MidwestWool · « **Reply #2922 on:** November 11, 2012, 03:15:54 am »

Quote from: Xxavi on November 11, 2012, 03:13:27 am

Alonso has actually improved since going to Madrid, especially defensively. He is their most defensive midfielder now, and tackles a lot. Doesn't attack as much as he used to at Liverpool though.

Also become a much dirtier player.

Xxavi · « **Reply #2923 on:** November 11, 2012, 03:16:58 am »

Quote from: MidwestWool on November 11, 2012, 03:15:54 am

Also become a much dirtier player.

True. He doesn't have speed or tackling skills to do his defensive job as clean as for example Masch does.

eirwen · « **Reply #2924 on:** November 11, 2012, 03:50:15 am »

Quote from: Alonso. on November 10, 2012, 11:27:46 am

If he signs a new deal, pretty much rules out any move to us ever happening. Sad, really.

Don't worry. I'm sure we'll still have threads about this until the day he retires.

Hazell · « **Reply #2925 on:** November 11, 2012, 08:02:42 am »

Quote from: MidwestWool on November 11, 2012, 03:15:54 am

Also become a much dirtier player.

The Mourinho Effect.

Varun · « **Reply #2926 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:49:59 pm »

Former Liverpool player Xabi Alonso says he is still a fan of the club despite leaving Anfield in 2009.

Alonso moved to Spanish side Real Madrid for £30m four years ago but says he still feels "really attached" to the Merseyside club.

The Spaniard also reveals that the summer before his move the club told him he was not as "important" to their plans as he thought he was.

Video Interview here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21485187

What a legend.

Yorkykopite · « **Reply #2927 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:50:48 pm »

Good lad Xabi.

And I'm still an Alonso fan.

Sir Psycho Sexy · « **Reply #2928 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:51:32 pm »

Xabi planting the seed for his transfer to us in the Summer.

TheGOAT · « **Reply #2929 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:52:48 pm »

Shame he felt a bit unwanted, cant blame him. Bring him back!

Cochise · « **Reply #2930 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:53:17 pm »

The club told him he's not as important to our plans as he thought he was.

Terrible from us.

Hazell · « **Reply #2931 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:54:16 pm »

Brilliant player.

Hope this doesn't turn into one of those threads.

Juan Loco · « **Reply #2932 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:55:17 pm »

Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off.

Passmaster Molby · « **Reply #2933 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:56:54 pm »

Quote from: Cochise on February 16, 2013, 04:53:17 pm

The club told him he's not as important to our plans as he thought he was.

Terrible from us.

Jordan Henderson was told the same thing during the summer, but he decided to stay and fight.

Don't underestimate the influence of Real Madrid or the 50% tax rule in Xabi's decision to leave.

Halcyon Lissome · « **Reply #2934 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:57:20 pm »

Quote from: Juan Loco on February 16, 2013, 04:55:17 pm

Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off.

Hahahahahaha, brilliant.

I love Xabi. I think in the last season he showed everybody that he was important for us. I'm sure the plans to sell him were shelved and if he really wanted to stay he could have - it was in his hands. But he left...sigh.

ChaChaMooMoo · « **Reply #2935 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:58:40 pm »

I miss his projectile hollywood style passes from the left bottom to right top of the ground.

Red Cez · « **Reply #2936 on:** February 16, 2013, 04:58:49 pm »

Always classy. Don't really like to have favourites when it comes to players but Xabi will always be one of those few who I loved.

arcticus · « **Reply #2937 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:00:01 pm »

Quote from: Passmaster Molby on February 16, 2013, 04:56:54 pm

Jordan Henderson was told the same thing during the summer, but he decided to stay and fight.

Hendo was told to go to Fulham, he was told he could go to Madrid ( back to his own country )

Anywhichwayicant · « **Reply #2938 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:00:49 pm »

He was always going to return to Spain. No way was he turning down Madrid.

CarraG238 · « **Reply #2939 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:01:06 pm »

I can't help but think he'll end up at Liverpool.

-Willo- · « **Reply #2940 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:03:35 pm »

Quote from: CarraG238 on February 16, 2013, 05:01:06 pm

I can't help but think he'll end up at Liverpool.

Bayern Munich maybe

Prof · « **Reply #2941 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:04:45 pm »

When it looked like Stevie was leaving in 2005, the only thing that I could console myself with was knowing we still had Xabi.

Class player.

john_mac · « **Reply #2942 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:05:19 pm »

Quote from: Anywhichwayucan on February 16, 2013, 05:00:49 pm

He was always going to return to Spain. No way was he turning down Madrid.

Why? He is a Basque, not the closest ties with Madrid, in fact generations of whom would consider themselves separate to the Spanish, certainly not as closely tied to it, particularly Franco's city & club.

stonty · « **Reply #2943 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:06:24 pm »

Xabi is a class act

abhred · « **Reply #2944 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:07:43 pm »

Isn't his contract up in the summer? Would make too much sense for us to try and get him back. Could have the kind of effect Pirlo had with Juventus. Brendan talked about getting characters. Xabi would be that. La Liga/World Cup/Euro winner, he'd get our entire midfield some backbone.

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #2945 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:17:28 pm »

Quote from: john_mac on February 16, 2013, 05:05:19 pm

Why? He is a Basque, not the closest ties with Madrid, in fact generations of whom would consider themselves separate to the Spanish, certainly not as closely tied to it, particularly Franco's city & club.

Didn't he want his son to go to school in Spain?

arcticus · « **Reply #2946 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:19:16 pm »

Quote from: abhred on February 16, 2013, 05:07:43 pm

Isn't his contract up in the summer? Would make too much sense for us to try and get him back. Could have the kind of effect Pirlo had with Juventus. Brendan talked about getting characters. Xabi would be that. La Liga/World Cup/Euro winner, he'd get our entire midfield some backbone.

Xabi + Lucas + Stevie

Lenin. · « **Reply #2947 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:19:19 pm »

Should bang in a transfer demand again.

MolbyLovesGravlax · « **Reply #2948 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:19:58 pm »

Quote from: CarraG238 on February 16, 2013, 05:01:06 pm

I can't help but think he'll end up at Liverpool.

Don't think the owners would pay big wages and a transfer fee of any size. So it would only happen if compromises were made by all parties.

Yorkykopite · « **Reply #2949 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:20:27 pm »

Quote from: Passmaster Molby on February 16, 2013, 04:56:54 pm

Jordan Henderson was told the same thing during the summer, but he decided to stay and fight.

I think a slight difference was that Alonso was an established footballer with a track record of imposing himself on games.

The summer that he was told to find another club was the summer he should have been told that he was to be vice-captain to Gerrard and a dominant figure in the club's next 5 years.

Anywhichwayicant · « **Reply #2950 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:20:37 pm »

Quote from: john_mac on February 16, 2013, 05:05:19 pm

Why? He is a Basque, not the closest ties with Madrid, in fact generations of whom would consider themselves separate to the Spanish, certainly not as closely tied to it, particularly Franco's city & club.

Aye, but just because you're born in the Basque region, doesn't automatically mean you're anti Spain, and given Alonso was a Spanish international, it seems that there was no such issue.

Didn't he live in Barcelona for a while, when he was younger, or have I made that up?

-Willo- · « **Reply #2951 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:21:21 pm »

Quote from: MolbyLovesGravy on February 16, 2013, 05:19:58 pm

Don't think the owners would pay big wages and a transfer fee of any size. So it would only happen if compromises were made by all parties.

His contract is up in the summer I think.

Yorkykopite · « **Reply #2952 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:22:06 pm »

Quote from: Anywhichwayucan on February 16, 2013, 05:20:37 pm

Aye, but just because you're born in the Basque region, doesn't automatically mean you're anti Spain, .

Read his post again. He didn't say that.

Lenin. · « **Reply #2953 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:22:53 pm »

Quote from: -Willo- on February 16, 2013, 05:21:21 pm

His contract is up in the summer I think.

He'll play for us for nothing so thats that sorted.

MolbyLovesGravlax · « **Reply #2954 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:23:10 pm »

Quote from: -Willo- on February 16, 2013, 05:21:21 pm

His contract is up in the summer I think.

Anyone confirm that? I was fairly sure he was signed through summer 2014.

Juan Loco · « **Reply #2955 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:23:28 pm »

Think his contract is up next summer, not this.

No resale value anyways. And he'd be on huge wages. Another Joe Cole.

Beninger · « **Reply #2956 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:24:06 pm »

Quote from: yorkykopite on February 16, 2013, 05:20:27 pm

I think a slight difference was that Alonso was an established footballer with a track record of imposing himself on games.

The summer that he was told to find another club was the summer he should have been told that he was to be vice-captain to Gerrard and a dominant figure in the club's next 5 years.

Or would that have made him more complacent? Seems like what the club did lit a fire under him. Him leaving, in the end, was his choice.

Passmaster Molby · « **Reply #2957 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:25:55 pm »

Quote from: yorkykopite on February 16, 2013, 05:20:27 pm

I think a slight difference was that Alonso was an established footballer with a track record of imposing himself on games.

The summer that he was told to find another club was the summer he should have been told that he was to be vice-captain to Gerrard and a dominant figure in the club's next 5 years.

He wasn't told to find another club though was he? He still played regularly in the first team and he still had the managers confidence. He CHOSE to leave - nobody forced him out and he wasnt going to be left to rot in the reserves if he chose to stay so if he loved it so much at Liverpool he could have dug his heels in and said he wasn't leaving. He could have shown the same attitude Henderson has and decided to fight for his place at the club.

Lenin. · « **Reply #2958 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:27:52 pm »

Is it true that he plays with tears in his eyes thinking of us every time he plays?

TepidT2O · « **Reply #2959 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:28:56 pm »

Quote from: Lenin on February 16, 2013, 05:27:52 pm

Is it true that he plays with tears in his eyes thinking of us every time he plays?

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