Robbie Keane to Liverpool “An Enforced Sale”

By: Daryl | July 29th, 2008

Wow. Spurs chairman Daniel Levy wasn’t in the mood to put any positive spin on losing Robbie Keane to Liverpool for (up to) £20.3 million. Normally clubs release press statements saying “the deal represented good value for us going forward” or some other such bullshit, but here’s what Levy said:

“I have already made my opinion clear on the nature of this transaction. I don’t regard it as a transfer deal - that is something which happens between two clubs when they both agree to trade - this is very much an enforced sale.”

Why “enforced”? Mostly because Robbie Keane made it very clear he wanted to go, and because Liverpool kept at it. Spurs even reported Liverpool for sniffing around their (former) captain a little too enthusiastically, but nothing came of it.

This is more or less exactly what Peter Kenyon was talking about yesterday. Even if a club doesn’t want to sell, and says they don’t want to sell, it doesn’t matter. If a player is attracted by the club that’s showing an interest, he’s eventually going to go.

And while we’re talking about Robbie Keane, I’m a little worried by all the “Liverpool + Robbie Keane = Premier League” headlines.

Yes, he’s a quality quality striker, and yes, he’s a step up from Peter Crouch. And the Premier League NEEDS a proper Liverpool title challenge just to stop things getting boring (Chelsea, Man Utd, repeat). But Liverpool still need some serious wingers (I can’t take Jermaine Pennant seriously, not really) and some defensive reinforcements before we can start talking about the final piece of Liverpool’s Premier League jigsaw.

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• als |  July 29th, 2008 at 9:55 am

  
  
  

  defensive reinforcements = Good LB in Dossena and the return of a good CB Dan Agger

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• Daryl |  July 29th, 2008 at 9:58 am

  
  
  

  Agreed, both good, but don’t you think they need more to seriously challenge for the title?

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• CSD |  July 29th, 2008 at 10:16 am

  
  
  

  All your titles are belong to us.

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• Lukey |  July 29th, 2008 at 10:21 am

  
  
  

  We have all that we need in my eyes the only problem is Benitez is a fucking twat of a manager and i can’t see us winning the premier league under him. He’s going to ruin our best chance in ages just watch. We’ve got the TEAM there already but how the fuck are we going to play like a TEAM if the fat prick rotates every game atleast 5-6 players its just impossible. We didn’t have one single game last season where we looked anything like a true Liverpool TEAM.

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• CSD |  July 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am

  
  
  

  Blasphemy.

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• Matt |  July 29th, 2008 at 11:05 am

  
  
  

  And Liverpool admitted they played this poorly and are making a contribution to the Hotspur Foundation.

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• Aravind |  July 29th, 2008 at 11:18 am

  
  
  

  Agree with you totally. Liverpool need some decent wingers.

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• Marlon |  July 29th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

  
  
  

  How are Ryan Babel and Dirk Kuyt not considered decent Wingers?

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• Ryan |  July 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

  
  
  

  They don’t play Babel at winger enough.

  Dirk Kuyt? Are. You. Serious? Here is every review or Kuyt

  ‘Man that guy really works hard’

  To quote Christmas Vacation:

  ‘He worked really hard grandma’
  ‘So do washing machines’

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• Marlon |  July 29th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  
  
  

  They keyword here is DECENT. Are we saying Dirk Kuyt isn’t decent now? Are we really doing that? Is he amazing? No. Decent? Very.

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