More Alonso News

So it's exactly what I said.

Peter Crouch moved to Tottenham to renew his Crouch-Defoe Partnership under the same manager under a different club. Bent, makes way and moves to Sunderland. Poor chap, he has been under-rated all his life, even when he scored something like 22 league goals, Theo Walcott - who never played a single Premier league game at that time - went to the World Cup with England instead. I'm sure we all remember that incident. And now again, he is being chucked out of even Tottenham. Admittedly, I would pick Defoe over him, and they are sort of similiar kinds of strikers.

More news on the Xabi Alonso speculation today. It was better news for Liverpool that Real might be pulling out of the deal for Alonso. Quotes from Real Madrid president Florentino Perez was quite annoying to the ears of this Liverpool fan though.

He said "Some people obviously thought that because we said we wanted more Spanish players, they could ask for fees which don't correspond to reality.

"A year ago, certain players we've asked about would have cost less than half the price we're being quoted now.

"If necessary, we'll find the Spanish players we would like for the squad in our youth system."

Well, I believe Alonso is definately worth more than £30million, and thats the price Real are not willing to match. But more importantly, alot of things can change in a year! Alonso was almost out of Anfield a year ago to finance the Barry deal (Thank God it didn't happen) but if Madrid want to talk about prices a year ago, why didn't they buy him last year? It's only because he was performing so well in the season which just ended isn't it? So therefore, his value goes up! Duh!

And secondly, Real Madrid is the one who is inflating prices in the market. By breaking the world record transfer fee (by some margin) for Cristiano Ronaldo, they have opened the flood gates for inflated prices for players. Everyone is going to say, 'if Ronaldo was worth £80million, then [insert random player name here] is worth [insert ridiculous price here], if not more'.

And so finally, if Cristiano Ronaldo was worth £80million, Alonso is easily worth at least AT LEAST £35million, if not more.