The transfer deadline day this summer has seen some shock moves for the big clubs. Raul Meireles has left it late after the Portuguese international midfielder handed in a transfer request on the eleventh hour to force his move to Chelsea.
The 28-year-old midfielder will not be featured heavily for Liverpool this season as the Reds are over-crowded in midfield area even with the departure of Christian Poulsen, Joe Cole and Albert Aquilani on deadline day. Charlie Adam, Jordan Henderson, Lucas Levia, Jay Spearing, Jonjo Shelvey and Steven Gerrard are ahead of him in the pecking order.
With the Euro 2012 next summer beckons, Meireles need to play regularly to gained his place in the Portugal’s selection. Chelsea new manager, André Villas-Boas has seen his quality, who managed him for three weeks at Porto last summer. The lure of linking up again with his former Porto manager André Villas-Boas would have been something that convinced Meireles into forcing through his move.
Even though, he was not transfer listed by Kenny Dalglish, but when Meireles handed in a transfer request it left Liverpool with very few options but to sell him.
Another possible reason behind Meireles sudden decision to leave Anfield was his salary review that FSG were reluctant to grant for player entering the age of late 20s. He has seen some rare actions for Liverpool from the bench in the last four matches but with Gerrard on the sideline. This question must be playing on his mind – What if Gerrard is back from injury? Will he get to start from the bench week in, week out again?
Dalglish and Liverpool are making the right decision in letting him go. The Reds recoup the £11.8million paid to Porto for Meireles last summer. Like Fernando Torres, there are no point in keeping an unhappy player in the team as it will affect the whole team confidence.
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4 comments:
If you promised somebody something, you have to deliver. No?
If as claimed, Raul was promised a wage review, shouldn't FSG honour it? As i know it, LFC has always been a fair organisation, shouldn't the management clarify the matter to allay any misunderstandings? The transfers had been great, except this one.
Sure, but it's not FSG who made a contract with him. Christian Purslow did. FSG think it is wiser to sell him, it is not very pleasant seeing top player left, but Dalglish and Comoli knows better
Well, technically, JWH and FSG didn't have to honor that promise because they never made it. H&G made that promise to him when they signed him last summer. I like Raul, he is a good player who played hard when on the pitch and added great depth to our team, so he'll be missed in that regard. But in all honesty, he is a good player and that's it. He isn't the player that will be the difference maker between top 4 or not top 4. Chelsea got a good player for a decent price that can help them. We got our money back plus some for a player that added depth but wouldn't be starting any matches for us unless someone got injured. I think this could be a good thing because it will allow some of our young guys to get time and improve, especially Jonjo whom, if given meaningful, consistent minutes, can be much better than Raul could ever be. While I was upset about the transfer initially and mad at him, after some retrospect, I realized he had a right to leave because he wasn't going to get many minutes with us and wasn't going to get the pay he was promised and he felt he deserved. He's not Torres, it's unfair to compare him to that man. I think his 12 mil can be used toward a much better player, like Adam Johnson, and then we probably won't care at all anymore.
sorry, toward a much better player in January.
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