TracyD

We were running an athletics club at that time. What I meant with the unusual purchase thing. Did you think he'd fit straight into your first team at the time? With all the talk of selling him, the most you can hope for is a profit on his sale, which in the end, can't be bad.

I had a funny feeling he'd leave Reading where he was the bee's knees, and end up a real bit part player. Mind you, this would probably have been the case at any of the top four clubs. I found him a very unusual purchase for Chelsea.

Why not? What do you have against him? I can't stand him, for obvious reasons, but he's scored some great and vital goals for you. It's quite funny watching other posters on here just throwing names into the pool, because you can afford to. I'd love Aguero, Huntelaar or Villa at Liverpool

To begin with, I'm a Liverpool fan, and completely agree with you. If we were ever to sell El Nino, which will hopefully be many years away, I pray he'd leave the Premiership. You happen to say that you'd be giving £50 million to a rival team. It's not really that which you'd be handing us. You have to consider that we'd have to gamble possibly a good £30 million on another top class striker. If that doesn't work out, then the other £20 million doesn't matter. As much as I hate Hicks, even he wouldn't be that daft to sell our prised asset. A guy who has literally slipped into the Premiership and taken it by storm. Someone, whose already reaping the club rewards on the merchandising side and out stripping for the first time, Gerrard for shirt sales. I know first seasons can deceive. The more difficult second season faces him, as managers have had more of a chance to analyse his style of play. Mind you, saying that, his variation of goals this past season gives me great hope. As for Ronaldo, he was nothing to do with Rafa. Our scouts looked at him, but for some unknown reason, he went for Diouf instead. We bid some miserly amount for him. Then United came along with the stupid money that they could afford. End of story.