Well I know that I’m going out on a limb here, but I’ve read the beautifully worded and well constructed arguments and I’ve decided that I’ll stick with following the opinion of the scouting staff for FC Barcelona, the scouting staff for the current Premier League Champions and the Spanish National side on this one.
I think that they’re probably better placed to judge a players ability than those who turned scouse on a young player who fully honoured every day of his contract and never said a word out of turn about our club or our supporters.
I know that I’ll suffer a bit of verbal from the abusers but, I hold that it was a shameful episode and that the many decent folk on this forum would have rightly been aghast if it had been a young international player leaving the dippers and getting a similar ludicrous bile spitting slagging by their hateful feral support.
Just my opinion though.
Oh and also the opinion of the aforementioned internationally recognised experts.