And your source for that is? Please provide links to back up your claims superswan Of course its up to the player, he left after deciding his future lies elsewhere, but it weren't helped by the fact that Rodgers knew that there was a £15m release clause on him, and that he tapped him up through the press
Dai - you clearly missed my post or chose to ignore it. Here it is again (with apologies to others): 1: When Rodgers left there was an agreement not to come in for our players for 12 months unless another team expressed an interest or unless they were made available for sale. Moot point on whether that was formalised or not, but an agreement there certainly was. This was confirmed in the press: http://bit.ly/MUqI8Z and by HJ: "We have got some protection on Brendan coming back for our players in the initial period, which I think is the right thing," 2: After leaving, this was reneged upon when Liverpool initially made a £12.5M bid that didn't even trigger Allen's release clause. This itself breached the agreement. 3: Liverpool then got around the agreement on a technicality by invoking the £15M trigger which Rodgers of course knew all about. This was reported here: http://bit.ly/NfNkQy with this being the relevant part: "However, in that contract existed a release clause that would be triggered at £15m by a selection of clubs, Swansea powerless if that figure was reached. It was on this technicality that Rodgers was able to get around a 12-month "player protection" agreement made when he quit the Liberty for Anfield in May. The Northern Irishman confirmed himself at the time of his move he was unable to make moves for Swansea players unless they were made available for sale." So whatever spin you put on it, Rodgers and Liverpool initially breached the agreement by putting in a lower bid. This had the desired effect, with Allen saying he wanted to go. This is well reported too, as the headline of the above article shows. When Swansea played hardball they upped the bid to trigger the release clause. Even though that made the move perfectly legal and us powerless to stop it, that doesn't mean it was morally right and was completely contrary to the spirit of our agreement which he knew was included to protect the Swans from losing our better players. He got around that and took the player he wanted without thought for what it would do to us. So to say he's done nothing wrong is way off the mark. The fact it's worked out for us is fortunate, and I'm sure Rodgers wouldn't care if it hurt us or not. He doesn't give a flying **** about the Swans and in his position now I wouldn't expect him to. I suggest you reciprocate and stop following his career so avidly.
Crowey do me a favour Pal Fcuk off ! Look what you've done! You've woken one of our knuckle dragging trogs. Please, give us a weeks notice before you post again so we can replenish our tranquilizers. ( A piece of 2X4 ). All the best for your season HWYL!
FFS, don't mean to upset you but I watched him closely in the warm up yesterday and he looked really happy. Laughing and joking with all the other subs, looked like he never wants to leave the place to me mate.
Dill there is a £20million release clause on Gower's contract,i have watched him in training he does seem to have an extra spring in his step
But it says that if Liverpool want him, we have got to pay them £20 million to take him off our hands...
