Liverpool Set for Shock Man City Bid for £9m Benayoun
by YNWA on October 11th, 2009 386 words | 26 commentsMark Hughes wants Anfield midfielder.
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If there is one criticism of late that Rafa would struggle to argue against it would be his use of Israeli international Yossi Benayoun. For the best part of the last two seasons the former West Ham man has battled manfully to prove his worth to Liverpool boss and towards the tail end of last season it looked like he had convinced Benitez of his importance but again this season Yossi has found himself on the bench for reasons that have confounded just about every supporter, most notably when he was named a sub for the crunch match at Stamford Bridge.
Reports are surfacing in today’s papers that Manchester City are once again hovering around the talented midfielder and whilst it is clear that Benayoun loves the club he will surely be tempted to leave the club if he doesn’t believe that he is part of the club’s first team plans.
The simple fact is that when he is on the pitch things seem to happen. His tireless efforts and skillful direct play always seems to inject life into our sometimes limp performances and as a Liverpool fan he is the type of player I will always have time for. He is always on hand to provide that killer touch or crucial goal. In 59 starts for us he has netted an impressive 23 goals and that doesn’t even take into account the amount of goals he has laid on or played a hand in.
The £9m rated 29 year old is just the type of player we must keep hold of. You can tell that he loves every minute of playing in the beloved jersey and the fact he turned down big money moves to Russia proves that he isn’t it just for the cash so hopefully any attempts Mark Hughes make will fall on deaf ears but if he is promised a run in the starting eleven at Eastlands, maybe he will be tempted?
Rafa needs to have more faith in Yossi and shouldn’t only call upon him when injuries dictate a need. He is far more useful a player than Albert Riera or Ryan Babel and he just helps tick things along in the attacking third and shouldn’t be offloaded.
YNWA
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anonymous - October 11th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
If he goes
No european footy next year
thats how important he is
Retryboy - October 11th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Think he is far more effective than riera on the left or kuyt on the right babel on the right has looked very good but again rafa is blinkered
Think thats why yossi misses out cos kuyt is an automatic choice to rafa but not a winger and with him coming inside he uses riera to balance. Yossi should have been used as a 2nd striker behind torres but instead lucas gets in the team could understand him wanting to leave its rafa’s persistently negative approach that see the creative players left on the sidelines and the likes of lucas in the first team.
Warren Bloggs - October 11th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Bennayoun should ALWAYS be a first starter, much like Gerrard, Kuyt, Carra, Masch, Torres and Reina. Yossi is outstanding and was the difference last season, ‘anonymous’ is right we can not only forget about winning the title but if the Isreali ‘KAKA’ were to leave we wouldn’t even make into the big 4. That is how important he is!
anonymous - October 11th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I’d love him at Man City, but we are owned by a gulf arab prince, and Yossi is isreali.
He may prefer a team under jewish ownership, such as Chelsea, Man utd, or Spurs.
anonymous - October 11th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
You can tell its international weekend,lets make up silly storys,news of the world no doubt
anonymous - October 11th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
i totally agree………look at his hatrick he scored……………..dat says it all
gerrard should go back to playing midfield with mascherano and lucas should be benched 4 life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RaNE - October 11th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
he wont go
anonymous - October 11th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
love to c in mcity fuck livermull anyway livermull is goin down .. do right thing benayoun
RyanO - October 11th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Rubbish, Bollocks, Shite. Not a ring of truth surrounding this.
anonymous - October 11th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Well Rafa seems to have the habit of testing the patience of players. Just look at Alonso case. When a player wants to leave then he would wake up and tries to talk to the player into staying. Maybe he can have a clearer view of Yossi’s effectiveness from the stand.
Retryboy - October 12th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Yossi has been more than patient its time for rafa to give him the respect he deserves
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Yeah, right!
CITY have bigger fish to fry – know you are deespearte for money, but come on!
£40m for Torres?
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 2:06 am
DESPERATE.
See if you can print it correctly this time!!
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 3:49 am
We are desperate, so we will start the bidding in the region of £75m on 2 yr loan special?
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 10:15 am
piss off city
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 10:42 am
if rafa aint gonna start him, whats the point in keeping him??? if he stays on the bench and city still want him ask for 15 million they would happily pay it!!! then get someone with quality
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Oh dear. I agree that Yossi should start every game but it is also important to have players on the bench that can make an impact. Yossi can make an impact when he starts or when he comes on as a sub. Our bench is very weak so had Yossi started against Chelsea for instance, who was on the bench to come on and make a difference? Yossi starts his fare share of games in my opinion. Does anyone think that he would play every week at City?
Hoogleboogybugleboy - October 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
The above post was me just for the record. I wasn’t logged in for some reason.
Hoogleboogybugleboy - October 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Yossi Benayoun’s agent insists the Israel international is ‘very happy’ at Liverpool – and poured scorn on the idea his client would be interested in a move to Man City.
The 29-year-old, who signed a two-year extension to his contract with the Reds in July, has been in mercurial form since the turn of the year – prompting reported interest from down the M62.
“Naturally a player playing well at Liverpool will always have other teams interested in him,” said Benayoun’s agent, Ronen Katsav.
“It is a great compliment that there is interest from high level teams across Europe, but Yossi is very happy at Liverpool and only in the summer agreed a new contract for another four seasons.”
THIS IS FROM THE LFC WEBSITE.
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Yossi, isnt he the turtle from Mario Bros, dont think he will cut it for City.
Like someone else said, we have bigger fish to catch, never mind an Israeli turtle, we already got rid of one in Ben Haim so why would we want another?
You can keep him and we will keep our money.
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Dude why is your headline backwards? Shouldn’t it be “Man City set for shock bid for Liverpool’s Benayoun” ?
Red_Phoenix - October 12th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Rafa’s love of Lucas is really annoying in the first place. The boy should only play against the lesser teams to get the experience he need. After last season, i can’t imagine how Lucas starts before Benayoun. Could part of the reason why Rafa bought the injured Aquilani so Lucas could get a run in the team
Hoogleboogybugleboy - October 12th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Funny how the Citeh fans are now all really cockey because they have a rich owner.
Benayoun is a great footballer and a good professional who by all accounts has snubbed the interest.
Donavan Ried - October 12th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Sell them Babel,Degen,Lucas and Voronin instead
Retryboy - October 12th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Hoogleboy you start with your best team your creative players having 90 minutes to break down teams not 20 if benayoun had started at chelsea say for lucas in the 2nd striker role torres wouldn’t have been so isolated he could be the new peter beardsley chelsea only had 4 in midfield
anonymous - October 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
if they want him then he is worth 45 million… if they pay that they can have him… if not walk on…..