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Guillem ballague has confirmed via his twitter why we pulled out.
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The thing that gave the last twist to the Sahin saga. After Madrid and arsenal had agreed a 2m loan deal, Liverpool offered 5m with no option to buy.
Breaking on SSN.
Liverpool agree deal to sin nuri Sahin on season long loan.
And there you have it.
The third thread this year moved to Other Football. Keep it up guys, it'll give the impression of an overall busier forum than it actually is.
The Mourinho/Rodgers link also seemed to have some factor in the deal, but mostly all of it was down to the £5m loan they were offering. Wow.
Didn't Real buy Sahin for like £7m anyway ? :haha:
Twas around £8m i believe
Looks like Liverpool hve finally found a decent player to replace Alonso
FFS
Can he play v City?
Quite pleased with this.
I don't really care if it's £2m or £5m (though I doubt it'd be that high) because he's a very good player, and we don't have enough of them.
And anyway, if we get real money for Spearing off Bolton, and can flog Adam to to some far off club then I'd take that swap every single day.
But no, he won't be in the squad for City.
Thats the view i had on him coming to us
Everyone moaning about how much it cost blah blah blah
Who cares?
Hes a good player and better than our Spearing and Adam ie Diaby and Ramsey
Wenger :doh:
Liverpool back on for the quadruple imo
He could make his debut against you though next week. :popcorn:
Possible but I suspect that he will be on the bench. Let's not forget that he only played 11 games last season and had several injuries.
Personally, I think he would have been a great addition for Arsenal but if the figures quoted are correct, then it was too much to pay for a Real Madrid player's season-long injury re-hab.
Confirmation the deal has been done; medical photos.
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He looks ecstatic to be there.
"Yay, Europa League and Charlie Adam."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19364375Quote:
Liverpool have completed the signing of Real Madrid midfielder Nuri Sahin on a season-long loan after Arsenal ended their interest.
The Reds offered to pay a larger proportion of the 23-year-old's £115,000 a week wages, swinging the deal in their favour.
Sahin, who has 31 caps for Turkey, has passed a medical ahead of Sunday's match against Manchester City.
"I hope it will be a nice year with trophies," said Sahin.
Sahin had been expected to join Arsenal, having privately expressed a preference for the north London club. But the deal stalled when Real and Arsenal could not agree a £14m option to buy the player at the end of the loan.
Liverpool and Real then agreed a deal, with Sahin's agent meeting Liverpool officials earlier in the week to agree terms.
"It makes me proud to have joined such a big club like Liverpool," added Sahin.
"After the first conversation we had, I was left impressed by [manager] Brendan Rodgers. He told me about how he wants to play football and what the goals are he wants to reach with Liverpool.
"I am looking forward to meeting the fans."
Real boss Jose Mourinho had given the go ahead for Sahin to move to the Premier League after the playmaker struggled to make an impression at the Bernabeu since a move from Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund last summer.
Sahin signed a six-year deal with the La Liga outfit but made just 11 appearances for them last season as they won the Spanish league title.
In an interview on Liverpool's website, Sahin revealed he was at the Ataturk Stadium when Liverpool came from 3-0 behind to beat AC Milan on penalties and win the Champions League in 2005.
"That year, I won the European under-17 championship with Turkey, so we were invited by the Turkish Football Federation to watch the game," he said.
"We were sitting near to where the Liverpool fans were and it was just a crazy, crazy night. It was then I saw what football and Liverpool Football Club means to the people."
Rodgers said he was thrilled to have secured Sahin's signature for the season.
"We are delighted to welcome Nuri to Liverpool and also to say thank you to Real Madrid for loaning us such an exciting talent," said the Liverpool manager.
"Nuri Sahin is a player with great technique and motivation and someone who will fit in smoothly to our playing model."
Does this guy even get into the lfc team now ? Hardly heard anything of note since he went there.
The new Aquallani (sp?)?
Another awful career move. One more and he's out.
Exactly. 2 games.
And give it a few weeks, I'm sure Gerrard will pick up some sort of strain.
Got to feel for Henderson if anyone, reportedly we tried to offload him for a pittance and hasn't played a minute so far. Though he'll probably start tonight.
How did Sahin perform in his other game? He was gash against us.
Quality player and he will come good with a run of games - just in time for him to go back to RM or be sold to a Champs Lge club. I think that's why we didn't want him in the end.
I had actually forgotten about him! :lol:
If he get's games he'll come good. Rodgers might not play him much though as he doesn't have the luxury of letting him adapt to to english football. He needs results now.