The reality here is, you said Rafa was terrible at sales, i've shown that to be incorrect.
Throw as many insults as you like, the real reality is you have not shown me to be incorrect at allYou seem to believe you can justify Rafa inept actions in the transfer market by pointing out most of the player were Houllier signing in twilight of career and/or they were sh*t… A £1m for a player is such a minuscule amount and Rafa fail to get even that…. The fact that Man city was willing to pay
£400,000 compensation to Bolton who wanted to sign Didi Hamann and sign for City instead Rafa go rid of him on a free
Pennant sign for Real Zaragoza on a free Stoke sign him for
£2.8m another player Rafa let go for free
Dudek another freebie who when on to play for Real for three years
signing a years contract extension Markus Babble played for two club and
another three years after leaving Liverpool
Stephane Henchoz played for three club and
another three years after leaving Liverpool
Vladmir Smicer played for two clubs and for
another four yearsIgor Biscan played for two more club and
another seven years
Zenden yet another who when on to play for two more clubs and
three more years
Hyypia
two years with Bayern L
He could have tried to sell these players if even for a £1m each or the £400,000 City paid for Didi Hamann but chose not to, judging by Hamann and City, Pennant and Stoke and Dudek and Real
But you have only addressed the
Free Transfer in your fail attempts to prove that Rafa was not inept when it came to getting value from his buying and selling of player what about these player I also mentioned
Josemi £2m plus signing on fee and wages Swapped
Nunez £1.5m plus signing on fee and wages £2m
Garcia £6m plus signing on fee and wages £4m
Pellegrino Free plus signing on fee and wages Free
Morientes £6.3m plus signing on fee and wages £3m
Paletta £2m plus signing on fee and wages Free
Dossena £7m plus signing on fee and wages £4.7m
Keane £19m plus signing on fee and wages £16m
Riera £8m plus signing on fee and wages £4m
R. Babel £11.5m plus signing on fee and wages £7m-£8.5m
And yes all clubs have signing on fees, but as in the case of Nunez if you buy a player for £1.5m and sell him for £2m you can hardly call that making a profit can you…And again The Suarez, Torres, and Sterling Have nothing to do with
Rafa, he merely bought them and was no instrumental in their sales