How are we putting down Rafa if we just say that he tried to sell him. Its not putting him down it's just stating the truth. I'm sure if he could turn back the clock he would of not tried to have offloaded him and perhaps things would be a lot different.
He's an incredible player and we were lucky to have him. We need to find another player like Alonso, although that's like finding a needle in a hay stack.
Losing Alonso did really lose our main source of creativity.
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