Not agreeing with DM but with the exception of the golf club incident (and I guess that's a big exception), Bellamy's attitude was fine with us and Rafa was fairly happy with him (he was only sold as he was one of a few players we could get a decent fee for, to fund the deal for Torres). He didn't set the world alight (far from it in fact) but he gave us another option that would have been handy right now.
Bellamy is scum though
The golf club incident, well I don't really know much about it, a drunken night out where half the club was leathered and he got angry with Risse over nothing and smacked him with a club, but I don't know if he went hell for leather or pretended to smack him, crushed his skull or it was a joke gone to far.
I always thought he was a git, but to be honest he's a mouthy git on the pitch and I've seen little else he's done wrong. Got on the wrong side of a stupid Souness who despite Bellamy scoring quite a lot was constantly dropped pretty much purely because Souness didn't like him. Other than a hunger to play first team, and giving 100% in every match I've ever seen him play, whats he actually done wrong or worse than anyone else.
Yes theres something very irksome about a no neck welshman getting mouthy over every single thing in a match, but doesn't that also show the level of his passion for football.
As for not performing at Liverpool, how many decent players go to football and seem to be underused, underperform and not fit in. Maybe its not all those players fault, but a manager who couldn't get the best out of them?
Theres also something fairly key, unless you have to selling your best players to fund other possibly great players is a huge risk that rarely pays off as you want. Why wasn't he selling the worst players and buying in cheaper, riskier prospects as most succesful managers do.
Had Ronaldo wanted to stay Fergie wouldnt' have sold him just to buy Villa, he'd look to offload the junk, Djemba Djemba, Kleberson, and buy other midpriced players and hope they are good, and several cheap youngsters who might turn into great players, and some fringe players he hopes to get great value out of. Wenger does the same, even Barca appear to have suffered from the same type of "lateral move" by selling Eto'o to get Ibra and now sitting 3rd in the group stage and not seemingly anywhere near as fluent or freescoring as they were before.
Yes Torres turned out to be great, but what if he does turn into a constantly injured player, or what if he had been completely average and they overspent and sold several players just to get him. Even with Torres getting lots of goals, is it worth selling 5 decent players to fund a player like Torres, but also have a squad incapable of maintaining a challenge in all competitions and incredibly shallow with a few injuries drastically changing the usefulness of the team.
Right now would Torres be best, or 10 3million pound players and a few free transfer of which 5 turned into very good first team players capable between them of outscoring Torres?
Do you really expect Voronin to play well when the manager couldn't be more clear about his lack of belief in the player?
Last point for the night, Fabregas 19 starts since the start of the season in all comps, 11 goals, 14 assists........... best in form player in the world right now, by a margin.
Drogba's an incredibly close second, 11 starts 9 goals, 5 assists in the league alone is might impressive, and overall 20 starts, 19 goals and 5 assists is pretty incredible. What a difference it makes when he actually fights to stay up(at least more often than he used to by a quite significant amount).
