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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
in which case he should have submitted a transfer request at the start of the season and not 3 days before the end of the January transfer deadline in the knowledge that many people were expecting him to move on in the summer anyway. A lot of the time it's the agents who are to blame... I wonder who made the details of Chelsea's bid public? it certainly wasn't Liverpool. These transfers all seem to be played out in the media these days to spark bidding wars and smoke out the potential "ninja bid" and of course generate news stories for crap sources like Sky Sports and the Sunday Times.
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It does look like he was waiting until the end of the season and its only the Chelsea bid that has made him hand in the request now. Maybe he thinks his best chance is to go now and that he wouldn't have the same opportunity in the summer.