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Its always sad to see a good player leave. Last year Alonso had a good season, the year before that he had a laughable season. When Rushie left for Juve it was a shock of a much bigger magnitude, yet LFC lived past that.. when Alonso leaves, LFC will live past that.
Let Rafa replace him and be done with it (after all, he was the one who brought him in

). The pressure on Rafa is to be as close as he was last year in the EPL (minimum), the pressure on Alonso and co will be to dispose Barca from the spanish league (minimum?), and even the spanish title has proven not sufficient for some managers. God luck with that experiment (remember mickey mouse's "successful adventure" with the whites?) :sticktong
-- Marios