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Kewell to leave (hopefully)

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Kewell heading for the exit at Anfield

 

Mar 13 2008 by Tony Barrett, Liverpool Echo

 

HARRY KEWELL’S Liverpool career appears to be drawing to a close after he told Rafa Benitez he wants to be allowed to travel to a training camp with a young Australia side rather than work on his fitness at Melwood.

 

Kewell is keen to join up with an Australia squad featuring just four senior players next week while his Liverpool team-mates are preparing for the visit of Manchester United in the Premier League.

 

Should Benitez relieve Kewell of his Melwood duties it will be the clearest indication yet that the injury-plagued winger has no future at the club.

 

Kewell was not in the Liverpool squad which travelled to Milan for Tuesday’s Champions League tie and he has not played for the first team since a fleeting substitute appearance against Barnsley last month.

 

With his current contract due to expire this summer and with no suggestions that he will be offered a new deal, all indications are that he is now heading towards the Anfield exit door.

 

The Aussie training camp takes place in Singapore and national team coach Pim Verbeek had resigned himself to working with just a group of young players while the majority of his senior stars remained with their respective clubs.

 

But with a World Cup qualifier against China in Kunming looming on March 26 – just days before the crucial Merseyside derby – Kewell has told Verbeek he wants to take part in the training camp in a bid to build up his fitness and to be ready for international duty.

 

The decision about whether he is allowed to travel to the Far East now rests with Benitez and should he give Kewell the go-ahead, it will be the clearest signal yet that his five-year stint with the Reds will not be extended.

 

Meanwhile, George Gillett has spoken publicly for the first time about his well documented fall-out with co-owner Tom Hicks.

 

During an address to a sports conference in California, Gillett was asked whether he would remain a co-owner of Liverpool.

 

He responded: “I would say, choose your partners wisely,” before adding, “he (Hicks) is a great guy – but he has just got a different perspective on the media.”

 

Kewell heading for the exit at Anfield - Liverpool Echo.co.uk

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I was in Portugal the day we signed him and was glued to Sky Sports News for updates.

 

Like everybody else I thought his signature was a real coup - 'the final piece in the jigsaw' (how many times have we heard that?).

 

I bear the guy no malice, knowing somebody who used to work closely with him I know he's been ravaged by injuries, but it was sad to see him pulling out of challenges etc.

 

Time for him to move on, it appears I'll be one of few here who will wish him all the best.

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I was in Portugal the day we signed him and was glued to Sky Sports News for updates.

 

Like everybody else I thought his signature was a real coup - 'the final piece in the jigsaw' (how many times have we heard that?).

 

I bear the guy no malice, knowing somebody who used to work closely with him I know he's been ravaged by injuries, but it was sad to see him pulling out of challenges etc.

 

Time for him to move on, it appears I'll be one of few here who will wish him all the best.

 

i dont think anyone wishes ill on him, they just want him gone.

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I hope the weeping sore breaks down in that training camp and cant wobble around the shite international games he is saving himself for.

 

He is a disgrace to the shirt and should have been sacked 18 months ago.

 

ok, some do wish him ill.

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I don't think he's been shit on purpose. But he's still been shit.

 

I agree on both counts. I think people are been too harsh on him, he didn't ask to be born in a body made of glass.

 

It must be devasting for him to not only have the prime years of his career ruined by injuries but also have the fans of his favourite club hate him for just that.

 

Apart from becoming fat when injured what else has he done wrong?

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