Kewell's agent has a pop at us

[Anubis]

We haven't seen the best of Harry Kewell yet.

 

And we won't until Soylent Green becomes a reality.

[suley]

I really dont understand the vitriol directed towards Kewell from our own support. Does anyone really thinking he didn't want to make it here? The lad was injured on a near constant basis, but its not like he was self harming. Anytime he started to get a run in the team he got injured again. Its hardly his fault. Or have I forgotten something horrible he did?

 

Exactly... Its not like the guy was purposely getting injured... These so called fans we have shit me to tears sometimes. Some of the shit i read on these boards really shits me as well. Especially the way they slag off our manager as well. Im the first to admit im not impressed with what Rafa has done to this team. But i will never slag the guy off. At the end of the day i dont know whats happening in the day to day of the club. Im in no position to pass judgement on the man. I can only speculate. The same goes with Harry Kewell.

[redinoz]

Kewell's ace.

 

 

carry on.

[Stu Monty]

Kewell's ace.

 

 

carry on.

 

Hey Redinoz...

 

 

 

...I think a Dingo's got your baby.

[Ted]

I see you've played "knifey-spoony" before.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Kewell's ace.

 

 

carry on.

 

As incorrect as it's possible to be, even from these shores - 2 major finals and the cunt couldn't get off the pitch quick enough. Auld fucking peaches then shits on the fans of the club who made him by signing for the very same team who's fans killed 2 leeds fans in a game he played in.

 

He's a useless cunt up there with the fat smack head bosnich, and yard dog that is Kevin Muscatt.

 

As you were.

[Hermes]

The only doctor who could successfully treat Harry Kewell would be one that could give him a heart transplant.

[Ted]

He's no Craig MacLachlan.

[ali]

Kewell: I've Been Reborn

 

Feb 2 2010 01:50

 

EXCLUSIVE: SOCCEROO Harry Kewell has shrugged off fears about his latest injury scare and admitted he's been reborn by his move to Turkey.

 

Harry has been back in Australia this weekend to let local medics check his current groin injury, but initial fears he could be sidelined for months at Galatasaray have been dismissed.

 

As exclusively revealed by au.fourfourtwo.com last week, Kewell is now expected back training in two weeks, and playing again in four weeks.

 

His personal manager Bernie Mandic has hailed Kewell's Australian medics as the best in the world and blamed Liverpool physios at Kewell's previous club for prolonging his near career-ending run of injuries.

 

But Kewell refused to get embroiled in the row.

 

"I will tell everything when the time comes," he told the latest edition of the Turkish Football Federation's magazine Tam Saha, published today.

 

Instead he was focussed on his renaissance since quitting the EPL for the Turksih Super Lig.

 

He admitted he was wary of making the move to Turkey when his contract ran out after five years at Liverpool - but the move has sparked new life into his career.

 

And he has gone from being booed by fans at Anfield to being adored by the loyal Galatasaray faithful who have taken him to their heart.

 

"When my agent first told me about Gala's interest in me, I was very reluctant," he said. "But Gala showed absolute interest in me. I discussed it with my family and decided to sign with Gala.

 

"There was a huge crowd at the airport when I landed in Istanbul. I can say that it was striking in a positive way, I felt fantastic.

 

"Then from day one, everything has been great about Turkey. It gives me a great motivation to be appreciated like this. I feel like I was reborn in Galatasaray, and in Turkey."

 

Gala were almost forced to axe Kewell from the squad last week when a transfer window spending spree saw them with nine foreign players, one more than Super Lig rules allow.

 

WIth Kewell not signing a contract extension beyond the end of this season and carrying a potential long-term injury, fans feared he could be the one forced out and launched a capaign to save him.

 

But the good news on his injury meant coach Frank Rijkaard axed Shabani Nonda instead.

 

Although Kewell is said to have refused to sign a new Gala deal for next season - and has been linked with a move to Sevilla after the World Cup - he was playing his cards close to his chest on his future plans.

 

"I am very content here," he said. "The thing I concentrate on right now is my football, and how I can make the maximum contribution to the team for the rest of the season."

 

Kewell has been joined by Socceroo skipper Lucas Neill at Galatasaray this month when the defender was snapped up by the Turkish club after just four months alongside Tim Cahill at Everton.

 

And the move has delighted Kewell.

 

"He is a very good friend of mine," said Harry. "I'm really happy that he decided to join our team.

 

"When he called me, I told him it would be fantastic to have him here. I'm pretty sure he will contribute to the team. He is a very experienced defender who has shown his quality throughout the years he played football. A very versatile player."

 

Kewell also paid tribute to the managers who helped forge his stellar career - but not all of them.

 

"I did not learn or get anything from David O'Leary," he said . "But George Graham was an important part of my early career, he is special.

 

"In Liverpool, I had the chance to work with a very talented manager, Rafa Benitez. I had difficult times in Liverpool, he was always beside me. He trusted in me no matter what. But at the end of the day, we had to part ways.

 

"And now I have the chance to work with a manager who I admire [Frank Rijkaard}]. He was an idol for me as a football player. I'm very happy to meet him and to work with him here.

 

"I'm so pleased to play football under his management. I love his point of view towards football. I enjoy playing football again, because of Rijkaard and Galatasaray."

 

The switch to Turkish football has also brought a change in perception of the game for Kewell.

 

"In Turkey, football is perceived in a more personal level," he said. "People think of losing or winning a game as a matter of pride and honour. The system here wants to make sure that everything is done to win.

 

"But sometimes things work out differently. Football must be perceived more professionally."

 

But that personal level has brought a whole new level of fan adulation for Kewell that goes beyond anything he's ever known before, even in Australia or in his heyday at Leeds United.

 

The club has even changed its goal celebrations for Kewell. When everyone else scores, the club plays I Will Survive - but when Harry scores, uniquely, they play his new theme tune, Daddy Cool, and every fan in the stadium sings along.

 

"They are truly amazing," said Kewell. "I thank them for everything. Most of all, I enjoy hearing that song play, for one thing that means I scored, the second thing that it's really nice to hear everyone sing that at the same time.

 

"But again I repeat, the team is the most important thing for me. I'm a team player and it is important to win as a team and win titles as a team, I'm ready to give my 100 percent to do this."

 

Now Harry wants to see Australia's own A-League reach new heights.

 

"Wherever you go, no matter what, the English Premier League is a different world, it's the beating heart of football," he said. "But that doesn't mean that you cannot organize a decent, competitive and strong league.

 

"In Australia, we have organized a five year old league. The Premier League is not our competition but what we would like to do is to build a consistent, interesting (in terms of quantity of spectators and rating), decent league."

 

And he wouldn't be tempted into the row over NRL v AFL or cricket.

 

He added: "I love each of them, but what I really love is golf. I love to watch and play golf. Greg Norman, a golfer, is a compatriot of mine, who is a very important golf player.

 

"But Tiger Woods is my favourite sportsman."

 

 

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Steven Gerrard tells us about winning the World Cup and why he hates tattoos

[redinoz]

I have to admit I thought he pretty soft limping out of the Cup final.

However when he was on his game* he was like a whippet and could beat his man with ease.

 

Ok, so Kewell was ace.

 

I really wanted him to do well, having an Aussie in the club team I support made me proud. Gala is probably his level though.

 

 

 

*I do acknowledge it was the lack of time he was on his game and not on the treatment table that was his major issue.

 

Oh, don't knock Knifey-spoony, it's the only thing that keeps the dingos at bay.

[WaltonRed]

There is no medical cure for being a fat shit house

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

"peaches" Kewells missus had him lined up to play in the ITV Kids Christmas celebrity panto version of the Wizard of Oz, however there was too many arguments over whether he was the tin man, the lion or the scarecrow. The director later stated 'although Harry was searching for the same things as each of the characters we should have just bit the bullet and cast him as Dorothy"

[chauncey]

Mandic blasting the medical team aside, it makes a nice change to read about a former player praising Rafa. Even if it is someone like Kewell.

[Brownie]

There is no medical cure for being a fat shit house

 

Haha, boss.

[Anubis]

There is no medical cure for being a fat shit house

 

No, but impending cup finals seemed to work a treat on his fitness levels.

[Steve Holt]

I'm sorry, but wasn't he injured in both the cup finals? Wasn't that why he had to leave the field? Rather just not being arsed?

[RoboRiise]

im not if even the best doctors in the world can help someone who has no heart whatsoever

 

 

It wasn't a doctor he needed, it was the wizard of Oz; a title that never applied to Kewell during his Liverpool career.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

I'm sorry, but wasn't he injured in both the cup finals? Wasn't that why he had to leave the field? Rather just not being arsed?

 

The useless fuck was always fucking injured, but to what extent he was 'injured' during both finals we'll never know. He looked alright picking up his medals tho. Fuck me he limped off in the greatest European cup final and arguably one of the best fa cup finals of recent memory, showing no desire to stay on the pitch and battle through. He has 2 winners medals he did sweet fa in achieving he has no guts and is everything that is wrong in the modern game

[AussieRed]

The useless fuck was always fucking injured, but to what extent he was 'injured' during both finals we'll never know. He looked alright picking up his medals tho. Fuck me he limped off in the greatest European cup final and arguably one of the best fa cup finals of recent memory, showing no desire to stay on the pitch and battle through. He has 2 winners medals he did sweet fa in achieving he has no guts and is everything that is wrong in the modern game

 

You are everything that's wrong with a supporter. He came to Liverpool on far less money than he could've got elsewhere because he always supported the team. Before he got injured he was always one of our better players. He never bitched or moaned about the club or the supporters during or after his stay at the club. He needed to be moved on when he was because he was not the same player, but there has always been an irrational hatred towards Harry from some so called supporters which is simply not justified. He was and is a decent guy that had a bad run of injuries. He is certainly not the first or last player to have had that kind of bad luck. If he had joined three years earlier he would've been a legend. Tell me who is everything that's right?

[silverlining]

The useless fuck was always fucking injured, but to what extent he was 'injured' during both finals we'll never know. He looked alright picking up his medals tho. Fuck me he limped off in the greatest European cup final and arguably one of the best fa cup finals of recent memory, showing no desire to stay on the pitch and battle through. He has 2 winners medals he did sweet fa in achieving he has no guts and is everything that is wrong in the modern game

 

I don't wish to get embroiled in another pointless debate about Harry fucking Kewell, but I should point out that Harry tore his abductor muscle in that CL final, and anyone claiming he "faked" the injury and/or bottled it, is mental.

 

And I didn't much appreciate the booing either.

[TommyW]

Its one thing to suffer the injuries he did (and on that score he was unlucky) but he clearly didnt do the rehab properly as he was always miles overweight when he came back

 

who knows, if he looked after himself better maybe the injuries wouldnt have kept recurring?

 

Torres manages to get injured and not pile on the pounds doesnt he?

 

add to that Kewell's tendancy to bottle anything resembling a 50:50 challenge and I think its clear why he's referred to as a shit house

[Little Sammy]

In all my years supporting Liverpool I've never seen an injury crisis like the two we've got under Benitez:one in 2004/2005 and the other this season. Also I cannot remember any other Big 4 team suffering any similar crisis. Only Arsenal are the team that comes close.

[Roy Hobbs]

I'm sorry, but wasn't he injured in both the cup finals? Wasn't that why he had to leave the field? Rather just not being arsed?

 

The useless fuck was always fucking injured, but to what extent he was 'injured' during both finals we'll never know. He looked alright picking up his medals tho. Fuck me he limped off in the greatest European cup final and arguably one of the best fa cup finals of recent memory, showing no desire to stay on the pitch and battle through. He has 2 winners medals he did sweet fa in achieving he has no guts and is everything that is wrong in the modern game

 

He snapped a fucking tendon in his groin in the CL final which required surgery taken 48 hrs after the game. As for the FA cup final he was always a risk as he got injured in the semifinal against Chelsea, a game he was far and away the man of the match, taking the piss out of the chav pricks.

 

How long before Torres gets treated like this:wallbutt:

[CityofLiverpool]

Just shows to what extent this club has turned into a whorehouse like I always say. He's not the first player we destroyed.

[Busoms]

It's pointless trying to reason with Aussies over Kewell, he's like their Princess Di. Typical of him and his managment to be passing the buck until the bitter end though, despite the fact that he was back and forth to his own specialists on numerous occasions. In fact he spent a good few months in oz with his supposed superior doctor and all we heard was how his injury woes were finally behind him, then he breaks down again.

 

Uk specialists are among the best in the world, as seen with many player rehabilitations from injuries a lot worse than anything kewell ever experienced, but unfortunately they can't locate a missing spine.