Monday 28 July 2008

Kopite Keane Successfully Signed

Robbie Keane has signed for Liverpool FC today for a fee of £19million, on a four-year deal and will earn £80,000 a week. He will wear the iconic number 7 shirt associated with Reds legends Kenny Dalglish, Kevin Keegan, Ian Callaghan and Peter Beardsley. He has been included in the squad which travels to Spain for the friendly against Villarreal on Wednesday.
Liverpool had been working behind the scenes to bring Keane to Anfield, as was announced by Daniel Levy in his scathing attack on our club for not pursuing the official channels of communication and negotiation. This was greatly helped by the player himself being a boyhood fan/atic and displayed by him submitting a transfer request. Liverpool FC have agreed to make a donation to our Club’s main charity, the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, as compensation and Tottenham Hotspur have therefore agreed not to continue in their official complaint to the Premier League.
Keane is now one of the most expensive footballer’s in the world, having been involved in transfers totalling £58m having previously played for Wolverhampton, Coventry, Inter Milan and Leeds before joining Tottenham in 2002. He established himself as a consistent performer at Premier League level at Tottenham, scoring 13-17 goals in his first four campaigns and 22/23 in the most recent seasons. Keane scored 80 goals in 197 appearances for Tottenham and has scored 33 international goals in 81 appearances.

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