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Santi Cazorla on Liverpool's radar

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Out of all the players being mentioned he is the only one i actually really genuinely want us to sign, very very good footballer, you don't get 33 midfield caps for Spain in recent years without being so. This is the kind of player we should be looking at, oodles of talent but on the lowdown so the big boys aren't all over him.... the injury and an unfashionable club being the disguise. I reckon he would come as well as its a step up for him.

Listen to Pepe Kenny and sign him .... PLEASE....
 
http://yfrog.com/hsp6irdj

Andrew Heaton slapped up a pic to prove he was on the flight. He also said something along the lines of In Valencia, fishing, caught some big ones.

Please say Mata is back on! Or Cazrola.
 
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Andrew Heaton slapped up a pic to prove he was on the flight. He also said something along the lines of In Valencia, fishing, caught some big ones.

Please say Mata is back on! Or Cazrola.
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who said that heaton (?) or comolli!
 
Heaton.

As in, he was fishing for info and caught some big name. The big fucking tease better spill.
 
He is the editor of the anfield road website.

I always presume he was also a journo for one of the papers. Maybe someone else can fill us in on him.
 
danremedios Daniel Remedios
AS are reporting Villareal have informed Liverpool that Santi Cazorla will cost €20m
 
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danremedios Daniel Remedios
AS are reporting Villareal have informed Liverpool that Santi Cazorla will cost €20m
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Have we inquired? Nice.
 
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danremedios Daniel Remedios
AS are reporting Villareal have informed Liverpool that Santi Cazorla will cost €20m
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Don't mean to dampen spirit but from the original article (http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/metro-senala-interes-liverpool-santi/20110613dasdasftb_12/Tes), it merely quotes as a reported rumour from Metro.co.uk, not one from AS itself.
[/quote]Don't worry about me Binny.
My heart rate won't go over sixty bpm until I see pictures of him heading to Melwood for his medical
 
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danremedios Daniel Remedios
AS are reporting Villareal have informed Liverpool that Santi Cazorla will cost €20m
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Don't mean to dampen spirit but from the original article (http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/metro-senala-interes-liverpool-santi/20110613dasdasftb_12/Tes), it merely quotes as a reported rumour from Metro.co.uk, not one from AS itself.
[/quote]Don't worry about me Binny.
My heart rate won't go over sixty bpm until I see pictures of him heading to Melwood for his medical
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LOL. Like the Henderson ones (with Comolli) ya?

The title of the article "Metro señala el interés del Liverpool por Santi Cazorla" gave it away. His release clause is apparently €31m. Alas, does such clauses apply to Spanish teams only?
 
Came across this in Sid Lowe's La Liga team of the season:

Santi Cazorla did not go to the World Cup but he did go to Spain's first game after it. He was also invited to join the World Cup-winning celebrations. There could hardly be a better reflection of the way that the rest of the Spain squad and Vicente del Bosque feel about him than that sense of shame and sadness at his absence in South Africa. Cazorla had not been fully fit, coming off the back of an injury that saw him limited to just 24 games last season. Del Bosque would have risked him but risking him and Torres and Iniesta would have been a step too far. So, the smiliest player in Spain stayed at home, that grin for once gone. Luckily, this season he is back -- and as good as ever, maybe even better. Exceptionally fast feet, incredibly mobile, always involved and technically perfect, he even played one Spain match as a central midfielder -- a position he had never played before. And was impeccable. Villarreal's most important creative spark, if you want to know how good he is, just ask Giuseppe Rossi
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Good read

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/sid_lowe/10/05/santi.cazorla/index.html?sct=sc_wr_a2

Ruud Van Nistelrooy has seen plenty of good players over his career and has played with some of the best so when, before the season has even started, he smiles "what a player Santi [Cazorla] is" it means something. Something good.

Van Nistelrooy is not alone. Other players at Málaga agree. There is excitement when Málaga's sporting director Antonio Fernandez talks about him. Even the coach Manuel Pellegrini, quiet, reserved, not exactly prone to fits of laughter, is enthusiastic. And it is no coincidence that Pellegrini, who worked with Cazorla at Villarreal, did all he could to bring him in. Spain teammates privately talk highly of him; early this summer two different players at two different clubs expressed their desire -- their desperation -- for their teams to sign him. Both players even had a word to try to make it happen.

And yet, it didn't. And yet, it sometimes feels like people have not always rated him as highly as those who come into contact with him do. Cazorla, like Juan Mata, was on Arsenal's shortlist this summer but ultimately Arsene Wenger decided against bidding. Nor did any other Premier League club. Real Madrid were close to signing him in 2008, but not since. Barcelona were not interested.

The 26-year-old Cazorla, who may just be the best player not playing for Madrid or Barcelona, did what the outstanding players outside Spain's big two don't do: he stayed in Spain. In the end, he signed for Málaga for €19 million ($25.4M).
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Like Juan Mata, a product of the Real Oviedo youth system,Cazorla joined Villarreal B in 2003-04. During his year at Recreativo de Huelva -- he signed for them for €600,000 ($801,000) as a 21 year old with Villarreal immediately exercising its €1.2 million ($1.6M) buyback clause the following summer -- he had La Liga's highest average rating according to the magazine Don Balón (the only non-Madrid/Barcelona publication in the country). Back at Villarreal, he was a virtual ever present and if anyone doubted just how important his creativity was to the side, they need only look at the team's struggles without him this season.

Quick, fleet- footed, ambidextrous, Cazorla has vision and great technique, playing as a narrow attacker coming in from right or left or as the creative fulcrum behind the striker. He can shoot from the edge of the area and had scored 28 goals in five seasons before moving on this summer. He had already become a key player from the bench as Spain won Euro2008, playing in every group game, in the quarterfinal against Italy and in the final against Germany.

Injury meant that he did not go to the World Cup in 2010 because Vicente del Bosque was prepared to take a gamble on a couple of recovering players (Fernando Torres, Andres Iniesta), but thought a third was a risk too far.
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Cazorla would not have been out of his depth at the very best clubs in the world. Malaga's ambition is to be among those teams but it is not yet there. The biggest clubs did not come for Cazorla. Perhaps it is because he is not flash; perhaps he just does not stand out. He just does not seem like a star, even if Villarreal teammates did call him "our Ronaldinho" because, they said, he was just as ugly, just as funny, and just as good at soccer.

Always smiling, everyone loves him. Joan Capdevila, his teammate at Villarreal, describes him as the nicest guy in soccer. "He never bloody shuts up", Capedevila jokes.
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