Liverpool: The Daily Mail has released more snippets of Strven Herrards auto-biography. Here's what he had to say about his time with Xabi Alonso: “It was clear Alonso was royalty after our first training session together in August 2004, and Rafa Benitez, who had been so clever to buy him in the first place, was equally stupid to sell him to Real Madrid five years later. He was, by some distance, the best central midfielder I ever played alongside. “It was a disastrous decision to sell Alonso, and especially for just £30million — which looks a snip now when you reflect on all he has achieved subsequently, both at Real Madrid and Bayern Munich and with Spain, winning the Euros and the World Cup. I blame Rafa entirely for the loss of Alonso. He could still have been playing for Liverpool six or seven years after he left in 2009." @sportscupboardhq @sportscupboard #football #soccer #bayernmunich #fcbayern #gotze #zlatan #ibrahimovic #ucl #barca #neymar #messi #suarez #realmadrid #halamadrid #ronaldo #bale #benzema #juve #juventus #pogba #bvb #reus #championsleague #YNWA #premierleague #gerrard #alonso #lfc #liverpool by sportscupboardhq