Jose makes plea for final offer for Gerrard
Real Madrids new boss Jose Mourinho is currently in the desperate process of trying to convince the Real Madrid officials and directors to make one final attempt to try and lure and sign Liverpool’s captain, Steven Gerrard to join Real Madrid.
According to numerous Spanish resources the Special One is by no means giving up on the capture of Steven Gerrard and will do everything in his power to make the player a part of the Real Madrid midfield next season. This re emergence of interest in signing Steven Gerrard will be anything but good news for new Liverpool manager, Roy Hodgson, who recently admitted he is more than certainly losing Fernando Torres this transfer window.
Hodgson also made Gerrard admit publicly last week that he was committing his future to Liverpool but Fernando Torres refused to do so.
Mourinho while managing Chelsea, almost captured Steven Gerrard from Liverpool in the past. The player was almost through with making the switch but the then manager of Liverpool, Rafa Benitez had a change of heart and killed the deal in the process.
The Portuguese master mind wishes to do better than he had done in the past and wants to make sure Gerrard signs his name on the contract officially making him a Madrid player. He is a long way from doing that since before he can even begin talks with Gerrard he must convince, the current chairman at Real Madrid, Florentino Perez that this would be a good signing for the club even though it is strongly against their standard signing of much younger players.
Gerrard might be the only player on this current Liverpool side that has half a chance of helping the squad go on to lift any silverware this season. With Hodgson already almost publicly admitting defeat to retaining the Fernando Torres at the club, he would be more than infuriated if Gerrard also leaves and will have a major squad rebuild on his hands.
"I've had a meeting with Fernando [Torres] but there's not much more I can say," Hodgson told reporters recently.
"If he has got problems with the club about things that happened in the past, then it's difficult for me to dismiss that."
"His situation has got nothing to do with me and he made that clear on the phone during the World Cup and when I met him face-to-face."
"I can't do much more than let him know that, like every Liverpool fan, I would like him to stay and would love to work with him. It's now for the club to satisfy him in whatever way they need to."
Even though he removed some uncertainity about the future of the club by bringing in Joe Cole on a free transfer this summer, but with Mascherano, Torres and Gerrard almost on their ways out of the club, he has managed to take a giant leap backwards and is now even further behind then where he started from when he took charge of the club.
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