Werner laughs off YouTube story

30th Jan 2012 - Latest News

Tom Werner today laughed off suggestions that Liverpool had bought Stewart Downing on the back of a YouTube video.

"Someone told me about this," said the Reds chairman. "It's a great story, but unfortunately for the person who wrote the piece, it isn't true.  It actually comes from an interview I did five months ago with Ian Ayre for our club TV channel in which I said that when we first talked about signing Stewart, we'd found a video of him kicking footballs into some trash cans. 

"I explained in that interview back in August we knew the footage had been doctored but I guess that detail doesn't really help stand up the story.

"The amount of people involved and the work that goes into a signing a player is huge so the suggestion that we'd buy someone on the back of one doctored video is ridiculous.

"The story that a hoax video caused us to buy a player is more of a hoax than the video. John and I don't get involved in choosing footballers to acquire."

Author: Liverpool FC
Tagged: downing , stewart downing , tom werner , werner





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YNWA Guys , please buy us a striker in the next few days preferably another Uraguyan
thaired669
30th Jan 2012 9:16
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