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Craig HillLiverpool signs Robbie Keane
July 29th 2008 05:55
Liverpool have signed Tottenham striker Robbie Keane on a four-year contract for a fee that could rise to £20.3m.
The 28 year-old Republic of Ireland captain will join the club he has supported from a young age on a reported salary of around £80,000 a week and will be a direct replacement for the recently departed Peter Crouch.
Despite becoming the fifth summer addition to Rafa Benitez's first-team squad after the arrival of David Ngog, Diego Cavalieri, Philipp Degen and Andrea Dossena, Keane is by far the biggest and most expensive signing to arrive at Anfield and is tipped by most pundits to form a formidable first-choice partnership with the prolific Fernando Torres in attack.
The transfer is the sixth major move of Keane's career which includes spells at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City, Inter Milan, Leeds United and Tottenham Hotspur. In his personal statement to Spurs, the striker said:
"I would like to place on record my thanks to the board, players and fans of Tottenham for the past six years, which were the best and most enjoyable of my career to date.
"I will never forget them. I would specifically like to thank chairman Daniel Levy for understanding, that, as a fan, joining Liverpool is a lifelong dream of mine and one I couldn't let pass me by.
"I hope one day the Spurs fans, who have been brilliant to me, can understand this too.
"I have only good things to say about my time at Tottenham and expect them to go from strength to strength under Juande Ramos and Daniel Levy."
"I will never forget them. I would specifically like to thank chairman Daniel Levy for understanding, that, as a fan, joining Liverpool is a lifelong dream of mine and one I couldn't let pass me by.
"I hope one day the Spurs fans, who have been brilliant to me, can understand this too.
"I have only good things to say about my time at Tottenham and expect them to go from strength to strength under Juande Ramos and Daniel Levy."
The Republic of Ireland's all-time leading goalscorer could make his first start in a Liverpool shirt this Saturday.
[Source: LiverpoolFC]
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