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    Rafa rants at Man City as Johnson is unveiled

    By Soccernet Staff

    Thursday, July 9, 2009

    Rafael Benitez used the unveiling of defender Glen Johnson to attack Manchester City's "money, money, money" approach to transfers. The Liverpool boss splashed £17m on the England right-back, but paid substantially less than that to Portsmouth, who still owed money on the transfer of Peter Crouch. Benitez stressed Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano would not be leaving, but said he found the market increasingly "crazy" to negotiate given the big spending of Manchester City and Real Madrid. H ...

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