It is understood that the Anfield club matched Newcastle's £10m offer but Chelsea were reluctant to lose such a talented player to one of this season's potential title rivals. In addition, Duff was ultimately swayed by his close friend and international colleague Shay Given, United's long-serving goalkeeper, when determining where his future might lie.
I find this whole Duff thing very interesting we need a right sided winger he can play there but its not his natural position, but he is such a good player he would solve our problem on the right and really add that extra attacking spark to the team. So i have no doubht that Rafa really wanted him, but the funny thing about this transfer saga was it was all media and no whispers coming from anfield that we were looking to sign him.
It makes me think that the boot room knew that Chelsea would sell him to anyone but us, surly Duff would prefer to play champions league football next season and have a decent chance of a challenge on the league, it can only mean one thing.....................The Special One is far more worried by our progress than he has been letting on.
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