Jose's away then!

It looks like Jose Enrique will be off in the summer as rumours of a £15 million deal with Liverpool begin to surface.

Now usually I put very little credence in press reports and I'm never far away from rubbishing things - good or bad - the appear in the news about our club. This time it's different though, mainly due to my gut feeling and observations, and I actually do believe that he is off in the summer.

This is not the recent speculation that has swayed my opinion. All it's done has kind of put things into place in my own mind. I stood in the away end at The Britannia and mentioned to Marktoon about how disinterested Jose appeared, and it's been that way ever since.

Put simply we are not seeing the Jose Enrique that we all know and love. His performances have dropped and he seems distant when you look at him. He's just come back from injury of course which is a good enough excuse for looking a bit out of sorts, but I feel that there is more to it than meets the eye.

Add to that the fact that Phil Thompson has been rattling on to Norwegian TV and has suggested that Enrique to Liverpool is a done deal and you have an awful lot of strong rumours surfacing at the same time. Lost in translation? Nah, 'Big Nose' spoke in English. Well, Scouse anyway.



Now my instant reaction was of doubt. I mean what does Phil Thompson know, right? Add it with all my other feelings however and you get the inkling that something could be awry.

We'll have to wait until the summer for confirmation of course, but I'm not holding out much hope of Jose signing a new deal. Fair enough, it's his choice and if he doesn't want to be here then so be it and there is very little that we can do about it. He'll be a big miss though, that's for sure.

Still, my gut feelings have been wrong before, and hopefuly they are wrong on this one.

Fingers crossed!