BYE BYE HARRY

It could have been so great.
When we were crying out for a winger with pace, skill and the ability to score goals, it seemed like Harry and the Reds were a match made in heaven.
It never quite worked out though did it?
His first season was pretty impressive - 49 games played and 11 goals, in all competitions.
It's going back five years, but I remember plenty of gliding past defenders, some impressive strikes, and that penetrating wing play that was so devastating for Leeds.
But it all went quickly downhill, a mixture of bad luck with injuries and a bad attitude for me.
The Istanbul season was frustrating for Kewell and Liverpool fans, which climaxed in events at the Champions League final.
A combination of getting wasted by Milan in the first half and Harry limping off with a torn abductor muscle prompted ire from a lot of fans.
It wasn't that we thought he was faking it, but it just confirmed a growing suspicion that when the going got tough, Harry got off.

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But the thing about Kewell was that he was a flirt. After making our blood boil with some typical apathy, it was soon followed by glimpses of the genuine talent he had in his locker.
The 2005-06 season was one of his best, the notable highlights a great performance and third goal in the derby at Anfield, after Gerrard got sent off.
Then there was match winning display in the FA Cup semi final against Chelsea. He tied Geremi in knots that day at Old Trafford.
Predictably though, his cup final appearance at Cardiff was cut short with another sudden injury. A theme was developing here. Knee deep in the brown, with West Ham taking a shock lead and Harry limps off. Our patience was wearing thin.
Since then, there's been nothing really of note. Just the odd game, usually towards the end of a season with a showpiece final looming large.
It was a withering testimont to our lack of quality out wide, that when Harry scored a inconsequential goal in one of our final league games just before Athens, yet more calls were made to promote this enigma to the starting 11, despite nothing contributed for months previously.
Over the last two years, Reds fans it seems have massively lost all faith in him, and it's time to move on with something new out wide.
Even though we didn't get a fee for him, we'll be saving a huge amount of money by not paying his huge wages every week.
I don't know what he was on, but I'd venture a guess of around £70,000.
The final straw for many was a revelation in the ECHO last season about how Kewell and another player were seen chuckling deep in the bowels of Upton Park moments after perhaps our most woeful performance of the season, away at West Ham.
At a time when Liverpool players should have been hurting, the Aussie clearly wasn't.
Anyway, I'd wish him the best of luck, but the Galatasary move seems a strange one. It won't be no picnic there.
The Turks want you to die for the shirt, they won't accept any wishy washy drifting through games. Yet, players are big hits in the strangest of places sometimes.
And word is that a lot of Leeds fans are up in arms with his move following the two stabbing deaths of fans in Istanbul in 2000.

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We never did get to sing the Daddy Cool song too much did we? A mate of mine spoke to a few Leeds fans at the time of his departure from Elland Road, and they mentioned how they felt they were getting rid of a Kewell on the wane.
That's proved to be spot on.
Kewell has recently said of his move: "I wanted to move on and this is the best way. I can't wait to get started, it's just what I'm looking forward to, a new challenge."
He's got to come out with the platitudes obviously, but do you reckon he really can't wait to get started? Dubious over in my camp.
What's everyone's thoughts on Hazza?