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LIVERPOOL FC : RAFA TO TRY AND SIGN GONZALEZ IN JANUARY

/noticias.info/ Rafael Benitez says he still wants to sign Chile winger Mark Gonzalez despite him having a work permit turned down and will make another move in January for the player.
Benitez said the club also have the backing of the Chilean government in their efforts to bring the player to England. Liverpool will try to sign Gonzalez again in January but if that fails then he can join the club before the start of the 2006/07 season as he is eligible for a Spanish passport in 2006.

Benitez said: "We have to wait until at least January before we can do anything else, but next year he'll have a European passport anyway. His grandmother is from Spain and he has a German grandfather. So he must go through all this for the sake of one year.

"It's an unbelievable decision we must wait so long. I believe the Chilean government has taken a big interest in the case. They sold 1,000 Liverpool shirts when we signed Gonzalez. No-one understands what's going on.

"I find it stupid he can't join us. We have made a lot of effort to send our scouts to watch him, we've received good reports from his previous managers, we've interviewed his former team-mates to get their view on him and my chief scout has watched him regularly since he was a youngster in Chile.

"We feel as European Champions, we have found a player who is good enough for us and who has a big future. Now someone tells us we can't sign him."
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