Liverpool chairman Werner laughs off Downing YouTube rumours
Published on 2012-01-30 by TribalFootball
Liverpool chief Tom Werner denies they moved for Stewart Downing after seeing him in a YouTube video for Aston Villa.
Werner laughed off suggestions that Liverpool had bought Downing on the back of a YouTube video.
""Someone told me about this," the Reds Chairman told liverpoolfc.tv. "It's a great story, but unfortunately for the person who wrote the piece, it isn't true. It actually comes from an interview I did five months ago with Ian Ayre for our club TV channel in which I said that when we first talked about signing Stewart, we'd found a video of him kicking footballs into some trash cans. "
"I explained in that interview back in August we knew the footage had been doctored but I guess that detail doesn't really help stand up the story.
"The amount of people involved and the work that goes into a signing a player is huge so the suggestion that we'd buy someone on the back of one doctored video is ridiculous."
Liverpool chief Tom Werner denies they moved for Stewart Downing after seeing him in a YouTube video for Aston Villa.