Liverpool move for bad-boy Bellamy

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2005

LONDON (AFP) — Liverpool were reported to have approached Newcastle United over striker Craig Bellamy who has said he wants to leave after a highly-public row with manager Graeme Souness.

Bellamy was fined 80,000 pounds, equivalent to two weeks' wages, on Tuesday after calling Souness a liar and admitting he had told team-mates he would feign injury to avoid playing out on the wing instead of centre-forward in Sunday's 1-0 defeat at Arsenal.

The former Coventry and Norwich forward did not train with the rest of the first-team squad on Tuesday, instead working in the gym, and The Guardian reported Wednesday Liverpool were interested if Newcastle drop their 10 million pound valuation of the player.

"There's no doubt about it, I am out of here," the Wales...