Source: Liverpool_Echo
Steve Bruce hits out at Liverpool FC boss Rafa Benitez over Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones
FURIOUS Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has launched an outspoken verbal attack on Liverpool over their pursuit of Kenwyne Jones, comparing a loan move for the player to Steven Gerrard being farmed out.[LNB]The 49-year-old has grown exasperated recently with repeated speculation that he will allow the Trinidad and Tobago international to join the Reds on loan before completing a permanent move during the summer.[LNB]Bruce insists there has been no contact between the clubs, and that Jones would only be allowed to leave if the Black Cats received an offer they could not refuse.[LNB]He said: 'Kenwyne Jones is not going to go on loan to anybody for the help of Liverpool or anybody else.[LNB]"I would be mad.[LNB]'Now, if Liverpool are going to come and offer an amount of money, then we all know what happens. Every player - every player - has got a price and a valuation. I have to say though, it would have to be a huge amount of money for us even to contemplate it with a week to go in the transfer window.[LNB]'The only thing it's done is unsettle the boy. It's got him probably in a situation where he thinks I don't want him, which is far from the case.[LNB]'But I can't stop it. Publicly or privately, I can't stop this constant thing of Kenwyne Jones every day.'
