Liverpool great John Aldridge believes management will regret losing Gini Wijnaldum to PSG.
Aldridge wrote for the Sunday World: "Gini has been outstanding for Holland so far, scoring three goals and looking a real threat in a more attacking midfield position than he played for a lot of his time at Liverpool.
"It might be that he feels he has a point to prove to Liverpool and his new club Paris Saint-Germain, amid reports that he will be earning around £315,000-a-week in a move that also saw him collect a multi-million-pound signing-on fee.
"Yet, it was clear from the way he left Liverpool with an emotional send-off on the final day of the season that he was not happy to say his farewells to a club where he had achieved so much over the past five years.
"The trouble is that once a player turns 30, Liverpool's owners have shown themselves to be reluctant to hand out long-term contracts and, clearly, that's what Wijnaldum had been looking for.
"There was an offer on the table for him to stay, but it would have been nowhere near as lucrative as the deal he has just signed with PSG and, maybe, the money was too good to turn down in the end.
"It probably got to the point where Wijnaldum and his advisers thought Liverpool are not pushing hard enough to give us a new deal, so we will sit it out, let the contract run down and take the lottery money that will come our way from a free transfer. "
He added: "Liverpool's owners would prefer to sign a 21-year-old who may have a sell-on value in a few years' time, but they could have given Wijnaldum the three-year contract he wanted and, maybe, looked to sell him next summer if money was the issue.
"Instead, the player has left without any fee coming in. That doesn't make any business sense for the club."
