That’s the verdict of informed sources close to the ex-Liverpool midfielder who insist that, barring a major back-flip from a perspective employer, Kewell will be bidding adieu to the Premier League after a 15-year stay in England.
It’s known that Seville and Valencia in La Liga and Serie A giants Juventus have been in the hunt for Harry – but the source would not confirm his final destination, saying only: “He has clubs in all four of Europe’s top leagues interested but you can discount two of them (Germany and England).
“Harry’s always said he would like to one day play in either Spain or Italy – and that time is now fast approaching. It was never his intention to spend his whole career in England and the future is looking good for him.
“Think back to 2003 when Harry joined Liverpool from Leeds. Nobody knew right up until three days before he was unveiled as a Liverpool player that he was going there.
“In fact, it had been a done deal for several months before that. The same may be true again with his next destination. That's the way Harry's management like to do things.''
Injury-battered Kewell has arrived in camp for the Socceroos clash with Ghana on Friday – plus June’s four World Cup qualifiers – keen to showcase his prowess to his new club and prove he is far from yesterday’s man.
“Harry will play the whole game against Ghana, hopefully,” Australian national team coach Pim Verbeek said. “He is fit and well. What he needs is match fitness but he has a good chance to achieve that in the coming weeks.
“I have every confidence he’ll find the right club. I think it’s more a matter of which one he wants to go to, rather than the other way round.
“But, of course, it’s only natural, he will want to impress playing for his country in the next weeks.”
Kewell made just 96 starts for Liverpool in a five-year stay, which petered out earlier this month amid a deafening hail of raspberries from a vengeful English media.
He netted more physio appointments and surgical interventions than he ever did goals while at Anfield, but the former Elland Road favourite was ill-deserving of being hung out to dry by the literary lynch mob.
“A lot of people have said negative things about me - they can say what they want,” was his rejoinder. “I don't have anything to prove to them or anybody else.
“In football everybody is looking for scapegoats. It comes with the territory. I just want to go out and enjoy playing regular football again, wherever that may be.
“I want to show that at 29, I still have plenty left in then tank. I plan to be around playing for at least another four or five years yet. I still feel I have plenty of pace – all the in-house tests at Liverpool proved it – and I want to make up for a lot of lost time.''
Kewell's manager Bernie Mandic is happy to let others play the guessing game on where he will end up, saying: “Harry is looking forward to the next phase of his career. What happened at Liverpool happened.
“He's not in the business of looking backwards, he’s concentrating only on what's ahead.”