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Sterling wants to play in the CL as did Suarez and as do any top class players. Add in the fact he wants to go back to London and he'll be at Arsenal or Chelsea. They are living on 20 year old past glory - Rodgers had a great chance to use the money from Suarez to rebuild that team but he spunked it all on dross like Lovren (ha ha)

 

 

 

Reed and Liebherr must be wetting themselves that they gave us 50m quid last summer ...

 

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Please let it be that we beat ManCiteh, and Spurs and Liverpool lose. That would be the best poetic justice of all.

 

Let it happen.

 

C'mon lads, it can be done!

 

(but sorry, Sterling, you're not good enough for us.)

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I am laughing at the pundits, carragher and such like with their 'disbelief' that sterling would want to leave liverpool.

How many keep saying that he should stay as this is the best place for him and all that....

 

why shouldn't he go and play champions league football and a bigger pay packet. that is how it works isn't it??

 

horrible, disgusting club and Rogers is a fecking ****

 

I think it makes sense to say he should stay at a club where he would get lots of playing time because that would better develop his skills. Liverpool is not necessarily that club but any club that would buy him right now would be worse for him. Maybe he should play out his contract and then go somewhere on a free transfer.

 

I find the whole thing quite amusing, and it sums up Liverpool. They are living in the past, and think that because it is Liverpool, that that is more than enough. Yes, they have massive support around the world and a lot of money, but they do not have the success of the other big boys.

 

Sterling was born in 1994

 

They last won the league in 1989-1990

Champions League in 2004-2005

FA Cup 2005-2006

League Cup 2011-2012

UEFA Cup 2000-2001

 

The ones he is interested in are the league, last won before he was born, and the CL when he was 9. History is all well and good for those on the terraces, as a lot of them can remember the games but they are irrelevant to Sterling. They did well last season, but have gone massively backwards this season = so what's the boy to think? This is Rodgers' fault. He has a plethora of shiite strikers who he doesn't/can't play, so instead plays Sterling out of position as CF + a crap defence.

 

And then there is Liverpool. He's a London boy, so I can well imagine that he far prefers London to Liverpool, although it will be interesting to see if he ends up in Manchester or abroad. The press are having their Liverpool love in continued after the Steven ****ing Gerrard saga, and are saying poor Liverpool, after all they've done for him.

 

Setting aside the questions of what you might think of Liverpool as an English person with your understandable biases, Liverpool's history and world wide popularity are real assets that can and should be converted into success on the field. It looked like that was happening last year but they botched the transfers this season. If FFP is loosened (as is being suggested) the current ownership may sell out because they were relying upon Liverpool's natural advantages to help them relative to a club like Manchester City which is dependent on richer owner investment.

 

The ownership's real problem is that their baseball knowledge of how to intelligently run a sports club has not transferred as well as they expected and they have chosen poorly in deciding to whom to give control of the checkbook. But the situation is not irretrievable. If, for example, they hired Les Reed away from us and gave him the necessary authority (which would probably mean firing current management), I think things would improve for them. I just hope they do not do that or anything like that with some other competent (in baseball terms) general manager.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/clubs/liverpool/article4444751.ece

 

From the Times today. Headline "Vulnerable Liverpool are mediocre - and they know it"

 

Thanks for the link. That being said, I have actually subscribed to the Times so I could read articles like this and I cannot find it on my Ipad version of the Times. It is an outrage.

 

40 million

 

I understand it to be 20 million for Lovren, 25 for Lallana, and 4 for Lambert=49.

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Haven't seen this amusing little pis* take yet - quite possibly written by a saint?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works

 

As we all know, Liverpool Football Club is special. Different. Classy. Unique. Special. Unique. Classy. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Unique. Clubby. Clubbish. Clubesque. Special. Unique. Increasingly irrelevant. Over the hill. Past-it. Yesterday’s news. Special. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Special. Special. Unique. Liverpool Football Club are special. And unique. And special. And classy. They’re special and specially unique and uniquely specially and specially special and uniquely classy and they have a different way of doing things, you wouldn’t understand, you just wouldn’t, because you’re not special, or classy, or unique, you’re not Liverpool Football Club, and you wouldn’t understand, so don’t even bother, just accept it, they’re the best football team in the tra-la-la-la land.

 

Liverpool Football Club’s specialness and uniqueness and classiness naturally places them in a position to pat lesser clubs on the head and let them know of their place in the food chain. Clubs, say, like Southampton, who were browbeaten into selling Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren to mighty Liverpool last summer. “They have a choice as a club,” Liverpool’s head guru, Brendan Rodgers, roared last August. “They don’t have to sell. You have a choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were looking to be a [big Cup] club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change. There might be one or two others who leave. It’s just the way it works.” It’s. Just. The. Way. It. Works.

 

Words to live by. Poetry in motion that comes to mind now that Raheem Sterling is busy letting Liverpool know that the way it works is that he would like to leave in the summer, maybe join a bigger club, play for a team who actually have a chance of winning something in the near future, that there’s only so many times he can hear about the Miraculous Miracle of Istanbul before he’s forced to go all Van Gogh on his ears.

 

Treason! Naturally Sterling’s desire to play for a good team has been met with fury and The Fiver assumes he has spent the day locked in Melwood’s Re-education Chamber, a crack team of Phil Thompson, John Bishop and John Aldridge taking it in turns to hammer home the uniqueness and specialness and classiness of Liverpool Football Club, making sure Sterling knows that he will forever walk alone if he joins Manchester City, a terrifying prospect indeed. It’s just the way it works.

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Haven't seen this amusing little pis* take yet - quite possibly written by a saint?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works

 

I think most neutral fans feel the same about that club, so could be anyone! Maybe even a Manc.

 

They're a club living on past glories, the reality is that they are now in the bracket of clubs outside of the top 4, same level as Spurs. They will have to get used to that. What they won in the past doesn't mean anything, they are now a notch or 2 down from the 'top' clubs in this league. Players will leave because they can achieve more at a bigger club. Like ourselves, they also have a position on the transfer food chain.

 

What annoys me more than anything is the constant media love-in. But it doesn't help that the media is dominated by ex-liverpool people. I wish they'd all just wake the **** up, realise that last season was odd and not a fair reflection on the size of their club in this day and age. If they want to be up there with City, Arsenal, Utd, Chelsea, then they will need to stop splashing £20m on LOLVren's.

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Makes my blood boil to hear all these experts say he should stay at Liverpool and develop as a player, get plenty of game time etc etc.

 

Didn't hear them say that when they were creaming themselves about Luke Shaw going to a big club to show his true potential. **** all was said about staying at Southampton and playing every week then !!

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Makes my blood boil to hear all these experts say he should stay at Liverpool and develop as a player, get plenty of game time etc etc.

 

Didn't hear them say that when they were creaming themselves about Luke Shaw going to a big club to show his true potential. **** all was said about staying at Southampton and playing every week then !!

 

Or Chambers....

 

their careers have gone sooo well since they moved, yet we don't ever hear anyone say ''they should have stayed here''. Wenger is on some sort of mission to turn Chambers into a quality CB (and typically, he's getting praised for it....), but I don't see it, he'll just drift around like Jenkinson. Good move Chambers.

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Makes my blood boil to hear all these experts say he should stay at Liverpool and develop as a player, get plenty of game time etc etc.

 

Didn't hear them say that when they were creaming themselves about Luke Shaw going to a big club to show his true potential. **** all was said about staying at Southampton and playing every week then !!

 

 

I don't like that they say it because it's Liverpool when they'd never say it about Saints, however I think they're absolutely right. What has Sterling actually achieved? **** all. I can't see one of these top Eurpean clubs coming in with £50m for him. Would he really start regularly for Barca or Real, Chelsea, Bayern? I doubt it.

 

It's funny because it's Liverpool, but I hate how agents big their players up to the extent that they feel they've got the right to demand the world. I hope his career goes significantly downhill.

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Or Chambers....

 

their careers have gone sooo well since they moved, yet we don't ever hear anyone say ''they should have stayed here''. Wenger is on some sort of mission to turn Chambers into a quality CB (and typically, he's getting praised for it....), but I don't see it, he'll just drift around like Jenkinson. Good move Chambers.

 

or Chambers indeed. Has he been seen in the last three months ? Does he make the subs bench even ? I honestly don't know, my only interest in Arsenal will be if we finish 7th and need them to win the FA Cup :lol:

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or Chambers indeed. Has he been seen in the last three months ? Does he make the subs bench even ? I honestly don't know, my only interest in Arsenal will be if we finish 7th and need them to win the FA Cup :lol:

 

No, he doesn't even make the bench anymore. Not injured.

 

The word is that he's being ''developed'' into a CB.

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Haven't seen this amusing little pis* take yet - quite possibly written by a saint?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works

Nah, that column takes the pi ss out of everyone. From time to time it will take the pi ss out of us and when they do some on here go typically apesh it about the media's agenda against us and how they would never do that about Liverpool.

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Makes my blood boil to hear all these experts say he should stay at Liverpool and develop as a player, get plenty of game time etc etc.

 

Didn't hear them say that when they were creaming themselves about Luke Shaw going to a big club to show his true potential. **** all was said about staying at Southampton and playing every week then !!

 

Actually some experts did say precisely that.

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To be fair ..in one way BR has weaved utter sorcery.... in 2013/14 Liverpool were poor , very poor but with Suarez and Porridge doing a Le-Tissier style prop up. Once he lost Suarez and effectively Porridge too, he had a very poor side which he propped up ( courtesy of our cast-offs ) with a sh*te defender, an over-rated midfielder ( Davis had better stats in 2013/14 that Liarlana ) and a striker who was more interested in his slippers than his football boots... oh and not to forget super-mario. BR to have finished 5th,6th or 7th with this terrible bunch of players is a minor miracle in my opinion.....

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Taking the Liverpool dislike-bias away, the best thing for Sterling is to play as many games as possible. Is that going to happen at City, Arsenal or Chelsea (no way in the world he's going to Utd)? He's a promising young England player and I'd hate to see him go the same way as Rodwell and countless others - just swallowed up by a Top 4 team and then have to rebuild his career. He's better off staying put IMO, but clearly won't.

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Taking the Liverpool dislike-bias away, the best thing for Sterling is to play as many games as possible. Is that going to happen at City, Arsenal or Chelsea (no way in the world he's going to Utd)? He's a promising young England player and I'd hate to see him go the same way as Rodwell and countless others - just swallowed up by a Top 4 team and then have to rebuild his career. He's better off staying put IMO, but clearly won't.

 

Could have said the same for Shaw....Chambers....Theo....list goes on. If the money is flashed in front of these young players eyes, then their heads are turned. I don't believe sterling a single jot when he says it's not about money, it clearly is. He'd get himself a nice signing on bonus on top of a hefty wage. By all account's he's a bit of a ''playa'' and wants to move down to London to be back with his 'crew'.

 

I think he's a good player, but incredibly badly advised and that will undoubtedly be his undoing.

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Could have said the same for Shaw....Chambers....Theo....list goes on. If the money is flashed in front of these young players eyes, then their heads are turned. I don't believe sterling a single jot when he says it's not about money, it clearly is. He'd get himself a nice signing on bonus on top of a hefty wage. By all account's he's a bit of a ''playa'' and wants to move down to London to be back with his 'crew'.

 

I think he's a good player, but incredibly badly advised and that will undoubtedly be his undoing.

 

Agreed..... he is wasting his time tho at Liverpool. If he had any brains ( he hasn't ) , now would be the perfect time to maybe spend a couple of years in France or Spain and play some Champions League with some decent sides.... and get some real experience. Coming off the bench for a "big" club after 60 minutes to face Bournemouth, Watford or Leicester defenders is not exactly a perfect development plan for the lad... and the "big" clubs will repeat their Champions League failure again next season almost certainly....

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I think he's a good player, but incredibly badly advised

 

Has he been? If Sterling has said to his agent that what he wants from his career is to earn as much money as he can and win as many trophies as he can then his agent is doing the right thing.

Remember the only reason he is at Liverpool is because he did the dirty on QPR. He marked himself then as a bit of a money grabbing tw*t but funnily enough that didn't make Jamie Carragher sick to the pit of his stomach then

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Doubt this is true, but would be pretty effing unbelievable if it was. Actually, it would be believable knowing what a hack Brendan Rodgers is.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/jose-fonte-interesting-liverpool-southampton-5692672?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS

 

It's a week old already. He's a good player and would get the best out of Lovren.

 

So we should re-sign Lovren. :D

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It's a week old already. He's a good player and would get the best out of Lovren.

 

So we should re-sign Lovren. :D

 

Liverpoool's main problem, well defensively speaking anyway, is that they have no realistic sentinel in front of the defence and with the 3 at the back system that they seem to play they sometimes get run ragged. Must be bloody hard work being a back 3 player at Liverpool actually because none of the pansies that Rodgers puts in front of them can do the job correctly.

Lucas is the best of them and he's iffy at best.

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sterling has more potential to go the other way and end up plying his trade for Norwich or west ham in 4-5 years then he has to go and become the hottest property off thexe isles since bale. Immortalise my words and revisit them in four years, I bet I'm not far from the truth.

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Problem is the majority of young players coming through these days are so thick it's unreal, so are totally unable to make decisions for themselves.

 

I mean look at Shaw, I don't expect he can even spell GCSE let alone have any.

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I totally get why so many fans hate Brendan Rogers for the remarks he made about our club last summer and why they would love to see players leave an average Liverpool side for a team that will win something.

However this thing with the likes of Sterling wanting to move, Shaw, Chambers and to some extent Lallana.....I can totally get why these players moved if i forget about football for 1 minute. I bet everyone of them has an agent or family member telling them "look at JRod"....his career could have been over and will he ever be the same player again (i bet there are loads of example of such players). A footballers career could be over so quickly and unless they are major top earners they will probably have to find an alternative career. Can anyone of us blame them for chasing the cash cow while it is still available to them??? Is there one of us that would not do the same to make sure we never had to do a normal job in our lives and in the process secure our families future???

My heart tells me i would play for SFC until my dying days irrespective of money......my head tells me to stop being a stupid ****er and take the money!

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I totally get why so many fans hate Brendan Rogers for the remarks he made about our club last summer and why they would love to see players leave an average Liverpool side for a team that will win something.

However this thing with the likes of Sterling wanting to move, Shaw, Chambers and to some extent Lallana.....I can totally get why these players moved if i forget about football for 1 minute. I bet everyone of them has an agent or family member telling them "look at JRod"....his career could have been over and will he ever be the same player again (i bet there are loads of example of such players). A footballers career could be over so quickly and unless they are major top earners they will probably have to find an alternative career. Can anyone of us blame them for chasing the cash cow while it is still available to them??? Is there one of us that would not do the same to make sure we never had to do a normal job in our lives and in the process secure our families future???

My heart tells me i would play for SFC until my dying days irrespective of money......my head tells me to stop being a stupid ****er and take the money!

 

Personally I think they already earn enough. I wish I could settle down with some of the contracts they're already on, would set me up for life. The desire to move is just greed more than anything.

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I totally get why so many fans hate Brendan Rogers for the remarks he made about our club last summer and why they would love to see players leave an average Liverpool side for a team that will win something.

However this thing with the likes of Sterling wanting to move, Shaw, Chambers and to some extent Lallana.....I can totally get why these players moved if i forget about football for 1 minute. I bet everyone of them has an agent or family member telling them "look at JRod"....his career could have been over and will he ever be the same player again (i bet there are loads of example of such players). A footballers career could be over so quickly and unless they are major top earners they will probably have to find an alternative career. Can anyone of us blame them for chasing the cash cow while it is still available to them??? Is there one of us that would not do the same to make sure we never had to do a normal job in our lives and in the process secure our families future???

My heart tells me i would play for SFC until my dying days irrespective of money......my head tells me to stop being a stupid ****er and take the money!

 

The real problem with footballers taking lots of money to be set for life is that they (like many of us) don't know how to handle their money. I suspect many of their agents are set for life, however.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2896066/Is-biggest-swindle-hit-football-100-players-lose-30million-investment-scheme-collapses-amid-huge-debts.html

 

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/21790728

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Christ, how many articles can the BBC write on this topic?

There have been at least 2 quoting flabbergasted ex-pool players, a disgustingly toady effort by McNulty which praises poor old Brendan for his composure in the face of an unscrupulous contract rebel, and finally today's piece which aggregates all of the 'stop being mean to Raheem' comments that have been voiced over the last day or so.

Are people really that interested in in this? Are Liverpool supported actually blind to the fact that they are now a 'best of the rest' side, on par with Tottenham (and potentially ourselves). I think they must be.

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sterling has more potential to go the other way and end up plying his trade for Norwich or west ham in 4-5 years then he has to go and become the hottest property off thexe isles since bale. Immortalise my words and revisit them in four years, I bet I'm not far from the truth.

He's got enough in his locker to be the next Shaun Wright-Phillips, that's for sure.

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Problem is the majority of young players coming through these days are so thick it's unreal, so are totally unable to make decisions for themselves.

 

I mean look at Shaw, I don't expect he can even spell GCSE let alone have any.

 

He was so thick he managed to get a move to Manchester United (Manchester United FFS) and earn over £100k a week at 18 years old.

 

By the time he is 23 years old, the absolute least he would have earned from United will be £26m!!!!

 

What a thicko

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He was so thick he managed to get a move to Manchester United (Manchester United FFS) and earn over £100k a week at 18 years old.

 

By the time he is 23 years old, the absolute least he would have earned from United will be £26m!!!!

 

What a thicko

 

Yeah, I'm sure he had to pass a rigorous Googlesque interview with problem solving questions and the like. Not. Intelligence had nothing to do with him signing for Man Utd. How clever do you need to be to take a carrot dangling in front of you? Donkeys manage it all the time.

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Are Liverpool supported actually blind to the fact that they are now a 'best of the rest' side, on par with Tottenham (and potentially ourselves). I think they must be.

This is the Liverpool fanbase you're talking about. Surely THE most deluded of the lot, and I include the blue few down the road in that. Apparently because they were quite good before Sterling was born, he should stay put. They've qualified for the Champions League once in the past six years, off the back of a season where everything came together for them but has since disintegrated. Why would he stay when he could actually win something somewhere else?

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He was so thick he managed to get a move to Manchester United (Manchester United FFS) and earn over £100k a week at 18 years old.

 

By the time he is 23 years old, the absolute least he would have earned from United will be £26m!!!!

 

What a thicko

 

 

Great insight you have there on the deal Shaw did by himself... I'm surprised you didn't include the fact those having blonde hair have a higher IQ than those with dark hair, as that may have got him an extra million.

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I was just about to post those quotes, wow. There's no way back now, that's for sure.

 

Let's all have a laugh at Liverpool, great preparation in the buildup to their final game.

 

I must admit though - what a total cock of an agent! Unprofessional to the extreme. Sterling is clearly being advised by a bit of a pillock here.

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I was just about to post those quotes, wow. There's no way back now, that's for sure.

 

Let's all have a laugh at Liverpool, great preparation in the buildup to their final game.

 

I must admit though - what a total cock of an agent! Unprofessional to the extreme. Sterling is clearly being advised by a bit of a pillock here.

 

I understand they want out etc. but I'm not entirely sure why they are doing this before the season has ended?

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I understand they want out etc. but I'm not entirely sure why they are doing this before the season has ended?

 

No idea, probably just some sort of karma!

 

Didn't realise, but that agent bloke represents Alex Chambo as well.

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No idea, probably just some sort of karma!

 

Didn't realise, but that agent bloke represents Alex Chambo as well.

 

Also - this made me chuckle.

 

Mike Anstead @mike_anstead

Think Aidy Ward should leave it a day or so before asking Liverpool if they fancy signing Saido Berahino

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Also - this made me chuckle.

 

Mike Anstead @mike_anstead

Think Aidy Ward should leave it a day or so before asking Liverpool if they fancy signing Saido Berahino

 

:lol: - To be honest, I've never seen a situation like this before with an agent coming out with comments like this. Incredible. You've got to wonder why he feels so strongly though, apart from the obvious fact of getting a nice agent fee, Sterling must be pretty adamant he wants out for reasons other than money/lack of success. Maybe he also can see right through Rogers?

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