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Why doesn’t Steven Gerrard just leave Liverpool?

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

Why doesn’t Steven Gerrard just leave Liverpool?
After watching yet another abysmal exhibition from Liverpool I continue to ask exactly why Steven Gerrard continues to plunder his reputation with his current crop of woeful colleagues. Liverpool looked anything but potential champions du ... Continue reading »

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  • Laughable.

    The lad has won every honour in the domestic and European game bar the Premiership at Liverpool and he's only 27.

    Enough said.
  • Oh dear. You should be ashamed of yourself. Do everyone a favour and get an education.
  • TIT!!!!!!!!
  • you moron, its people like you, who know nothink, give football a bad name. no class whoever gave you a job..if i was you i would stick to writing kids comics...
  • He wanted to leave, remember the transfer request!! He only stayed because his family forced him to, and he admitted that!! Chelsea Rentboy, the herat and sole of Liverpool, my arse!!
  • If you first learn how to build sentences and not to use words that you don't understand, then maybe your opinions will be given some credence.
  • Jesus Christ that article was an abortion. Usually I disagree with the criticism the writers of this site receive, but in this case, well founded. Misspelling of players' names and the grammatical errors are the least of your problems, but those are still present. How would Gerrard leaving Liverpool help change the environment of not playing international footie this summer? Nobody proclaimed a huge renaissance after the Derby win--everyone, even the most delusional of Liverpool fans, acknowledged that as an embarrassment regardless of the 3 points. Gerrard leaving Liverpool for a place like Barca, Real Madrid, or one of the top 3 domestically would, in my opinion, taint his reputation. The reason he's so inspirational, in my opinion, is BECAUSE it's Liverpool. Haven't read any of your other stuff Jonny, don't plan to after this steaming pile you've left on the front porch of EPL Talk. Shame on the Gaffer for letting you in.
  • *YAWN*

    Jonny, you classic seppo woppa, Ste Gerrard has won everything bar the Premiership.

    So that last part where you were going on about "Carra, to Risse*, to Gerrard...", it's happened. May 25th 2005, Istanbul. Gerrard inspired. 5 Times.

    The Merseyside Derby is a special game. You wouldn't know. Have a clue even. In fact what you've written isn't even a good guess. Local pride and passion means they're always a solid battle and they're rarely the best games to watch. So Stevie was made up to get one over the Toffees. That's one of the reasons he'll never leave Liverpool.

    Ste Gerrard = Scouser/Best Midfielder in the World
    Me = Scouser
    You = Septic Tank/Egghead
  • mr carter
    your first names sums you up and about as useful
    gerrard is at the most succesful club in England with the best supporters in England
    a definate manc are you !!
  • * Not sure who 'Risse' is, I think he meant 'Riise'.
  • maybe because he's loyal. maybe because he's happy with his winners medals. maybe because he's happy working with bumbling idiots like Torres and Benitez. maybe a better question is why you bothered to write the article.
  • A real insight. I hope Stevie has his computer off or we are in the shit!
  • Declare your interest...
  • Sorry Jonny Carter (whoever you might be) but you have embarrassed yourself with this piece of blinkered purple prose that says little and means less.

    For supporters of other top teams, trying to fathom what keeps the likes of Stevie G and Jamie C at Liverpool is simpoy beyond them. They don't know what it means to have someone in the team who is playing for the pride and passion of being part of the team he supports.

    Has he been rewarded for his loyalty? Well, he has won the League Cup and the F A Cup more than once, he has won the UEFA Cup, the Champions League (and been runner up) and even the European Super Cup. Not much else to go for except...

    We all know he wants the Premiership but what you don't get is that winning it with any other team simply wouldn't mean anything to Stevie. Winning it only matters if it is with his beloeved Liverpool. I know you can't get your head round that but if you tried looking at the real world instead of recycling the garbage we see in the hack press week in week out you might gain some respect.

    A salutory warning: one Michael Owen was the last Liverpool lad to leave for a 'bigger' club believing it would win him the big trophies. What happened? He went to a club where it didn't mean anything to him and left behind a team that went on to win the biggest trophy in Europe, The Champions League.

    Stevie G is Liverpool through and through and loyalty like his (his family 'forced him to stay', you really do read the S*n don't you!) doesn't show itself at many clubs. At Liverpool we have two.

    Pride in your team is not just something you have when you win, it is something that burns in your soul. Jonny Carter wouldn't know that kind of passion if it bit him on the backside!
  • reiner, carragher, agger, mascherano, alonso, gerrard, torres.

    that is a spine of a team as fine as any in the world.

    (babel, arbeloa and skrtyl worth a mention too)

    if you really consider them to be 'bumbling idiots' then you are just showing your lack of knowledge.
  • What a geek ... Were did u get the time to write so much shit (most sucessfull club in england) y would he want to leave
  • That is pathetic
  • it's not all about winning..it's the passion..dude
  • Jonny - If you are going to even hint at a Liverpool criticism on this blog, get low.

    1. I don't see where he can go. He missed his window to go to Chelsea. He would never go to United. Arsenal wouldn't pay for him. He would have to have mettle to abroad. I don't think he does.

    2. I think you undervalue Liverpool's squad. Torres and Mascherano are both world-class players. On a match to match basis, I think both have been far more valuable. Gerrard can hit the highest highs, but he is also inconsistent.
  • that should be "the mettle to go abroad"
  • passing WIZARDS . scoring with Diversity ?! come on mate. stick to baseball!

    I dont think we were watching the sam game at all.
  • An article so bad I had to post twice. Can't get over the ignorance that this article reeks of. My new favorite line is that "finishing one spot ahead of Everton doesn't guarantee you anything"--except a Champion's League spot this year. The omission of Javier Mascherano in your foolish rant might be the biggest mistake--many fans who actually understand football and follow Liverpool have rated Masche as closely, if not higher, than Gerrard at many points this season. Finally, I saw that you/one of your embarrassed colleagues corrected the spelling of Riise's name--now feel free to change "Sammy" to "Sami", then delete the whole article.
  • 1 Champions League winner, 1 UEFA cup, two UEFA Super cups, Two FA cups, two League cups, two community shields, .. all in his time there. Nothing to be proud of? Hell, they were just in the Champions league finals last year. I'm not even a Liverpool supporter, and I think this column is absolutely retarded.
  • i have news for you Jonny carter, Gerrard have already signed an extension to his contract, hahahaha! what a waste of space you are!
  • Not to be snobbish, red dude, but signing contract extensions means NOTHING in soccer. Players under contract leave all the time; they are by no means binding in terms of the fact that other teams can pay a transfer fee and that's the end of the contract.

    Personally, I'm of the opinion that Gerrard will stay at Liverpool until he retires and that's how it should be. To say that he won't leave simply because he has signed a contract extension is ignorant, though, because it happens routinely every summer and January.
  • Wow... the internet really allows the deadshits to come out in force and give their views. I'm not sure if I've ever read such a bad article before today. The guy who called it 'an abortion' was right
  • This has to be amongthe mose misinformed articles on football, I mean has the guy just lost it..
    Carragher isnt it world class? Are u f**kin kiddin me? I'm a gooner, and I look at Jamie carragher everyday and wish we had him in our defence.. No world class players??... ( AND I HATE DOING THIS, I DONT LIKE STANDING UP FOR THE REDS OR THEIR PLAYERS, BUT I HAVE TO)... HELLO, every heard of Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano.. They have to be among the top midfielders in the world.. And pepe Reina isnt world class? Well tell u what.. Let "mediorcre" Reina come to the Emirates.. Y'all can have Almunia.. no wait.. Y'all can have Almunia+Lehmann.. Hmm so lets see, Thats a world class keeper+ a world class defender + 3 world class midfielders + a world class forward... Isnt that the spine of a championship winning team..? And in Lucas and Ryan Babel, Liverpool also posess 2 of tomorrow's stars..
    The writer should just get a new job or something because its clear he sucks at what he does..
  • Moooooorooooooon!!!! WHO THE FUCK are Xavi Hernandez, Iniesta:))))))))), Messi .... heeeeey he said Iniesta, one more time :)))))))))!!!!! Moron!!! Look what happend with Henry in Barcelona:)), look what happend with Owen in Real, you'll see what will happend with Lampard in Juventus... YNWA...
  • well well wat can i say, what do you really know about lfc and steven gerrard, to my knowledge your american so what the fuck are you talking about, continue your talking on your so-called 'soccer' and leave the premiership talk to the british, WANKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Whoever wrote this needs to retire.
  • The quality of pundits who write things here just gets worse by the week. Gaffer stop giving posting rights to 19 year old kids because it shows.
    This article is hilarious, i am a gooner and this muppet is saying how awful Liverpool were in the Merseyside Derby where they restricted Everton to just one chance. Everton were woeful, Liverpool but for some finishing would have won this 3 or 4-0. It wasnt good to watch because Everton were dreadful and never made a game of it.

    Liverpool have some great players and but for the United result are on a fine run. Torres/Masch the nutter/Reina (barring that United game)/Carra are all great players.

    Gerrards trophies are great, he hasnt won the Premiership no and you know he wants to but he has won so much else and the Premiership could well be in his future if Liverpool keep gong like they are and not rotating too often.
    The only thing this article says thats remotely true is Kuyt isnt good enough, I would agree with that but to say finishing higher than Everton guarantees nothing.... tell Everton that when they are in the UEFA Cup next year.

    Seriously this is utter drivel.
  • Please don't generalize this to mean that all Americans know dick about football--I'm American and have seen the light about the real football, and it's embarrassing to read such uninformed crap.
  • So Pepe Reina isn't world class?! At this point in the season he has the same number of clean sheets as David James and has every chance of claiming the Golden Glove award for a third consecutive season. I'd say that makes him world class given the current quality of the Barclays Premiership in the context of European / World football.
    Who are you anyway? You know absolutely fuck all.
  • Gerrard is a role model to every modern day footballer, his is an amazing leader and has a unique talent which gives him the ability to win games on his own, only paul scholes comes close to the talent which gerrard possesses, and even he falls short of Gerrards amazing ability.

    Yes his head was turned by chelsea a few years ago, but he realised that winning the premiership with chelsea would mean nothing to him compared to winning it with liverpool.

    He is my favourite player of all time and in my opinion he is the best player england has ever produced.

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