by jonnymac1979 » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:17 pm
One player does not make a team.
I’m in work right now so I have to take it on your authority that his agent has indeed just spoken.
I’ll believe it when I see it myself, but in the meantime, I would just like to say that if Gerrard doesn’t want to sign a deal and is trying to fu*k the good name of Liverpool Football Club over by saying that the club are forcing him out, Gerrard can well and truly go and fu*k himself.
Whose eyes is he trying to pull the wool over? What are you crying about Stevie baby? £100,000 a week not enough for you is it? Say it to yourself, one hundred thousand pounds a week. Who’d seriously knock that back?
I suspect he wants to leave, rather than the club are forcing him out. If so, and I have said this a million times before, I will gladly wave him goodbye and shut the door behind him. If he doesn’t want to play for us, which is clearly obvious, I don’t want him at the club.
Even all this ‘our best player’ talk is a load of my ar$e. It’s clear even to me that Alonso is the player you would want to build your team around. As good as Gerrard is, hand on heart, who is the better player? I say we sell Gerrard ASAP and take the money and run. Build a team around Alonso, and lets ride on the momentum we have going.
Did you not see the way Valencia was playing two years ago? There was not a single weakness or flaw, not a team in Spain that could live with them. That was down to the excellence of one man, a manager who lives by the philosophy that you play football as a team, no big-time individual ego-driven superstars, and he had his eleven soldiers on the pitch, playing the kind of football that was the nearest thing to poetry in motion on a football field, and I solemnly predict that Steven Gerrard or not, he will have Liverpool playing this fast, one-touch total football we have not seen at Anfield since Rafael Benitez’ Valencia side annihilated us in 2002.
Gerrard, as a European Cup winning captain for Liverpool, you made each and every fan of this clubs’ dreams come alive. You will always be remembered for that.
If you feel in your heart that it’s time for you to move on, I can begrudgingly respect that. I can understand the motives of Steven Gerrard, professional footballer. It’s just the motives of Steven Gerrard, Liverpudlian, I can’t come to terms with.