Liverpool FC Forum

stmichael wrote:

JohnBull wrote:Gerrard is very immature, even for a footballer, he should never have been made captain and this latest fiasco is just another  sign that he needs to grow up. If Shanks had had him he'd have had him married off with kids by now so he would have had to show some responsibility.
But what do you do ? He is a great player and he would walk into any team in the world .Would you rather have him with us or against us?
I just have this horrible feeling that we've not seen the end of this matter.

I've said many many times last season that I'd like to keep gerrard the player, but Gerrard the Captain is an absolute joke. We;ve just had the opportunity to do that and didn't. Why???

Stevie Me was prepared to to sign a new deal and give up the arm band. Surely that would have been the best solution all round??

Is there ever an easier decision to make??

I mean, we'd get to keep a good player (Gerrard) and also get a 100% reliable, consistent and unswerving loyal Captain in Jamie Carragher to take us forward.

Maybe it's just me, but this just seems really obvious. I reckon we've missed one of the best opportunities ever there, I really do.

As a manager I'm sure Rafa is relieved to have kept hold of Gerrard the player, but how can he not see that he's the worst Captain ever??

To me, making him a regular team player again (which the player himself was happy to do) would be the best thing that could happen to him, and for LFC. Me-me would get less attention from the media, and the new Captain, Carra, would be an unserving, 100% loyal and dedicated Captain who could truly lead by example.

Then Me-Me could just get on with playin footy again and get back to his best without the stress of being Captain. Hey presto, everyone's a winner. We get a good Captain, Me-Me starts performing again and we can start to be a team again and not the Steven Gerrard ego massage machine that we've become.

Can anyone on earth seriously say, with a straight face, that Carra wouldn't make a better Captain than The Ego? Seriously? I defy even his most ardent supporters to truly believe that.

Even Gerrard himself must now know that he isn't a good Captain as he offered to give it up!!

So, we can all see it, even Steven Gerrard can see it, so why the f#ck did we let him keep the arm band??? I reckon it's that that pisses me off more than the fact he's still here to be honest.

I said it last August and some scoffed, but I'll say it again now: As soon as we go on a bad run, or things aren't going the way Steven Gerrard wants them to be going, then how do you know that our so-called "Captain" won't be looking around again and getting unsettled.

Why take the chance?? He's already had one chance and the benefit of the doubt once before, and look what happened!!!!

Is that the attitude, confidence level and the vision that we really want in our Captain?? I wouldn't want that kind of worry if i was recruiting someone to work in a chippy, nevermind the Captain of one of the worlds greatest football clubs!!

A fair-weather employee is the worst kind you can have. But a fair-weather captain is just stupid.

I guess i have to live with the fact that the selfish idiot is still here, but surely it's an even bigger mistake that we didn't take the arm band from him when he offered it?

As you may be able to tell, I'm still wound up about the whole situation.

Oh well, walk on....