Gerrard - Football365
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:48 ami just found this letter on fotball365
Stevie G: 'He's All Smoke And Mirrors'
Monday December 06 2004
Time To Sell Stevie G?
I am a Liverpool fan, and sick to death of the beautification of Steven Gerrard. Having watched most home games for the last eight years, he is a very impressive player, no doubt, but he's not that good...yet.
This is a typical example of the press in this country picking up on a promising English player and over-hyping them beyond all reasonable levels. How many of the 'next Michael Owens' or the 'next Robbie Fowlers' came out of Goodison - Branch, Jeffers, Cadamarteri, etc.? Finally they got it right with Rooney, but only after five or six failed sightings of similar 'talents'.
Take the Villa game for example. All the papers I read nearly wet themselves at Gerrard's 'massive' performance, and made him Man Of The Match AGAIN. It was only today's paper (Independent) that pointed out that he was actually quite average, and that a 19-year-old Villa rookie kept him in check - maybe HE will be the next Gerrard?
The main problem is this - if he was so good, why did he fluff so many goal chances - three or four according to this morning's report? Scholes and Lampard are similar players, more so now that the 'dynamic and versatile' Gerrard is playing off the lone striker.
Scholes has four in three games and been consistently impressive for ten years, Lampard has been scoring consistently this season, and Gerrard has scored F**K ALL recently.
They are great players, Gerrard is all bustle and no result (fur coat, no knickers, etc., etc.). Liverpool actually have fewer wins without him in the team then when he plays - a FACT, so much for all the 'cavalier, swashbuckling' bo**ocks. Like little Michael Owen, Gerrard's biggest fault is that he believes the drivel the press churn out. However, think smoke and mirrors and you are closer to the truth.
And like little Michael, bless him and his saintly ways, Gerrard will screw Liverpool and f**k off, like other 'favourites' - McManaman being a prime example. Take the money and run, and invest in good players. Benitez has bought well - no-one can claim his signings have not played well, and he has got the best out of previous failures like Biscan, Traore and even Diao. Take £30 million from someone, and buy a better squad.
Gerrard: will he be kissing Chelsea's or Real's badge when they up his wages and he whores himself to 'greater ambition' and his 'England career'? What an insult to the remaining players at Liverpool - a bit like the players who Rooney left at Everton, who now are better off without him and sit above him in the table.
And Gerrard's hype and over-rated status as 'The Best Player In The World Ever, Even Better Than That Pele Bloke', is summed up by two things:
- Last season, he was s**t until Christmas, getting himself ready for a nice end-of-season move, by any chance? The only benefit to Liverpool this season is that he will have to put himself in the shop window to get a move to his beloved Chelsea, Real or his beloved whoever-will-pay-him-£100k-a-week.
- He is English. There is a history of English players being over-hyped while others get over-looked - Ronnie Wheelan and Ray Houghton were wonderful players, and they lived in the shadow of the less wonderful but equally-lauded McMahon at Liverpool, for example. Gerrard is English, and England Expects, so he must be wonderful. My ****** - England will win NOTHING until they get rid of the prima donna clique (Beckham, Owen, Gerrard, Dot Cotton) and get a realistic assessment of their limited abilities.
How must the rest of the team feel when they read about this one-man show? Hyypia is rubbish then, is he? Or Carragher (Liverpool's best player by a mile, forget Gerrard). Or Alonso, or any of them (except Kewell, he IS sh*t). Gerrard is all smoke and mirrors, and while he will be a good player one day, we don't live or die by him.
Liverpool will replace him - in Alonso, they probably already have. Even Biscan plays well now, for f**k's sake! And they look like a team, not with that over-hyped tw*t running round believing his own hype. This sort of glorification of the individual was probably why Liverpool struggled so much towards the end of Toulouse Le Plot's defensive rearguard.
The bottom line is this: Gerrard will continue to bi*ch and moan about things at Anfield. No player should be indulged as he is - tell him to f**k off, take the £30m - we have the much better Xabi Alonso, anyway, and we can buy more players - Wright-Philips would do the job, with Hamman and Alonso in the middle. Gerrard will moan about the board, the possible change of regime and on and on and on until he uses this to justify that he is 'unhappy' at Anfield. His future rumblings in this direction will be a prelude to his departure, and I for one won't miss his self-aggrandising, flatulent posturing and underachieving performances.
Take the money and run, Benitez will use it wisely.
Gary Moss, Liverpool fan
i like the bit where he says
"Liverpool actually have fewer wins without him in the team then when he plays"
contradicting yourself there mate
Stevie G: 'He's All Smoke And Mirrors'
Monday December 06 2004
Time To Sell Stevie G?
I am a Liverpool fan, and sick to death of the beautification of Steven Gerrard. Having watched most home games for the last eight years, he is a very impressive player, no doubt, but he's not that good...yet.
This is a typical example of the press in this country picking up on a promising English player and over-hyping them beyond all reasonable levels. How many of the 'next Michael Owens' or the 'next Robbie Fowlers' came out of Goodison - Branch, Jeffers, Cadamarteri, etc.? Finally they got it right with Rooney, but only after five or six failed sightings of similar 'talents'.
Take the Villa game for example. All the papers I read nearly wet themselves at Gerrard's 'massive' performance, and made him Man Of The Match AGAIN. It was only today's paper (Independent) that pointed out that he was actually quite average, and that a 19-year-old Villa rookie kept him in check - maybe HE will be the next Gerrard?
The main problem is this - if he was so good, why did he fluff so many goal chances - three or four according to this morning's report? Scholes and Lampard are similar players, more so now that the 'dynamic and versatile' Gerrard is playing off the lone striker.
Scholes has four in three games and been consistently impressive for ten years, Lampard has been scoring consistently this season, and Gerrard has scored F**K ALL recently.
They are great players, Gerrard is all bustle and no result (fur coat, no knickers, etc., etc.). Liverpool actually have fewer wins without him in the team then when he plays - a FACT, so much for all the 'cavalier, swashbuckling' bo**ocks. Like little Michael Owen, Gerrard's biggest fault is that he believes the drivel the press churn out. However, think smoke and mirrors and you are closer to the truth.
And like little Michael, bless him and his saintly ways, Gerrard will screw Liverpool and f**k off, like other 'favourites' - McManaman being a prime example. Take the money and run, and invest in good players. Benitez has bought well - no-one can claim his signings have not played well, and he has got the best out of previous failures like Biscan, Traore and even Diao. Take £30 million from someone, and buy a better squad.
Gerrard: will he be kissing Chelsea's or Real's badge when they up his wages and he whores himself to 'greater ambition' and his 'England career'? What an insult to the remaining players at Liverpool - a bit like the players who Rooney left at Everton, who now are better off without him and sit above him in the table.
And Gerrard's hype and over-rated status as 'The Best Player In The World Ever, Even Better Than That Pele Bloke', is summed up by two things:
- Last season, he was s**t until Christmas, getting himself ready for a nice end-of-season move, by any chance? The only benefit to Liverpool this season is that he will have to put himself in the shop window to get a move to his beloved Chelsea, Real or his beloved whoever-will-pay-him-£100k-a-week.
- He is English. There is a history of English players being over-hyped while others get over-looked - Ronnie Wheelan and Ray Houghton were wonderful players, and they lived in the shadow of the less wonderful but equally-lauded McMahon at Liverpool, for example. Gerrard is English, and England Expects, so he must be wonderful. My ****** - England will win NOTHING until they get rid of the prima donna clique (Beckham, Owen, Gerrard, Dot Cotton) and get a realistic assessment of their limited abilities.
How must the rest of the team feel when they read about this one-man show? Hyypia is rubbish then, is he? Or Carragher (Liverpool's best player by a mile, forget Gerrard). Or Alonso, or any of them (except Kewell, he IS sh*t). Gerrard is all smoke and mirrors, and while he will be a good player one day, we don't live or die by him.
Liverpool will replace him - in Alonso, they probably already have. Even Biscan plays well now, for f**k's sake! And they look like a team, not with that over-hyped tw*t running round believing his own hype. This sort of glorification of the individual was probably why Liverpool struggled so much towards the end of Toulouse Le Plot's defensive rearguard.
The bottom line is this: Gerrard will continue to bi*ch and moan about things at Anfield. No player should be indulged as he is - tell him to f**k off, take the £30m - we have the much better Xabi Alonso, anyway, and we can buy more players - Wright-Philips would do the job, with Hamman and Alonso in the middle. Gerrard will moan about the board, the possible change of regime and on and on and on until he uses this to justify that he is 'unhappy' at Anfield. His future rumblings in this direction will be a prelude to his departure, and I for one won't miss his self-aggrandising, flatulent posturing and underachieving performances.
Take the money and run, Benitez will use it wisely.
Gary Moss, Liverpool fan
i like the bit where he says
"Liverpool actually have fewer wins without him in the team then when he plays"
contradicting yourself there mate
PMSL