LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

[Zammo]

As someone put on on Twitter last night, Sterling's greatest moment on a football pitch was hitting the side netting in a World Cup.

[TBM]

I do think if Sterling was in an Arsenal shirt he would be better suited. They have more flair and a style of play that will benefit his game.

Its like when John Barnes played for England - he just wasn't the same player to the one he was at Liverpool due to them wanting him to come back and defend

[6ft Kerplunk]

Sterling wants to leave. No surprise really. For the development of our good English young players they really need to playing in the UCL consistently.

So that rules out any English clubs then.

Erm, in case you haven't noticed we get 4 places.

Erm, more a point of how many good young English players turn out regularly in the UCL in those four places.

[Winston Smith]

A player who at his best is well worth £50m.

I havent actually seen loads of him but I had him down as a bloke who went on a good run of form for part of 1 season.

to suggest he is good enough to be in the top 10 worldwide transfer fees seems somewhat ott (though the setting of a transfer fee takes into account lots more than just how good the player is obviously)

[Extended-Phenotype]

I'm a little confused with all this Gerrard being the last player to be a one club man........

I thought he was off to another club for next season, not retiring?!

Wasn't it more to do with Brendan Rogers saying he wouldn't be played that much anymore and would be a bit surplus to requirements?

[TBM]

I'm a little confused with all this Gerrard being the last player to be a one club man........

I thought he was off to another club for next season, not retiring?!

Wasn't it more to do with Brendan Rogers saying he wouldn't be played that much anymore and would be a bit surplus to requirements?

Or the fact LA Galaxy are going to pay him a fortune.....but it sounds better to blame Rogers

[Maguire]

Liverpool should cash in quick and good riddance to him, he'll spend next season on Man City's bench no doubt and get the odd 5 minutes here and there. The season after he'll be on loan at Stoke.

The new Jermaine Pennant

[Extended-Phenotype]

I'm a little confused with all this Gerrard being the last player to be a one club man........

I thought he was off to another club for next season, not retiring?!

Wasn't it more to do with Brendan Rogers saying he wouldn't be played that much anymore and would be a bit surplus to requirements?

Or the fact LA Galaxy are going to pay him a fortune.....but it sounds better to blame Rogers

Aye, but it's not like he's ditching Liverpool for a bigger club when they need him. He's been told he won't feature that often and at the end of his career he's off to semi-retire in the league all the old boys go to before they pack it in for good.

[No Fixed Abode]

But he retired a few seasons ago.....

[Extended-Phenotype]

He's definitely not been that good for some time now, bar the odd patch.

Wouldn't have taken him to the World Cup, personally.

[multisync1830]

Slightly confused, but everyone's confusion. Gerrard joins Liverpool as a child and stays until his mid-thirties and this is because the local thug families warned him not to move or else. He then decides to take a busmans holiday in the States as he cannot face playing against beloved 'Pool. #simples

FIFY

Leaving Reds 'hardest decision' for Gerrard
5 July 2005

Steven Gerrard has described his decision to quit Liverpool as 'the hardest of his life'.
Through his agent Struan Marshall, the Reds skipper has informed the club he wishes to leave after rejecting the £100,000-a-week contract offer put to him by chief executive Rick Parry last night.
The decision appears increasingly certain to trigger a British record £40million move to Chelsea over the next week, with Liverpool demanding a massive increase on the £32million bid from the Stamford Bridge club which has already been rejected.
In the immediate aftermath of Liverpool's stunning Champions League triumph over AC Milan in May, Gerrard had indicated his desire to sign a new four-year contract.
But, after Liverpool failed to come up with a contract during the early stages of the summer break, Gerrard slowly changed his mind and is now ready to sever his lifelong association with the club.
"The last six weeks have been the toughest of my life and the decision I have come to has been the hardest decision I have ever had to make," he told Sky Sports News.
"I fully intended to sign a new contract after the Champions League Final but the events of the past five or six weeks have changed all that.
"I have too much respect for the club and the people at it to get involved in a slagging match."
The news he dreaded to here was relayed to Parry this lunchtime and circulated shortly after Gerrard had left Liverpool's Melwood training ground - possibly for the last time.
Parry felt the situation was under control
It came as a devastating blow to the club's army of fans, who have afforded the Huyton-born star cult status and whose celebrations on the Bosphorus only increased on hearing Gerrard's intention to stay.
When talks were not immediately forthcoming, doubt appeared to enter his mind and his patience finally snapped on Wednesday when Parry arrived for a meeting with Marshall armed not with an offer but a request for the player's terms.
Believing the strategy was standard negotiating practice, Parry felt the situation was under control.
Instead, he awoke on Sunday morning to face a battery of headlines suggesting Gerrard was ready to quit.
At a hastily-convened meeting at Liverpool's Melwood training base last night, Parry followed up manager Rafael Benitez's earlier comments that he wanted Gerrard to stay with the club 'for the rest of his life' by attempting to make him the highest paid player in Reds' history.
Gerrard slept on his decision overnight, then turned up for training this morning, although by then the die had been cast.
"The club has made it crystal clear we want to keep Steven at Anfield," said an official club statement on http://www.liverpoolfc.tv
"Sadly, he has told us this afternoon that he will not accept our offer of an improved and extended contract because he wants to leave Liverpool.
"We very much regret the decision that has been taken."

The 25-year-old captain made his move after Liverpool rejected a £32m bid from Premiership champions Chelsea.

"Steven has told us he will not accept our offer of an improved and extended contract because he wants to leave," a Liverpool club statement read.

[multisync1830]

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[Zammo]

Sterling being booed at the LFC Awards Dinner last night. LOLiverpool.

[LUX]

Sterling rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract ...................

[Sanguine]

Admittedly 'football agent is a cock' is not surprising news, but this puts in context the suggestion that it is Liverpool who have played hardball/messed Sterling around.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... act-900000

It's difficult to read this and not think Sterling and Ward are seeing the £££ signs.

[ZacNaloen]

Maybe he just wants to get the hell out of Liverpool?

[Sanguine]

Well played.

Liverpool cancel contract talks.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... act-900000

If Sterling isn't already out the door, his agent is one unpopular guy right now.

[Froomes]

Tbf to Sterling if his "I want to win trophies" rhetoric is actually true then he's completely right to want to get the hell out of Liverpool.

Finishing 2nd last year was a complete fluke and will realistically not be repeated anytime soon unless they spend a truly ridiculous amount of money, which they don't have.

The only way Sterling will win major trophies is if he joins one of the PL's big boys...

[Winston Smith]

Finishing 2nd last year was a complete fluke and will realistically not be repeated anytime soon unless they spend a truly ridiculous amount of money, which they don't have.

How do you fluke an entire league season?

[Hendo]

I guess its not so much of a fluke as relying heavily on one player, possibly two if you include Sturridge, but I don't think he would have been as good if it wasn't for Suarez