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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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Gerrard doesn't seem happy with the guys that do the contract negotiations at Liverpool
: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...n-Park-s-want-win-Saturday.html#ixzz3R0wTeAsn

Redknapp: Liverpool seem to be in good form and players like Raheem Sterling have a role to play. Now and in the future.

Steven: Liverpool need to sign up Raheem now. And Jordan Henderson too. When I was coming through, once I had a couple of years remaining, my contract would be renewed to avoid the worry. I see Jordan with a year left and Raheem’s (contract situation) in the paper too much and I know there is no smoke without fire. My message to the club is: get these done. Sharpish. Sterling, Henderson, Sturridge and Coutinho, who has just signed, are the future of this club. I want to watch them delivering trophies for Liverpool. I should mention Jordon Ibe to you too.
 
Estivage said:
Just read this on RAWK. I hate them


Lets be honest, if everything was fair in football Liverpool would have won the league last season and Steven Gerrard would have lifted the trophy as captain and retired on the high that he so rightly deserves. As it turns out, a Steven Gerrard slip let Chelsea win a game from the comfort of their own half, and one of the best ever England midfielders of many a generation was left to have nightmares forever.

My son was born 7 years ago. As an expectant father, I remember trying to be patient and understanding as my wife kept dreaming up names that I would clearly never agree to. It's interesting actually how parents-to-be listen to a name suggestion and then scan their memories of people they know who shared that name before deciding if they like it or not … I guess that’s why you don’t meet any kids called Adolf these days? Anyway, on the plus side of that rule my wife had taken quite a shine to Jamie Redknapp by this time, so the name association game allowed me to get Jamie (Carragher) on the birth certificate. My other choices were Sami (as in Hyypia) and Stevie (as in Gerrard).

Despite being named after a different Liverpool legend, today my Jamie loves football like his dad, and LOVES Steven Gerrard. Such an inspirational player, that fans young and old can identify with instantly.

Its not just the fans that appreciate the efforts of Liverpool’s mercurial number 8 however. Pele, Brazil’s most lauded player, once said of Gerrard that the only reason he wasn’t considered the world’s best was because "The fans, they look only for forwards, always a forward," Pele went on to say that "For me, for the last five years Gerrard has been the best player in the world. Pele also said that “Gerrard is an excellent player, absolutely world-class. If I was a manager, everywhere I went I would buy Steve Gerrard.”

Zidane said of the Liverpool captain ""Is he the best in the world? He might not get the attention of [Lionel] Messi and Ronaldo but, yes, I think he just might be," Zidane said. "If you don't have a player like Steven Gerrard, who is the engine room, it can affect the whole team."

Stevie G, while still playing, has received platitudes from some of the best players to ever grace the beautiful game. I think collectively in this country we seem to think less of him because his English, and I think at club level, jealously makes him the target of derision. Listen to Man Utd and Chelsea fans. Stevie Gerrard and Liverpool could be playing 200 miles away from their games, yet these fans still find themselves singing about Steven Gerrard. He is always on their minds, and if they were brutally honest, they are gutted that he didn’t sign for them years ago.

Paul Scholes was a great midfielder, as was Frank Lampard, but they were good from the middle forwards and if you want to pick a midfielder who could be awesome going forward then maybe Paul Gascoigne was the best in my lifetime. Bryan Robson is probably the closest England have ever come to Steven Gerrard, but the different era makes comparison impossible.

Alex Ferguson famously said on his autobiography, written to sell copes, that Gerrard wasn’t "a top, top player." Yet when there was a sniff of him leaving Liverpool in 2005 his tune was slightly different when he said "He has become the most influential player in England, bar none. Not that Vieira lacks anything, but Gerrard does more."

“You beauty” screamed Evertonian Andy Gray on Sly Sports as Stevie Gerrard smashed an unstoppable drive into the Olympiakos net, with time running out for Liverpool’s Champions League dreams. “What a hit son!” And as time was nearly up at Wembley stadium, and West Ham sniffed an unexpected FA Cup win, it was Stevie Gerrard who drove forward an unleashed hell from his right boot. A flick header in Istanbul, with Liverpool trailing 3-0 to AC Milan was followed by furious upward swings of his arms in order pull the entire red contingent in the Ataturk and beyond to attention. The rest of that Istanbul story is the stuff of film, stage and folklore.

A modern day Roy of the Rovers, Steven Gerrard is a top, top player that we are lucky enough to have enjoyed for so long. Time waits for no man however, and sadly it is time to say farewell and wish the Huyton born maestro our very best for the future, and to offer him out heartfelt thanks for the blood, sweat and tears he put into delivery our memories that will last forever.

Gerard Houllier gave Stevie his debut, and as he once said while manager of Liverpool “What we achieve in our lifetime echoes through all eternity” An atomic bomb wouldn’t echo for any longer Stevie lad.

YNWA.
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Why are they still pretending that he is retiring? He has told the RS to do one as the new contract is not to his liking. Again.
 

Best case scenario for me today by far.

Gerrard gets caught doing something he shouldn't, banned by F.A and move to galaxy falls though.

Crawls back to liverpool in the summer and all of them rejoice at the news as if they signed ronaldo.
 
riddick said:
Isnt Emre Can a DM? Would that be liek saying 'not a chance Sterling gets in over Baines!'?
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He's been playing at the back with the whole 3 at the back thing.

Unbelievable that they'd prefer him over Stones. Even accounting for tribalism. Stones is ridiculous. Generally, I'd want Stones, Baines, and Coleman in 99% of all clubs in the world. Mostly Stones though.
 

LinekersLegs said:
Gerrard doesn't seem happy with the guys that do the contract negotiations at Liverpool
: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...n-Park-s-want-win-Saturday.html#ixzz3R0wTeAsn

Redknapp: Liverpool seem to be in good form and players like Raheem Sterling have a role to play. Now and in the future.

Steven: Liverpool need to sign up Raheem now. And Jordan Henderson too. When I was coming through, once I had a couple of years remaining, my contract would be renewed to avoid the worry. I see Jordan with a year left and Raheem’s (contract situation) in the paper too much and know there is no smoke without fire. My message to the club is: get these done. Sharpish. Sterling, Henderson, Sturridge and Coutinho, who has just signed, are the future of this club. I want to watch them delivering trophies for Liverpool. I should mention Jordon Ibe to you too.
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the lad uses more i's than the mississippi
 
riddick said:
Isnt Emre Can a DM? Would that be liek saying 'not a chance Sterling gets in over Baines!'?
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Aye, but as @RaleighBlue said he's been playing at the back for them.

Looks good on the ball, quite quick and strong but dives in a lot and isn't great in the air. Not a chance I'd have him over Stones, it's beyond belief that anyone would.
 

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