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

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The obscene money/salaries being bandied about kind of makes mockery of football being 'the people's game'. To be honest, it is significantly diminishing my interest in the whole turgid thing
 
tsubaki said:
How is it a huge blunder? Him and his agent either want more money than is on offer, or he wants to move to a bigger club, or both. Going on TV to explain himself isnt "buckling under that pressure", the only thing that would qualify as that is him meekly signing the deal (edit) before anyone knows if they will be in the Champions League next year.

Besides, the club bringing about the pressure from fans and the twatterati just shows how bereft they are of any real options.
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It doesn't get to that stage if the agent is doing his job.

I tend to think that all along Sterling has been more concerned with quality of team/tournament he can play with/in. But that's not the narrative, and to try and regain some lost ground he's advised his client to go for overkill: taking it to the BBC was a huge over reaction and underlines what an amateur the agent is. He's effectively first allowed his client to be seen as a money grabber by the club and failed to counter that with the ambition of Sterling, then he compounds it all by show casing him on national tv trying to outmanoeuvre his employers - making it look more like sedition than a clarification.

The agent is a tool, and Sterling is letting that feller loose to make him look like one too.
 
deipnosophist said:
The obscene money/salaries being bandied about kind of makes mockery of football being 'the people's game'. To be honest, it is significantly diminishing my interest in the whole turgid thing
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True. Its also the way they always say £100k per WEEK, as if it is somehow supposed to suggest that they are actually paid weekly, like "Working Man" was in some far flung age decades ago.

Like I read the other day that last year, AC/DC made something like £200 million. Thats about £4 million a week. Without actually doing anything.

And they are seen around the world as a "working class" band. Nonsense really.

Not sure what my point is actually, just an excuse to get AC/DC in a post I guess.
 
He's banking on them winning the FA Cup. If they don't, he's Chelsea bound to carry out his destiny of becoming Shaun Wright Philips mark 2.

Kopites will pine over him though. Want him to stay.

If he was a Everton player, I'd want him out.
 

roydo said:
True. Its also the way they always say £100k per WEEK, as if it is somehow supposed to suggest that they are actually paid weekly, like "Working Man" was in some far flung age decades ago.

Like I read the other day that last year, AC/DC made something like £200 million. Thats about £4 million a week. Without actually doing anything.

And they are seen around the world as a "working class" band. Nonsense really.

Not sure what my point is actually, just an excuse to get AC/DC in a post I guess.
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And yet US Sports pay their lids vast, vast sums, and they seem to maintain the engagement.

That being said, I have no idea how well supported the second tier of US sport is compared to, say, the championship
 
roydo said:
True. Its also the way they always say £100k per WEEK, as if it is somehow supposed to suggest that they are actually paid weekly, like "Working Man" was in some far flung age decades ago.

Like I read the other day that last year, AC/DC made something like £200 million. Thats about £4 million a week. Without actually doing anything.

And they are seen around the world as a "working class" band. Nonsense really.

Not sure what my point is actually, just an excuse to get AC/DC in a post I guess.
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You could have said that this whole thing was making you want to blow up your radio...
 
Rodgers has just been on BBC....swaggering into his Press Conference very bullishly (as opposed to his usual bullshitly). Said re Sterling and his interview that "there was no permission by the club and it was something that surprised us all" and Sterling "is not going anywhere in the Summer".
 

I hope the poor little bugger doesnt break his leg and have to survive on 35k a week for a year, imagine that, how would the poor little blighter pay his bills?
 

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