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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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They're back baby.
Turned a 6-1 loss at the end of last season into a 1-0 win
So Brenda has improved their defensive play by +6 goals.
Genius.
Turned a 6-1 loss at the end of last season into a 1-0 win
So Brenda has improved their defensive play by +6 goals.
Genius.
Unusually frank but refreshing take on the RS and Sterling's departure....its not very often a journalist comes out with an honest critique of them. About time their hypocrisy was highlighted.....
Raheem Sterling deserves respect... old Liverpool players are only criticising him because they're scared not to
By Adrian Durham for MailOnline
In some ways I hope Manchester City win everything this season and Raheem Sterling is one of their main men. Maybe, just maybe, one or two members of the ex-Liverpool gang might just feel ashamed enough to apologise to a player who has made the kind of move most of them made when they played the game.
He’s had to put up with a load of fans abusing him and his family, he’s had to deal with a seething mass of ex-Liverpool players either encouraged to criticise him, or too scared of the Anfield faithful’s reaction if they didn’t criticise him, and he’s kept his cool, kept his counsel and made his move.
An honorable mention here to former Liverpool player and manager Graeme Souness who, when I interviewed him last week, told me that Sterling is now playing with better players at City. But then Souness was always braver than most.
Good luck to Sterling, he’s a bright young English talent, let’s see how he gets on. He’s been confident enough to put himself in the spotlight in a major way, and now everyone has the right to judge his performances.
Unfortunately Sterling will be put under micro-scrutiny, we’ve seen that already: his trip over the ball warranting as much attention as his early goal in his first friendly for Manchester City. He will have to deal with it and get used to it.
I haven’t seen any of his vicious critics give him the respect he deserves for his honesty. While Liverpool said all along that a new contract would not be a problem, Sterling never made any such promise.
He didn’t do the dishonest dirty on the fans like other players have in the past by signing a deal, taking a huge pay rise and then disappearing a few months later when it emerges this celebrated new contract had a paltry release fee inserted into it.
Sterling never duped the fans in that way, although I accept those Liverpool supporters might not like the fact that he moved. He deserves credit for always remaining honest, despite the vitriol he had to endure. So when I hear Liverpool fans claim they’re happy to get £49m for Sterling but they don’t like the way he left, what did they expect him to do? Sign a contract, lie to you all about loyalty, take the money for a while and then move?
He’s been accused of being unprofessional. Indeed it was a certain Steven Gerrard who said recently that at one end of the professional scale you have Jordan Henderson and at the other there is Sterling.
On the pitch Sterling gave everything for Liverpool.
Compare that with Henderson, the current Liverpool captain, who got himself needlessly sent off during Liverpool’s title bid in 2013-14 and missed crucial games. Now I’m an admirer of Henderson, but he let Liverpool down yet seemingly got away with it. Was that professional?
Or compare it with the previous Liverpool captain, Gerrard, who as skipper should have grabbed hold of a team winning 3-0 at Crystal Palace and demanded that they shut up shop instead of going gung-ho for goals and splashing their title chances up the wall. Was that professional?
Or how about one of Liverpool’s finest ever players, Luis Suarez, sinking his teeth into an opponent during a Premier League game and receiving a huge ban as a punishment. Was that professional?
If being professional means staying at one club despite the fact another club who play at a higher level – City are in the Champions League after all – wants to sign you, then Sterling joins the likes of Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Cahill, Joe Hart, Eden Hazard and a ton of other successful players who many deem unprofessional.
Maybe Ian Rush should have stayed at Chester back in the day, or John Barnes remained at Watford. Imagine John Aldridge, who actually won a trophy with Oxford United, saying no to Liverpool to stay at the old Manor Ground
Cristiano Ronaldo was even younger than Sterling when he left Sporting Lisbon to join Manchester United. These Sterling critics would have advised him to stay in Portugal and carry on his development there.
I’m not saying Sterling will go on to become as good as Ronaldo, but I do know he’s as good as Ronaldo was when he made the move. Those who remember the early days of the Portuguese star’s time at Old Trafford will know what I mean.
Most of the Sterling critics are having trouble accepting Liverpool’s fall from their dominant perch in the last 25 years or so, it’s really that simple.
Sterling had the bottle to be true to himself and be single-minded in what he wanted. His critics have not had the bottle to say things Liverpool fans didn’t want to hear.
Ask yourself if some of those ex-footballers who hammered Sterling would have made a move to a Champions League club for a huge pay rise in similar circumstances.
So what a relief it must have been to Sterling to pull on the Manchester City jersey and play in a Premier League game for his new club. He wasn’t spectacular, but he contributed to a comfortable victory for City.
This really should be the full-stop on the nonsense spoken about the most sensational move of the summer.
At the end of it all Sterling is a professional footballer with serious ambition. I’m a massive England fan so I want him to do well. But it’s up to him now to make it happen.
Remember that amazing goal Sterling scored against Manchester City at Anfield in April last year to open the scoring in Liverpool’s 3-2 win? He threw a dummy to send the opposition – Vincent Kompany, Joe Hart et al - into oblivion while he calmly slotted home into an empty net. Sterling will be keen to make his critics look equally foolish this season.
You’ve got to be a pretty hard-boiled Liverpool fan, or suffer from some sort of irrational jealousy, if you don’t want this kid to do well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3193343/Raheem-Sterling-not-let-leaving-Liverpool-Manchester-City-ll-keen-make-critics-look-foolish-doing-pitch.html#ixzz3iUrMR01a
Raheem Sterling deserves respect... old Liverpool players are only criticising him because they're scared not to
By Adrian Durham for MailOnline
In some ways I hope Manchester City win everything this season and Raheem Sterling is one of their main men. Maybe, just maybe, one or two members of the ex-Liverpool gang might just feel ashamed enough to apologise to a player who has made the kind of move most of them made when they played the game.
He’s had to put up with a load of fans abusing him and his family, he’s had to deal with a seething mass of ex-Liverpool players either encouraged to criticise him, or too scared of the Anfield faithful’s reaction if they didn’t criticise him, and he’s kept his cool, kept his counsel and made his move.
An honorable mention here to former Liverpool player and manager Graeme Souness who, when I interviewed him last week, told me that Sterling is now playing with better players at City. But then Souness was always braver than most.
Good luck to Sterling, he’s a bright young English talent, let’s see how he gets on. He’s been confident enough to put himself in the spotlight in a major way, and now everyone has the right to judge his performances.
Unfortunately Sterling will be put under micro-scrutiny, we’ve seen that already: his trip over the ball warranting as much attention as his early goal in his first friendly for Manchester City. He will have to deal with it and get used to it.
I haven’t seen any of his vicious critics give him the respect he deserves for his honesty. While Liverpool said all along that a new contract would not be a problem, Sterling never made any such promise.
He didn’t do the dishonest dirty on the fans like other players have in the past by signing a deal, taking a huge pay rise and then disappearing a few months later when it emerges this celebrated new contract had a paltry release fee inserted into it.
Sterling never duped the fans in that way, although I accept those Liverpool supporters might not like the fact that he moved. He deserves credit for always remaining honest, despite the vitriol he had to endure. So when I hear Liverpool fans claim they’re happy to get £49m for Sterling but they don’t like the way he left, what did they expect him to do? Sign a contract, lie to you all about loyalty, take the money for a while and then move?
He’s been accused of being unprofessional. Indeed it was a certain Steven Gerrard who said recently that at one end of the professional scale you have Jordan Henderson and at the other there is Sterling.
On the pitch Sterling gave everything for Liverpool.
Compare that with Henderson, the current Liverpool captain, who got himself needlessly sent off during Liverpool’s title bid in 2013-14 and missed crucial games. Now I’m an admirer of Henderson, but he let Liverpool down yet seemingly got away with it. Was that professional?
Or compare it with the previous Liverpool captain, Gerrard, who as skipper should have grabbed hold of a team winning 3-0 at Crystal Palace and demanded that they shut up shop instead of going gung-ho for goals and splashing their title chances up the wall. Was that professional?
Or how about one of Liverpool’s finest ever players, Luis Suarez, sinking his teeth into an opponent during a Premier League game and receiving a huge ban as a punishment. Was that professional?
If being professional means staying at one club despite the fact another club who play at a higher level – City are in the Champions League after all – wants to sign you, then Sterling joins the likes of Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Cahill, Joe Hart, Eden Hazard and a ton of other successful players who many deem unprofessional.
Maybe Ian Rush should have stayed at Chester back in the day, or John Barnes remained at Watford. Imagine John Aldridge, who actually won a trophy with Oxford United, saying no to Liverpool to stay at the old Manor Ground
Cristiano Ronaldo was even younger than Sterling when he left Sporting Lisbon to join Manchester United. These Sterling critics would have advised him to stay in Portugal and carry on his development there.
I’m not saying Sterling will go on to become as good as Ronaldo, but I do know he’s as good as Ronaldo was when he made the move. Those who remember the early days of the Portuguese star’s time at Old Trafford will know what I mean.
Most of the Sterling critics are having trouble accepting Liverpool’s fall from their dominant perch in the last 25 years or so, it’s really that simple.
Sterling had the bottle to be true to himself and be single-minded in what he wanted. His critics have not had the bottle to say things Liverpool fans didn’t want to hear.
Ask yourself if some of those ex-footballers who hammered Sterling would have made a move to a Champions League club for a huge pay rise in similar circumstances.
So what a relief it must have been to Sterling to pull on the Manchester City jersey and play in a Premier League game for his new club. He wasn’t spectacular, but he contributed to a comfortable victory for City.
This really should be the full-stop on the nonsense spoken about the most sensational move of the summer.
At the end of it all Sterling is a professional footballer with serious ambition. I’m a massive England fan so I want him to do well. But it’s up to him now to make it happen.
Remember that amazing goal Sterling scored against Manchester City at Anfield in April last year to open the scoring in Liverpool’s 3-2 win? He threw a dummy to send the opposition – Vincent Kompany, Joe Hart et al - into oblivion while he calmly slotted home into an empty net. Sterling will be keen to make his critics look equally foolish this season.
You’ve got to be a pretty hard-boiled Liverpool fan, or suffer from some sort of irrational jealousy, if you don’t want this kid to do well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3193343/Raheem-Sterling-not-let-leaving-Liverpool-Manchester-City-ll-keen-make-critics-look-foolish-doing-pitch.html#ixzz3iUrMR01a
BTM
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You are calling Adrian Durham a journalist? He's the football equivalent of Katie Hopkins.
jaycee
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Hahaha, Prem managers football cards, who did Brenda play for.......
Koemans head looks like a pen!s
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
Leslie Hughes haha
Boxcar Ira
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At least it's a full head, McLaren looks as if he's has some kind of botched brain-op
Dithering Dougie
Banned
Says the dog with an Afro!!
toffeejack
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Renault Megane :s
Tchnique
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