Liverpool Thread 2014/15

[Manchester33]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

Let's just hope he isn't planning on 'Unleashing the crowd' on Sterling.

 

[blueinsa]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

He really has no shame or self awareness that ****!

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

He also said “If any player ever left - Raheem or other - it would be on the terms of the club."

Not if they run their contract down it won't. Idiot!

 

[mad4city]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

He also said “If any player ever left - Raheem or other - it would be on the terms of the club."

Not if they run their contract down it won't. Idiot!

On the terms of the club, eh?
He'll be putting his foot down next. That'll show Sterling!

 

[jimharri]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

He really has no shame or self awareness that ****!

Nice teeth though!

 

[shackattack]

He's asking Liverpool to fix something that, essentially, they cant. Last season's Suarez-inspired near miss notwithstanding, they're not PL and CL winning class. Players like those he notes that have turned Liverpool down aren't interested in their past; they look at that 2005 CL win as a guide and then they dont see ANYTHING else to persuade them they should move to Merseyside and take up wages that the likes of Chelsea and City will give their middle ranking players. They just aren't at the races.

They really missed the boat when that Dubai bid was rejected by Moores. A sovereign wealth fund or oligarch looking to make a massive impact in Britain are the only type of investors that could give them the necessaries to cut through all that and compete. FSG are all about getting this stadium done and dusted and reaping the medium term benefits of until they can sell Liverpool when they feel the market peak value for them is at their peak (after a major trophy win no doubt).

He's spot on though about the source of the anger of Kopites toward Sterling: they know in their heart of hearts they're way, way off the pace and are also rans in a four horse race...even now in the post-Ferguson era...and that their players are going to be constantly stripped from them by the big boys. If Sterling isn't the next in that process out the door, then someone else will be soon enough.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Did we not win the fa and league cup before as well.

We'd won 3 FA Cups, the first in 1904, before they won their first, in 1965. We won a League Cup before they did and won a European trophy before they did.

We get bigger crowds than they do (although the Sheikh buys all the tickets according to them). Even if we excluded all Abu Dhabi originated income, our revenue would still probably be higher than theirs.

Against the odds, they forced their way back into the top four but then Bodger blew it with some very average transfer dealings following the sale of their one world class player, which the owners were never going to turn down.

They started life as an artificial club following, Everton, the original Liverpool club, being kicked out of Anfield and the chairman buying a new team of players over the summer. Now that's what you call having no history.

In the last few years they've gone from being a Liverpool owned club to the verge of administration to being a division of a US-based sports marketing group. A good few years of mid-table mediocrity (or worse) would be useful in teaching those entitled brats on RAWK a bit of humility.

That's about the size of it. In Ireland, I meet more than my fair share of happy clapping, glory hunters and Liverpool's are, more often than any other set of "supporters", the dregs of the gene pool. In spite of that, I do like to point them towards Shankly's autobiography.

Now, I'd recommend Shankly's autobiography to any football fan even if it does fizzle out as a narrative towards the end (incidentally, he mentions Peter Doherty in the same company as Best and Pele, in those latter chapters). In Chapter 7, he specifically credits (Littlewoods director) Eric Sawyer ("a man of vision") as the catalyst for Liverpool's successes.

The fun part, after explaining that to them, is asking them to explain why the book was banned from Anfield for 25 years.

As somebody said earlier, we may have won the lottery but they won the Pools, long before us. Difference is, we haven't yet tried to ignore a chunk of our history because it doesn't suit the marketing mens' narrative. Socialist Shanks buying success? Surely not!

They also conveniently forget (or simply just don't know) that shortly after he retired Shankly was quietly banned from Melwood because he was becoming a nuisance to the club, popping down and just generally being around a bit too much. He was then reduced to visiting Everton's training ground in order to seek company iirc.

I expect he came to regret quite quickly resigning when he did. Football consumed him entirely and not being part of the game on a day to day basis must have emptied him out completely.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

Someone should perhaps also remind Bodger that the reason he himself joined Liverpool from Swansea was he was attracted by their history...and a massive pay rise.
Sterling probably wants to leave liverpool because , as a gifted young player, he is not interested in history. or being outside the top 4.

 

[adrianr]

Rodgers said today "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and the owners have made it clear that money doesn't come in to it" in regards to Sterling. (yes, he said "Superpower")
Perhaps someone should point out to him that his bosses are American and that they may have different ideas.

Someone should perhaps also remind Bodger that the reason he himself joined Liverpool from Swansea was he was attracted by their history...and a massive pay rise.
Sterling probably wants to leave liverpool because , as a gifted young player, he is not interested in history. or being outside the top 4.

This is the point where you want Real Madrid to make a public offer to Bodgers to become their next manager, wait for him to start rolling out all the same excuses as Sterling, then reveal it was all a late April fools and he can fuck off.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Liverpool a "superpower" f*ck me , he's got a good memory