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Sizzler said:
Check my post yesterday. I said Lovrens behaviour was unprofessional. but I am yet to see any on here condemn Sterling and his agents behaviour. All I read is excuses
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The poor treatment (valuation and man management) of Sterling and his agent by LFC led to the situation where the player's agent declared the player would not be signing another LFC contract. Clearly the subsequent response of LFC and some media outlets (with EX-LFC players) has been undignified and tantamount to a witch hunt of Raheem Sterling.
The player for the sake of his career (and Englands) is well advised to be playing Champions league football every year with whatever club can provide that. In the present situation such a club is not LFC and that's at the centre of all the hurtful soundbites coming from large sections of LFC at all levels. Times have changed.
Mario has been another (predictable) scapegoat at LFC.
As for Mr Gerrald now joining the ex- LFC mafia players he was never be a better penalty taker than Balotelli. Henderson knows that and so should Rodgers have when that kicked off.
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IanBishopsHaircut said:
I don't think Sterling and his agent have played this particularly welI agreed

But the way Liverpool FC, ex players and fans have handled it has been far far worse
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Agreed – the procession of ex Dippers being rolled out to condemn Sterling, and the co-ordinated character assassination is a disgrace! Just listening to players like Aldridge, Quinn etc. – like their fashion sense, scouters are still stuck in the past... the fuckers still think it's the seventies and Liverpool are European champions! They're a mid-table/top-half club who still think they're Billy Big-bollocks!
All we're hearing is Liverpool's side of the story, and Bodger's seems to be ducking any criticism... but the bloke's a nob... i've never liked the guy ever since that cringeworthy TV show and his envelopes... I think he has been a **** in all this, and I'll bet when he goes from the Dippers you'll get ex players like Gerrard coming out and slagging him off!
Also, as been said countless times, if Liverpool genuinely think Sterling is a £50mil player – then pay him £50mil players wages!
 
He has stayed on £35k a week due to not signing the contract. He could have signed the new contract and been paid 3 times more and still left you this summer. How in any way is that money grabbing from him?
 
jay_mcfc said:
It is somewhat ironic that Stevie G now lambasts Sterling for wanting to move to a club willing to pay him more money and give him a better chance to win trophies. What did happen to that Chelsea deal, Stevie?
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Gerrard is "disappointed" Sterling wants to leave, quotes the BBC Website. And? Should I, or anyone else, care what emotion Sterling wanting to further his career evokes in a past his best English footballer due to start his semi retirement in the footballing hotbed that is California? He also, laughably, compares Sterling with Henderson and describes Henderson as a "winner", inferring Sterling is not. Well, I'd suggest neither Henderson nor Sterling are really "winners" at this stage, as Liverpool have won very little of late. In fact Henderson has 1 League Cup Winners Medal to his name. Such a proven winner there.

There's a simple reason why Henderson is about to begin his 5th season at Liverpool whilst Sterling, at only 20, and after just 3 seasons as a regular in a professional football side, is having bids in the region of £40m handed in for him, and it's because Sterling's abilities as a footballer outweigh those of Henderson. Henderson's loyalty would be tested if a bigger club, with the potential for actually winning trophies, came in for him.
 
aguero93:20 said:
It's going to be a lot harder for them to sign young prospects after this for sure.
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If I were, let's say, a player like Morgan Schneiderlin - and Liverpool came in for me - there's no way on earth that I'd move.

You know that you're gonna have a higher profile than at Soton, but otherwise you're only gonna be 2 or so places above them and ultimately probably not gonna win much.

Your aim is to get to one of the 4 clubs who can realistically win stuff regularly (Us, Chelsea, Arsenal & Utd), and you know that there's not a hope in hell of being able to do that without being castigated and made to look like you're worse that shit.

Imagine if you worked in an regular company and - when you got an offer from an international player - your current employer carried out a witch-hunt campaign to dirty your name and reputation ?

How long do you think that sort of tactic would last before the entire job-market got wind of it, and it became extremely difficult for them to recruit ?

Liverpool playing a very, very risky game with their own reputation here.
 
Matty said:
Gerrard is "disappointed" Sterling wants to leave, quotes the BBC Website. And? Should I, or anyone else, care what emotion Sterling wanting to further his career evokes in a past his best English footballer due to start his semi retirement in the footballing hotbed that is California? He also, laughably, compares Sterling with Henderson and describes Henderson as a "winner", inferring Sterling is not. Well, I'd suggest neither Henderson nor Sterling are really "winners" at this stage, as Liverpool have won very little of late. In fact Henderson has 1 League Cup Winners Medal to his name. Such a proven winner there.

There's a simple reason why Henderson is about to begin his 5th season at Liverpool whilst Sterling, at only 20, and after just 3 seasons as a regular in a professional football side, is having bids in the region of £40m handed in for him, and it's because Sterling's abilities as a footballer outweigh those of Henderson. Henderson's loyalty would be tested if a bigger club, with the potential for actually winning trophies, came in for him.
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Henderson left his home town club he supports, no point questioning his loyalty as he has none.
 
Ordinarily, the cry for help from someone self harming would be offered and welcomed. Scousepool are that person, but deluded enough not to want help, but just want to continbue to self harm. Let them crack on
 
I'm sure somewhere in the past 11,000 or so comments someone has mentioned this but...

Does anyone else not really think Sterling's style of play fits how we play? I've always thought the way Navas plays the game doesn't really mesh (nothing against Navas, just saying) maybe I'm just grouping them together as "speedy players who lack finishing ability" but I don't think Sterling would be much of an improvement over Nasri (in form Nasri, not Disappear Samir).
 
Calv_from_the_frog said:
Imagine if you worked in an regular company and - when you got an offer from an international player - your current employer carried out a witch-hunt campaign to dirty your name and reputation ?
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Personally I'd sue the cunts out of house and home however long it took.
 
Marvin said:
.... Liverpool are creating a terrible image for themselves.
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Absolutely this. Their constant media bile is backfiring on them.

There's much more to this than meets the eye, I just hope Sterling's side of it comes out in the future. I'm personally not that bothered whether we sign Sterling or not. In many ways I would like them to be stuck with him now.
 
Sterling's agent, and by association Sterling, who must have known what his agent was going to be doing, haven't handled this situation particularly brilliantly. They needed to get the message out there that he wasn't going to be considering new contract offers and was looking to move on, for the sake of his career, and his medal chances, but it certainly could have been done in a more professional, less confrontational, manner. Having said that though, Liverpool's behaviour in all of this has been stunningly poor, and pretty unprofessional too. The club, and the manager, have been actively campaigning against Sterling, and the continuing line of former Liverpool players spouting off character assassinations is quite clearly being orchestrated by Liverpool's media/PR departments in an attempt to improve the clubs image, destroy Sterling's, and apply pressure to City in order to drag more money out of the club. It's getting time for us to play Ex-Liverpool player sweepstakes again. Who will be the next former "great" to voice their, oh so sought after, opinion on Sterling. Steve Harkness? Phil Babb? Neil Ruddock? My money is on Ronny Whelan.
 
Tom_mcfc said:
Do you believe your club, your manager and the million ex players spouting their mouths off have done anything wrong or all Sterling and City?
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Mate, ffs read the post you responded to. It clearly states I have issues with the way it has been handled by both parties. That should have given you an indication that I felt our club were also at fault. Last year I didn't like Rodgers saying Sterling was the best young talent in europe. I honestly had a feeling it would come back to bite him in the arse as Ward would use that to get a better deal. Perhaps he was also naive for saying sterling had been made a good offer even though I think it's our clubs duty to let the fans know what is going on as clearly the negotiations weren't going so smooth. I agree ex players coming out i not helpful either. However, you cannot make any case for Wards behaviour. He as acted toatally unprofessional with some of his comments. The bbc meeting without permission (irrespective of him wanting to get his appoint across) refusing to go on tour, briefing the media that you want to leave because of the manager etc etc. There is a list of things that their camp have done wrong.
 
Blue Smarties said:
At first, they hadn't. Rodgers saying he's been offered a contract is fine. Rodgers saying the contract is "very good and he should sign it" is not fine. That puts Raheem in an awkward situation where he must come out and defend his reasoning behind not signing the contract - telling the world that it isn't about the money. This then angers a lot of Liverpool fans & ex-players who can't let go of the past, and once again puts Sterling in a situation he shouldn't be in (i.e death threats, calls to his mobile, address posted online, DAILY comments from ex-players). None of this would have happened if Rodgers & the cult kept their mouth shut.

Fuck your club, la.
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He didn't say he should sign it! Stop making up quotes.
 
Tom_mcfc said:
Henderson left his home town club he supports, no point questioning his loyalty as he has none.
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Yep, at just 21, only a year older than Sterling is now, and having only spent 2 years in Sunderland's first team, 1 less than Sterling at Liverpool. Henderson left for a bigger side, to further his career. The only difference being Henderson was actually from Sunderland, and had come through their youth setup, whereas Sterling was bought by Liverpool, for £600k (with the potential to rise to £5m based on certain add ons) from QPR as a 16 year old. So, who shows less loyalty, the bloke from Sunderland, who leaves Sunderland at the first sniff of an offer from a bigger club, or the bloke from London, who wants to leave Liverpool after 4 years, to win trophies?
 
Sizzler said:
Check my post yesterday. I said Lovrens behaviour was unprofessional. but I am yet to see any on here condemn Sterling and his agents behaviour. All I read is excuses
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Why should City fans on this forum, or indeed Manchester City apologise for a fuck up of your own making?

He is a Liverpool player, therefore they are responsible for his and their actions, we are not.
They are not excuses, they are the facts, and if you continue to troll the thread you will be given an early bath.
 
Sizzler said:
Mate, ffs read the post you responded to. It clearly states I have issues with the way it has been handled by both parties. That should have given you an indication that I felt our club were also at fault. Last year I didn't like Rodgers saying Sterling was the best young talent in europe. I honestly had a feeling it would come back to bite him in the arse as Ward would use that to get a better deal. Perhaps he was also naive for saying sterling had been made a good offer even though I think it's our clubs duty to let the fans know what is going on as clearly the negotiations weren't going so smooth. I agree ex players coming out i not helpful either. However, you cannot make any case for Wards behaviour. He as acted toatally unprofessional with some of his comments. The bbc meeting without permission (irrespective of him wanting to get his appoint across) refusing to go on tour, briefing the media that you want to leave because of the manager etc etc. There is a list of things that their camp have done wrong.
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Why should he go on tour when he is being vilified right left and centre and been hung out to dry by his managers
 
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