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[The Richard Wright Fan Club]

Stevie GBH is a fucking fraud, not fit to lace Lampard, Scholes, Paddy V or king Yaya's boot.
Stevie GBH is a fucking ****.

 

[IH8MUFC]

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).

sterling and nasri are completely different players. nasri controls games, sterling runs at defenders with pace and is lethal on the counter attack. both players and both abilities are needed.

 

[FanchesterCity]

Back in training, the awkwardness and tension must be high over there today!

There will be players there who are too scared to befriend Sterling for fear of reprisals - toxic atmosphere that. Poor lad will know it too. It puts everybody in such a crap position.

 

[philjoneswho?]

Oyvind Leonhardsen?

I'm going to get Premier League Years up now! Perhaps Patrick Berger and Dominic Matteo could shed some light on it...?

 

[IH8MUFC]

Regardless of what any of us 'think' about Sterling's calling in sick, we don't know the medical facts, and very few people should know.
So, for a bunch of ex-Liverpool players to assume he's swinging the lead is just wrong. Many of us may think it, but none of us know it.

It's bordering on libel to suggest on the tv or radio that he's swinging the lead.

I have certainly seen Rodgers and ex-players commenting aplenty about Sterling, but Sterling's own comments have been few and far between and not particularly critical.
Ward's comments haven't been helpful, but they are still dwarfed by those coming out of Liverpool FC and cohorts.

All in all, Ward's and Sterling can't be considered blameless, but the largest contributor to this mess is LFC and co.
The fundamental issue is that Sterling doesn't want to be at Liverpool. It's his right. Nobody likes it when a player of their club doesn't want to play for them, but it happens. The rest of the football world manages to live with such things, Liverpool need to do the same.

Arsenal seem to have a similar issue when we roll up to the emirates to take their best players as well :-)

 

[FanchesterCity]

Arsenal seem to have a similar issue when we roll up to the emirates to take their best players as well :-)

True, I should have said 'the rest of the NORMAL football world!'

 

[aguero93:20]

Stevie GBH is a fucking fraud, not fit to lace Lampard, Scholes, Paddy V or king Yaya's boot.
Stevie GBH is a fucking ****.

Don't sit on the fence K.A. :)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

sterling and nasri are completely different players. nasri controls games, sterling runs at defenders with pace and is lethal on the counter attack. both players and both abilities are needed.

Nasri does not control games. He really doesn't. He receives the ball and passes it backwards. One in every ten games he has a decent game and gets a goal.

Sterling is the perfect replacement because he goes past people from a standing start and finds space around the opposition's box.

 

[Matty]

I'm going to get Premier League Years up now! Perhaps Patrick Berger and Dominic Matteo could shed some light on it...?

We won't know the full picture until we've heard Vegard Heggem's take on it, that's for sure.

 

[Big Yaya Wilko 12]

He's back in training.

Is this good news for us? Maybe he's keeping his head down if he knows it's sorted?

Or maybe we really have walked away, because the scousers really are a menagerie of fuckwits.

 

[FanchesterCity]

sterling and nasri are completely different players. nasri controls games, sterling runs at defenders with pace and is lethal on the counter attack. both players and both abilities are needed.

I think Nasri's more of a thinker. I wouldn't really consider Sterling to be an intelligent playmaker - he's better leaving that to others, and he does the running.
We ought to have lots of pace with Sterling and Navas, and to my mind, one each side would be great.
I do remember when Pellers first arrived, we started playing some amazing counter attacking football, but we've gone back to playing quite high again, I wonder if we'll go back to sitting deeper and countering with Sterling in the ranks?

 

[Bewar3them00n]

I think it's time Robbie Fowler piped up about drug cheats in The Tour De France, just to branch out the Ex-Liverpool pundit folio.
Has Didi Hamman had his say yet?
It's like the scene in Airplaine, where they're lining up to slap the woman!

 

[FanchesterCity]

He's back in training.

Is this good news for us? Maybe he's keeping his head down if he knows it's sorted?

Or maybe we really have walked away, because the scousers really are a menagerie of fuckwits.

I'd hope it was a sign that he sees light at the end of the tunnel now, and just wants to keep his head down to see things through (leaving). I don't know that for a fact, obviously, but that's my guess. Showing up at Liverpool will be a bit of damage limitation, then he moves out (hopefully).

Let's hope it's his final shag before the divorce!

 

[Matty]

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).

Personally I think a player like Sterling is exactly what we've been missing. Natural pace, ability to take the ball past a man, can provide needed width, or play in the hole behind a striker. It's what I've been crying out for, someone with real speed to provide a danger on the break, and to give us a legitimate alternative method of attack, for when our methodical passing game isn't working. It keeps the opposition honest, prevents them pulling their fullbacks in to the edge of the box and narrowing the game, thus creating holes for Silva to thread passes through. Maybe it'll involve a change of our tactical approach, but that's something we probably need to do to a degree at this stage anyway. Too many times last season we didn't look like we had a plan B, and our narrow, passing, possession game wasn't working. A bit more directness, pace and dribbling ability might be just what we need.

 

[Big Yaya Wilko 12]

I'd hope it was a sign that he sees light at the end of the tunnel now, and just wants to keep his head down to see things through (leaving). I don't know that for a fact, obviously, but that's my guess. Showing up at Liverpool will be a bit of damage limitation, then he moves out (hopefully).

Let's hope it's his final shag before the divorce!

Ha! Let's hope so!

 

[barryo]

I think it's time Robbie Fowler piped up about drug cheats in The Tour De France, just to branch out the Ex-Liverpool pundit folio.
Has Didi Hamman had his say yet?
It's like the scene in Airplaine, where they're lining up to slap the woman!

Didi hamman has just tweeted "Lazarus returns" or something similar.

Pitiful attempt at humour.

 

[philjoneswho?]

I think it's time Robbie Fowler piped up about drug cheats in The Tour De France, just to branch out the Ex-Liverpool pundit folio.
Has Didi Hamman had his say yet?
It's like the scene in Airplaine, where they're lining up to slap the woman!

Perhaps Stevie McManaman if we're going on former City Liverpool players!

 

[blueinsa]

Sterling and Ward have been a pair of prats (mostly Ward).

Liverpool have been duplicitous and vitriolic.

City have been cunning and sly.

Cunning and sly?

We have bid for a player in the same way any club has!

For cunning and sly see Liverpool and Milner!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I think Nasri's more of a thinker. I wouldn't really consider Sterling to be an intelligent playmaker - he's better leaving that to others, and he does the running.
We ought to have lots of pace with Sterling and Navas, and to my mind, one each side would be great.
I do remember when Pellers first arrived, we started playing some amazing counter attacking football, but we've gone back to playing quite high again, I wonder if we'll go back to sitting deeper and countering with Sterling in the ranks?

Yeah, who needs to fucking defend?! So, with Yaya in the middle, I take it Silva plays #10 and Fernandinho has to hold the entire midfield defensive job AND cover for both marauding full backs?

It might work, but then again, we might see a bunch of 4-5 results, too!!

I've not changed my mind from mid-June (around 500 pages ago) when I said he was £25M and that for £50M we should be getting in 3 decent players. Yes, there might be exceptions for the likes of Pogba, but the £85M we are supposedly trying to spend on De Bruyne and Sterling smacks of mercenary desperation after finishing second in the league and going out of the cups to second rate teams.

 

[Matty]

Didi hamman has just tweeted "Lazarus returns" or something similar.

Pitiful attempt at humour.

And yet another dig from an ex-Liverpool player.