True but we take the moral high ground so often (Wenger using the word "amicable" was rather funny) and yet are just a shady when trying to do business as anyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
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True but we take the moral high ground so often (Wenger using the word "amicable" was rather funny) and yet are just a shady when trying to do business as anyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Time Henry came home. If he was in charge here we'd still have rvp
Henry is taking a strong stance and why not it makes no sense to sell to us, as he said it would damage their top 4 aspirations by strengthening a rival (something we don't seem to care about but other clubs do it seems), they don't want to sell and he's right where are the replacements for him?
He's got the money and clearly wants to teach football players that they can't just have it their own way, he's clearly p*ssed off at us about this supposed clause as well and about how we found out about it so that's further strengthened his stance against selling to us, we'd have had a better chance if we'd put a proper bid in rather than this £1 boll*cks.
Suarez is f*cked basically, he stays and plays that's pretty much the end of it and with the World Cup looming he will.
Time to lock this one? Nothing more to see here now?
No, this one will rumble on right up to the deadline. Has to or else we'd have to look for an alternative.
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Meh we should just look for an alternative and hopefully Suarez will be a poisonous influence in Liverpool.
His stance seems pretty strong, and it appears that he might be forced to stay.
Fuck sake.
We have Bendnter up front though :arry:
Luis Suarez: Liverpool owner John W Henry says striker not for sale
Liverpool owner John W Henry insists striker Luis Suarez will not be sold this summer - no matter what the price.
Suarez, 26, has been told to train alone after seeking a move to Arsenal.
"We are not going to sell Luis," Henry told various newspapers. "It's very important [not to sell to a rival], but especially for Liverpool because we're not in Europe this year."
The Suarez saga
24 April: Banned for 10 games by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic.
29 May: Drops a big hint that he wants to leave Liverpool after saying he finds life in England hard.
12 June: Suarez reiterates his love for Liverpool, but insists life in England is very hard.
8 July : Liverpool turn down a £30m bid from Arsenal.
24 July: Arsenal offer £40,000,001 for Suarez, triggering a clause in his contract.
2 August: Says he will consider a formal transfer request and the possibility of court action if his Liverpool dispute is not resolved.
7 August: Suarez says he wants to leave Liverpool to join a Champions League side.
8 August: Told to train alone by manager Brendan Rodgers, who says the player has shown "total disrespect" for the club.
8 August: Liverpool owner John W Henry insists striker Luis Suarez will not be sold this summer - no matter what the price.
He said it would be "ludicrous" to sell to a rival, adding he was "unequivocal" they would not sell to Arsenal
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best news I heard all week.
Gazidis watch and learn.
PLus this is so far away from wenger's normal modus operandi that I start to think its entirely imposed by the board - who are demonstably not fir for purpose.
from football365:
And They Were Surprised?
You can see why Brendan Rodgers is pissed off.
Quite apart from the bullsh*t storm that Luis Suarez has caused, and the undoubted disrespect shown to both Liverpool and Rodgers by announcing through the press (that he apparently hates) that he wants to leave Anfield and make it snappy, Rodgers is staring down the barrel of a season without his best player. Brendan is probably soiling himself.
And yet, Rodgers sounded surprised by all of this.
He said: "There were no promises made - categorically none - and no promises broken. The club and his representatives had several conversations and he knew exactly where he was at.
"I will take strong, decisive action. There has been total disrespect of the club - this is a club that is historically one of the biggest in the world and has given him everything; absolutely everything."
As you know, in his time at Liverpool Luis Suarez has racially abused a chap, then refused to shake that's chap's hand, pissed and whined when he was subsequently banned for racially abusing that chap, bitten a chap (for the second time in three years) and committed all sorts of sundry other acts of arseholery, major and minor.
And through all of this time, Liverpool and Rodgers have stood by him. They offered condemnation after the Ivanovic chomp, but it's well to remember that they didn't consider this worthy of a club ban, and instead waited for the FA to smack Suarez's bottom. They have created a bubble around Suarez where he believes he can do no wrong, that he can stamp his feet and get what he wants. He's the ultimate indulged child.
Add to this the knowledge that while he was at Groningen and received a shinier offer from Ajax, he virtually went on strike and took his case to the Dutch authorities to force a move through.
Now, a year after signing a new contract and saying how lovely Liverpool is and promising he'll stay ("I want to say now that, if you want to know what will happen to me if we don't qualify for the Champions League, then I will say this: I have a contract with Liverpool and I am very happy here. I will stay" - Luis Suarez, January 31), he firstly says he'd like to leave but for his family's sake and to escape the ghastly British press, then when it was clear that only one club was prepared to buy him, shifted his sights a little and decided that the British press were actually quite helpful and he'll stay in this country, but not with Liverpool.
And Rodgers is surprised.
If you tolerate and tacitly excuse someone being an arsehole, you really, really, really shouldn't be surprised when that person one day flips and directs his arseholery at you.
There's a moral to this tale somewhere...