didn't Gerrard put in a transfer request to go to chelsea back in 2003 and only stayed because of death threats?
didn't Gerrard put in a transfer request to go to chelsea back in 2003 and only stayed because of death threats?
Doesn't matter why. Somehow Liverpool have kept key players while we have failed to do so.Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
Eh?
They've sold Torres, Alonso, Macherano to name a few in recent seasons.
They've kept two players. Two. And both of them were very much whoring themselves at one point or another. It's not like anyone has come steaming in for Gerrard over the last couple of years either!
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
If I am remembering this all rightly....
First off, the whole death threats thing is nonsense. Made up by the tabloids.
In 2004 he seemingly had his head turned whilst on England duty, but changed his mind after talking with his family. The old "are you fuck joining Chelsea".
In 2005 it was all over his contract. We dicked about with the negotiations and pissed him off. The next day [I think] it was all resolved.
We didn't keep that team together....and keeping a team together is an ideology that Wenger used to recite weekly though he has slowed down in mentioning it in his modern day liturgy.
A lot of people have often claimed keeping a player against his will to be some great mythical doomsday, Armageddon, 4 horsemen end of days scenario...... but Liverpool pretty much did just that with a putrid character in Suarez who on this occasion actually had a leg to stand on seeing that John.W.Henry is full of crap.
Still don't think Mr Henry and Liverpool FC have been called out on the lies and incredulous actions of that whole fiasco nearly enough.
Last edited by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice; 04-04-2014 at 04:47 PM.
Wenger will need to learn eventually that in the land of giants, the fella with the best attack wins. Even if the giant is abhorrently and effectively a Frankenstein funded by a billionaire.
A first class forward line hides a multitude of sins. Liverpool have that. Giroud, Bendtner and Sanogo can't even hide the skanky hoochie mumma skets they sneak into their hotel suites at night. Win the league my derriere!
Are you by any chance Jamaican?
On the Suarez thing (again!) by all accounts it was a "good faith" clause. Still technically a release clause in that it triggers negotiations, but obliges us to do sweet fuck all.
I think that group had a god enough run. They a had few seasons together but even if Wenger had kept that core together longer, I seriously doubt they’d have won much. Cesc, RVP and Theo joined the club when we still had Henry, Bergkamp and Pires playing for us and they kept seeing the same problem. Injuries, a lack of activity in the transfer window, contract talks turning sour, the same tactics and being very slow to react to change. We should have learned our lesson years ago but the same problems we had then still haunt us now. In fact, the more this team gel and the more efficient they become in Wengerball, the worse they get.
It wasn't the fact that we missed out on the player that's annoyed everyone - on some level, I think a lot of Arsenal fans actually think 'good on Liverpool' for actually holding one of these selfish multi-millionaires to their contracts (plus we're Arsenal fans, so we miss out on everyone) - it was things like the entirely unnecessary 'What are they smoking at the Emirates?' comment, and all the former players and newspaper hacks who were lining up to have a pop at us for being disrespectful / insulting / classless / etc that have done it. Somehow we came out of it looking like total arse-holes, when in actual fact we hadn't done anything wrong? I don't suppose we'll get a single, solitary apology from anyone in the press or media though...
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