[quote author=TheBunnyman link=topic=38502.msg1036781#msg1036781 date=1263801297]
Gerrard would be a massive loss, not only in footballing terms but psychologically and symbolically. It would tell everyone that LFC was no longer a great club, that it couldn't keep its best players.
In strictly business terms, £40m for a 30-year-old would be almost unrefusable, although I suspect that figure's just been plucked from the air. City might pay it; no one else would. I doubt whether Gerrard would go to City, though having said that, it would seriously piss off the Red Mancs if he were to help City win the league.
Overall, though, if we're given a choice between losing a manager who looks like he's drowning and an iconic captain who looks like he wants to drown himself, I'd take the former every single time. Bring someone in who can get Gerrard playing like Gerrard again.
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Top post, Bunny.
Additionally, screw all the so called supporters who are so quick to turn on a captain who has done 10 times what any manager of the last 15 years had done for us and immeasurably more than any poster on this forum has ever done for the club.
These flaming dickheads who are not just willing but almost desperate to sweep away a career of blood, sweat and tears that easily qualifies as the best ever delivered by a home grown local; not only do they want to sweep it away but they're actually infantile and pitiful enough to try and divert some blame for the clubs failings onto his shoulders. It would be impossible to be upset with Gerrard if he decided wankers like that weren't worth a single additional drop of his sweat.