Rodgers

[moron]

I've said this for months, and I know it's fucking obvious, but that's exactly what it's boiled down to, when we've got a £3m winger and a £10m forward on the pitch, there's no justification for having a £35m player sat warming the bench, eating up wages and wasting away valuable transfer funds. It's not solely about ability or suitability, it's always been political as much as anything.

I reckon the winger probably is generic speak, though it could easily be Cole, who's allegedly on just under £5m a year.

Imagine how Real Madrid fans feel when the likes of Kaka is on the bench - thats £57M with his arse on the bench along with another probably £100M.

 

[Ryan]

His candour is quite admirable in a way but he's telling the hacks too much. It's no good straight batting them in televised conferences and then being much more open in off-camera briefings.

I think it's a case of him having 2 days to get rid of these players, so he's saying whatever he feels will help promote that right now - regardless of tact.

"We can't have a 35M player sat on the bench" is a lot different to the message he was putting out 6 weeks ago about him "being a really good player blah blah blah."

 

[rurikbird]

Not the club, the player... Hasn't he got about 4 years left on a good contract? If Newcastle offer him their standard package and it works out 5m less over the term than we were going to pay him then his agent will sit there til midnight saying he wants us to write a cheque.

And so he should.

Good - and depressing - point.