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Sterling to Tell Rodgers he wants to leave this summer

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Ratboy reverts to type. Owen moved on to bigger and better things, did he? And why the paragraph on the failure to expand the ground, only to then acknowledge that we are expanding the ground, only to moan that we're not moving, presumably like his own club didn't move. A bitter mess of an article.
 
"When Gerrard was preparing for his final game at Anfield last week, Jamie Carragher told me that whenever Steven goes out in Liverpool he simply cannot escape the attention or go about his business without being aware of the suffocating pressure that comes with being a Liverpool player in the city.

I spent almost 20 years playing for United and, like the rest of my team-mates at Old Trafford, could walk through Manchester quite easily without feeling as though I was living in a goldfish bowl."

Surely the above is just a reflection of their relative status and talent in the game !!
 
You could spend a week going through that shite article, and pick an argument with every sentence. Yeah nobody wanted to talk to you Gary cos you're a fucking billy no mates.
 
tony said:
"When Gerrard was preparing for his final game at Anfield last week, Jamie Carragher told me that whenever Steven goes out in Liverpool he simply cannot escape the attention or go about his business without being aware of the suffocating pressure that comes with being a Liverpool player in the city.

I spent almost 20 years playing for United and, like the rest of my team-mates at Old Trafford, could walk through Manchester quite easily without feeling as though I was living in a goldfish bowl."

Surely the above is just a reflection of their relative status and talent in the game !!
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I think that's why he mentioned the rest of his team-mates. Beckham (undeservedly), Giggs (Cunt), Ronaldo, Shrek etc. all had / have a massive public profile, equal or higher than Gerrard.
 
Best Believe It said:
They even decide transfers by Committee. How can that be an efficient, clean process with clear accountability?
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This is essentially the only thing preventing me from turning against Rodgers completely at the moment, because I don't know how much of this mess is actually his fault. I also doubt our owners even know, as not easy to apportion blame when decisions are made by a committee.
 
I hate patronizing, pseudo sympathetic, stating the bleeding f******** obvious but written as if it were some great intellectual insight articles like this.

Man Utd did well because they had a brilliant football operation supported by a good commercial infrastructure. We all know that. In fact before you learned to construct a sentence, we showed England how it can be done. We lost our way and have not recovered.

Utd have lost only one player blah blah blah. Yeah, we get it. When you win a lot of trophies and have lot of money you tend not to loose players. In fact it was the same for us. We also lost only one great player during our heyday - Keegan. When you stop winning trophies frequently players leave. Again we know that. In fact, if you wait a couple of more weeks, you can experience that feeling when your most important player from last season packs his bag for Madrid. Maybe you need to call him and try to convince him to stay based on how easy it is to walk in Manchester and the size of the stadium and commercial operations. And spend a couple of seasons yoyoying in and out of CL places 2 players leaving will very quickly becomes 3,4,5 and 6.

We know what we have been missing for 20 + years. One day we will figure it out and be back and hopefully I will be around to shove this article up yours...
 
I have a very hard time believing that Golden Balls was an anonymous figure as he and skeletor casually strolled down the street every weekend. Or Pony Boy. Or the one who shags his brother's wife... What a load of nonsense. And even if they could, isn't that because most of their fans live outside of the city..? 😉
 
Is Manchester city centre even bigger, though? There's not exactly a lot in it. The actual centre of Manchester is pretty compact.

Anyway, driveling article as the others have said. There was a time when we were pretty parochial but it's long since been acknowledged, and pretty much everything the club has done the past 5 years has been trying to address that.
 
peekay said:
I hate patronizing, pseudo sympathetic, stating the bleeding f******** obvious but written as if it were some great intellectual insight articles like this.

Man Utd did well because they had a brilliant football operation supported by a good commercial infrastructure. We all know that. In fact before you learned to construct a sentence, we showed England how it can be done. We lost our way and have not recovered.

Utd have lost only one player blah blah blah. Yeah, we get it. When you win a lot of trophies and have lot of money you tend not to loose players. In fact it was the same for us. We also lost only one great player during our heyday - Keegan. When you stop winning trophies frequently players leave. Again we know that. In fact, if you wait a couple of more weeks, you can experience that feeling when your most important player from last season packs his bag for Madrid. Maybe you need to call him and try to convince him to stay based on how easy it is to walk in Manchester and the size of the stadium and commercial operations. And spend a couple of seasons yoyoying in and out of CL places 2 players leaving will very quickly becomes 3,4,5 and 6.

We know what we have been missing for 20 + years. One day we will figure it out and be back and hopefully I will be around to shove this article up yours...
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Souness.
 
Gary seems to have forgotten the 26 years his own club spent without a League trophy, or it's relegation or it's inability to replace it's greats from the Busby era or more recently it's 6 years trophy-less with a new Manager which wouldn't be tolerated now. We can all play the 'told you so' card. Much of these ebbs and flows are a matter of luck rather than planning. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I notice we didn't have these opinion pieces this time last year when we were riding high. It's an opportunity to put the boot in that Gary just couldn't resist. He hasn't acknowledged that we now have owners with experience of running sports clubs and developing infrastructure and commercial opportunity.

His only point is that we are late to the party but he writes as if we've missed the bus and I don't think that's true. He must know that overwhelming finance dictates success now and that picture can always change.
 
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