The Lfc Players You Hate
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There's plenty of Liverpool players past and present I don't like much because they're shit, or idiots, or just because they're rubbish, but I don't really hate any if them, although Diouf and Shitandje come close. Actually not just close.
Don't like Collymore, either.
And there's plenty to criticise about the likes of Owen, or Masher or Macca, but sometimes it's just about doing what they thought was right at the time.
Don't like Collymore, either.
And there's plenty to criticise about the likes of Owen, or Masher or Macca, but sometimes it's just about doing what they thought was right at the time.
I didn't mind him that much. He was dogshite obviously but he didn't act the dick when he was at Liverpool. He can't really be blamed for what his mother says on facebook either.
The McManaman one I get that it annoyed people, but the level of hatred still surprises me. He made the right move for his career. We were shite at the time and he ended up winning two Champions Leagues. The club really fucked up with his contract situation, as they did with Owen's. Owen can fuck off though because he joined Man United.
I think the ire is more about the fact that McManaman was purportedly messing everyone about with his contract and never had any intention of signing it, despite what he said. But I'm pretty sure he was pissed off about some Barca move the year before, and Liverpool trying to engineer his transfer, and then he had a contract offer that was actually below what he had verbally agreed. And there was suspicions that his...ah....patchy form was also symptomatic of his displeasure in that final season.
Something like that anyway.
All a bit of a mess, really. Oh, and he's a Bitter.
Didn't McManaman also indicate quite clearly along the way that he wasn't going to sign? Or am I remembering wrongly? My impression back then was that it was quite clear that he was gone.
Meanwhile, Owen kept saying that things were okay, he was going to sign, just needed some minor stuff to be sorted out, agent was on holiday (was that from him or am I including some other person's case here?), strung us along and then dropped a bombshell. Owen's and Torres' late moves, for me, were out of the blue and a lot more hard to swallow than McManaman's. Or maybe I should've anticipated both better.
No, McMoneyman indicated no such thing. He didn't say he *would* sign either but he was still telling everyone he might do so, and the club believed him, at a time when - as it later emerged - he had already signed a pre-contract with Real. He deserves no sympathy whatsoever for the Barca business or the contract foul-up either, because it was his own leadership of the Spice Boys which made the board refuse to back Uncle Roy's contract offer (which he made without consulting them) and decide to try and get rid, at a time when McMoneyman was our best player. Against that background it was pretty daft of the club to believe his claims that he was still considering signing, but that is zero excuse for his dishonesty and it's that dishonesty, not any wish to better himself, which (rightly) still makes his name mud in some quarters.
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Houllier said: "It wasn't unexpected. Steve had always maintained that he wanted to move abroad and I have to respect that .."
I ALWAYS used to get blamed for things my mother said on Facebook. Especially the racist stuff.
Ince, Collymore (mainly because he could have been a legend and one of the world's best players, but he decided to be a complete melt instead), Many of this current crop, many from the Souness era, Borini, Torres (for the jilting but oddly not now), Diouf, Shitanje.
I respect your opinion, but I've never had a problem with a player who carried us often and wanted to try life abroad who cost us nowt leaving. He was out of contract. We're very odd in this country about that. The US do it much better.
I have a pretty low threshold...
I hate a fair few in our current squad...
I hate a fair few in our current squad...
Yes, I was very angry at Torres, but you couldn't hate him, he made the right choice to leave. Although probably to the wrong club from his own POV. I will admit to enjoying his discomfort and lack of goals, though. I think we've been quite lucky as a club, in that we haven't had too many easily hate-able players, although I bet most opposition fans hated Suarez for his bitey antics.
For example, we've never really had a universally despised player like Terry, Costa, Barton, Adebayor, Cole, Ronaldo, Pepe, ...oh wait.....Balotelli. There's one.
Balotelli isn't universally despised. I think many neutral fans enjoy him in the kind of way they enjoy watching people slipping over or dogs running headlong into rivers on 'You've been framed' of a Saturday evening.
Bellamy was probably closer to fitting the 'universally despised' bill.
Diouf...
Pretty much it...
Pretty much it...
I forgot Bellers. Crazy Craig. We nearly bought that other fella from Leeds once. He deffo wasn't well liked. Bowyer?
Actually, yes. He was completely reviled by pretty much every non-LFC supporter in England, and by quite a few LFC fans too, if this place was anything to go by.
Yeah, but he's never said or done anything reprehensible. Always doted on his wife and daughter. No bad behaviour off the pitch. Never even anything resembling snidey foul play. All the biting incidents were just done because he flipped out for a second. Oh and there was that handball. But apart from that...
I liked him because of those things.
We really need some hateful players now instead of the bunch of nice chaps we have.
I felt let down by him but I don't really think smugness was the problem. If anything it was the opposite - he struck me as a wuss who wouldn't have had the confidence to be smug.
Ian Callaghan. He was a right twat.
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