What are you on about you dopey cunt? He was free. Hence I added the quotations.
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What are you on about you dopey cunt? He was free. Hence I added the quotations.
He's emulating Modo's ingenious team/national non-specific 'under 18s, under 16s' gnomic nonsense. It's set to be a weekly challenge.
Or he's just wrong. Although surely he didn't think we actually did get £18m for him?! Hahahahahaha. Oh dear. Poor the Hansern.
Bigger news than Markovic:..
Important info there…. What is all that about?
Hahahaha who let that through proofs
I'd feel happier knowing there was a clause that he won't play against City.
Lazar left us down big time. I thought we were going to strike gold with him. I was happy to jump aboard the Lazar hype train immediately. His bandwagon wasn't as big Aqualani's for example but it was fairly sizeable at the time.
What info had we at the time? Well, he won the league with Partizan. He was too good for that league. He earned his move to Portugal. He wins the domestic treble is his first season and earns his move to a bigger European club. Rumours emerge that Chelsea own him? A buzz is now created. He had the unusual hair cut, clips were shared to show him breezing past dumbfounded defenders. He was too good for that Portuguese league and most importantly what a great fecking name. I had high hope for the Serbian Kaka. We've all been left down here. 3 or 4 Liverpool managers couldn't find a use for him. What an abysmal signing it turned out to be.
His only two moments of note were that volley that didn't go in against Sunderland and that harsh sending off in the CL group stages.
What info had we at the time? Well, he won the league with Partizan. He was too good for that league. He earned his move to Portugal. He wins the domestic treble is his first season and earns his move to a bigger European club. Rumours emerge that Chelsea own him? A buzz is now created. He had the unusual hair cut, clips were shared to show him breezing past dumbfounded defenders. He was too good for that Portuguese league and most importantly what a great fecking name. I had high hope for the Serbian Kaka. We've all been left down here. 3 or 4 Liverpool managers couldn't find a use for him. What an abysmal signing it turned out to be.
His only two moments of note were that volley that didn't go in against Sunderland and that harsh sending off in the CL group stages.
Those YouTube compilations of him running past useless defenders in the Portuguese were actually early warning signs - kicking it past defenders into acres of space seems to be his only trick, which I'm surprised even worked in that league given that he has no pace.
In those clips he'd often run out of space himself by running over the end line. RUN LAZAR RUN.
Someone at the Echo said him and his agent were quite open about why he stayed for so long - they admitted he'll never find another club that would pay him anything like what we were doing (£50,000 a week), so he was determined to make it last as long as he could, no matter how bleak it seemed in terms of his playing chances. He was basically regarding it as a life-funding project. That's modern football. Even as late as 30 Jan he was adamant he wasn't leaving, so I guess they had to knock him out, bundle him in a car and fake his siggy on the contract.
I'm guessing we agreed to pay a hefty chunk of those wages whilst he pays for them, paying say, 75% is galling, but better than paying all of them & getting nothing back.
Ah right, hadn't looked into it.
Great news if so. Perhaps he thinks if he can impress there he'll get a decent move which will offset the loss of wages. Or perhaps they're that desperate for reinforcements that they're paying the same wages cos they didn't have to pay a transfer fee.
We saved around 1 M pounds in wages and fees so I guess it was worth it on our part. They are desperate and can easily chunk out 50k a week for a player who doesn't command any other outlays until end of season.
Feelings aren't mutual Lazar I'm afraid.
"it's been a pleasure" he says. Maybe shows his mentality. While he has become a rich man on his high wages over recent years, a true professional would have been devastated at not being able (or trusted) to properly earn them.
I could liken him to the player on my avatar. Vladimir Smicer - also an Eastern European skill player, arrived with expectations, struggled a little in a different, tougher league. Comparison ends there though. Smicer gave everything to turn it around. He never fully did, but has an honoured place in Anfield lore - for the late winner against Chelsea, but memorably - and decisively - for the second goal, and later PK - in Istanbul. The delight he showed on scoring, the iconic badge kissing when he scored the penalty in the shootout. Vladi stuck at it, toughened up - deserved his reward.
Markovic had the talent to do that - but not the character.
I could liken him to the player on my avatar. Vladimir Smicer - also an Eastern European skill player, arrived with expectations, struggled a little in a different, tougher league. Comparison ends there though. Smicer gave everything to turn it around. He never fully did, but has an honoured place in Anfield lore - for the late winner against Chelsea, but memorably - and decisively - for the second goal, and later PK - in Istanbul. The delight he showed on scoring, the iconic badge kissing when he scored the penalty in the shootout. Vladi stuck at it, toughened up - deserved his reward.
Markovic had the talent to do that - but not the character.
Yep. Even in the under23s, you'd surely expect a player of his supposed stature to want to boss his way through games, but instead he seemed uninterested, or unable, to outwit defenders who were only just out of school. I guess he's one of those players who isn't really interested in the sport.
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