Steven Gerrard

[Lee]

I'm shocked at the new contract for Carra. Unless it's on the same duration but a lesser amount?!

[Mattshark]

I'm shocked at the new contract for Carra. Unless it's on the same duration but a lesser amount?!

[Exiled_red]

I'm shocked at the new contract for Carra. Unless it's on the same duration but a lesser amount?!

That's not going to happen, but if he has two years left on his current deal and at age 33, (34 in January), I'd wait another year before even considering offering him a new contract.

[Lee]

Yeah it's baffling.

And I still have a feeling that he'll come straight back into the team when he's fit again.

[Exiled_red]

Yeah it's baffling.

And I still have a feeling that he'll come straight back into the team when he's fit again.

I think he will too, although Agger and Skrtel have done well without him and deserve to stay in the team. He should have to earn his place back.

I have a feeling it will be easy to justify bringing him back because the next few games are against the big sides.

[Lee]

I think he will too, although Agger and Skrtel have done well without him and deserve to stay in the team. He should have to earn his place back.

I have a feeling it will be easy to justify bringing him back because the next few games are against the big sides.

That's a good point, very easy for Kenny to bring him back when we've got Chelsea and City coming up for Carra's experience (you can hear it now eh?)

Ideal situation would be Carragher missing the next few games still and Skrtel & Agger keeping up their current level of performances. I think I read somewhere recently that we haven't conceded in the last nine games that they've partnered eachother at the back.

Back on topic, it shows you just how incredible Gerrard is. After all the years he's spent here and all the players and money that's come and gone, he's still so integral to our team. What a player.

[Exiled_red]

That's a good point, very easy for Kenny to bring him back when we've got Chelsea and City coming up for Carra's experience (you can hear it now eh?)

Exactly my thinking

Ideal situation would be Carragher missing the next few games still and Skrtel & Agger keeping up their current level of performances. I think I read somewhere recently that we haven't conceded in the last nine games that they've partnered eachother at the back.

I'd not heard that but that backs up why we should stick with them.

Back on topic, it shows you just how incredible Gerrard is. After all the years he's spent here and all the players and money that's come and gone, he's still so integral to our team. What a player.

[BootRoom]

seems Gerrard & Carra are going to be offered new contracts

Despite his absence through injury, owners Fenway Sports Group have already held discussions with Gerrard’s representatives about lengthening his current deal.

The 31-year-old has 18 months left on an existing contract, but from the moment they bought the club over a year ago FSG have made it clear they wish Gerrard to spend the remainder of his career at his boyhood team.

The same applies to Liverpool vice-captain Jamie Carragher, who signed a three year deal last year prior to the takeover but is seen by the hierarchy as integral to the club’s identity.

Gerrard’s existing agreement will take him to his 33rd birthday, and an extension, likely to be another two years, represents a show of faith in his ability to overcome recent injury setbacks.

Although the latest negotiations began before he suffered the ankle injury which has put him back on the sidelines, he is expected to make a full recovery from the infection.

Gerrard has been at Anfield since his schoolboy days and after resisting the temptation to leave for Chelsea on three occasions between 2003-2005, and rejecting numerous less publicised offers from Inter Milan and Real Madrid, he said when penning his last deal in 2009 he would remain at Liverpool for as long as he was wanted. He rebuffed another approach from Jose Mourinho after the 2010 World Cup.

There was never a doubt manager Kenny Dalglish would seek to retain the experience of both Gerrard and Carragher as he seeks to mould a new side with the assistance of their invaluable experience.

FSG have informed the pair they see roles for them as part of the staff when they finish playing, should they decide to pursue such a course.

The Liverpool duo have come integral to how the club presents itself both on and off the park and FSG have no wish to allow rivals to benefit from the wisdom and inside knowledge of Anfield which they’ve garnered throughout their two decades.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...n-Gerrard.html

Yikes, I hope this is just Bascombe's usual obsequious bollocks.

"The Liverpool duo have come integral to how the club presents itself both on and off the park and FSG have no wish to allow rivals to benefit from the wisdom and inside knowledge of Anfield which they’ve garnered throughout their two decades."

****ing hell. It's like they are going to run off with nuclear secrets or something.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Any word on how he's doing?
I was hoping he would be back for our next match.

[Arn]

Offer Carra a new deal

That would be money down the drain. He won't even be worth a £30k a week deal when his current deal end.

If he get a new deal then it is only because he is Carra the local lad and not because he deserved it.

The wisdom and inside knowledge is just bull**** excuses. If we worried about that then we wouldn't be able to sell a single player.

We sold Torres and he probably know as much inside knowledge as Carra or Gerrard do.

[Craig_H]

You imploding, Arn?

[Mostar]

I'm shocked at the new contract for Carra. Unless it's on the same duration but a lesser amount?!

Me too.

Us extending his contract for even a single year means that we wouldn't be able to bring in a new CB as a result and to me that is one step back.

Let him play until his contract runs out and offer him a job within a club structure but not as a player any more.

[Baracus]

The Arn Witch Trail continues.

Carra and Gerrard are easily identifiable local commodities who are currently essential to brand LFC. The other two essential components the Liverbird and Kenny.

[Rich]

He probably is.

[Arn]

Me too.

Us extending his contract for even a single year means that we wouldn't be able to bring in a new CB as a result and to me that is one step back.

Let him play until his contract runs out and offer him a job within a club structure but not as a player any more.