Steven Gerrard

[fidget]

Will you tell your mate that my mate fancies her?

[ntto]

given all of the talk about the different targets Rodgers had against the targets the committee had I find out very hard to believe that Toni Kroos was on Rodgers list at all - joe allen, Ashley Williams, Fabio borini and toni kroos

[Muddled]

I imagine our list of transfer targets to be vast and not even close to a 50% success rate.

[Slinky Skills]

I wonder would Gerrard swap his European cup winners medal for a few Brendan Rodgers / Gerard Houllier / roy Hodgson style interviews on sky about how ****in lucky we are to have Gerrard and how ****in great he is....

I always thought Gerrard was an amazing player....real roy of the rovers stuff.....and I have never seen a performance like he gave in the CL final - played immense, scored one, won a penalty and played in about 4 positions that night.

But he always comes across as a right knob. Suppose it's to be expected when you have a whole city sucking you off for the best part of 20years....

That's a lot sucking off!

Agreed, but I can't help feeling that his words are being dismissed as daft a bit too easily. We all build of a very simplified conceptual view of how football works, how players think, how transfers work, how clubs are run, who's godly and who's a cunt, what motivates people etc etc. It's simple because there is only so much information available about it, and much of it comes from journalists who themselves try and sell a simple narrative that enables them to sell speculation and half arsed analysis.

We're happy because although (and because) it's simplistic, things tend to pan out in line with our 'what football is and how it works' concept. 'Yey, playing a diamond was the answer all along, I'm a football genius'. We're happy with simple narratives, to the point where, if someone who personally knows the minutia of the details we don't and has personal relationships with the actors involved says something that doesn't fit our narrative then we immediately defend our deficiency by dismissing it out right. Even if the someone is one of the biggest legends and best players ever to play for the club.

But as you say, not a point worth labouring over

Good post.

[The_weatherman]

I really don't think our recruitment policy is based purely on Gerrard sending texts. It will have happened before Rodgers, so dressing it up as a dig at Rodgers' 'pulling power' is weak.

We'll have interest in several players and I'm confident negotiations between clubs officials will have been opened. Gerrard sending a text (I can see why he wouldn't call) as club captain will be a tool used to see how much time the club spends on negotiations or how much effort they put into a deal.

I said in our case our manager probably hasn't much pulling power, I'm fairly certain I've said it somewhere before. Don't understand the fuss about that, players are influenced by the managers, at least to a certain extent.

[McDermotX]

Don't understand the fuss about that, players are influenced by the managers, at least to a certain extent.

They certainly are to a degree. Gerrard certainly is.....the likes of Hodgson and Curbishley must have dirt on him otherwise.

[danperkins]

We obviously know Alonso better than Stevie.

[Buzzo]

I can't really explain what drives people to write these books to be honest. Especially when they're as minted as people like him.

has to be an ego thing. I understand the ex pros who missed the SKY cash, but these guys are minted. It'd be good to see one of these footballers books just punt all the proceeds to charity.

[Rich]

Just because you're minted doesn't mean you're going to pass up a nice six or seven figure sum for so little actual work.

[ronanm]

BR: Can you do me a favour and send a text to Williams at Swansea?
SG: Still no credit on the phone Brendan?
BR: No credibility in general you mean slippy, ya daft c*nt
SG: No problem boss
SG to Williams text: Hi Williams. SG here. Do you want to join Liverpool.
Williams to SG: I know that's you Brendan ffs. Get lost you're a **** boss.

[Buzzo]

Just because you're minted doesn't mean you're going to pass up a nice six or seven figure sum for so little actual work.

True, and I suppose you've got an agent, a publisher and a ghost writer to cut in on the action also. Then get it serialised in some rag so they can boost sales/www hits, leading to your average fan posting about it in his or her chosen football forum then sit back and wait for the £s to roll in...

...

...wait a minute

[Buzzo]

BR: Can you do me a favour and send a text to Williams at Swansea?
SG: Still no credit on the phone Brendan?
BR: No credibility in general you mean slippy, ya daft c*nt
SG: No problem boss
SG to Williams text: Hi Williams. SG here. Do you want to join Liverpool.
Williams to SG: I know that's you Brendan ffs. Get lost you're a **** boss.

Slippy

[frank the tank]

yer man Darren Farley could have a feckin field day with the material he gets in SGs book.....

A text to convince John Terry to replace Carragher........ "Well the texts to Willian, Diego Costa and Toni Kroos did nothing, so I had to use a different tactic with JT. I thought long and hard about what would attract him to Liverpool. I mean.....what would make him want to take a 120k per week pay cut??? I decided to text him from Alex's phone.........."

[Shaggy]

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[Buzzo]

Rafa is such a class act. Football doesn't deserve him.