Christian Benteke

[Rich]

I highly doubt those quotes are true.

FYI - if a respected publication uses quote-marks attributed to a person then they're genuine.

[RedReet]

If a reporter asks him, 'why do you think you are not being picked?', surely there is little wrong with those quotes? It's hardly as if he's out complaining every week or posting things on his personal Twitter, he's just answering a question (I presume).

[brightred]

Has anyone else noticed how small this pricks ears are?

I can't see anything else when i see him now, i just focus on the ears. They're bloody tiny He almost has a fishy look to him, or an axolotl.

Oh and he's ****ing **** isn't he. See ya Bineteke, you don't play because you're a carthorse, soft as **** and can't finish for ****.

****, they are small!

Thanks for that Harv. From now all all I'll be able to look at is his ears. That will totally distract me from admiring his amazing football ability.

[calvoboy]

If a reporter asks him, 'why do you think you are not being picked?', surely there is little wrong with those quotes? It's hardly as if he's out complaining every week or posting things on his personal Twitter, he's just answering a question (I presume).

I think it's more than that myself.

Full Barrett article here:

Jürgen Klopp ignoring me and I don’t know why, Christian Benteke says

Tony Barrett

Christian Benteke has questioned Jürgen Klopp’s reluctance to pick him for Liverpool, insisting that he suits the team’s playing style, and admitting that he is perplexed by the lack of faith his manager has shown in him.

Benteke has started only six Barclays Premier League games since Klopp became manager on October 8 and he has increasingly been used as an impact substitute despite becoming the second most expensive player in Liverpool’s history when he joined from Aston Villa in a £32.5 million deal last July.

The forward’s ongoing struggle to convince Klopp that he is worthy of a regular starting place has increased the likelihood that he will leave Liverpool this summer, with West Ham United among a number of clubs monitoring his situation at Anfield.

Benteke still hopes to establish himself at Liverpool, but his admission that he is mystified by his treatment at the hands of Klopp, who once looked into the possibility of signing the Belgium striker while in charge of Borussia Dortmund, is the first public indication that he is becoming frustrated by his current plight.

“Some team-mates have said that I was lucky with the arrival of Klopp, because I certainly would play,” Benteke told Sport/Voetbalmagazine. “When your coach says he wanted to take you to Dortmund and a little later you sit at the same club and he ignores you, it is hard to understand.”

Asked what he makes of claims that he does not fit in with Klopp’s preferred high energy, high pressing playing style, Benteke was dismissive. “I find that weird,” he said. “I don’t understand why people stay that. I can press, I can move. It’s not like we are playing the Barcelona way.

“[Klopp] has told me to be more involved in the game. That seems to me one of my qualities: I like to combine, I like to get the ball. But maybe I don’t ask the ball in the right positions and maybe that’s why the team-mates don’t find me.

“I’ve taken his remarks into account and I was ready to change my style like he wanted it. I’d thought that Liverpool had bought because of my qualities. It’s ideal to stay yourself, to keep your identity, while you adapt to the style of the manager. And if that doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out.

“He still tells me that I’m a striker who can do everything: score goals; holding-up the ball, play one-two’s, heading. If I have that many variations in my game, why don’t I play? But, he makes the choices and I have to respect them.”

While Benteke readily concedes that he is yet to show his best form for Liverpool, with the benefit of hindsight he admits that it might have been better not to move to Anfield had he known he would not be a regular starter.

“What’s annoying me the most is that I would have never signed for Liverpool if I wasn’t the manager’s first choice. Everything was there to play a good season at a big club and it started well,” Benteke said.

“I am the first to admit that I haven’t shown enough my worth for a team like Liverpool. On the other hand, under Brendan Rodgers, I knew I would get the opportunity to show my qualities, to show that I was worth the money and that I deserved to wear the shirt of Liverpool. But now?

“Since I went to England in 2012 I’ve never been on the bench for such a long period. It hurts, especially since I never was as fit as now. That’s why I try to grab my chance when I get five or ten minutes playing time. I don’t want people to blame me for a lack of professionalism.

“Even my father, who initially was worried about my status, told me that I can’t do a lot about my situation. I’ve talked with Eden Hazard and Marouane Fellaini and they all answered the same: if a coach does not count on you, you can’t do a lot about it.”

Benteke was the subject of interest from clubs in the Chinese Super League during the January transfer window but opted to remain at Liverpool. However, he admits that he will have to consider his options at the end of this season if his situation does not improve. “In January I did not want to leave, it is my desire to succeed at Liverpool. I want to continue. At the end of the season we take stock,” he said.

[RedReet]

I think it's more than that myself.

Full Barrett article here:

He must be frustrated, as you'd expect him to be, but he's still just answering teh questions put forward to him and I don't think he's being disrespectful in anything he says.

I dare say there are tons of articles and quotes when he says he's happy to fight for his place, Klopp is a great manager, he needs to do better etc., so I don't think we need to prepare the pitch forks for him just yet.

[peekay]

Full article on it in the Times by Tony Barrett - they don't usually print articles with quotes like this unless they've verified them themselves.

If Tony Barrett has written the article then I am wrong.

[peekay]

ITK Jamie @PhilippeIsMagic
Benteke has missed his last 10 1 on 1s but it's Klopp's fault

This is an incredible stat, if it is true.

[redmike65]

[wongers]

How Benteke is saying he can press/move is beyond me - his pressing is on par with Balotelli ffs

he presses his own clothes before wearing them

[Leyton388]

hes not considered as he's ****.

[danperkins]

Did you have booze for breakfast Dan?

no idea what happened I can't even use that as an excuse, think i'm just in negative, sarcy mode & sure I can't type for **** anyways

[Bender]

[ame]https://twitter.com/theanfieldtalk/status/712774456704372736[/ame]

[lickedlollipop]

he will definitely leave in summer, and it's rightly so. WHU, please save us again from this misery.

[RichC]

Seems to be heading towards the exit door.

[redmike65]

I like understatement!