Liverpool FC Forum

[parchpea]

Think Gerrard had hoped for a loyalty contract where by he is paid a wage in excess of his contribution to the club.

Cant see how the timing of the offer is that important and despite his gut wrenching interviews he had a deal on the table to stay at Liverpool but chose
to look beyond that and make the move to America.

As an outsider looking in I would hazard a guess his wife and kids had a massive say in this and it was they that fancied spending time in LA and I doubt
Gerrard is that arsed.

[killerp]

I don't care what anyone says about him, he is the last remaining "go to man" in our squad. FSG will not be able to fill that gap and we will feel it, badly.

Next season, when there is no one left who will drag us across the line consistently throughout the season by scoring penalties and free kicks, what then? We have a squad filled with youth and inexperience and no real match winners. Sturridge and Sterling are the main two but Sturridge spends more time on the operating table than the football pitch and Sterling is prone to fizzle out if the team is not playing well.

Its thanks to Gerrard mainly that we could get away with so much rubbish in our squad over the years. He masked their inadequacies with the ability to fight through using either a killer pass or just going it alone. His never say die attitude won many many points for us.

Gerrard leaving is an end of an era, I hope the new era is not us becoming Sunderland.

[Mikz]

Sky sports are saying Liverpool are looking to James Milner to replace the void left by Gerrards departure....Give me strength

[leeroy74]

don't look at it as a comparison, look at James Milner to do a job in this Liverpool team. Compared to Gerrard he's no where close but as a part of this team he could be effective

[ycsatbjywtbiastkamb]

don't look at it as a comparison, look at James Milner to do a job in this Liverpool team. Compared to Gerrard he's no where close but as a part of this team he could be effective

The only reason we are probably looking at him is because he is out of contract in the summer and we may be able to get him on the cheap. That's not so say Milner isn't a decent player, he is, but he's also 29 and for a player renowned for his high energy approach that is getting on a bit.
Plus I'm not convinced Milner is the type of player we need anyway, he's a utility player and I think a specialised DM is more of a priority. Personally I'd rather see us go for someone like Alex Song,

[Boocity]

I think we should leave it to the experts at our club to decide what and who we need, after all they've made such a good job of it so far.

[algymoon]

There is no player in whole League like Gerrard doing the job he does for LFC. BR is the main reason for Gerrard's exit because he did not ask the club owner to do the impossible to offer Gerrard a new contract, and I don't blame Gerrard for leaving LFC in Sh*t.

BR thinks the doneky Henderson will be a perfect replacement for Gerrard as skipper! far from it there is no comparison between the two. Henderson, can't score, or pass, or tuckle, he just run like headless chicken has the energy to run and making more mistakes than any other team players. So how can be a skipper material ! he is only in eyes of the idiot BR.

LFC is in decline and it will continue to do so for the coming months and seasons. LFC will not receover from Gerrard's exit and it will prove a major set back for LFC and the fans. The dark days are upon us.
It is a big joke really, LFC should have won the league last season easily but only for BR, and this season they are the worst team in whole league struggling in lower half of the league without any improvement in sight.
Over the past 15 years or more LFC had kept bring in bad managers, whom they have an initial impact due to their style of play, but they can not back it up the following seasons! buys bad average players and they label them World beaters!.
This is LFC histroy over the past 15 years one step forward and four steps backward, and the blame totally goes on shoulders of LFC owners.

[lakes10]

There is no player in whole League like Gerrard doing the job he does for LFC. BR is the main reason for Gerrard's exit because he did not ask the club owner to do the impossible to offer Gerrard a new contract, and I don't blame Gerrard for leaving LFC in Sh*t.

BR thinks the doneky Henderson will be a perfect replacement for Gerrard as skipper! far from it there is no comparison between the two. Henderson, can't score, or pass, or tuckle, he just run like headless chicken has the energy to run and making more mistakes than any other team players. So how can be a skipper material ! he is only in eyes of the idiot BR.

LFC is in decline and it will continue to do so for the coming months and seasons. LFC will not receover from Gerrard's exit and it will prove a major set back for LFC and the fans. The dark days are upon us.
It is a big joke really, LFC should have won the league last season easily but only for BR, and this season they are the worst team in whole league struggling in lower half of the league without any improvement in sight.
Over the past 15 years or more LFC had kept bring in bad managers, whom they have an initial impact due to their style of play, but they can not back it up the following seasons! buys bad average players and they label them World beaters!.
This is LFC histroy over the past 15 years one step forward and four steps backward, and the blame totally goes on shoulders of LFC owners.

"
"LFC is in decline and it will continue to do so for the coming months and seasons. LFC will not receover from Gerrard's exit and it will prove a major set back for LFC and the fans. The dark days are upon us."

bloody hell I better go and shoot myself now.

we will get over this. we have all said no one player is bigger than the club and that still stands. the way you talk we will be in div2 in a heartbeat

[red till i die!!]

Is he saying that he hasn't been offered any contract ? or just not an acceptable one ?

He is saying that he wasn't offered a contract in the summer and if one had been on the table he would have signed it. He is also saying though that he feels that his game time should not be tailored or reduced in any way, he said he's injury free and fit enough to play every game 

Most contracts are negotiated at least a year in advance so it's baffling as to why they waited till he was almost in his last 6 months. He deserves far more respect than that. Are we now to believe that rodgers wouldn't of played him in 95% of the games anyway ? he would have and will play him in every game till the end of the season.

Still we move on and even though we can never replace him, they need to go a damn sight closer than they did in their efforts to replace suarez. They need to show some proper ambition and sign a proper player and no more of this for the future muck. My fear is that they have nothing to attract a top player with. We have 2 kids in sterling and coutinho and a top striker when available. The rest are average and its a hard sell to any player like reus or benzema. We will be in the freebie and gamble bin again until we sell our best players.

[parchpea]

Anytime soon people will wake up to the fact that FSG are venture capitalists looking to make big money out of Liverpool.

Its been a slow burner but with both Suarez and Gerrard departing and little sign of adequate replacements the worm will start to turn.

They are the masters of spin and Rodgers is the perfect mouth piece to keep the fans from going all Gillett and Hicks on them.

Raise a glass to the ground works, a project where our own owners are 'lending' us the money paid back on terms over 5 years. This will hit
spending as will non qualification of the Champions League which is very much on the cards.

Gerrard is away before it hits the fan and will not face the awkward position of having to defend his employers like Rodgers has to most weeks.

I feel a storm coming over the next 12 months.

[algymoon]

There is no player in whole League like Gerrard doing the job he does for LFC. BR is the main reason for Gerrard's exit because he did not ask the club owner to do the impossible to offer Gerrard a new contract, and I don't blame Gerrard for leaving LFC in Sh*t.

BR thinks the doneky Henderson will be a perfect replacement for Gerrard as skipper! far from it there is no comparison between the two. Henderson, can't score, or pass, or tuckle, he just run like headless chicken has the energy to run and making more mistakes than any other team players. So how can be a skipper material ! he is only in eyes of the idiot BR.

LFC is in decline and it will continue to do so for the coming months and seasons. LFC will not receover from Gerrard's exit and it will prove a major set back for LFC and the fans. The dark days are upon us.
It is a big joke really, LFC should have won the league last season easily but only for BR, and this season they are the worst team in whole league struggling in lower half of the league without any improvement in sight.
Over the past 15 years or more LFC had kept bring in bad managers, whom they have an initial impact due to their style of play, but they can not back it up the following seasons! buys bad average players and they label them World beaters!.
This is LFC histroy over the past 15 years one step forward and four steps backward, and the blame totally goes on shoulders of LFC owners.

"
"LFC is in decline and it will continue to do so for the coming months and seasons. LFC will not receover from Gerrard's exit and it will prove a major set back for LFC and the fans. The dark days are upon us."

bloody hell I better go and shoot myself now.

we will get over this. we have all said no one player is bigger than the club and that still stands. the way you talk we will be in div2 in a heartbeat

I advise you to wait until end of the season, and then you can shoot yourself! and you might as well shoot BR too.

[maguskwt]

don't look at it as a comparison, look at James Milner to do a job in this Liverpool team. Compared to Gerrard he's no where close but as a part of this team he could be effective

I like James Milner... whenever he comes on for City, he does something positive... either scores a goal or puts the other team on the back foot...

[red till i die!!]

The only way milner will be coming here if its on a bosman    and its even debatable on whether they will give him the wage he wants.

[LFC1990]

Khediera and Milner both free agents in the summer.  I would go for either one of them or Schneiderlin to replace SG

[damjan193]

I wouldn't mind Khedira myself. In fact, I'm wondering why we haven't went for him earlier. Schneiderlin would be good too. Should have went for him instead of Lovren in the summer but next summer won't be too late either. We'll probably end up with someone like Fabian Delph though.