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[alxy]

When Gerrard leaves at the end of this season we have a team of players that have never won anything with LFC. that's a sad sign.

Think positive, we could end up with the FA cup and/or Euro Cup this year... then we have a whole squad of winners 

[Thommo's perm]

Hate to say this but he is seriously pi'ssing me off.
First his comments after he stated he was leaving, saying if he would have been offered a contract he would have signed it? He was offered one, but told that he wouldnt be playing every game? Hence HIS decision to leave!
Now we have the comments about Balotelli being mischievous and disrespectful. The manager has explained that he is first choice and Balo is second, and if neither is on the pitch then Henderson is nominated. Why didnt he just say that something must have been decided and that he didnt know what had gone on, instead of adding to the drama and potentially causing trouble between his team mates?
Keep your mouth shut Stevie mate, before you put your foot in it!

[C-R]

Hate to say this but he is seriously pi'ssing me off.
First his comments after he stated he was leaving, saying if he would have been offered a contract he would have signed it? He was offered one, but told that he wouldnt be playing every game? Hence HIS decision to leave!
Now we have the comments about Balotelli being mischievous and disrespectful. The manager has explained that he is first choice and Balo is second, and if neither is on the pitch then Henderson is nominated. Why didnt he just say that something must have been decided and that he didnt know what had gone on, instead of adding to the drama and potentially causing trouble between his team mates?
Keep your mouth shut Stevie mate, before you put your foot in it!

Spot on 

[red till i die!!]

Didn't think he helped the situation anyway by making those comments on ITV. He should have just said nothing but as captain probably felt he has a right to seeing as it was disrespectful to hendo. It totally undermined his captaincy and gerrrard would never have let that happen to him. IMO it was sturridge who seemed to have the biggest gripe with it.

Rodgers can come out after the fact and explain it away but it would have been better had he of let the players know before the game the preferred order of takers because if he did we wouldn't have witnessed that farce in the first place. It even puzzles me as to why hendo was even taking that free in the last seconds as it should have been balotelli from that position.

Gerrard's contract has been an area of confusion for many, The media say one thing    the Club say something else    and then the player knocks them all for six    Know one knows who to believe    What we do know is that Fsg aren't offering lucrative contracts to ageing players and in general their motto seems to be "taketh what thou giveth" and be happy about it.
It will all come out sooner or later and going by gerrards recent demeanor it will probably be sooner.

[Thommo's perm]

Then he would have been better saying Henderson needs to grow a pair?
My point is that he could have laughed it off and said it was silly but he didnt know what was happening? Instead he made strong comments criticising his team, mates and putting the manager under pressure?
Should know better...

[parchpea]

My two penneth is Gerrard is very bitter that he's leaving the club and that the side can actually cope very well without him now, his ego has
been given a knock.

If he wasn't still employed by the club he could talk freely like Carragher but he is still on the books and as such has to be careful what thoughts
he shares in the public arena.

For my money he will last 18 months max of his 4 year deal in LA and will be back in Liverpool before he's unpacked all his stuff.

[Santa]

Gerrard is already behaving like an ex-player taking up punditry for a living

[leeroy74]

After the run of recent performances and how well the team has gelled together WITHOUT Steven Gerrard, coupled with the fact he's already got one foot on that plane to the good old US of A, if I was Brendan I'd give him a start against Stoke on the last game of the season (at Anfield) just so he can come off after 70 mins to a standing ovation and that's it.

We're a good team without him in it. sad but fact.

[Pig Catcher]

It would be madness to bring him back in at CM but maybe an option for the RCB option if we want to move Can into midfield at any point.

[Reg]

Good article weighing up the pro's and con's.

Are Liverpool better off without Steven Gerrard?
Brendan Rodgers is facing a dilemma over whether to recall his captain for the FA Cup match against Blackburn on Sunday and the statistics show they have been thriving in his absence

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... rrard.html

[red till i die!!]

Cheers Reg, Good article.

Ultimately its down to rodgers whether he puts him back in or not. Personally I don't think he should but I also don't think he should be frozen out either. The problem for me has never being the fact that stevie plays but more the amount of time he did.  I don't see why he could not start the odd home game before being replaced and making a few cameo's from the bench as well without it being detrimental to the teams results.

Its sad really though. This is a lad who gave us his life and he could end up being made a scapegoat if we fail to make top 4 

[7_Kewell]

Gerrard should play, but higher up the pitch. Not as a DM, but as an attacking player, because he's still one of the best crossers in the league.

[only me]

Gerrard should play, but higher up the pitch. Not as a DM, but as an attacking player, because he's still one of the best crossers in the league.

instead of who?

[Boocity]

Gerrard should play, but higher up the pitch. Not as a DM, but as an attacking player, because he's still one of the best crossers in the league.

instead of who?

Would have been a good sub for Lallana against Blackburn

[only me]

Gerrard should play, but higher up the pitch. Not as a DM, but as an attacking player, because he's still one of the best crossers in the league.

instead of who?

Would have been a good sub for Lallana against Blackburn

As a Sub no doubt ,but as a starter who would he replace?