The teams are very athletic but tehnique and all the other things you learn growing up with the game here are of a lesser standard in the US that's patently obvious. That will change over time but that is the way it is atm, also the MLS is more aggressive than the PL. Aggression seems to be a part of the US sporting mentality.
That's a general business issue as we agreed to loan him for a specific spell, so a penalty will be incurred if we cut it short, standard practice. Suarez has been linked with United, yeah by the fact he probably mailed Anthrax to the club. Gerrard was offered a new deal, but he had already began looking at other options by the time if came in November, Gerrard knows his legs are not up to the task, as unpalatable as it is for him, he has been realistic and began to plan... how that is a bad thing.. ?
I think you might be confusing wrecklessness with aggression Kicking a player in the back for example is not wrecklessness but it is overly aggressive.
As someone who plays a lot of amateur football, I know that generally speaking the more aggressive the games are, the better the teams usually are. So I'm struggling to believe that there is more aggression in a poor league like the MLS, in comparison to the PL a league that is up there with very best. The only way I could see it, is if the referees are a lot more lenient. The PL referees are fairly lenient over here though, in comparison to other European divisions
Ironic coming from a Chav who claims to have the inside track on transfer dealings between Monaco and Manchester United! Nicely done Bluechav!
Firstly I'm not a chav so mind your manners. I have never claimed to have the inside track on anything. You just got a weed on because I pointed out that Falcao isn't the player he used to be because he is injury prone. Now I don't intend to waste my time arguing with you because as the saying goes, you can't educate pork.
I think you might be confusing wrecklessness with recklessness. Which of those categories does punching a DJ fall into?
You made a factually inaccurate statement. I corrected you. If you had any manners you would be thanking me.
At the end of the day Stevie doesn't cut it in our system. We aren't good enough to give him the protection Xavi, Pirlo, Scholes etc had/have. We are better without him - if he'd stayed it would be a rotation role. This has allowed him the chance to make a huge change for himself and his family (which he cites as crucial to moving - anything else is conjecture). We will love him, leave him then welcome him back. It's spectacularly uncontroversial.
More like Stevie G isn't good enough to play the Scholes, Pirlo or Xavi role. If you had any of those 3 players even in there older years they'd be a key player for you in midfield. Top players don't need protection, as they have the ability to not have to rely on being able to run around a lot. Gerrard always has been a box to box midfield player, he's never been good enough technically to be a playmaker
So, after all those years of dedicated service and effort the best thing to do is just cast him adrift because he no longer fits into a 'system'. That's a pretty **** way to treat him to be frank. I can only refer you to how United treated Giggs and Scholes and would have Neville if he'd not retired, by playing them occasionally when needed and keeping them on the books with a contract to reward their years of service. Giggs still works at the club, Scholes chose not to. Liverpool treat their long serving players like ****.
Look, if that's what you think there's no point debating it. All players require the correct system for their specific talents. The second point - Gerrard did rely on pace and determination to reach opportunities a yard faster. He's lost that. But it's my (and most who've watched him's) opinion that he does have the talent to be playmaker. Maybe not the mentality, but that's a different question. I think our problem is wages - FFP means we need to free his big wedge up for 2/3 new signings. At the end of the day Stevie has said he didn't want to be a squad player and that moving to America was a family choice he made. Liverpool offered him something and he decided to leave on his terms. Fair play and good luck. He'll be back. Personally I think it's painful to watch him these days because he's a shadow of himself - years and years of overplaying, playing through injuries and rushed comebacks have seen him decline rapidly. It's painful to see him criticised on Twitter by 14/15 year old Liverpool/rival fans who simply haven't seen Stevie in his prime. I want my memory of him untarnished. Maybe that's selfish. On your last point - can only think of recent examples but Rush, Aldridge, Kenny, Hansen, Lawro, Barnes, Hamann, Carra and Fowler all either work for the club officially or do fan events for the club... the stalwarts of Rafa's reign all talk positively about Liverpool - Garcia, Babel, Masch, Alonso, Reina etc.
Not one of them was kept on in an official capacity and most work in the media, not for Liverpool. I'm really referring to the current regime anyway and it's true that both Gerrard and Carragher decided to leave because the club was running down their contracts with no sign of an offer on the cards. I get your point about wanting an untarnished memory though, I thought that about Scholes. Before his first retirement he was an occasional liability, before his second it was fairly regular. Never the case with Giggs though, when he played he was a Rolls Royce. Liverpool should have offered Gerrard a contract in my opinion.
That's nonsense, Gerrard has been made aware that if he stays his primary role in the team will be from the bench and only starting some games just like you lot did with Scholes and Giggs. Gerrard has decided he wants to start game still and that to do that he has to move on. I would rather he stays and plays from the bench but he doesn't want to so I'll wish him well.
So Gerrard was making it up when he said he'd have signed a contact if they'd offered him one? Glad you cleared that up, good to have someone who's really in the know on here.
