... as he collects the LFC Young Player of the Year award. Bit pathetic from the scousers imo, especially while he's still their player. He wants to go to a bigger club, who are they to tell him he shouldn't? I wonder how many players they've poached from "lesser teams" over the years....
'Fan power' is becoming tiresome ......... players have zero loyalty, to Liverpool or anyone else, get used to it. I support the shirt, the history & the other supporters ......... that's all there is in reality. The players meanfuck all to me tbh.
I dunno why he wants to go TBH. Liverpool can compete and if he went to Chelski or Citeh he'd just be a squad player after a bit of bad form. Should stay and help the club attract better players to be part of building something there. The money won't be hugely different, I suspect.
He is throwing LFC's treatment of him earlier in the season back in their faces and even they do not deserve that. This is a new low in player commitment and loyalty.
In cockney rhyming slang,Sterling is a "merchant-banker" who has an over-inflated opinion of himself.....he'll soon be forgotten on Merseyside when he leaves.
Sunderland fans did the same to Bent, who kept us up with his 24 goals. I think modern fans become attached to players who do well for them, as they always have. But modern footballers aren't like that, and can't really be expected to be. When a player comes 9,000 miles from say Argentina, you can't expect him to feel the same loyalty that we used to get from English players. And the foreign players feelings have rubbed off on the English lads so now no player feels loyalty to his club the way they once did. So the fans boo the player and claim he s**t on them, while the player says 'I saved them from relegation' (or whatever) and now they boo me. Both sides feel aggrieved. The way of the world I guess.
I certainly can't recall Bent getting any stick before he left us...I learn something every day on here..
I'm a bit confused as to what Sterling has actually done. I know he hasn't signed a new contract but I'm pretty sure Catts' contract runs out at the same time. Has he actually come out and said he wants to leave?
I don't think that Catts would get booed like that if he was leaving as he has been a good servant to the club. Sterling on the other hand hasn't been there five minutes, so a very different scenario..
They've played roughly the same amount of games for Sunderland and Liverpool respectively mate. Catts has only been at Sunderland 18 months longer than Sterling has at the scallys. I'm not sure it's that much different. That said I don't believe for a second that we'd boo catts in the same situation. The scousers think they're bigger than they are when in reality they're just another, albeit slightly bigger, also ran.
Catts was just the first name that popped into my head mate. The point was that considering what the lad has done lately, trying to engineer a move away from the club plus the twitter comments, it's hardly surprising the reaction he got.
I actually really like what Phil Thomson said about Sterling yesterday, he's not worth £100k a week never mind £150k, he's a good player, not a great player. If he ends up at City he'll go the same way as Sinclair/Rodwell etc, he's just a promising player, absolutely nothing more than that. Those who think Real Madrid were ever contemplating paying £100m for the kid are absolutely crazy.
Di5co / MrRAW. I didn't say we booed Bent before he left, but I don't think it matters. Sterling's turned down £100,000 a week contract and said publicly that he wants to leave Liverpool. Bent left suddenly. Nobody disagrees on that. But whether the boo-ing starts when the player leaves, or says he wants to leave makes no difference. The point I'm making is that the two crowds gave the two players all their support, and feel/felt let-down. The players gave the two crowds a lot of good service, and are now hurt by being boo-ed. Crowds and players no longer understand each other. Both sides feel the other has been ungrateful.
We could see, I've heard he'll walk at the end of his contract if we don't sell this summer. He thinks he's ready for a step up and a new challange.
This is what's confusing me. I haven't seen him say he wants to leave. I've seen a lot of people talking about him saying it. Seen people talking about him planning to say it. I haven't seen him or his agent actually say it. Is there a statement somewhere I've missed. I was under the impression people were booing due to speculation and speculation alone. If there is something more concrete then I agree. It's a similar situation.
