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If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?
Because he stayed at Liverpool for big bucks. :whistle:[/quote]
Smaller bucks, actually[/quote]
As I said he stayed at Liverpool for big bucks, who said anything about it being less bucks, same bucks or more bucks than Chelsea offered. :huh:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!If Steven Gerrard is such a greedy get, why did he choose to stay at Liverpool instead of going to Chelsea for the big bucks?
Because he stayed at Liverpool for big bucks. :whistle:[/quote]
Smaller bucks, actually[/quote]
As I said he stayed at Liverpool for big bucks, who said anything about it being less bucks, same bucks or more bucks than Chelsea offered. :huh:[/quote]
Do I need to draw you a picture? Because he is accused if being greedy. Therefore, staying at Liverpool for less money than he was being offered elsewhere sort of disproves that theory.
Oh, and I can’t believe people are still falling for that old-wives gangster tale
Oh Griff, I’m no fan of the Daily Mail but this seems like a pretty authoritative account to me of what you call an “old wives’ tale”
As for a 6mill contract in the US, how stupid would he have to be to turn it down? :ohmy:Not that stupid as if my maths is right that’s less than he’s on now or was offered in November to stay.
So if it’s down to money he’s been pretty dumb to take the Galaxy contract – but then again he is a footballer…Oh Griff, I’m no fan of the Daily Mail but this seems like a pretty authoritative account to me of what you call an “old wives’ tale”Oh well, if it’s in the Daily Mail…
It is greed and nothing but greed. It is not just Stevie though the whole football we see today has been swallowed up with greed forcing up wages to crazy levels right through to non league.I would just love a few of these multi millionaire super players say ‘no I have millionaires in the bank, millions of pounds worth of property so now I am going to put something back and not be tempted into just doing something for even more money’.
Look Hereford United just folded for what these men spend on shithouse roll or for just a fraction of what Skys money is worth to the Championship Play Off winners and the majority of this money just goes right through the clubs to players and their parasitic agents. Or are agents not greedy either?We all slag footballers off for the amount they’re paid and signing for clubs they’ll never play for but will be paid massively at, yet I bet every single one of us would do the same.
As long as WAFC weren’t going bust I wouldn’t be opening my cheque book for anyone.
You are probably right there Egg. I don’t think I could honestly say I would turn it down myself so that makes me a greedy focker too.
There was a report a couple of years ago that said 3 out of 5 Premier League footballers are bankrupt within 5 years of retiring.
Footballers and money still don’t go well together and there are others who try and do benefit from the increase in wages.
He was convinced of the wisdom of staying in Liverpol by a local gangster called Pancake, wasn’t he?Anyway, I see this loyal club man has put the knife in to Rodgers today by suggesting he would have signed a new contract if it had been offered in the close season.
Don’t managers have the right to look over a player for a few games before deciding whether to re-sign them? And isn’t it up to them how many games they think a player over 30 can manage in a season?
Gerrard obviously feels he’s bigger than the club and has had his ego dented by Rodgers exercising this right to manage as he sees fit. And he’s shown how much he loves Liverpool by destabilising their manager rather than going quietly. What a strap-on.
To be fair, in the interview I read he also heaped praise on Rodgers by saying that he wish he’d got the chance to work with him at Liverpool when he was 24 & not 34 as he’d be sitting there talking about all the titles they’d won together.
There is also an article (admittedly in the mail) which states that “There has been plenty of conjecture about why Gerrard, … would leave and whether Liverpool could have done more to keep him. But Gerrard has put the record straight by insisting he was offered the chance to stay, but that he was going to be rested from time to time due to age.The former England international admits it was the ‘key’ conversation, and a painful one at that.
‘I had an idea the conversation was going to come at some time,’ he added.
‘But it was a painful conversation to have and that was the key moment – along with other things over the last six to 12 months, but that was the conversation. That was the key one.'”
None of that sounds like he’s sticking the knife in to me
Basically it seems he wanted a new contract, it wasn’t offered in the summer & when they’ve talked about it this season he’s been told he can have one but that he would be involved less on the playing side. he doesn’t want that & so is taking one last big pay day in America & who can blame him.
Most Liverpool fans I know accept that his career is on the downward & they’d rather remember him as he was rather than someone who stayed on too long & wound up becoming more & more of a liabilityI am pretty sure most of us would not turn down this sort of money, if we had the talent to start with that is. In fact most of us would swap jobs if a competitor came along and offered you just a few grand more every year!
doesn’t matter which way you cut it, the sort of figures mentioned that SG has donated are very generous indeed.
I think what Donny would like to see (in fact I know it because he made the same argument when Kevin Keegan retired) is Gerrard giving something back to football by playing in the lower leagues or taking a management job at Prescott Cables. But, of course, like Beckham before him, he’s too much of a Billy Big Bollox to dirty his hands like that.
I think what Donny would like to see (in fact I know it because he made the same argument when Kevin Keegan retired) is Gerrard giving something back to football by playing in the lower leagues or taking a management job at Prescott Cables. But, of course, like Beckham before him, he’s too much of a Billy Big Bollox to dirty his hands like that.Or he probably doesn’t want the stress of management or every never-made-it hatchet man trying to kick lumps out of him.
I think what Donny would like to see (in fact I know it because he made the same argument when Kevin Keegan retired) is Gerrard giving something back to football by playing in the lower leagues or taking a management job at Prescott Cables. But, of course, like Beckham before him, he’s too much of a Billy Big Bollox to dirty his hands like that.Or he may feel he is still fit enough and good enough to carry on playing the game he loves something which Liverpool don’t agree with. Donny started this thread by claiming Gerrard was disloyal and greedy when the fact is it is the football club who cannot give the player his wish to see out his playing days at the place he loves. Like griff said earlier I also don’t particularly like the guy but to call him greedy and disloyal is wide of the mark.
As for moving down the leagues well it doesn’t happen anymore and anyway how do you know he wont after his spell in the States.
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