ROB GUTMANN was joined by Gareth Roberts, John Gibbons and Paul Senior to get stuck into who can be relied on for Liverpool, this season and beyond. Featuring Daniel Sturridge, Jordan Henderson, Jordon Ibe…..and Raheem Sterling.
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I remember a carra interview talking about players not willing to play if only 95% fit and saying himself and suarez would have to be 95% injured not to play.I think it just depends on mindset.i think sturridge has looked very apprehensive since coming back think its more a case of rather heal and be out for few weeks than possibly make it worse and have another long spell out . Dont think we appreciate the hard work it takes to get over long term injury and the mental affect it has
I saw Rob’s comment on Twitter that there’s nothing remarkable about this Sterling interview. I couldn’t disagree more. I suppose yesterday, my thoughts echoed what was said on this show. If I’m honest I’m reeling tonight. In fact I feel a little hysterical so my opinions might reflect that. If a psychologist evaluated that interview he’d only reach one conclusion. “Where I need to be”. He said it over and over. He doesn’t see us as a team that can challenge. He’s disappointed we lost Suarez and Gerrard. He doesn’t like his position. He doesn’t like the grief he’s getting. He doesn’t like the fact the rumour of a new contract didn’t materialise last season when he warranted one on performance. He doesn’t like anything. He’s made his mind up. His talk is a mixture of Suarez and Gerrard’s quotes before and after they said they were going/not going, then went. I think his party have stalled on the contract as much as the club. We offered it him when we were shit.
All this at the start of the show about Sturridge too. I’m sick of it all. A lot of people have said to me these injuries are in Sturridge’s head. I swore blind that was ridiculous but now I don’t think it is. What annoys me though is the leaks from the club. It’s no coincidence. I’m starting to think the club are becoming like Blair and Campbell. Just makes me see them all as snakes. It’s completely unnecessary.
It seems daft to make assumptions based on an hunch you’ve got but I’m gonna anyway. If Sterling goes it really tells players that we’re still firmly in that second tier so don’t go there. We’ll never get out of this rut. This is why the go out and buy a £40m striker doesn’t work. They won’t come to us. By hook or by crook we found that out last season. We can lose world class players but we can’t buy them. Where does that leave us? I just hope all the fans are happy when Sterlings winning the league for City and we’re mid table. I hope they all sleep sound at night safe in the knowledge that we didn’t give in to greed. Right on lads! Wouldn’t friggin mind but I bet none of them are getting involved in the ticket prices campaign. Something which could actually affect their pockets. Who gives a flying fuck whether Sterlings on £100k or £150k. It’s just electronic numbers, nothing else. That 0 instead of a 5 means fuck all to my life. I stand by my belief that Sterling wants success and where he can get it will influence his decision more than money but the fans have still said he’s not worth it. I just don’t get why you’d put an irrelevant figure before keeping one of your best players.
Sterling said he knows what he wants and where he wants to be in that puff piece “interview”. I guess that means he wants to go home to London.
I’m surprised Rob (based on your comment, not heard what he has to say in depth), doesn’t see through the bullshit Sterling’s camp are trying to pull here. It clearly exposes him in a far worse light than if his shut his mouth, unless he was trying to draw real interest from other clubs with a please-come-and-get-me signal.
It’s interesting the majority of fans never warmed to him, despite his level for his age.
I’ll add that Sterling also thinks he’s the second Messi. He’s done nothing to warrant £150,000 a week, he’s not at that level, may never reach it either. Once he’s on that at LFC, Coutinho has a case to match it, Sturridge will demand more than both, and so it goes on and we’re back to the mad wages of Rafa’s era. No thanks. I’ll take a stable club over one that flirts with doing a Leeds. Perhaps you need to “support” one of the oil clubs, if that bothers you.
The thing is Paul, this isn’t about mad wages. I’ve bought into FSG’s policy because at least they have some direction. But, when a player deserves the mad wage then I think he should get it, like Suarez did (even if there was more to it than met the eye). Sturridge is on the same wage as Sterling wants. I’d have no problem with Coutinho getting a decent wage too. The reason I’m happy to accept Being Liverpool and the like is because I thought the idea was to raise revenue so that if we have good players we can afford to pay them their worth. It applies at both ends of the spectrum. The difference between 100k and 150k is only about £2.5m a year. Sterling is one of our most important players. Maybe him and Coutinho are our top 2 most important now. I just don’t know what you hope to achieve by selling our best players over principle. If Lallana, say, decides he wants 150k then he gets fucked off because he’s not worth it. Sterling is for several reasons. He’s vital to our future.