GARETH ROBERTS was joined for this weeks ‘Back Page’ by regulars John Gibbons, Rob Gutmann and Ian Salmon as well as debutant Glenn Price as they scan through the week’s papers.
High on the agenda is the fallout from Ian Ayre’s comments in Ireland earlier in the week at a ‘web summit’.
Also batted about is the Steven Gerrard back to Liverpool story, is it all that it seems?
The transfer commitee became a problem because they have missed out on loads of players and ended up with players that the manager could not fit in the team
Everyone was happy when they signed Coutinho and Studge in the winter having sold Andy Carroll in the summer (prior to not getting any replacement and leaving John Henry to apologise for employing a team of morons), but apart from that they have missed all the targets in the two following winter transfer windows (arguably costing us the league) and they could not find any replacement for Suarez and somehow went from Sanchez to Remy.
The reason Ayre should keep apologising is because that commitee is a bit crap
The committee’s irrelevant now we’ve got a strong manager in place.
Those Sterling quotes are a couple or weeks old. I remember reading them at the time like. Great show again lads. Had me in stitches in places.
Here´s a link to the full audio from the Ayre interview if anyone´s arsed…. http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/second-captains
(about forty minutes into the “Democratic Chelsea…Podcast)
I think you’re all a bit guilty of confirmation bias re the Gerrard story. The manager was quite clear and unless I’m very much mistaken (which I could well be) it sounds to me as though Si’s been played a couple of times recently: its the nature of the beast and Gerrard’s camp have always been adept at setting the agenda. I’m more surprised at the TAW committee (that’s a joke btw) tbh. Are you not tired by the psychodrama that has been the supporters, the club and Steven Gerrard for the last few years? Didn’t we do the ‘impact sub’ argument to death last season? Wasn’t Klopp absolutely clear about his playing (‘Do you think he should be playing?’). Have you all forgotten about the book? Isn’t whining about pitches and travelling time and pitches a bit pathetic and entitled i.e. straight out of the SG playbook?
I could be talking shite, of course, but I’d expect a more critical approach.The real story about modern media is how quickly we forget.
Fully agree with this Paul, its like a mental block with SG. Everyone watching him in the MLS have said he’s been poor ( I havent seen him myself) yet he apparently could do a job for us even though he couldnt last year??. No, we need space from SG and the stuff that surrounds him.
Agreed. From what I can gather Galaxy fans have been unimpressed: first season in four or five that they haven’t made the playoffs. They’re having the same arguments (pace, team shape) that we were having last season.
The only thing I would say is that Klopp, unlike Brendan, is big enough and confident to deal with any outcome.
Absolutely, You feel Jurgen will have no truck with sentimental issues or whatever is going on.
I do understand the lads don’t want to say that maybe Si has been played a little in regards to the scope of SG’s ‘comeback’ and maybe, yes, it will be something bigger. However I will take issue with Si’s assertations on the TAW special that SG should get a top job in the Academy. A world class player does not make a coach nor a seer of visionary proportions. This immediate thing of giving SG a job worthy of his status as club legend would I suspect gall a lot of the professional coaches working at LFC and again do we want what could possibly be cliques forming behind the scenes with there being 2 powers in different areas. Thats all my own supposition but I disagree with all the panel, if your asking me do I want SG back at the club, i’d say No, not yet. maybe in 5 years or so.
Indeed. The Bayern model may be great, but its not based on sentiment. Ex-players need the skillset to do the job, let’s call it Shearer’s ghost…