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If he moves to one of the top four he is miles more likely to play in the CL and regularly win stuff.
Firstly I am ignoring your hurtful comment on Spurs 😐 but I would agree Liverpool are not top 4 club as it stands (neither are Spurs)
Secondly, where I would disagree with you is that Sterling isn't going to play in the CL if he goes to one of Man U / Man City / Arsenal / Chelsea. He's going to be a backup PL player and play in the domestic cups. He needs a reality check as right now he's a talented kid and in any respect has had a poor season versus Harry Kane who would be the obvious benchmark.
i cant see how its for football reasons, especially when liverpool came within 2 points of clinching the title last season. this season they were in the CL and went on 2 good cup runs...
I can – last year was a perfect storm for Liverpool – 2 strikers on fire (1 now gone and 1 back to being injured a lot), no European commitments to knacker the squad out and when you got the CL against Madrid you sent out a team of virtual reserves. That’s the night Liverpool died as a big club – here you are in your biggest game in a long time to show Europe you’re still relevant and you threw in the towel before you started.
What a way to repay the players that had put all the effort in to get there in the first place.
That and Liverpool have bought a load of dross and just lost their “biggest” player as he is off in a strop because he is no longer first choice and he can’t adapt his game. The future for Pool is kinda bleak at the mo unless the easing of FFP allows FSG to pump some money in but…
City – just re-negotiating the sponsorship deal from £40M a year to ~£80M and will find other ways to get savage cash pumping into the club I’m sure (They need to, a lot of older players and not compliant with homegrown quota).
Chelsea – Breaking even after 1billion “loan”, team needs an additional striker. They have been cruising for the last 3 months (although v lucky with very few injuries this season).
Arsenal – Now have the cash spare to afford £50M signings every season.
ManU – Chevrolet & Adidas sponsorhip coming on-steam this year – what’s that?an additional £60M a year on top of their other commercial stuff. Looking to have had a blip year out from being in the top 4.
Which team is Liverpool going to be knocking out of the top 4?
edit to sat: curses too long typing.
If you disagree with this please tell me which of the current top four Liverpool are likely to replace any time soon?
2 words for you....Danny Ings(!) 😯
when you got the CL against Madrid you sent out a team of virtual reserves. That’s the night Liverpool died as a big club – here you are in your biggest game in a long time to show Europe you’re still relevant and you threw in the towel before you started.
Liverpool have bought a load of dross
this is why Brendan the Bodger and Ian Ayres need to follow Sterling out the door too
I'd query if to a degree he has been found out, due to his lack of effectiveness this year. Looking at a lot of his goals for that matter, they were essentially just Stirling with a lot of pace against high defensive lines. Teams can combat this and set up differently.
Ultimately to my mind this has all the hallmarks of an agent wanting more cash for himself and doesn't care whether his client gets to play football.
Please keep the Bodgers Dossier and the commitee .. looking forward to the splash n dash approach once they receive the cash from sterling.
Look at it another way. Liverpool got in to the top four last season on the back of Manchester United having a shocker (which was hilarious), Spurs doing a Spurs, and having a front two in the form of their life.
no they didn't, they got there through merit, not on other teams failings,
Look at it another way. Liverpool got in to the top four last season on the back of [s]Manchester United having a shocker (which was hilarious), Spurs doing a Spurs, and [/s]having a front two in the form of their life.
To be fair, they did also finish above Chelsea and Arsenal.
What it's increasingly looking like is that Rodgers didn't do that good a job last season and that "anybody" could have managed a side with Suarez and Sturridge playing as well as they were. Combined with Gerrard playing very well in the defensive midfield (slips and trips aside 🙂 ) role and the creativity of Coutinho...well, I dunno, maybe any old eejit could have done it.
Sterling looked good while defences were being bamboozled by SAS. Their off the ball running created so much space between midfield and attack for Sterling and Coutinho, but it's looking like while Coutinho still has the ability to change a game, Sterling doesn't - he's been poor against sides pressing him. Gets ball. Does a little run. Stops. Messes the move up. And if he wants to **** off, then there's no point in keeping him.
Certainly looks like we're back to normal top four next season. It looked last year like the battle for top four would be more interesting for a few years, but Liverpool are back in the 5th to 7th/8th place group for now.