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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #440 on: January 15, 2009, 11:45:03 pm »
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #441 on: January 15, 2009, 11:50:00 pm »
Once he led us down the garden path and jumped ship for Madrid, lost all faith in the creep. Today as a pundit, what a jumped up twat.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #442 on: January 16, 2009, 12:15:32 am »
Once he led us down the garden path and jumped ship for Madrid, lost all faith in the creep. Today as a pundit, what a jumped up twat.

Wasn't clear as jumping ship. We tried to sell him behind his back in the previous summer
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #443 on: January 16, 2009, 12:15:59 am »
He did play in the Madrid team that beat ManU at Old Trafford...just before the Galacticos era, when Utd were hot favourites to go thru, so you( whoever you are) got to admit the Pool connection added to the pleasure of that occasion...At least we got something in return for leaving on a free.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #444 on: January 16, 2009, 03:30:18 am »
Over-rated.

Would have been a great player if he didn't constantly dribble past 3 players only to run straight into the next with that stuttering left right left right body shake.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #445 on: January 16, 2009, 03:55:35 am »
Was a good player ... but is an arrogant git. Doesn't seem to have the loyalty or passion to us that you can tell Alan Hansen has (he's never been that harsh on us) ... more on the Mark Lawrence tit'ness side.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #446 on: January 16, 2009, 04:02:19 am »
Ohh the thoughts of it , if only Babel could turn out so good . I guess we can hope!!

Wasn't clear as jumping ship. We tried to sell him behind his back in the previous summer

Macca was one of my favourite players during the 90s. He did provide good football and was one of the best wingers. If only there was a similar player like him in our current team.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #447 on: January 16, 2009, 07:45:40 am »
A good word to sum him up would be "twat"
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #448 on: January 16, 2009, 07:50:05 am »

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #449 on: January 16, 2009, 08:00:12 am »
He's a mongrel twat.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #450 on: January 16, 2009, 09:05:07 am »
Enjoyed watching him play for us

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #451 on: January 16, 2009, 09:17:34 am »
Good player for us but not a legend imo. That status is reserved for League/CL winners in my book
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #452 on: January 16, 2009, 09:25:56 am »
Great Player for us, but bitter to the core.

The guy is a bluenose and really makes no effort to hide the fact. Gobshite
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #453 on: January 16, 2009, 09:29:00 am »
Great Player for us, but bitter to the core.

The guy is a bluenose and really makes no effort to hide the fact. Gobshite

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #454 on: January 16, 2009, 09:37:10 am »
Good player for us but not a legend imo. That status is reserved for League/CL winners in my book
So Djimi Traore is a legend along with Vlad and Biscuit?

Not legends by any stretch of the imagination.

Macca was a good player for us. The team at the time was built around him and he did have great abilitie with the ball at his feet (i remember him playing against West ham on an opening day of the season and he was running down the left touch line doing keepie uppies while running past players. Never seen anything like it in my life). Couldn't shoot for shit until the season he got made captain and then started scoring some brilliant goals (Arsenal away in the Colmans mustard kit springs to mind)

As a pundit he's fucking horrific. Redknapp seems to have sorted himself out abit since he dropped his "liverpool will never win the league under rafa" clanger. But Macca is still a whopper
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #455 on: January 16, 2009, 10:03:00 am »
Smarmy Twat/c*nt who took the piss out of us,typified the Spice boys tag under Evans,wouldn't trust the Prick as far as i could throw him.
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #456 on: January 16, 2009, 10:03:58 am »
Thing about mcmanaman  is yes on his day a real good player but only on his day sometimes not involved  .

But he shafted the fans and the club big time and for me will never be forgiven for this similar to the welshman owen .

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #457 on: January 16, 2009, 10:13:00 am »
One of my favourite players at the time, have great memories of him playing for us. To me, he actually always comes accross as an amiable fellow whenever I've seen him interviewed too.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #458 on: January 16, 2009, 10:13:02 am »
Dont be so naive mate to think that all that shit was simply down to Macca. Liverpool FC were just as guilty.

I thought he was a terrific player. Not a legend but a fantastic player.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #459 on: January 16, 2009, 10:17:05 am »
shithouse who along with his other mates cost us big time
they all had the ability and threw it away time and time again,attidude was wrong
the same goes for fowler,but hes got more saving graces

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #460 on: January 16, 2009, 10:22:39 am »
shithouse who along with his other mates cost us big time
they all had the ability and threw it away time and time again,attidude was wrong
the same goes for fowler,but hes got more saving graces

team of shithouse c*nts

Houllier wanted him out Fowler didn't want to go. I don't think you can put Fowler in that Category. Owen, yes Definately. Owen really got what he deserved as well.
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #461 on: January 16, 2009, 10:26:17 am »
Along with Fowler, he was our best player in the 1990s. Yes he was infuriating at times but he was a good player if not attaining legend status.

our perceptions of him will forever be clouded by the manner of his departure which the club must also be blamed for.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #462 on: January 16, 2009, 10:41:45 am »
its not his departure it was shite attidude with mcmanaman before houllier, he was just as bad.
but he can do no wrong in the eyes of some, i love the lad as a player, and for many things off the pitch but the attidude of our star players when it came down to it was awful
nobody can tell me we didnt have a better team than manchester united at the end of the 90s because we were just as good as they were, but they wanted it more

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #463 on: January 16, 2009, 10:43:27 am »
Agree with that..but i thought he was a terrific rather than a good player for us. Infuriating at times but always wanted the ball. Compare him to some of the shite we have had on the flanks since and you realise just how good he was.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #464 on: January 16, 2009, 11:24:19 am »
shithouse who along with his other mates cost us big time
they all had the ability and threw it away time and time again,attidude was wrong
the same goes for fowler,but hes got more saving graces

team of shithouse c*nts

No doubting that McManaman was a good/great player. No doubting either that he was one of the shining lights towards the end of the 90's. I think some people (could be supporters of a younger generation) are taking this to mean he was a great player that doesn't deserve the criticism that coming his way.

My opinion is that he didn't make the most of his talents. Worse than that though I always thought he contributed to the downfall of other players in our mid 90's team. He always came over as one of the ringleaders of the 'Spice boys' in the mid-90's. The main problem for our team back then was not talent, it was bad attitude and a lack of off-field discipline.  I always thought he played a part in this (plus what rumours I heard at the time). His arrogance as a pundit and how he obviously still supports Everton despite spending the majority of the time playing for us, do nothing to dispel my opinion that he didn't care about the club and played a role in our lack of success when he was here.
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #465 on: January 16, 2009, 11:25:53 am »
'Only one's number 7' and that's Steve McManaman.
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #466 on: January 16, 2009, 11:42:55 am »
Great player.

Arrogant money grabbing c*nt of a man.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #467 on: January 16, 2009, 11:46:13 am »
He'd turn in two good games out of every ten - tops.  Compare that with Digger 1987 to 1990 when he was a constant menace.  McManaman was good in the 1992 FA Cup Final, and excelled in the 1995 League Cup Final, but let's face it these were against Sunderland and Bolton.  Also without doubt the worst LFC player I have ever seen for shirking a challenge - a thoroughbred shithouse.


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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #468 on: January 16, 2009, 11:49:12 am »
'Only one's number 7' and that's Steve McManaman.
LEGEND.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #469 on: January 16, 2009, 11:50:16 am »
I have to say, as much as I hate the c*nt, he's exactly the sort of player we are currently missing.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #470 on: January 16, 2009, 12:27:44 pm »
Good player for us but not a legend imo. That status is reserved for League/CL winners in my book

Like Robbie Fowler, you mean?

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #471 on: January 16, 2009, 12:36:33 pm »
He'd turn in two good games out of every ten - tops.  Compare that with Digger 1987 to 1990 when he was a constant menace.  McManaman was good in the 1992 FA Cup Final, and excelled in the 1995 League Cup Final, but let's face it these were against Sunderland and Bolton.  Also without doubt the worst LFC player I have ever seen for shirking a challenge - a thoroughbred shithouse.


what a crock of shit.  from 94-98, mcmanaman and fowler were by far our best and most consistent players.
his energy levels on the field were a different league to every other player in the premiership.  he was that good that the general theory around the prem was 'stop mcmanaman, stop liverpool' hence every fucker tried to man mark him.
his performance levels dropped in his last year here, i thought some of that was down to injuries he was picking up, though the more cynical round here thought it was because is head was already at barca or real.
you only have to look back at the season review videos from 94-98 and everything that we did ran through mcmanaman, he was the spark behind the majority of our creation.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #472 on: January 16, 2009, 12:58:32 pm »
What, like Kenny Dalglish? Or John Barnes? Frankly, "legends" should have won more than 1 League Cup while at Liverpool.

I profoundly disagree with that. Is Billy Liddell's contribution lessened because he was in the second division for us as well? Not his fault he played with a shite defence and Ojvind Leonhardsen.

McManaman was a fantastic player for us and he would walk into the current side. Fans were upset over him leaving on a bosman, but in retrospect I don't think it was fair. It was upsetting as we haven't seen many bosmans prior to that and most hadn't really adjusted to the new situation, but it's not like we haven't benefited from it since then either and I certainly hold no grudges against Babbel for wanting to play abroad after many years of service to his first club.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #473 on: January 16, 2009, 01:08:09 pm »
Spot on

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #474 on: January 16, 2009, 01:22:31 pm »
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Over-rated.

Would have been a great player if he didn't constantly dribble past 3 players only to run straight into the next with that stuttering left right left right body shake.

lol akin to the Mark "slippy" Walters cross over looks down and shit wheres the ball gone......
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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #475 on: January 16, 2009, 01:33:22 pm »
Smarmy Twat/c*nt who took the piss out of us,typified the Spice boys tag under Evans,wouldn't trust the Prick as far as i could throw him.
Not so long ago backed the Yanks, and said they've been good for Liverpool.................Prick

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #476 on: January 16, 2009, 01:35:47 pm »

what a crock of shit.  from 94-98, mcmanaman and fowler were by far our best and most consistent players.
his energy levels on the field were a different league to every other player in the Premier League.  he was that good that the general theory around the prem was 'stop mcmanaman, stop liverpool' hence every fucker tried to man mark him.
his performance levels dropped in his last year here, i thought some of that was down to injuries he was picking up, though the more cynical round here thought it was because is head was already at barca or real.
you only have to look back at the season review videos from 94-98 and everything that we did ran through mcmanaman, he was the spark behind the majority of our creation.

he had some good games but he's not fit to tie diggers boot laces i'm afraid.

flashes of brilliance undermined by consistent inconsistency - pretty much the hallmark of our team under roy evans.

whatever he did as a player though is definitely undermined by his carping since and pro-septic comments just aren't acceptable for me.



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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #477 on: January 16, 2009, 01:51:17 pm »
I went to Paris to watch the 96-97 semi final against PSG..McManaman was possibly the only player apart form Rush and Barnes were wasnt on his mobile phone whilst checking out the stadium before kick off. Redknapp, Fowler, Collymore, McAteer and that twat Ruddock were all chirping away on their mobiles.

That performance still rankles me and is possibly the most shameful performance i have ever seen from a Liverpool side.

The 94-96 Steve McManaman would absolutely stroll into our side now.




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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #478 on: January 16, 2009, 03:34:43 pm »

you only have to look back at the season review videos from 94-98 and everything that we did ran through mcmanaman, he was the spark behind the majority of our creation.

I won't bother if you don't mind mate since I was at the majority of those games, in person, for 90 mins.  Maybe you were as well, I don't know - but your recollections are a million miles away from mine.

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Re: Steve McManaman - Legend or big time charlie????????
« Reply #479 on: January 16, 2009, 04:08:14 pm »
As a player he was fucking fantastic for a good few seasons, he was the Steven Gerrard in Roy Evans side, he could and often would pick up the ball in his own half a dribble the length of the pitch without much support.
Sometimes his final ball would let him down but a very very good player.

As a person he comes across a bit of a twat.

They way he left stinks but Micheal Owen left in similar circumstances (not the same) and most fans would have welcomed him back with open arms.

What he did on the picth heavily outweighs what he did off it for me, although he does think a bit too much of himself.

I'd agree with that!

He annoys me on Setanta, but he was brilliant for us. We needed more like him!