Topic: Steven Gerrard

[Red Beret]

I guess they wanted a big name to promote their "brand", even though as a manager SG is unproven at best.

[Sheer Magnetism]

Another former Liverpool player legend who will be remembered for that, and that alone now. He's done well to slip behind Graeme Souness this month in the credibility stakes.

I wouldn't go that far but it is deeply disapointing. It's not as if he doesn't already have shedloads of money. He'd have a good deal more than Wilfred Zaha, who isn't taking the sportswashing coin.

[Dim Glas]

I was banned for criticism of Trent's defensive abilities. Fair's fair...

so you don’t like people calling out a former player for his greedy choices in becoming a sportswasher, but you are absolutely fine with slagging off current players like Trent and Curtis 

I mean, come on now!

[Black Bull Nova]

I wouldn't go that far but it is deeply disapointing. It's not as if he doesn't already have shedloads of money. He'd have a good deal more than Wilfred Zaha, who isn't taking the sportswashing coin.

What I meant to say was that it was possible he could have been our manager had he done well at Villa, more likely a club ambassador. I think those two possibilities are unlikely in the foreseeable future now. He will always be remembered as a great player (as was Souness)

[disgraced cake]

Here's my take on it. It'll never take on as a desirable league other than these next 5 years or so where they sink billions into it. Gerrard will be a miniscule part of all this, and he's that young as a person that it'll all be relatively forgotten that he ever went there. It's still disappointing like, I really think for his ambitions to manage at the highest level he can that he should still be building something at Rangers. One wrong decision after another one.

[24/7]

I was banned for criticism of Trent's defensive abilities. Fair's fair...

No you weren't. You were given a 50% warning for it. Which was then upgraded for calling Keita, and I quote, an "absolute parasite". Both instances, like the vaaaaaast majority of your one-liners since joining, add little value to a debate and it's little wonder you have that custom title. Wind yer neck in. Fair's fair, after all...

And thanks for the reports - we'll take whatever action we feel is appropriate and/or justified. You won't always see what that is.

[Draex]

Must have put paid to any chance of managing us one day.

I don't get it, how much money does one person need, especially when the source is a dirty sportswashing country.

[thejbs]

Here's my take on it. It'll never take on as a desirable league other than these next 5 years or so where they sink billions into it. Gerrard will be a miniscule part of all this, and he's that young as a person that it'll all be relatively forgotten that he ever went there. It's still disappointing like, I really think for his ambitions to manage at the highest level he can that he should still be building something at Rangers. One wrong decision after another one.

I wouldn’t say he’s a minuscule part of it at all. A world class player and household name throughout the world, buying into the Saudi sportswash project. For his wages he’ll play along with the pr project and extol the virtues of KSA while ignoring human rights abuses.

[24/7]

I wouldn’t say he’s a minuscule part of it at all. A world class player and household name throughout the world, buying into the Saudi sportswash project. For his wages he’ll play along with the pr project and extol the virtues of KSA while ignoring human rights abuses.

As the saying goes, "You've gotta be in it to be complicit..."

[stoa]

I wouldn't go that far but it is deeply disapointing. It's not as if he doesn't already have shedloads of money. He'd have a good deal more than Wilfred Zaha, who isn't taking the sportswashing coin.

To be fair, according to the article posted earlier, he's hoping that he'll end up at PSG. So, it's not as if he has decided to say no to the Saudis to go to play for Exeter. He seems pretty okay with taking sportswasher's money, but is looking for a more convenient way to do it by staying in Europe.

[Terry de Niro]

Must have put paid to any chance of managing us one day.

I don't get it, how much money does one person need, especially when the source is a dirty sportswashing country.

I have never bought into the idea of him ever managing us.
Great player for us and a lot of the time almost carried us on his own, but he hasn't proved himself to be a TOP class manager at a TOP class club.

As for him taking the blood-stained money, I am very surprised that he's done it, to be honest.

[Geezer08]

Here's my take on it. It'll never take on as a desirable league other than these next 5 years or so where they sink billions into it. Gerrard will be a miniscule part of all this, and he's that young as a person that it'll all be relatively forgotten that he ever went there. It's still disappointing like, I really think for his ambitions to manage at the highest level he can that he should still be building something at Rangers. One wrong decision after another one.

Besides taking the oil money and being another posterboy for the sportwashers, he is also communicating to the entire football world that his ambition as a manager is no longer there. He should have taken another project and build his reputation ala Xabi at Leverkusen

[SamLad]

none of this has been confirmed yet - correct?

[Samie]

Looks like Sadio Mane might be going to the same club as Stevie.

[Caligula?]

Yes, it's disappointing but people on here calling him a dickhead and saying it's a stain on his reputation when absolutely every single person on here would take their money as well. 

[Terry de Niro]

Yes, it's disappointing but people on here calling him a dickhead and saying it's a stain on his reputation when absolutely every single person on here would take their money as well. 

So you wouldn't mind us as a club being sportswashed?

[Chakan]

Yes, it's disappointing but people on here calling him a dickhead and saying it's a stain on his reputation when absolutely every single person on here would take their money as well. 

Just because you would take the money quite happily doesn't mean everyone else would.

[Samie]

Leaked pic, not official yet.

[SamLad]

Leaked pic, not official yet.

damn.

[jillcwhomever]

Grim, Steven very grim. 

[24/7]

Yes, it's disappointing but people on here calling him a dickhead and saying it's a stain on his reputation when absolutely every single person on here would take their money as well. 

I wouldn't. Not a chance. Principles......maybe you've heard of them......

[alonsoisared]

Another former Liverpool player legend who will be remembered for that, and that alone now. He's done well to slip behind Graeme Souness this month in the credibility stakes.

Remembered for that alone? Olympiakos, Istanbul, Cardiff, erased from your memory forever then. As fucking if.

I like Souness and he clearly regrets what he did but comparing this to talking to the s*n on the Hillsborough anniversary is borderline disgraceful.

[Hazell]

Not good this.

Looks like Sadio Mane might be going to the same club as Stevie.

Say it ain't so. I don't expect anything from footballers but still, it feels wrong when what little hope you have of some of ours rejecting their advances evaporates.

[jillcwhomever]

Yes, it's disappointing but people on here calling him a dickhead and saying it's a stain on his reputation when absolutely every single person on here would take their money as well. 

Absolute bollocks, not everyone in the world is obsessed by money.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

I wouldn't. Not a chance. Principles......maybe you've heard of them......

It's easy to say that in here.

[alonsoisared]

Not good this.

Say it ain't so. I don't expect anything from footballers but still, it feels wrong when what little hope you have of some of ours rejecting their advances evaporates.

Doesn't Mane send a massive percentage of his earnings to his hometown in Senegal? I'm sure the people there won't be too upset if he takes a massive contract for a year or two at the end of his career...

[Hazell]

Doesn't Mane send a massive percentage of his earnings to his hometown in Senegal? I'm sure the people there won't be too upset if he takes a massive contract for a year or two at the end of his career...

Yes he does and all true, fair point. Nothing is perfect.

[jillcwhomever]

It's easy to say that in here.

Er no, each to their own. There are plenty of people who live in the world following their own morals. No one has to say yes to anything, we all have choices.

[Chakan]

It's easy to say that in here.

Not really. But hey, if you think money is the be all and end all, then that's up to you.

[Red Beret]

I don't expect to like every player on a personal level for whatever reason, but it seems that LFC have a disproportionate amount of former players who turned out to be complete whoppers.

[Draex]

I have never bought into the idea of him ever managing us.
Great player for us and a lot of the time almost carried us on his own, but he hasn't proved himself to be a TOP class manager at a TOP class club.

As for him taking the blood-stained money, I am very surprised that he's done it, to be honest.

I agree and he may never have got there but he is young and he was doing well at Rangers, although I have read a lot of this was down to Beale and issues started at Villa when Beale moved on (how true that is I'll never know). He did however have time on his side to say go to Leicester in the Championship and get them promoted and see how we gets on.. Moving to a nothing league is what you expect of managers wanting their last pay day not anyone with aspirations.

Yeah sportswashing is where I'm done with football if they take over our club.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

Not really. But hey, if you think money is the be all and end all, then that's up to you.

I buy lottery tickets, so yeah, i won't pretend to be a saint. Sometimes i bet too.

[24/7]

It's easy to say that in here.

I'd say it anywhere, everywhere fella - and if you don't believe that then you don't know me - plenty here too - so spin on that.

Oh and I neither bet nor buy lottery tickets - nor gaslight people online whom I don't know. So spin on that too.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

Er no, each to their own. There are plenty of people who live in the world following their own morals. No one has to say yes to anything, we all have choices.

He's a manager who couldn't get a job in England, so he got one abroad. Let's be honest, it's not like he turned down many proper football clubs just to go there. He's average manager at best and he knows it, therefore he couldn't let go such a brilliant financial opportunity.

[Dim Glas]

I buy lottery tickets, so yeah, i won't pretend to be a saint. Sometimes i bet too.

If you where rich beyond your wildest dereams already, would you still go to do a job that you know if you have an ounce of intelligence, is an exercise in sportswashing?  Because that is what this is, nothing else.

Gerrard isn’t a very talented coach, but he is one of the most regonisable faces in football and one of the best midfielders that graced the game. They want him to wash their human rights abuses. So if anyone is reasoning with that because ‘who’d say no to that sort of money’ - I would hope they are saying it because they don’t know what is happening - and if that is the case - educate yourself.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

I'd say it anywhere, everywhere fella - and if you don't believe that then you don't know me - plenty here too - so spin on that.

Oh and I neither bet nor buy lottery tickets - nor gaslight people online whom I don't know. So spin on that too.

Good for you lad, good for you. I'm not like you though, I'd take 20 mil.

[jillcwhomever]

He's a manager who couldn't get a job in England, so he got one abroad. Let's be honest, it's not like he turned down many proper football clubs just to go there. He's average manager at best and he knows it, therefore he couldn't let go such a brilliant financial opportunity.

He could have taken his time and got a job in a lower division and get some more all round experience of football management. As for going abroad why go to Saudi when he could have tried getting a job in the States or somewhere in Europe?

[afc tukrish]

I don't expect to like every player on a personal level for whatever reason, but it seems that LFC have a disproportionate amount of former players who turned out to be complete whoppers.

Possibly you're more aware of our whoppers because they're ours, though...

[Henry Gale]

The fume 

Good luck on whatever you decide to do Stevie.

[Terry de Niro]

Good for you lad, good for you. I'm not like you though, I'd take 20 mil.

Would you also take a sportswasher to take over Liverpool Football Club?
If the answer is yes, then this is not the club for you.