Some might say he'd repaid years of support and encouragement by playing a major part in winning the Premier League twice (including their first one in 30 years) and the Champions League.
Extend by a year. There’s a huge difference between a transfer fee with 6 months left as opposed to 18 months.
Yeah, but why? He'd just be screwing his soon to be employers (and himself) to benefit the Liverpool owners. I can get the annoyance if he'd signed an extension with the higher wage and then tried to get out of it, but what's the problem with signing up for X years and seeing out the X years?
This. TAA has played a major part in Liverpool‘s success, he has done his job there and then some. Liverpool fans should be celebrating their title win not indulging in petty spats with a great club servant. Really classless.
I’d refer both these points back to the answer I gave HWT. If I was a dyed in the wool Scouse Liverpool fan from one of the areas near the ground I’d see TAA as not repaying loyalty shown him by the club and getting above himself. It’s about community and giving something back to the football club that took you out of poverty. A fee, these days, helps their PSR position. He’s punished the club that made him.
Punished them? Oh poooor Liverpool winners of the league and throwing 350k a week at Salah. Bloody hell.
Two titles and a champions league I think he has given the club and the fans plenty. The booing today detracts from the team‘s achievement. The season isn’t over yet and their fans are grizzling when they should be living it up, each to their own and all that but just seems weird to me.
But that’s an isolationist position. Their competitors are all paying the max they can under PSR, which is more than us, because we’re not really competing with them.
OK, I'll reply to that.
I can't imagine many of those working class blokes from Anfield would have much problem with being paid millions of pounds to do their job, see out the contract they signed up to, and then moving to Madrid for significantly more money.
These people, clearly, are berks.
While I generally agree and take your point, there's definitely enough money in football to keep ticket prices lower. Particularly for a club like Liverpool, the ticket cost isn't really relevant.
I think the supporters are especially titsy about him going to RM. Apparently, they have form for flirting with a player and avoiding transfer fees by persuading them not to extend contracts.
Matters not if he was not going sign for anyone else.
I'm not sure that the reasons for not buying the Sun are in any way related to the reasons why any right minded person doesn't like Real Madrid.
If anyone regrets his career choices out of that triumvirate I suspect it's Gerrard, with a big league title shaped hole in his trophy cabinet.
Fair points.
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Except he has been subject of dogs abuse when struggling for form and fitness over the last couple of years
But is this the case? I thought it had been reported that the contract offers had been late in the day and pretty paltry compared to what was available elsewhere.
Quite he signed a contract, gave his all and did well for them, didn’t want to sign on for longer for whatever reason, I don’t see the problem unless you are the fan of a club who thinks they have some divine right to keep you until your sell by date. They’d bin him soon enough if they thought he was past it. He has done absolutely nothing to deserve being booed imo
