Gerrard would have stayed as squad player if offered coaching role

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Rodgieshit's man-management skills? Gerrard you sexy WUM. I can't wait for Agger's or Illory's books. I will definitely buy Sakho's.

Do Amazon deliver to Mogadishu?

[Nightcat]

I'll ask my cousin from Leith to send them.

[stringvest]

Didn't miss a beat there, snakehips

[Longview1982]

Gerrard is in the reckoning when ever a discussion happens about the best player to ever pull on the red shirt.

 

However, pretty much every snippet of his book is making him come across as a bit of a needy whopper.

 

Particularly the Benitez parts. Whether you like Rafa or not, that's who he was. Cold. Professional. Focused to the extent of it being obsessive. Vital goals scored - no display of emotion, just a scribble in his notebook. Sitting like a Buddha during a Champions League penalty shoot out.

 

It's a wholly unsavoury affair, from which nobody comes out with any credit. Gerrard is sullying his reputation with this petty stuff. It's almost as cringeworthy as when everybody found out that he likes Phil Collins.

 

Similarly, whether you like Gerrard or not, that's who he is - introspective and insecure. Footballer in human flaws shocker!

 

I don't see how people are bothered by what he says. All he's saying in effect is what I imagine 90% of footballers think about their managers - we'll never be bezzies but we both acted professionally. And he's thrown in a few, "I didn't agree with the manager's decision" bits for good measure. Again - where's is the problem with that?

 

I don't understand how it would sully his reputation at all. 

[Tony Moanero]

Football autobiographies are shite. I haven't read one in years and have no intention of ever doing so again.

 

Steven Gerrard AND Rafa Benitez were ace for Liverpool Football Club. That is all that matters, as far as I concerned. I have no intetest in stuff that's best kept behind closed doors.

[Denny Crane]

I can't see a NSFW tag but it's Diouf trolling.

 

El-Hadji Diouf responds to Gerrard criticism “It’s common knowledge. Gerrard has never liked black people."

 

Diouf, known to be a controversial character, seemingly did not like what Steven Gerrard had to say about him and took to Radio Future Media in Senegal, relayed by Le10 Sport, to voice his opinion on the Liverpool legend.

 

He said: “We all saw how he made life difficult for Mario Balotelli at Liverpool. I warned him. Liverpool isn’t a team that accepts black people unless they are English.

 

“It’s common knowledge. Gerrard has never liked black people. When I was at Liverpool, I showed him I was black, that I wasn’t English, but that I'm no pushover. All the time I was there, he never dared looked me in the eye.”

 

While neither player play for Liverpool anymore, the Premier League club will want to avoid being embroiled in another racism controversy.

 

LFC http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/former-liverpool-player-accuses-gerrard-of-being-a-racist …

 

Tom Coast

[Tony Moanero]

El Hadji Cunt.

[Denny Crane]

How did he show Gerrard he was black?

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Similarly, whether you like Gerrard or not, that's who he is - introspective and insecure. Footballer in human flaws shocker!

 

I don't see how people are bothered by what he says. All he's saying in effect is what I imagine 90% of footballers think about their managers - we'll never be bezzies but we both acted professionally. And he's thrown in a few, "I didn't agree with the manager's decision" bits for good measure. Again - where's is the problem with that?

 

I don't understand how it would sully his reputation at all.

We'll agree to disagree. It's bordering on much ado about nothing, but I just think Gerrard is coming across as a bit petty and like a bit of a gobshite.

[Dr Nowt]

Rafa's right there; just has a book to sell.  Legend of a man, one of our greatest players ever, but this book just sounds like a load of re-heated slop from the snippets released thus far, as so many of them are.  What is it, volume 4 or something?  This one's the definitive account though.

 

The "I would have stayed if..." bit just sounded like a sensational hook to hang it on I'm afraid, and the stuff about Rafa only needed to be written down for those who like books with pictures in.

 

No, you two didn't get on as people?  £20 well spent, that.

 

Badly-timed and best left alone. 

[KMD7]

Rafa's right there; just has a book to sell.  Legend of a man, one of our greatest players ever, but this book just sounds like a load of re-heated slop from the snippets released thus far, as so many of them are.  What is it, volume 4 or something?  This one's the definitive account though.

 

The "I would have stayed if..." bit just sounded like a sensational hook to hang it on I'm afraid, and the stuff about Rafa only needed to be written down for those who like books with pictures in.

 

No, you two didn't get on as people?  £20 well spent, that.

 

Badly-timed and best left alone. 

 

This. 

[johnsusername]

Diouf is a total shithead.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

How did he show Gerrard he was black?

 

He must have showed him his superior dance moves

[chris71]

He must have showed him his superior dance moves

Racist.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

El Hadjali G.

[Section_31]

Rafa does have an autistic quality to him, didn't he famously used to ask every visitor to his childhood home if they wanted to play a game of stratego?

[El Rojo]

Football autobiographies are shite. I haven't read one in years and have no intention of ever doing so again.

 

Steven Gerrard AND Rafa Benitez were ace for Liverpool Football Club. That is all that matters, as far as I concerned. I have no intetest in stuff that's best kept behind closed doors.

 

Yep. For a long period they worked fantastically together. Stevie would do well to remember that he was very near to lifting two European Cups in Rafa's first three seasons with us.

 

They should get together, spark up a fat one, hug it out and remember the good times.

 

And in his next few books, he should stop referring to 'Sir Alex Ferguson'.

[ritchie]

Similarly, whether you like Gerrard or not, that's who he is - introspective and insecure. Footballer in human flaws shocker!

 

 

If he needed a social worker rather than a football manager than that's not Rafa's fault though. Rafa's job was to get the best out of Steven Gerrard as a footballer and he did that better than anyone else. 

 

Bob Paisley was very cold (just ask David Fairclough) but he was a brilliant football manager. To be fair Gerrard acknowledges his ability, but the whole needing an arm around the shoulder business is all very childish. He needed to man up a bit. 

[BCM]

Why is he writing another book. He surely does'nt need any more money. All a bit sad really

[Section_31]

"Needless to say, I had the last pass".

[Marko121]

"Needless to say, I had the last pass".

Buckaroo

[El Rojo]

I think he's misjudged a lot of his potential readership on this one.

 

Pretty clear that senior players and some journalists intensely disliked Benitez by the time he left, but many of us - though not all - still have a lot of time for the guy for various reasons.

[Dr Nowt]

Buckaroo

Don't be blue, Peter.

[Trumo]

Just read Diouf's response to Gerrard's claim about him being a waster. Among the many daft claims, he says that Gerrard's resentment of him was down to jealousy over what Diouf had won. Diouf had won fuck all before he joined Liverpool, and left with a solitary League Cup winners medal. Unless driving around in a chrome-finished Merc or whatever it was counts as 'winning'.

[Tony Moanero]

Just read El Hadji Cuntchops response to Gerrard's claim about him being a waster. Among the many daft claims, he says that Gerrard's resentment of him was down to jealousy over what El Hadji Cuntchops had won. El Hadji Cuntchops had won fuck all before he joined Liverpool, and left with a solitary League Cup winners medal. Unless driving around in a chrome-finished Merc or whatever it was counts as 'winning'.

.