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Benitez is in line for the Real job if ancelotti goes. Besides, I think we need to move on from him.

Yeah but someone saw it on the internet and so did someone else. Its how rumours get legs.

And a criminal statement if he's shit stirring. In all the pictures of our end, I cant see one (inflatable?) banana. And Im pretty sure we'd have heard a lot more about this allegation if it had any substance.

If we declare an interest, we'll offer him a ham sandwich and a few beers. Oh and 50k a week.

Rodgers is hinting that there are some divisions within the team here isnt he? This is what he had to say "Last season, when everything is working well and you have the support of everyone … but performances like today don’t help you and I’m fully aware of that." And "“There’s a number of key elements of the performance that didn’t surprise me, if I’m being honest......" So what the fuck is it? I remember an article in the press over the team picture at the beginning of the season. Everyone had a glum looking face so much that the press picked up on it.

Thought it was 710? And Id think he'd be pissed of at the way its all ended.

Today was a shocking result and a shocking lack of effort, professional pride and respect for the fans. I dont care how good or bad a manager is but if the players lack those attributes, you're on a hiding to nothing in the Premier League. And we were on a hiding. Im shocked at how quickly its gone tits up for Rodgers. He came in at a difficult time after the King was sacked. His first season he wanted the players to play his way and some of them wouldnt or couldnt do it. But last season was exceptional. To those who say it was all down to Suarez or those who say it wasnt the manager, they'll never be convinced about him. The truth is football is a team game, from the manager, players and yes, even the fans to some degree. I think he was as instrumental in the title charge last season as any one player. Without Suarez and Sturridge, this season was always going to be harder (it was going to be harder without Suarez never mind Sturridge as well) and its gone downhill since then. The balotelli signing hasnt helped. The sterling situation hasnt and, if truth be known, people inside the club would have known about his unsettling actions long before they became public. The last two games have been an utter shambles. I was and am happy for sterling not to have featured in the team today. But you have to ask why wasnt lambert on from the start? I wont call for rodgers to be sacked. Its not my style. And I wont give him dogs abuse either. Whether he survives this i dont know. Even if he does, will it have shades of moores when he decided not to sack souness after a season of utter shiteness and we just limp on until December when the owners decide enough is enough? The bottom line though, is who would come in? people who think we'd get ancelotti, benitez or klopp are, I think, mistaken. It would take a sea change in the owners MO to see one of them brought in. So, I suspect he'll be given until december. All very depressing as there's clearly another rebuilding job needed and another 3 years down the pipes.

You're don howe and I claim my £5 prize.

Just about nailed it there for me.

Thought we scraped into the europa?

Being on the bench he is dropped. Thankfully.

Yep, I think we've lost all interest in berahino now. Wouldnt be surprised if a few other clubs have as well.

Nailed it I reckon.

Milner is out of contract at the end of season so wont be part of any sterling deal. That said, Im thoroughly underwhelmed by the talk that we're after him. OK some people rate him but I was never impressed since his early days at leeds.

Or maybe football isnt quite so predictable after a once every so often shot?

Im pretty sure if the club gets an offer that matches their valuation, they'll do just that. Rodgers and the club saying he's not for sale is just for public consumption.

You chat shit. Two separate threads with a tennuous link. But you'd rather have 4 threads about rodgers, 3 threads about ayre etc, etc. Do you ever wonder why you're so fucking myopic?

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Good film, enjoyed it which is unusual for a remake \ re imaging. 8 out of 10.

There's no way he can play at stoke now. If the club is going to play hardball, playing him will show the opposite, wont it? Raheem Sterling tells Liverpool there is no way back as his relationship with the Reds reaches breaking pointRaheem Sterling reiterated his desire to leave Liverpool over the phone Anfield chief Ian Ayre told Sterling he would have to see out his contract 20-year-old had asked to leave Reds before Chelsea game this month Liverpool are prepared to put a £60million price tag on their player By Chris Wheeler for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:30, 23 May 2015 | Updated: 22:30, 23 May 2015 Raheem Sterling's relationship with Liverpool reached breaking point in the hours after the club called off crisis talks with their England star and his representatives on Thursday. The announcement led to a tense call from Sterling’s agent Aidy Ward to Anfield chief Ian Ayre. It was during the course of a frank exchange of views that the phone was handed to Sterling, who re-iterated his desire to leave Liverpool this summer. Ayre told Sterling that he would have to see out the remaining two years of his contract and the club’s stance remains that the 20-year-old will not be sold at any price. Privately, however, it is understood that Liverpool are prepared to put a £60million value on Sterling to test the resolve of Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal. It is not the first time the player has asked to leave Merseyside. Sterling conveyed the same message to manager Brendan Rodgers before the game at Chelsea two weeks ago. He had previously rejected the offer of a £100,000-a-week deal and made it quite clear that he has no interest in extending his contract. Ward underlined this point emphatically last week by claiming in an interview that his client would not sign a new deal even if he was offered ‘£900,000 a week’. Ayre subsequently emailed the agent to say it was pointless meeting if that was his view when the club had made it clear that they are refusing to sell. Ward’s comments have redrawn the battle lines between Liverpool and Sterling despite Rodgers’ best efforts to smooth things over ahead of Sunday’s final game of the season at Stoke. +13 Sterling takes on team-mate Javi Manquillo (right) during training on Friday It remains to be seen if he plays Sterling and risks exposing him to the wrath of the travelling Liverpool fans, having urged them not to turn against him. Rodgers said: ‘With Raheem, especially with him being such a young player, my duty will always be to protect, support and guide him. My message to the supporters would be: “This is a young boy who in my time as manager has given the club everything. He was thrust into the team at 17. He was given that opportunity and he grabbed it”.’ Behind the scenes, however, Liverpool are preparing for a fight. Insiders point to the way they dug their heels in when Arsenal tried to activate a £40m buyout clause in Luis Suarez’s deal two years ago, eventually selling him to Barcelona for £75m last summer. They are ready to be equally belligerent over Sterling, who has no such clause in his current £35,000-a-week deal at Anfield but privately accept that it will be difficult to keep an unhappy player long-term. Again, Liverpool would prefer to sell abroad rather than to a Premier League rival. They have been aware of strong interest from City for some time, while Chelsea and Arsenal are known to be monitoring the situation. Manchester United are also understood to have made discreet enquiries but were given short shrift. However, it is unlikely that foreign clubs would be ready to offer anything like the same figures, with City now emerging as favourites. As James Milner prepares to follow Frank Lampard out of the Etihad by joining Liverpool as a free agent next month, City may be left without any senior English outfield players and are desperate to increase their quota of homegrown talent. +13 Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers (left) has been insistent that Sterling will stay at the club +13 City manager Manuel Pellegrini will meet with chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak in the coming days and Sterling is expected to figure prominently in discussions over the club’s summer transfer targets. City’s bargaining position has been slightly weakened because players like Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic, who could have been offered in exchange as part of a deal for Sterling, are said to be of little interest to Liverpool. They would want a straight cash deal and have set the premium price of £60m — significantly higher than the fee previously mentioned of £45m — with the club’s American owners, Fenway Sports Group, in no mood to back down. Liverpool believe that Ward’s outspoken comments have handed control of the situation back to them and remain adamant they will not be pushed around by the agent or another club. Rodgers said: ‘The ownership have shown strength in their time here. They have done an incredible job to stabilise the club. In this situation, they will show that strength and power to the club.’ Liverpool are also mindful of the fact that 20 per cent of any transfer fee they receive would be due to Queens Park Rangers under the terms of Sterling’s £600,000 move from Loftus Road in February 2010. He quickly emerged as one of the hottest young properties in English football and a key figure in Liverpool’s plans for the future, but the relationship between club and player has soured in recent months — notably after Sterling conducted an unauthorised television interview last month to offer his reasons for turning down the new contract. He has placed huge importance on playing Champions League football and fears that Liverpool — who cannot finish any higher than fifth in the Premier League this season no matter the result of Sunday’s match against Stoke — will struggle to retain a place among Europe’s elite on a consistent basis as they prepare to wave goodbye to captain Steven Gerrard a year after selling Suarez. Seeing Sterling leave Anfield as well this summer would be a major blow to Liverpool’s future plans. But that appears to be a scenario which now looks more likely than ever. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3094392/Raheem-Sterling-tells-Liverpool-no-way-relationship-Reds-reaches-breaking-point.html#ixzz3b0FsYrpc Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

So you think if we'd have won the title last year and been as bad this season as we have been, that things would be fine and dandy because we did win the title? BTW, nice remembrance by the Juve fans for the 39. Appears there's a memorial service at Anfield to come too.

Have to agree with you there. As the title said, putting rivalries aside which, some either cant or wont see past. And it doesnt take cotton's depth of knowledge to realise yes,we will be just a 'big' provincial club if the decline continues. It already seems like we're either bottom (by a long way) of the now so called 'elite' clubs or, top of the chasing pack \ also rans. Take your pick.

I think a sizeable portion of the fanbase does think its just a matter of getting rid of rodgers or ayre and everything in the garden will be rosey. Besides that, its a different debate to rodgers \ owners in \ out and all the other never ending circle of shiteness.

Meaning people would rather have 4 or 5 threads about 'should rodgers stay or go' or a couple of threads whether this or that player should be ditched. This place is so predictable at times. Take dryness' comments for example. Classic head up arse stuff you get on here. neville's a manc, yeah like we didnt know. Lots on fans I know who go to Anfield actually say how much they think he's one of the best pundits out there. But never mind because we cant go listening to other opinions no matter how unpalettable they may be, eh? The fact this isnt 'news' should be a massive wake up for some.

You'd know all about wanking seeing as you're a pubescente 15 year old sat in your bedroom lusting over some lardarse wench with big tits on your monitor.

Dont have a problem with that but Coutinho 41 points behind sterling when he was providing the ammunition? Second leading goalscorer trailing too? Nah.