19 May 2015 00:14:45
Hello To all EDS and fellow REDS:
Despite my promise to shut-up until next season, things are getting way way beyond uncomfortable. What is going on? We are all over the newspaper! One of our best prospects wants to talk of leaving? Before the season ends? Have we become a club where players run away from? Who is to blame?
The one blatant thing from Saturday was the lack of energy within the team. What has happened? Is it BR? Is he going to be man who finally ruined Liverpool because he's too arrogant to see he has been wrong?
Bah! I'm getting frustrated, upset and angry at all this. Please, someone must have some of the answers but whatever it is let's do it quick because soon it will be Coutinho and others and we will have become what is soon becoming our worst nightmare.
Suggestions much appreciated.
YNWA
{Ed001's Note - if Lucas goes Coutinho will be right behind him, they are very close friends.}
19 May 2015 00:24:32
Well we're knackered then Ed, I was under the impression that Lucas more or less has his bags packed and we did well to retain him in January. Has that situation changed at all?
Maybe we can heap all our expectations on Ibe, have him as our only in-form attacking outlet for half the season, and sit here and criticise him when he fails to deliver on a consistent basis because he's too young to have that sort of role foisted on him.
{Ed001's Note - the situation might well have changed if Lucas hadn't been frozen out again on his return to fitness, despite the club not having a single other player in his position for him to compete with for a spot.}
19 May 2015 00:24:52
Edd001 Surely continho wouldn't leave a club based on a mate leaving. They probably won't be at the same club if they both left. Makes no sense to me mate
{Ed001's Note - so you don't think that you would want to leave for a better offer, which would be on the table if Coutinho indicated a willingness to leave, when your best mate leaves and you are no longer happy where you are? I don't think you have thought it through properly. It is about being unhappy when you no longer have your best mate making the job fun.}
19 May 2015 00:34:46
Probably our best two players.
Where are the owners ???
19 May 2015 00:35:47
I hope you are wrong (I know you're not!). will FSG sense trouble and put out the fire before it's too late?
{Ed001's Note - I really hope that the sudden stories hitting the media, which are no longer all about how Rodgers is a great young manager, are truly FSG preparing the ground for the swing of the axe.}
19 May 2015 00:41:25
Thinking about it, even we kept Lucas on £300k a week and a 6-year deal, I suspect we won't get more than one season with no CL footie before Coutinho casts a glance elsewhere. I know players are replacable and they come and go at every club, but building around Coutinho & Henderson over the next couple of seasons would be the approach to take, imo. Would be a real kick to lose him.
So, tl;dr we just need the manager and club to persuade Sterling, Lucas & Coutinho to stay, and then qualify for the CL next season. Yeah. BR's not going to pull all of that off, is he?
Good job tonight btw, Ed001.
{Ed001's Note - I just wish they would break these stories earlier in the day so I can sleep at nights!!}
19 May 2015 00:46:35
if Rodgers remains there will be a huge domino effect then, a detrimental one
19 May 2015 02:34:26
Which is why he will not and should not remain or we will become Newcastle in a snap.
19 May 2015 05:38:52
The sad part for me is absolutely none of it was necessary. There was no need for the club to keep talking about his contract almost being signed constantly nor BR to come out and say how fantastic the contract was that had been offered and I imagine Rodgers' little crack about 'refreshing not having to deal with agents' with respect to Ibe's situation may not have helped at all either.
Equally, Sterling's agent seems to be perhaps not the sharpest knife in the drawer, Sterling's unauthorized interview was a spectacularly poor idea, and I do think Sterling may find not liking life quite as much at a different club.
I have no idea what Sterling was trying to get into his contract that wasn't wage related, but whatever it was at this point I'd probably just go ahead and leak that as well as it's not like he has anything else to lose.
In any event, I don't think I've ever seen anything so badly handled and completely ridiculous as this whole saga and all for no good reason really other than several people who can't seem to stop talking to the press rather than each other.
19 May 2015 07:20:18
He will be here next season as will Coutinho.
After a full pre-season with the squad we will be in better shape next season. Too much panic going on at the moment. Everyone needs to calm down.
{Ed001's Note - and what makes you think that?}
19 May 2015 09:35:14
I have never seen such biased answers as eds 1 have just given on here. It is obvious that you want Rogers out but do you really need to stir up the mob the way you do.Lucas leaving because his mate leaves. Do me a favour
{Ed001's Note - perhaps you need to learn to read or actually learn a clue about people. For starters I never once said Lucas would leave because of his mate going. Lucas is on the verge of leaving because he has been badly managed by Rodgers, nothing to do with his mates. Now please don't bother me again until you actually can digest what is being said and understand it, instead of just spouting inane nonsense that shows you haven't read it.}
19 May 2015 09:59:35
I think with all the squad changes last summer and the World Cup, the new players never had chance to integrate before the start of the new season. I think that was the reason for the obsession with current/former premier league players (mostly from Southampton).
It didn't work out, was compounded by Sturridge's injury plus the added complication of champions league.
With a full pre-season I'm convinced we will get off to a good start and push on from there.