He rejected a contract that offered him £100,000 a week to play for the team I once believed he supported as a child. So, if his motivation is money, he's a greedy, money-grabbing twat who doesn't deserve to wear that red shirt.
If the motivation is his fall-out with Benitez over - it would seem - our transfer acquisitions over the closed season, then he's being a bumptious dickhead. Rafa is the manager boss. Bar a couple of 'failures' Nunez and Pellegrino, he has, so far, bought well for the club. Xabi Alonso wasn't exactly a household name before he came to Anfield, was he? I trust that our new acquisitions will work out very well indeed.
Was Gerrard tapped by Chelskireplica My theory for SG is that he believes he should be playing in a team of players at "his" level. So the Galactico scenario should be likely...
If his motivation is the lack of priority LFC attached to his contract negotiations since the win in Turkey, then he's acting like a prima donna. An entire football club should never dance to the beat of a single player. That might be how it works elsewhere; but not here. His petulant reaction to the negotiations falling through shows that Steven Gerrard still has a lot of growing up to do.
One thing is for absolute f***ing certain: wherever he goes and whatever he does from this moment on in professional football, he won't be held in the same esteem, and with the same love and respect, as he has been by our fans. Quite obviously he didn't have what it takes to join the pantheon of true Anfield greats. Getting into Chelsea's Hall of Fame will be substantially easier.
Parry's thoughtsIt's disappointing because we made it clear we wanted him to stay. There's no question about that. He's made it pretty clear now that he wants to go and so we have to...
I don't want to see any recriminations for Steven, but I can't see how he'll ever be able to walk down the streets of Liverpool again. This will not end well for him. He will never be the legend that he dreamed of being. Not now.
Steven Gerrard is dead to us now.
