Steven Gerrard’s latest negative and very public comments about the state of the club provide yet more evidence (as if any more was needed!) that he is arguably the weakest , most pessimistic captain Liverpool FC has ever had
‘Mr Liverpool’s’ public lambasting of the club harks back to the summers of 2003 and 2004, where such moaning public statements were a regular occurrence as he tried to maneuver his way out of Anfield and into Stamford Bridge.
This is how it starts.
Mutterings of discontent, which build up over time until the proverbial bombshell is dropped.
And like last time, I will be ecstatic when the inevitable happens and ‘Captain Fantastic’ reveals his desire to leave. It may not happen tomorrow; it may not happen this year, but mark my words, it will happen.
Until that time, Liverpool fans will have to put up with Gerrard’s continual negativity in its various forms.
It's been happening all season - Liverpool players repeatedly whining to the press about various things, and Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have been the chief culprits. Rather ironically, those two are supposed to be the inspirational leaders of the club!
What a joke.
In his latest moaning session, Gerrard whines:
"You don't get any prizes in football for finishing in second place, never mind fourth. We need to improve dramatically and even if we do finish fourth, it doesn't mean we have had a good season."
"In the position we find ourselves now, fourth is the least that is acceptable. But we have bigger ambitions than that. The only way we can fulfil those ambitions is in the Champions League. And I am not going to pretend that even winning that trophy - and we are a long way away from it at the moment - will make up for the disappointment of the league campaign”
Thomas Jefferson once said something that sums up Gerrard and the rest of Liverpool’s whining brigade: ‘Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude’.
How are Gerrard’s comments conducive to being an ‘inspirational captain’?! How ANYONE can call Gerrard inspirational when he comes out with tosh like this is just beyond me.
Gerrard’s attitude is and always has been DEFEATIST. The above statement proves this once again. Not that this is first time Gerrard has been negative about Liverpool’s Champions League chances. He publicly wrote off the club’s chances in the 2004-5 season too…and look what happened.
I won’t go through the whole of Gerrard’s pointless statement, but one comment in particular illustrates his breathtaking hypocrisy. When asked about the effect of events off the pitch, he commented:
"It’s sad so much of the club's business has been conducted in public. The club I have grown up supporting always did its business behind closed doors, and that is what we have to get back to”.
Gerrard moans about club business being carried out in public whilst he disses the team…in public! You couldn’t make it up.
There are a few simple questions that need to be asked here:
1. Was there any need for Gerrard to make such a negative statement in public?
2. Does being negative about the team and Liverpool’s chances of CL glory serve any positive purpose?
3. Is this the kind of statement fans should expect from a captain?
No on all counts.
Gerrard’s comments do nothing but damage the club and provide the media with negative headlines and a chance to negatively speculate about the future of the club and the manager. Every major newspaper has put a negative spin on his comments and jumped at the chance to stick the knife into the club.
With the club struggling in the league and needing everyone to pull together to ensure the season finishes as well as possible, how are Gerrard’s comments supposed to inspire his team-mates or the fans?
Gerrard basically says that the team isn’t good enough and winning the Champions League will mean nothing. Way to go, Stevie! A fantastic way to motivate the team!
I am so sick to death of the Steven Gerrard sideshow. I’m sick of the sulking; the rampant ego; the arrogance; the negativity; the superiority complex he so clearly has; the repeated pessimistic public comments and the complete lack of real leadership on and off the field.
He was acting this way during the summer of 2004 – moaning in the press about how the team wasn’t good enough, and how he needed to win trophies. In his latest comments, he’s at it again:
‘I'm 27 now; I don't want to be talking about 'next season' for Liverpool when I'm 32’.
Gerrard is and always has been about one thing: his own glory. He makes it sound like he cares about the club and the fans, but he DOESN’T. He just cares about winning trophies for HIMSELF.
He proved this when he wanted to move to Chelsea to win trophies, and he’s proving it again now.
If he DID truly care about the club, he wouldn’t be adding to the problems by slamming the team in public. Any fool can see the detrimental effect his statement can and will have.
And still, despite the obvious fact that Gerrard’s behaviour is the antithesis of what being a captain is all about, fans will *still* make excuses for him, the main one being ‘But he’s just being honest and telling it like it is’.
WAKE UP!
Fans who peddle this excuse are weak-minded sheep that need to detach their lips from Gerrard’s buttocks and see things the way they really are.
Gerrard’s comments are divisive, destabilizing and a very subtle attempt to undermine Rafa Benitez, who Stevie Me clearly does not like.
This is obvious to anyone who is not dazzled by the Gerrard ‘phenomenon’, and is further evidenced by Gerrard’s repeated failure to back Benitez in public at key points in the season.
What gives Gerrard the right to constantly undermine the club in public like this?!
As Captain, he should be keeping his mouth shut about such things and focusing on motivating and inspiring the team for the remainder of the season.
Has there ever been *any* player in Liverpool’s history who has spewed as much negativity as Gerrard has throughout his career?!
No.
None of Liverpool’s previous captains *ever* came out with pessimistic statements like Gerrard, but he is lauded for it by fans instead of being castigated!
It truly beggars belief.
As I wrote a few weeks ago, the cancer eating away at Liverpool is a losing mentality.
Negative, defeatist pessimism in public is becoming the defining characteristic of Liverpool FC and Gerrard and Carragher are the perpetrators-in-chief.
‘Mr Liverpool’s’ public lambasting of the club harks back to the summers of 2003 and 2004, where such moaning public statements were a regular occurrence as he tried to maneuver his way out of Anfield and into Stamford Bridge.
This is how it starts.
Mutterings of discontent, which build up over time until the proverbial bombshell is dropped.
And like last time, I will be ecstatic when the inevitable happens and ‘Captain Fantastic’ reveals his desire to leave. It may not happen tomorrow; it may not happen this year, but mark my words, it will happen.
Until that time, Liverpool fans will have to put up with Gerrard’s continual negativity in its various forms.
It's been happening all season - Liverpool players repeatedly whining to the press about various things, and Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have been the chief culprits. Rather ironically, those two are supposed to be the inspirational leaders of the club!
What a joke.
In his latest moaning session, Gerrard whines:
"You don't get any prizes in football for finishing in second place, never mind fourth. We need to improve dramatically and even if we do finish fourth, it doesn't mean we have had a good season."
"In the position we find ourselves now, fourth is the least that is acceptable. But we have bigger ambitions than that. The only way we can fulfil those ambitions is in the Champions League. And I am not going to pretend that even winning that trophy - and we are a long way away from it at the moment - will make up for the disappointment of the league campaign”
Thomas Jefferson once said something that sums up Gerrard and the rest of Liverpool’s whining brigade: ‘Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude’.
How are Gerrard’s comments conducive to being an ‘inspirational captain’?! How ANYONE can call Gerrard inspirational when he comes out with tosh like this is just beyond me.
Gerrard’s attitude is and always has been DEFEATIST. The above statement proves this once again. Not that this is first time Gerrard has been negative about Liverpool’s Champions League chances. He publicly wrote off the club’s chances in the 2004-5 season too…and look what happened.
I won’t go through the whole of Gerrard’s pointless statement, but one comment in particular illustrates his breathtaking hypocrisy. When asked about the effect of events off the pitch, he commented:
"It’s sad so much of the club's business has been conducted in public. The club I have grown up supporting always did its business behind closed doors, and that is what we have to get back to”.
Gerrard moans about club business being carried out in public whilst he disses the team…in public! You couldn’t make it up.
There are a few simple questions that need to be asked here:
1. Was there any need for Gerrard to make such a negative statement in public?
2. Does being negative about the team and Liverpool’s chances of CL glory serve any positive purpose?
3. Is this the kind of statement fans should expect from a captain?
No on all counts.
Gerrard’s comments do nothing but damage the club and provide the media with negative headlines and a chance to negatively speculate about the future of the club and the manager. Every major newspaper has put a negative spin on his comments and jumped at the chance to stick the knife into the club.
With the club struggling in the league and needing everyone to pull together to ensure the season finishes as well as possible, how are Gerrard’s comments supposed to inspire his team-mates or the fans?
Gerrard basically says that the team isn’t good enough and winning the Champions League will mean nothing. Way to go, Stevie! A fantastic way to motivate the team!
I am so sick to death of the Steven Gerrard sideshow. I’m sick of the sulking; the rampant ego; the arrogance; the negativity; the superiority complex he so clearly has; the repeated pessimistic public comments and the complete lack of real leadership on and off the field.
He was acting this way during the summer of 2004 – moaning in the press about how the team wasn’t good enough, and how he needed to win trophies. In his latest comments, he’s at it again:
‘I'm 27 now; I don't want to be talking about 'next season' for Liverpool when I'm 32’.
Gerrard is and always has been about one thing: his own glory. He makes it sound like he cares about the club and the fans, but he DOESN’T. He just cares about winning trophies for HIMSELF.
He proved this when he wanted to move to Chelsea to win trophies, and he’s proving it again now.
If he DID truly care about the club, he wouldn’t be adding to the problems by slamming the team in public. Any fool can see the detrimental effect his statement can and will have.
And still, despite the obvious fact that Gerrard’s behaviour is the antithesis of what being a captain is all about, fans will *still* make excuses for him, the main one being ‘But he’s just being honest and telling it like it is’.
WAKE UP!
Fans who peddle this excuse are weak-minded sheep that need to detach their lips from Gerrard’s buttocks and see things the way they really are.
Gerrard’s comments are divisive, destabilizing and a very subtle attempt to undermine Rafa Benitez, who Stevie Me clearly does not like.
This is obvious to anyone who is not dazzled by the Gerrard ‘phenomenon’, and is further evidenced by Gerrard’s repeated failure to back Benitez in public at key points in the season.
What gives Gerrard the right to constantly undermine the club in public like this?!
As Captain, he should be keeping his mouth shut about such things and focusing on motivating and inspiring the team for the remainder of the season.
Has there ever been *any* player in Liverpool’s history who has spewed as much negativity as Gerrard has throughout his career?!
No.
None of Liverpool’s previous captains *ever* came out with pessimistic statements like Gerrard, but he is lauded for it by fans instead of being castigated!
It truly beggars belief.
As I wrote a few weeks ago, the cancer eating away at Liverpool is a losing mentality.
Negative, defeatist pessimism in public is becoming the defining characteristic of Liverpool FC and Gerrard and Carragher are the perpetrators-in-chief.
I feel I have to return once again to something Bill Shankly said – something that defines what has made Liverpool so successful over the years:
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
Steven Gerrard clearly has no idea whatsoever what the above means. If he did, he wouldn’t be spitting his dummy out in the press.
Something Martin Luther King once said is also relevant here: ‘The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy’.
Gerrard has proved time and time again, that when the chips are down, he is a liability. And don’t give me any crap about Olympiakos or AC Milan; those were one off incidents where Gerrard's precious pursuit of personal glory was under threat.
What matters is a leader's impact over time, and Gerrard has proved that when the club is struggling, he adds to the burden rather than relieving it with real leadership on and off the pitch.
Examples of this are too numerous to list, but the double Chelsea debacle at the tail end of Gerard Houllier’s reign springs to mind, with Gerrard issuing veiled threats, ultimatums and routinely spewing forth negative statements.
Examples of this are too numerous to list, but the double Chelsea debacle at the tail end of Gerard Houllier’s reign springs to mind, with Gerrard issuing veiled threats, ultimatums and routinely spewing forth negative statements.
Now, in another time of turmoil, he is showing his true colours yet again.
Instead of being a motivating, inspiring force as a captain *should* be, he moans to the press and undermines the club, the fans and his team-mates.
Quite simply, Gerrard is not fit to wear the captain’s armband. And anyone who has come across my opinions about Liverpool FC over the last five years knows that this is not a knee-jerk reaction.
Sooner or later, people will see the truth.
Instead of being a motivating, inspiring force as a captain *should* be, he moans to the press and undermines the club, the fans and his team-mates.
Quite simply, Gerrard is not fit to wear the captain’s armband. And anyone who has come across my opinions about Liverpool FC over the last five years knows that this is not a knee-jerk reaction.
Sooner or later, people will see the truth.
2 COMMENTS:
for once ,mr jamie,i agree with most of what you had to say.
I don't want gerrard to leave,but i don't want him to stay at this club moaning like a little girl every once in a while.
this interview was a pretty bad idea and i for one have lost quite a bit of respect for the man.
good read, stevie me starting to get sussed out
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