Letter to Sterling from a Liverpool fan

This made me laugh!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/open-letter-raheem-sterling-liverpool-6054005#rlabs=1

I especially liked the bit at the end, where he's saying that Liverpool fans won't remember him in five years time.  Like Sterling will actually give a fuck!  I'm sure all his winners medals and CL appearances will be of great comfort 

He tries to tell us he's no hard feelings, but he sounds more bitter than a crop of under-ripe lemons!

So the Europa League is that next level again for Jimmy?

Oh fuck off Jim.....gave up reading that half way through.

Alternative view by Joe Bernstein:

If losing Luis Suarez was a misfortune, the exit of Raheem Sterling looks like carelessness from Liverpool's point of view. And when you take into account Pepe Reina, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano, the conclusion is hard to ignore. How can Liverpool convince anyone they are not a selling club?
Make no mistake, Liverpool did not want to lose Sterling. Following Steven Gerrard's decision to quit Anfield, the winger was earmarked as the new face of the club. Still only 20, his progress was Rooneyesque - already 127 first-team games under his belt and the best England player at last year's World Cup.
Even on the final weekend of last season, less than two months ago, Brendan Rodgers proclaimed: 'Raheem has two years left and I expect him to see that two years through and continue to behave as immaculately as he has done.'

The alarm bells would have rung out for Liverpool fans at that stage. Two years before, Luis Suarez demanded to go. The club initially held firm – but only for a bit.
Ultimately, the five-year contract Suarez signed the following season turned out to maximise John W Henry's transfer fee from Barcelona rather than genuinely keep him at the club for the long term, and the owners saw the profits that can be made from buying and selling - hence the £16million punt on Mario Balotelli last summer that didn't come off.
It's a sign of how quickly things have declined that when Rafa Benitez was in charge, the big four of English football was Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. And Liverpool, five-time winners of the European Cup as their fans proudly sing, weren't even the weakest of the quartet.

Then, between 2008 and 2010, a perfect storm erupted that exposed Liverpool once Manchester City were bought by the Abu Dhabi Government and spent at a level that would ensure they would replace someone in the top four.
Initially, Arsenal looked vulnerable, but they had a new stadium already built and stability in the dugout with Arsene Wenger.
Liverpool didn't. The lack of their new stadium, a mistake that goes back to the 1980s when they dominated Europe, began to look more and more serious as the club were restricted to gates of 45,000 and no billionaire with deep pockets.

Ownership changed hands from David Moores to the detested Tom Hicks and George Gillett to Henry and the Fenway Sports Group.
Players started to leave. Alonso to Real Madrid, Mascherano to Barcelona, Torres to Chelsea. It brought the club plenty of money but, Suarez apart, the replacements weren't as good.
In the managerial hotseat, Benitez left, Roy Hodgson came and went. To highlight the confusion in strategy, FSG reluctantly turned to hero of a past generation, Kenny Dalglish, to lead their brave new vision. When Kenny did things his old-fashioned way, and stabilised the club with two cup finals, they sacked him and brought in Rodgers, 22 years younger.
It was a Rodgers tactic to build his players up to an amazing degree with Suarez, Sterling and Gerrard always at the top of his compliment list.
Suarez was a 'very highly intelligent man off the field'. Sterling 'the best young player in European football' and Gerrard 'one of the very few genuine world-class players around.'

He did it to maximise their performances off the pitch but also to persuade them to stick with his Liverpool project, a courageous gambit that has ultimately fallen on deaf ears.
Suarez joined Barcelona for £75m in the summer of 2014, his in-laws lived there and he won the Treble in his first season, including the Champions League. And nobody has been bitten except Liverpool, who only finished sixth without him.
Meanwhile, Sterling and his advisers fought a very aggressive campaign last season to get him to Manchester City. It wasn't edifying but from their point of view it worked, just like Wayne Rooney found his way to Manchester United in 2004.
Gerrard was a different situation but in some ways the result was the same. He clearly loved the club, but not enough to do a Ryan Giggs at United and stay as a squad player rather than remain top dog. Would it have been different if Liverpool were genuine challengers for that elusive Premier League trophy? Maybe.

In the end, the allure of playing for a provincial club in the north west of England who are no longer regular Champions League participants and whose three trophies in 12 years have all come from penalty shootouts, is not enough for the A-list of footballers. For a club that thrived on the maxim 'second is nowhere', it must be deeply dispiriting and hard to deal with.
The supporters, generally regarded as among the most passionate and knowledgeable in the game, must know that fourth place next season will be a fantastic result for their club, but is unlikely unless one of the new Big Four – City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea – slip up unexpectedly.
The Liverpool squad is still deep in talent. They have a core of English players like Jordan Henderson and Adam Lallana, and promising younger players such as Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho.
But ultimately it will have to be teamwork that gets them to the top. There is no genuine worldie in the dressing-room like Sergio Aguero, Eden Hazard or Alexis Sanchez to rely on. These days, if an individual at Liverpool hits those heights, they normally find a way out.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fcs-far-east-fans-9659737

Guess its proven how far they have fallen with this article!

More young fans support City and Chelsea.

poor little man Comparing us to Everton is his way of having a dig. Yet our facilities are better than Liverpool & everton's combinbed. The opportunities that have been put at sterling's feet far outweigh anything Liverpool could even hope to offer. Sympathies to Jim. Still he can keep on fighting for his club coz that's what they do.. Good luck with that.

Bet he was the guy begging Nando not to go all those years ago. 

What these dippers need is a lesson in humility.  We had ours, after being one of the best teams in the late 60's and up to the mid seventies, we had a bit of a slouch, but it was the huge fall from grace and the scare of being stranded in the third tier that made us fans what we are today.  If the dips have one of those, maybe they'll understand that losing a player to a more successful club is the very least of their worries.

They'll never see that argument as their mindset is so in-trenched in their history, they just can't differentiate between 30 years ago's model and now.

That's why they post articles claiming they'll never miss Sterling....yet 12 months after they sold Suarez, they finished in a UEFA league place....and only just scraped into that.

They've always relied on their success in the 80's......Istanbul was the worse thing that could have happened to them....as the only reply you ever get from any argument with LFC fans is...."when was the last time you won a CL? We've won 5"..........it's just pathetic. It's like saying Forrest are still a big club as they won European trophies in the 80's.....they just don't get it. Forrest will be the first to admit they 'were' a big club 30 years ago...as they've dropped down the leagues and experienced the doom that brings. LFC fans have teetered on the brink of normality for decades, but because of a trophy here and there....they think it doesn't change their standing in the PL or world football. They actually still believe they're a big club with a huge world fan base....but as the article I posted above says....they've dropped their biggest overseas fan base from 50,000 watching a game, to 15,000 in 3 years. That's a testament to their performance in the PL and Europe - abysmal.

Wow Jim, that was a poorly constructed letter!

Well, we're massive because we were the first to win a European trophy in 1970, so they can all fuck off!

:affrad:

don't tell them that...........they'll never believe it!

Fucking disgusting some people:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3162383/Raheem-Sterling-s-girlfriend-Paige-Milian-suffers-racist-abuse-following-forward-s-49m-Manchester-City-Liverpool.html

Unbelievable!  Some of those threats should get these morons locked up, there's been a law passed recently that can get people jailed for online abuse, especially for that cock sucker that went for his little girl.

Well let's hope so. I can't believe people are that retarded that they would post such filth on social media that has their personal details.

They deserve everything they get. Just like that video going around of those girls in Brum beating up a girl and humiliating her. Seems she's now been arrested and could face a year in prison. The sooner they start locking up these people, the less the idiots will reply with disgusting nonsense.