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Well, looks like Gerrard is off
Its his fucking agents (SFX....who else?) they've clearly got into his head.
On Wednesday Gerrard's agents held talks with Rick Parry, and told him that Gerrard wanted some ridiculous amount of money to stay, Parry, foolishly, didn't say no, he just listened and said they'd continue talks in a few days
The Next Day, SFX turned up and told Parry that Liverpool basically had to accept the terms, because they knew they had offers from other clubs, and that Gerrard himself wanted away from the club, unless they gave him exactly what he wanted, Gerrard then started to claim that Liverpool wanted him out of the club, when in actual fact, they had prepared a contract which would've given him a 2-3 year extension for an extra 20 grand a week, basically giving him 100,000 a week.
The bust-up with Benitez came because Benitez wasn't prepared to play ball with agents like Houllier used to. Gerrard and Houllier were pretty much best friends, while Rafa has gone for the "I'm the boss, your the players" approach. Which is exactly the reason that Owen left last year. SFX (Owen's representatives.....are you seeing a pattern) came to Parry and said "He's got a year left on his contract..... WE WANT THIS, WE WANT THAT" etc..... so Rafa told Rick Parry that he didn't want agents getting in the way of building a team, and that if Owen really wanted to leave, then that was his choice.
Rafa and Gerrard had a discussion on Saturday about the talks. Gerrard told Benitez that he felt the club was trying to force him out, while Benitez told Gerrard that the club had prepared a contract for him, and it was down to him to sign it.
The story gets leaked to the press...... I'll give you one guess who the most likely people to have leaked this information were.
SFX told Liverpool on Sunday that Gerrard wanted to leave..... despite Gerrard claiming he wanted to sign a new contract.
Now, this is pretty much where we are at.
It seems that SFX have a vendetta against Rick Parry because he talked Gerrard into staying last year. They realise that they could make far more money if Gerrard left, and are trying to stick it to Parry, like the money grabbing bastards they are.
The problem lies at the moment in the fact that while SFX are tipping off the British media, Rafa is doing the exact same thing in the Spanish media, to try and warn off Real Madrid, and he's hoping that Gerrard wont be a backstabbing twat and sign for Chelsea or Man Utd.....basically leading to Gerrard staying.
Its a complicated saga at the moment, because I'm sure that Gerrard wants to stay at Liverpool. A player who is supposed to love his club as much as Gerrard does, does not want to leave "because contract talks aren't progressing" that is an utter bullshit excuse for someone who is Liverpool through and through. The only answer is that SFX have got in his ear somehow and are trying to force him out....basically for their own benefit. I don't think Liverpool want to sell him, I know for a fact that Rafa has stated on numerous occasions he wants to build the team around him, but at the end of the day, Liverpool are bigger than one player, and they wont be held to ransom by agents who are trying to make Liverpool out to be the bad guys, when its they who are the money grabbing jewish rip off merchants.
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