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What does Rodgers expect from wantaway striker Suarez after his transparent tosh?
By PATRICK COLLINS
PUBLISHED: 23:05 GMT, 10 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:05 GMT, 10 August 2013
In the course of the next nine months, the football managers of England will prattle a stream of pretentious platitudes. But as they clear their throats and prepare to break their summer silences, they know Brendan Rodgers has delivered a pre-emptive strike.
Rummaging through his ragbag of all-purpose cliches, the Liverpool manager produced this selection: ‘There has been total disrespect of a club that has given him everything… We have a standard at Liverpool and I will fight for my life to retain it. The Liverpool Way is all about being committed to the cause and fighting for the shirt. It’s also about dignity and being dignified in how you speak about the club. And it’s about unity.’
One by one, the boxes were ticked: respect, dignity, unity and our old friend, The Liverpool Way. The person who provoked the outburst was, of course, Luis Suarez. There is something about the little chap that pushes even the sanest of managers to the brink of self-parody. And as Rodgers launched his rant, you could imagine an unrepentant smile spreading across the player’s features as he trotted off to train in solitary confinement.
The manager’s criticisms were clearly justified, since Suarez is a manipulative chancer whose antics over the past couple of years have brought both his club and his sport into deep disrepute. If he were an ordinary footballer, then Liverpool would have marched him off the premises many months ago. But he is not ordinary. He is an original talent; brave, audacious and gloriously inventive. He is capable of transforming a club and shaping a season. Such people are consistently accommodated; their failings dismissed as foibles, their excesses reduced to eccentricities. Which brings us back to Brendan Rodgers.
When Kenny Dalglish was dismissed as Liverpool manager in May 2012, his treatment of Suarez was widely regarded as a contributory factor. The picture of Dalglish and his squad wearing Suarez T-shirts after the player had been found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra became the defining image of his brief and unimpressive tenure. When Rodgers succeeded, two weeks later, it seemed inconceivable that he would be guilty of similarly misplaced tolerance.
So let us consider the evidence: In late September 2012, he complained that Suarez was being denied valid penalty appeals. ‘He hasn’t dived, they’ve been legitimate, and he’s actually got booked,’ said Rodgers. ‘It would be a shame if players who respect the rules, and managers who are asking players to stay on their feet and not dive, are not getting the decisions because of it.’
A week on, after winning at Norwich, the theme was the same: ‘He now has a reputation for going down easily… He doesn’t get the rub of the green from officials, there’s absolutely no question.’
A further week, after a match against Stoke, his conviction had hardened: ‘There seems to be one set of rules for Luis and another set for everyone else… the vilification of Luis is both wrong and unfair.’
Three months later, the ‘vilified’ Suarez helpfully admitted he had in fact dived ‘because we were drawing at home and we needed anything to win it’.
It was around this time that Suarez scored against Everton and flung himself into a coy, celebratory dive. His manager beamed at the witless prank. In January this year, Suarez clearly handled before scoring in an FA Cup tie at Mansfield. Rodgers watched the damning replay, declined to criticise the cheating and concluded: ‘It’s not deliberate, as it’s pushed up and hit his hand. It’s up to the officials to decide. That’s why they get paid as officials.’
Then in March, Rodgers announced that Suarez had changed for the better as a player and a person. ‘This is a guy who is trying to turn around his life and adapt to the culture,’ he said.
A month later, the reformed character sunk his teeth into the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Rodgers was ‘bitterly disappointed’, but not by the offence. ‘It’s the severity of the ban that has hurt most,’ he said. And he added: ‘If you look at South American players, they do whatever it takes to win. This is the way they have been brought up. To fight for their lives.’
It was a pathetic performance; a series of managerial humiliations, willingly borne because the player was just too valuable to lose.
And Rodgers knew he had the bulk of the Liverpool following firmly alongside him, because they, too, recognised the striker’s worth.
But then Suarez went a step too far. Diving, cheating, abusing referees, racial insults, biting opponents: the fans could swallow hard and overlook these trivial character flaws. But demanding to leave Liverpool was something else, something so heinous that forgiveness was rendered impossible.
And so the manager launched that outpouring of transparent tosh about The Liverpool Way and fighting for the shirt, while taking care not to cut the ties with his most valuable asset.
That Suarez has behaved shabbily will surprise nobody, since that is his nature. But his behaviour has been wilfully abetted by the endless indulgence of his manager. We thought Brendan Rodgers was better than that. It seems we were wrong.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ez-summer--Patrick-Collins.html#ixzz2bc1KamID
What does Rodgers expect from wantaway striker Suarez after his transparent tosh?
By PATRICK COLLINS
PUBLISHED: 23:05 GMT, 10 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:05 GMT, 10 August 2013
In the course of the next nine months, the football managers of England will prattle a stream of pretentious platitudes. But as they clear their throats and prepare to break their summer silences, they know Brendan Rodgers has delivered a pre-emptive strike.
Rummaging through his ragbag of all-purpose cliches, the Liverpool manager produced this selection: ‘There has been total disrespect of a club that has given him everything… We have a standard at Liverpool and I will fight for my life to retain it. The Liverpool Way is all about being committed to the cause and fighting for the shirt. It’s also about dignity and being dignified in how you speak about the club. And it’s about unity.’
One by one, the boxes were ticked: respect, dignity, unity and our old friend, The Liverpool Way. The person who provoked the outburst was, of course, Luis Suarez. There is something about the little chap that pushes even the sanest of managers to the brink of self-parody. And as Rodgers launched his rant, you could imagine an unrepentant smile spreading across the player’s features as he trotted off to train in solitary confinement.
The manager’s criticisms were clearly justified, since Suarez is a manipulative chancer whose antics over the past couple of years have brought both his club and his sport into deep disrepute. If he were an ordinary footballer, then Liverpool would have marched him off the premises many months ago. But he is not ordinary. He is an original talent; brave, audacious and gloriously inventive. He is capable of transforming a club and shaping a season. Such people are consistently accommodated; their failings dismissed as foibles, their excesses reduced to eccentricities. Which brings us back to Brendan Rodgers.
When Kenny Dalglish was dismissed as Liverpool manager in May 2012, his treatment of Suarez was widely regarded as a contributory factor. The picture of Dalglish and his squad wearing Suarez T-shirts after the player had been found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra became the defining image of his brief and unimpressive tenure. When Rodgers succeeded, two weeks later, it seemed inconceivable that he would be guilty of similarly misplaced tolerance.
So let us consider the evidence: In late September 2012, he complained that Suarez was being denied valid penalty appeals. ‘He hasn’t dived, they’ve been legitimate, and he’s actually got booked,’ said Rodgers. ‘It would be a shame if players who respect the rules, and managers who are asking players to stay on their feet and not dive, are not getting the decisions because of it.’
A week on, after winning at Norwich, the theme was the same: ‘He now has a reputation for going down easily… He doesn’t get the rub of the green from officials, there’s absolutely no question.’
A further week, after a match against Stoke, his conviction had hardened: ‘There seems to be one set of rules for Luis and another set for everyone else… the vilification of Luis is both wrong and unfair.’
Three months later, the ‘vilified’ Suarez helpfully admitted he had in fact dived ‘because we were drawing at home and we needed anything to win it’.
It was around this time that Suarez scored against Everton and flung himself into a coy, celebratory dive. His manager beamed at the witless prank. In January this year, Suarez clearly handled before scoring in an FA Cup tie at Mansfield. Rodgers watched the damning replay, declined to criticise the cheating and concluded: ‘It’s not deliberate, as it’s pushed up and hit his hand. It’s up to the officials to decide. That’s why they get paid as officials.’
Then in March, Rodgers announced that Suarez had changed for the better as a player and a person. ‘This is a guy who is trying to turn around his life and adapt to the culture,’ he said.
A month later, the reformed character sunk his teeth into the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Rodgers was ‘bitterly disappointed’, but not by the offence. ‘It’s the severity of the ban that has hurt most,’ he said. And he added: ‘If you look at South American players, they do whatever it takes to win. This is the way they have been brought up. To fight for their lives.’
It was a pathetic performance; a series of managerial humiliations, willingly borne because the player was just too valuable to lose.
And Rodgers knew he had the bulk of the Liverpool following firmly alongside him, because they, too, recognised the striker’s worth.
But then Suarez went a step too far. Diving, cheating, abusing referees, racial insults, biting opponents: the fans could swallow hard and overlook these trivial character flaws. But demanding to leave Liverpool was something else, something so heinous that forgiveness was rendered impossible.
And so the manager launched that outpouring of transparent tosh about The Liverpool Way and fighting for the shirt, while taking care not to cut the ties with his most valuable asset.
That Suarez has behaved shabbily will surprise nobody, since that is his nature. But his behaviour has been wilfully abetted by the endless indulgence of his manager. We thought Brendan Rodgers was better than that. It seems we were wrong.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ez-summer--Patrick-Collins.html#ixzz2bc1KamID
I'm guessing in Sweden Holy crap translate into What a load of crap?
Patrick Collins fucks dyslexic beavers.
Plenty to chew on there... Firstly Cavani can fuck off Juve are crooked proven cunts playing in a shittier league... Next Whelan i have always detested that utter twat with his cozy Slur Alex bum boy behaviours, i also remember some on here defending him when he was right up in our business when we tried to renegotiate the dividends from the foreign TV deals.... Like Wigan could fucking draw in 95000 at the MCG... Fuck him.
And as to player power the Yanks are spot on and all this cash pouring in has to be earned in the right way IMO, fucking billionaires getting dizzy, Man City... Fucking Chelsea... Players are going to have to spot that 100,000 pounds a week is a long fucking way from slavery and wise the fuck up... It isn't on... The yanks are dead right, clubs have to get some control back
And as to player power the Yanks are spot on and all this cash pouring in has to be earned in the right way IMO, fucking billionaires getting dizzy, Man City... Fucking Chelsea... Players are going to have to spot that 100,000 pounds a week is a long fucking way from slavery and wise the fuck up... It isn't on... The yanks are dead right, clubs have to get some control back
@Malcolm Wills - Can Liverpool manage without Suarez??? #mnf
Carra: It will be very difficult. If you look at the two signings Brendan Rodgers made in January, Daniel Sturridge came in with Philippe Coutinho - who I think could be a really top player in the Premier League. He's come in and he's been superb for Liverpool. I think he's going to end up starting the season wide left but I'd like to see him in the central areas. When players like Coutinho are out wide they can sometimes get lost but I think Rodgers wants Steven Gerrard, Joe Allen and Lucas Leiva as a three. Coutinho is a top player, though, and can still have an effect from out there; he always looks like he's going to score or assist in a game. Then there's Sturridge and I think we've got a real player there. Whether he's going to be fit enough though remains to be seen - because he's already had too many injuries and he's only been there six months. He just needs to get that mentality of Suarez, although he's a different type of player. Will he become world class? We'll see but he's got the ability to be England's number nine and one of the top strikers in the Premier League, definitely.
Neville: Liverpool will be here in 100 years and Suarez won't be so they'll manage without him, whether they're a better football team in the short term or not.
Carra: It will be very difficult. If you look at the two signings Brendan Rodgers made in January, Daniel Sturridge came in with Philippe Coutinho - who I think could be a really top player in the Premier League. He's come in and he's been superb for Liverpool. I think he's going to end up starting the season wide left but I'd like to see him in the central areas. When players like Coutinho are out wide they can sometimes get lost but I think Rodgers wants Steven Gerrard, Joe Allen and Lucas Leiva as a three. Coutinho is a top player, though, and can still have an effect from out there; he always looks like he's going to score or assist in a game. Then there's Sturridge and I think we've got a real player there. Whether he's going to be fit enough though remains to be seen - because he's already had too many injuries and he's only been there six months. He just needs to get that mentality of Suarez, although he's a different type of player. Will he become world class? We'll see but he's got the ability to be England's number nine and one of the top strikers in the Premier League, definitely.
Neville: Liverpool will be here in 100 years and Suarez won't be so they'll manage without him, whether they're a better football team in the short term or not.
Shit sauses I know but..
Arsenal are set to make Luis Suarez, 26, their highest paid player if they can push through the move from Liverpool. According to reports in Uruguay, Arsene Wanker has drawn up a four-year contract worth £160,000 a week for the striker to sign.
Full story: The Metro
But Tottenham could also be set to move for Luis Suarez once the Gareth Bale saga is finally concluded.
Full story: Sunday Purple
No means fucking no Arsen
Arsenal are set to make Luis Suarez, 26, their highest paid player if they can push through the move from Liverpool. According to reports in Uruguay, Arsene Wanker has drawn up a four-year contract worth £160,000 a week for the striker to sign.
Full story: The Metro
But Tottenham could also be set to move for Luis Suarez once the Gareth Bale saga is finally concluded.
Full story: Sunday Purple
No means fucking no Arsen
I'm struck by how badly the some of the press seem to have taken suarez' 'plight'. Taking to eavesdropping on persons connected to LFC in the hope of some tidbit seems desperate. They obviously don't like Henry closing the matter.
It's shite, like him.
more like where did that come from...
"If he was a Wigan Athletic player".
Yeah right.
Yeah right.
One thing this saga should have taught us is, as far as the press are concerned, it doesn't matter what you say or do, they will find a way of damning you.
Fuck you Patrick Collins, how does it feel to write for a newspaper that supported Hitler?
Apparently the Arse are planning another bid. After what Henry said you have to wonder what the hell they think they'll achieve, apart from absolutely wrecking any relationship there is between the two clubs. If Suarez was the kind of player who'd just slot neatly into Wenger's system there might be some logic in the gamble, but he clearly isn't a good fit, he'll need a major overhaul of the system, and even then he'd probably kill someone or maim a child or whatever else he's capable of cocking up. Madness.
£50 million and he's yours, but it needs to happen now.
Still, would be strange if Henry goes back on his word.
An Arsenal transfer isn't going to happen now is it and for the reasons Henry stated clearly.
Get used to it, as will Suarez.
Journalists and the usual suspects are upset because Henry has marked their card.
Get used to it, as will Suarez.
Journalists and the usual suspects are upset because Henry has marked their card.
Hahaha. They're insane.
I can only imagine he wants to try to demonstrate to the fans that he is trying to spend big money.
Trying to spend it on a player they can get would be a better way of doing it though.
I can only imagine he wants to try to demonstrate to the fans that he is trying to spend big money.
Trying to spend it on a player they can get would be a better way of doing it though.
They must be desperate. Rooney wants Chelsea, they fucked up the Higuain deal, Jovetic chose City and we wont sell Suarez.
Our interest in Mkhitaryan and Costa have done fuck all to give an impression to us about the club's ambition so I doubt the Arse supporters will be pleased by the end of the window if they don't bring anyone in.
Well that's probably the most plausible of interpretations, but surely the fans will see that as cringeworthy?
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