RAFA: I WANT STEVIE TO STAY FOR LIFE
Paul Eaton 04 July 2005

Rafael Benitez today insisted he wants Steven Gerrard to remain a Liverpool player for the rest of his career.
Speaking at a news conference at Melwood, the Reds manager quashed speculation that he wants his captain to leave the club by insisting Gerrard has a major role to play in his Anfield future.

He said: "I can assure our fans that we want Steven Gerrard to stay with us for the rest of his career.

"I renew my deal with Liverpool in four or five years and when I do I would like Stevie to be my next coach, assistant manager and maybe even the next manager after me. He can even have the chief scout position if he wants it.

"I want him to stay with the club. We are trying to build a better team and a better squad and I want Stevie to be a major part of that.

"Last season I tried to get Stevie to sign a new deal three times. On each occasion he said wait, so we waited.

"This year we want to win more trophies and that is why we are improving our squad with new signings."

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Yep saw it live before. I dont think manager would pay enough to satisfy him though. He's got far too much to say for himself and shows a total lack of respect to the club and the fans the way he tries to bully the club. He can do one as far as I'm concerned, unless he comes out with a special statement that changes everything.

CARRA FOR CAPTAIN

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Liverpool should sell him.

He's the most overhyped player in English football. They could probably get about 25M and he's not worth anything near that. He's a very good player but he's not world class and for 25M you expect a world class midfielder. I doubt he'll ever be as good as Lampard for example because he has too many off-games, sometimes he looks world class but he can't produce it enough. He gives the ball away a lot for a supposedly world class midfielder. A lot of Liverpool fans think Alonso is better and he only cost them 10M.

Can Liverpool survive without Gerrard? In a word, yes. They did well when he was injured last season, a lot better than I thought they would. 3 of their best performances in the Champions League were when Gerrard was injured: Bayer Leverkusen at home, Deportivo away, and Juventus away.

I hope he stays because if they sell him they will have enough money to join the top 3 in the Premier League and leave the rest of us behind.

Last edited by evil_bastard on Jul-04-2005 at 17:25

You are wise evil bastard!

I dont disagree with anything you've said there, the last bit is interesting I'm not sure about it, but its interesting!

To be honest I dont think he's improved much at all since his 2nd and 3rd years in the first team, apart from being less injury-prone. Back then he went hell-for-leather non-stop every fucking game, and at the end he'd somehow manage to get himself to his car and back home without moaning about anything to the press or putting out some threatening statement.

Its unbelievable the transformation in him. Its partly down to the UTTERLY O.T.T hype he gets from the media. The amount of praise he gets in the most DISTINCTLY below-par games, is sickening for other players in the team I'm sure. He definately started believin the media hype around himself a few years ago.

"I'D SIGN FOR 10 YEARS TOMOROW IF THEY LET ME"

"HOW COULD I LEAVE AFTER THAT?"

...just a couple of statements that will be thrown back at him if (or when) he goes.

There's been loads of rumours round here as to why he's really leaving, stuff nothing to do with football that I'm not gonna say here. But the more this stuff goes on and the more EVERYBODY at the club claims they never want him to go, there's big money on the table, he's idolised by the fans, we're winning things again, we're signing big players, you start thinking "so why the FUCK would you want to leave" ???

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Well he's put in a transfer request

full of shit he is

HEY STEVIE, UR A LIAR!

CARRA CARRA CARRA CARRA CARRA CARRA

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Fuckin hell, i'm so fuckin pissed.

Right after he told us liverpool fans "how could i leave liverpool after a night like this"

YOU BLOODY HELL. UR NO BETTER THAN MICHAEL OWEN. I HAVE TOTALLY LOST RESPECT FOR OWEN..AND NOW YOU'RE DOING THE EXACT SAME THING TO US, UR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD.

Why on earth would you wanna leave a club thats reigning EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS??? RAFA HAS ALREADY PROVED IN SO MANY OCCASIONS WITH VALENCIA AND NOW WITH LIVERPOOL THAT HES MORE THAN CAPABLE OF TAKING CLUBS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP. WHAT OTHER REASON IS THERE??? YOU WANNA BE ENGLAND CAPTAIN??? JOLLYWELL WAIT A COUPLE YEARS AND BECKHAM WILL BE OUTTA HERE AND UR THE AUTOMATIC CHOICE?!!!

WTTTTTTFFFFFFFF

I wouldnt let him go for less than 40 million pounds. If chelsea wants him that much, i want abramovich to really pay.

I think you can put a large portion of the blame on the agent here, filling gerrards head with rubbish.

Turning down 100,000 to play for your favourite team in the world and european champions is laughable, gerrard isn't worth 50,000 a year never mind 100k. if liverpool get anywhere near the prices been mentioned so far then they could bring in maybe two world class midfielders who would do a far better job that gerrard.

Welp, they rejected a 32million pound bid from Chelsea this morning, so obviously they feel he's morth more than 50k a week =P

Pretty gutted about the whole thing to be honest, but I'd like to see who they can bring in as a replacement now that they'll have a massive transfer budget.

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2004-05

--------------------With Gerrard-----Without Gerrard

Games-----------------30-------------------8----------
Wins--------------------12-------------------5---------
Draws-------------------6--------------------1--------
Losses------------------12-------------------2---------
Win %------------------40%----------------62%------
Points per game--------1.4-----------------2----------

^league stats last year

he's great but he IS replaceable, and he thinks he's god

FUCK OFF stevie u LIAR

CARRA CARRA CARRA CARRA CARRA CARRA

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37mil big from barca, a bidding war between chelsea, RM and barca would be rather enjoyable. Prefer to see him abroad aswell.


I think ballack would be the perfect replacement.

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Figos in the bag aswell. However gerrard moving might be a stumbling block. If he decides to go to mardrid, they might use figo deal to knock a few mil off the price for gerrard but i doubt it.



Heard milito is on of the signings rafa said would be mentioned in another week.

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