It’s not a great time to be a Liverpool fan (To be
precise, it never has been for a long time until last season). The English
Premier League literally ‘slipped’ out of our grasps. England, which had a
dense population of Liverpool blokes in its World Cup team, was knocked out in
the group stages in Brazil. Alexis Sanchez became the latest ‘superstar’ to repudiate
an offer that would have made him the envy of a certain London club. And to top
it all off, our best player, scratch that, the Premier League’s best player
left us to join some Catalan club in Spain.
What’s really interesting about that player’s move is the
disconcerting fact that he’s moved to a club that should be banned from the
transfer market at a time when he himself is banned from any football related
activity for the next 4 months. Also, lest I forget, that certain individual
whose ultimate aim in life is to play Champions League football could actually
become a part of a club that might sometime soon be expelled from the Europe’s
prestigious competition due to another proscribed transfer activity.
Woah! Too many expulsions and bans floating in the air.
But I guess all that’s part and parcel of the game, especially when it comes to
the player and team in question. To be honest, his departure is not quite excruciating
as some thought that it might have been. It was bound to happen sometime or the
other. Events at the starting of last season made it quite evident that he
would definitely be ‘biting’ the dust elsewhere next season. And the fact that
he played relentlessly upon his return just added more to that speculation.
I’m not hurt (In other news, the sky is green). Let’s
face it! We’ve seen plenty of departures in the past that have knocked the wind
out of our sails. Michael Owen, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres, to name a few.
But we’ve really come back strong (Have we?) However, what’s really hurting
us is the prudent fact that we were not prepared for such a ‘catastrophe’ (Like
we ever were!).
We stuck with him during his good times and we stood by
his side during his bad times. The Patrice Evra racism ignominy, the Branislav
Ivanovic biting fiasco and god knows what not that the idiot has managed to get
himself involved with. I recently came across an inspiring article on ESPN that
painted a picturesque portrait of him and gave an interesting explanation for his
outrageous behaviour. The article said he does what he does whenever he does
that because it is his desperate attempt to ‘protect his family’ and a
despairing attempt to not return to the horrid childhood that he’s had.
The article is totally justified in its explanation about
the maniac. On the other hand what I don’t agree with is the obligatory need for
him to do what he does whenever he does it because he feels that if he does not
do what he does then he will indeed become someone who has no need for. I mean
are you freaking crazy dude?
You’re a classy player with some ritzy talent when it
comes to football. You feel that underperforming in one match with take all
that away from you? You feel that by just letting a hapless AS Monaco-reject
run past you to score will jeopardize your career to such an extent that you
need to racially abuse the shit out of him? You feel that trailing to a team
that boasts of a Serbian joker, whose biggest accomplishment in life by the way
is to share his name with a hot tennis superstar, would in some way demean your
character? If yes, then you’re goddam crazy.
Coming back to the ‘not being ready’ part, it’s plain and
simple – Liverpool were not ready to tackle this situation. All this time they
were being misled that they’re going to get some action from a brainless strumpet
only to be kicked in the nuts at the very end. And, not that I’m fixating on
it, we’ve been kicked in the nuts quite a few times now. Yes! We did get the
compensation that we deserved from his departure and my hopes really rest on
Brendan Rodgers to utilize that sum properly, but we all remember what happened
when a certain Spanish warrior left.
It’s really perplexing when one realizes the fetish that
Liverpool has with English players. The Spanish player’s departure opened the
doors for the arrival of Andy Carroll and Stewart Downing. So Liverpool, this
is a sincere request from an ardent Red fan – Please don’t spend all the money
that we have now on another dude with a stupid ponytail and an overrated Villa
player.
I mean we did buy Rickie Lambert and Adam Lallana, but to
be fair that was before ‘he’ chose to move to a country where his wife’s family
is based. Now that is the greatest and the most supreme reason to move somewhere.
Obviously you cannot admit openly that the club you’re moving to is ‘better’
than the one you’re leaving. Also, you cannot acknowledge that you’re being
stifled there as well. Hence, bring in the family. Indeed! That will work. Like
it always has! I mean will the kidding ever stop?
The world is laughing right now at Liverpool. To be fair,
we kind of deserve it as well. We never let go of an opportunity to troll
others so why should we not be dealt with in the same manner? “It’s only logical.” We trolled Arsenal
for years before they broke their trophy drought. We trolled Manchester United
last season like crazy when David Moyes was on a ‘record-shattering’ spree. And
of course Chelsea’s special one has been trolled over the years as well until the
famous ‘slip-up’ last season.
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