With regards to Downing, he's an insipid individual with about as much charisma, character and fight as a blade of grass.
Agree 100% mate. He should have been shipped out last summer. When you get the chance to play for Liverpool Football Club, you better give every single ounce of energy and fight you have, especially if you're not the most talented, like Downing.
Instead of doing that, in his first season he was continually jogging around, airmailing crosses, whining about other players, refusing to take anyone on, walking instead of running, shitting out of tackles, just showing such disrespect to the shirt and the club and to Kenny who signed him. The idea that someone says "ok, you didn't care your first season, but we'll give you another season to show you care" is ridiculous. If you don't even put in the effort from Day 1, then you don't deserve to be here.
Some forget how little effort he put in his first season. Anyone remember Bolton away in January of 2011? he came on for Charlie Adam in the second half and just walked around for the next 30 minutes. Most infuriating performance I've seen from any Liverpool player in years. We were down 3-1 and he just walked around and didn't want the ball.
Get rid of him. Don't even give me this bollocks about "supporting" the players. If they don't show respect to the club and to the shirt then they don't deserve our support.
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