And then we get the Coutinho situation, someone always looking for the "bigger and better". Whatever happens happens but I don't have to like being held hostage by guys because of CL or Trophies or whatever.
That's the reality, whether you like it or not. The best players want to play at the best, earn as much as possible, and win as many trophies as they can in their relatively short careers. To pretend there's anything wrong with that is to ignore that this is our main pull for players from RB Leipzig, Southampton, Hull City. They may love their former clubs but they move on to LFC because we are bigger and better. Then our best move on because Real and Barcelona are way better. You can't have a full squad of Gerrards and Tottis, romantic as that may sound.
Not sure if people remember it these days but LFC at one point announced that Gerrard was leaving Liverpool for Chelsea in 2005. In the last minute he changed his mind but I have zero doubt he would have left if we hadn't just won the Champions League. And that's Gerrard we're speaking about.
Fernando Torres was one of the nicest guys to have played for us. Everyone always praised his character, his conduct and so on. Then he left us and we all love to call him a traitor and speak ill of the guy as if he's suddenly become a terrible human being when he was in fact just looking to win something... and guess what, he did, even though he's never been the same player.
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