This is all so ridiculous. Raheem is a cracking player. He's only 20 and is already a top talent, in five years he could be world class. It's funny how apparently he's overrated because he had a bad game against us, but when our players have bad games, oh no, they're not overrated, not at all...
I've said this before but last spring we were at a real turning point: Raheem wanted out but it was suggested the reason he wanted out was because of Rodgers. Rodgers, who was bringing the club down, who was playing Raheem out of position, who was a total bellend in the media, spitting in the face of the supporters telling us that we were outstanding when we got played off the park etc.
Rodgers was the problem, and Raheem knew that we were going no where under him. And it was reported that he absolutely would've stayed, had we gotten a new manager. I said it back then: which would we rather do---keep Rodgers and get rid of Raheem? or get rid of Rodgers, bring in Klopp, and KEEP Raheem? The answer was obvious. We should've gotten rid of Rodgers at the end of last season and brought in Klopp straight away. Then we would've found out if it really was about Rodgers for Raheem or not. If he still wanted to leave because of money, fine, f**k off to City. But if he had stayed, then we would be in a position to have Raheem, Coutinho, Firmino and Sturridge all in our attack. That's nearly unstoppable.
Instead our owners decided to keep Rodgers and get rid of Raheem, only to sack Rodgers anyway a few months later. Stupid decision by all. It turns out Raheem was absolutely justified. If you watched the 6-1 loss at Stoke you could see the players weren't playing for Rodgers. Raheem was the only one with the bollocks to come out and say it. Why? because our owners were too scared to get rid of their man. Would anyone have blamed them if we sacked Rodgers after the end of last season? of course not! But they didn't. So Raheem came out and said "f**k it, if you are too scared to admit that Rodgers is the problem then I will." And he got lambasted for it. Oh he's only 20, he's a kid, how dare he say that. What do you mean how dare he say that? he knows better than anyone, he's there on the training ground day in and day out, watching Rodgers and his feckless methods, watching the players in the dressing room, seeing how they don't respond to him. FSG were across the f**king ocean, what the hell do they know. Raheem had a better idea than any of us here that Rodgers wasn't the answer. And he said so. And it turns out he was right. It just took FSG longer to realize it.
So instead of directing your fury at Raheem you should maybe look at our owners and our structure and wonder why our best players keep wanting to leave. Suarez, Sterling, Coutinho might be next. Instead of having a go at the players maybe you should ask why they don't want to stay with us.
But it's easier to have a go at Raheem instead of trying to clean up our own house. yea it's all Raheem's fault. What a sh*te player.
No. He's not a sh*te player. He's a very, very good player who has all the tools to be world-class. Look at what Klopp has done with some of our written-off players. Imagine what he could've done with Raheem. I'd rather we keep players with talent like Raheem. We're never going to pay Chelsea and City type wages so when we do get top players we have to do everything we can to keep hold of them.
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