From wild suggestions that Jose Mourinho should replace Rafa Benitez (completely ignoring the financial plight at the club) to his Liverpool "spies" telling him Javier Mascherano wants to leave, he's spouted some right bollocks in his Mirror column lately.
Not that him using that particular medium to have a pop at Liverpool is a new thing – ask Tony Barrett.
So I decided it was high time to ask the question: "Has Stan Collymore got an anti-Liverpool FC agenda?"
No, says Daily Mirror sports editor Dan Silver, in reply to my letter of complaint.
He said:
Not that him using that particular medium to have a pop at Liverpool is a new thing – ask Tony Barrett.
So I decided it was high time to ask the question: "Has Stan Collymore got an anti-Liverpool FC agenda?"
No, says Daily Mirror sports editor Dan Silver, in reply to my letter of complaint.
He said:
"I'm sorry you don't like Stan's recent columns, but I can assure you that there is no anti-Liverpool agenda. Stan's column is very much a platform for his opinions, and as such he is free to write about whatever he sees fit. Being an ex-Liverpool player - and genuine fan of the club - it's only natural he writes more about Liverpool. And given that the club are enduring a poor run of results at the moment, it's also only natural that some of these pieces address problems. I'm sure if you look back through our archives you will find many positive pieces about the club as well.
Furthermore, Stan is renowned for saying what he thinks in his column, and as such it is popular with a large number of football fans whether they agree with what he is saying or not.
And I'm sure you'll agree that there's plenty of other Liverpool-centric content in the Daily Mirror - and on mirrorfootball.co.uk - to more than satisfy fans of the club."
Hmm...he's a genuine fan of the club? You could have fooled me. And is there really a large number of football fans that he is popular with...really?
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Ian L · 802 weeks ago
If you want to be bored by my reasons, have a look at my other posts on here.
But I thought it would be too expensive, pay off Rafa, pay Maureen's wages and find him a transfer budget.
But, according to the Daily Telegraph's respected Henry Winter in today's paper, the first part of the jigsaw needed be that expensive.
His Carol Vorderman-style maths work out as:
"Benítez remains safe but not because compensation is beyond Liverpool’s admittedly stretched budget. The maths are relatively simple: if sacked, he would be entitled to the remaining four and a half years of his contract at approximately £4.5 million pa, totalling £20.5 million, but this assumes he will not re-find employment before 2014.
"If Benítez joined Real Madrid, a possibility next summer, and was paid £4 million a year, Liverpool would be liable for the shortfall, totalling £2 million under the “mitigating the loss’’ procedure.
"Firing Benítez would not be expensive."
robbohuyton 61p · 802 weeks ago
And Winter - who starts out from a position of being anti-Rafa himself having criticised Benitez all season for saying senior players had to improve - has proved nothing with that as he?
"IF" Rafa joined Real Madrid? So a gamble then. You really think the money-mad Hicks and Gillett would be prepared to take the risk?
If they're into risks they could have risked coughing up some more dough this summer instead of plunging it all into paying interest on a debt they created.
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Ian L · 802 weeks ago
Anyhow, the point I was making that if Winter's sums are correct, then sacking him wouldn't have to cripple the club, as I and others had assumed.
Most fans had just multiplied Rafa's salary with contract remaining and arrived at c£20m mark, when that wouldn't have to be the case, as I am sure Rafa would be snapped up if we were to get rid of him.
£5m a year for Maureen also wouldn't cripple Liverpool, if Rafa is on c£4.5m a year.
So that leaves compensation for Milan. I have no idea what that would be but I admit it could be a fair whack if West Brom got £2m for Tony Mowbray.
And yes, there's the transfer budget. Maureen would have to "make do" with what Rafa's had each season unless G&H can find some more dosh down the back of the sofa.
I don't know what he has had at Milan for the last couple of years and presumably he wasn't given a huge amount at Porto.
Lfc4life · 802 weeks ago
No liverpool fan i know of....
So the maths just proves nobody at the club want him to leavE either.....
Rafa is as important to lfc as gerrard is to us.....
The media has been waiting 5 yrs for him to fall......
But they will have to wait untill hes ready to leave and thats whenever he choses!
Ian L · 802 weeks ago
Well, me for starters. And the fella I sat next to in the Paddock. And maybe Stan Collymore. So that's three of us then!
I've never known a LFC manager polarise fans like Benitez into the apologistas and the antagonistas.
He's the Marmite Manager - you either love him or you hate him.
Jamie Ward · 802 weeks ago
Ive only just happened across your work, highly recomended by Mr Tomkins himself.
Will definatly be on my favourites list from now on.
Just wondered if you would have a look at a piece I did on Stan Collymore recently and provide some feedback.
Many thanks in advance,
Jamie Ward
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/264773-stan-co...
des · 801 weeks ago
you don't? you must be a man utd fan. bunch of idiots all if you still think he should stay.
voronin in the middle as opposed to benayoun. then he takes torres off and give the opposition a lift. and then he takes benayoun out. i think he forgot his mental medication today. either way, we do not want a mad manager.
his crazy / bad / stupid decisions will ruin us. i think he knows he is going and wants to ruin us by destroying next season as well (when he will engineer our crashing out of the champions league with more crazy decisions) before he either gets sacked, quits or faces a vote of no confidence from his players.
stupid manager. stupid fans if you are for supporting him.