Gerrard - The man who epitomizes Liverpool's Never-Say-Die spirit
It has long been argued if Steven Gerrard is indeed, the greatest midfielder ever to grace the Premier League. His records and achievements over the course of his long and illustrious career speak for themselves. Often known for his leadership qualities, Steven Gerrard has been Liverpool’s savior on many occasions over the past 13 years of his career. His attitude towards the game and hunger for success truly make him one of the greatest players in the club’s famous history.
Since kick-starting his Liverpool career back in ’98, Steven Gerrard has played an amazing total of 556 games for his club, finding the back of the net 140 times. He was awarded MBE in 2007 and went on to add countless number of trophies and personal accolades to his name.
However, for many years Steven Gerrard remained the highlight of the team – and at times, the only one. He was often burdened by the weight of expectation but never did he surrender. Most Liverpool fans looked to him to be their savior, sometimes the players too. Gerrard was Liverpool’s only GO-TO man. He often became frustrated at the lack of big names in Liverpool’s squad of yesteryears which in turn resulted in their inability to compete at the highest levels. Gerrard always walked out onto the pitch with a level of expectancy only a few could handle, and yet he played his heart out week in, week out.
When Fernando Torres joined Liverpool in the summer of ’07, he instantly forged a threatening partnership with Steven Gerrard. With Torres’ arrival, Gerrard found in him a player who thrived on pressure and willfully shared some of his burden. Soon both players began to gel. In 08/09, Steven Gerrard scored 24 goals finishing as Liverpool’s top goal scorer. That season, the world saw a new Steven Gerrard – his attacking partnership with Torres being the prime factor.
Consequently, Fernando Torres was sold in the January transfer window of 10/11 and the 50 million pounds Liverpool received were instantly invested in highly rated Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez. Moreover, FSG and Liverpool’s rich owner John Henry splashed heavy cash in the summer on other mercurial talent such as Charlie Adam, Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing. To sum it up, Liverpool FC now has the financial backing to bring in quality players to help Steven Gerrard lift this club to dizzying heights.
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Unfortunately a whole lot of in-bred, retarded, so-called Liverpool fans think his career is over and that we no longer need him.
Small minds and undoubtedly no idea about football.
Gerrard has carried this team for years and without him we would have been in the Championship.
Hopefully the presence of some solid buys that we have and some future quality buys also then it will take the pressure off him a bit and allow him to dictate a little more.
We owe him so much, hardly right to slag him off. Kuyt on the other hand is frickin useless and should have gone years ago – about we slag this fool off instead
Lee u ar a comprehensive twit, who do you think you are speaking like that about kuyt an existing player for our team who plays his heart out every time he pulls on his shirt regardless of the opposition. It’s not just our club who thinks he’s gud enough it’s his national team! Show some respect if you are capable.
good article and i agree with you but there is another urgent signing which is a new left back.then 3 more to complete the squad:a new center back,a new winger and a back-up striker where in that case i’d welcome Jose Enrique,Diego Godin,Charles N’Zogbia and Mauro Bueno for that matter.with those 4,i think we’d have a great squad.but of course we also have to offload the high-waged flops first as King Kenny said.YNWA
We obviously have an ignorant fool commenting on this article;I refer to Lee July20/2011/5;19pm,who has absolutely ‘no idea of some players worth’;Dirk Kuyt has been invaluable to LFC-playing out of his favoured position since he arrived at Anfield.He was brought in as a striker,but has been used out of position most of the time!(when used as a striker last season he proved himself! He is the most hard working player that the club have,recognised by all managers! and has scored very important goals for LFC! particularly last season when playing up front,when no other recognised striker was available! LEE ! you have ‘NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT’, go back to school and learn a few things!
Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee I agree with Dave and the other 99.999999% of proper liverpool fans who watch the game and for seasons he has been one of the league if not the worlds hardest working players and if i was to pick a ledgend based on all factors for recent times in a liverpool shirt it would be Kuyt. tackles, commitment , important goals, injury free if we had 10 kuyts and reina in goal we would be champions already so come back when you have a clue what that man has done and until you do please keep your uneducated remarks off our pages. to the other 99.99999% YNWA
Kuyt has been an important player and done well playing out of position and always gives 110% and always comes up with that goal saying that tho I now feel we have more skilful players and that kuyt should be used more as a squad player and played only in the big games as he is a big game player as when playing poorer teams in the league I feel we lack that skilful creative spark thtat I feel kuyt lacks but hay that’s just my opinion
This is sexyy..just amazing.
You are awesome Waleed! I got goose bumps just reading this man. Haha.
nice article.