Benzin wrote:Think we have a belief that because someone has played at the top level for X amount of years, they have the knowledge and experience to talk about it...
Neville and Carragher seem to be the exception rather than the norm, though I do like Danny Murphy as well...
I used to like Danny Murphy but he's come out with some crazy sh*t in the past couple of years.
Heres a couple of his highlights:
On Coutinho wanting to go to Barca:
“He’s not worth £150m, could they get £100m for him? Maybe,” says Murphy.
“If Barca are prepared to pay over £80m for Coutinho, I think that’s good business.
“Coutinho scored 14 goals last season and that was his best return. If Liverpool rate him at around £100m, what’s Dele Alli worth? He’s better than Coutinho. Different but better.
“If they get £80m or £90m, you’d think they’d sign someone else. We’re hypothesising, but the goals and assists those players get might double or treble what Coutinho was bringing in, and you’ve also not got a player sat there unhappy.
“I’m not saying Liverpool should get rid of Coutinho, because he’s a wonderful footballer and there’s no doubt about that.
“But if he wants to go and we get £80m for him, I’d take that.”
On Englands U17's winning the World Cup:
“There’s no England badge in the picture of them winning the World Cup – for me, that’s wrong.
“They’ve all turned their shirts around because they want their names across their chests, so everybody across the world can see who they are.
“They’re all saying, ‘I’m a good young player coming through, look at me’, but that in itself is what is wrong with society.
“Some of those players could go on to be superstars. We’re talking some amazing talent in that group and the freedom they played with, everybody should be happy to see that in an England shirt, and I am too, I was proud of them.
“But the England badge not being in that picture says a lot.
“The fact they want their names to be on the front of their shirts and think about getting their name out there so people know who they are – they are not wrong, but it’s what is wrong at the moment.”
