Babel Sucked, But He Must Stay!

I was extremely pissed off when I read about what Babel’s whining on the Internet this morning.  First of all, he needs to just shut his mouth!  Second, he needs to start using his brain more, and start using his footballing skills even more.

Look, Babel, you sucked!  I asked Rafa to give you another chance to prove to the world your talents.  But all you got to show, when I passed you the ball, was with your head down and dribble unsuccessfully.  How many times have I told you that you are NOT Stevie G!  You’re not me in terms of 1) skills, 2) the captain of this Liverpool team, and 3) born and raise by Liverpool.  When you have the ball outside of the box, pass the fucking ball after 2 dribbles, would you?  You know what you remind me of?  Milan Baros!  And you know very well how his career ended up! 

Also, when I said you don’t have a brain, you really didn’t make it difficult for me to prove it.  Look at our squad!  Let me make it a bit easier, just look at the 3 + 1 positions in Rafa’s 4-2-3-1 formation.  You will never ever replace Torres as the first choice in that ‘1’ up front.  Rafa has been assigning you to play on the left side in those ‘3’ Attacking Midfielder positions.  Also playing in that position could be Riera and Benayoun.  If you look to the right side, there’s Kuyt, and usually Benayoun is his backup if needed.  (We all know El Zhar is not ready yet!)  So including yourself, we are looking at 4 players fighting for 2 outside positions.  Was it that bad for such a World Class football club, with so many games to play in a season?  (I hope you have enough of a brain to figure out that the central Attacking Midfielder role is forever mine, but more on that later.)  I know this is a ‘World Cup season’, and you want to be certain that you’ll get picked for the World Cup.  But had you keep your mouth shut, I would have fought for you for at least some Carling Cup games, if not FA Cup’s too!  But no, you want to open your big mouth to ‘tell Ajax to come bail you out!’ 

Now, back to my central Attacking Midfielder position.  Please take a good look at Lucas’ recent criticism!  Rafa has been begging me to play in the ‘Alonso role!’  I didn’t play in that position during our last game against Bolton because Rafa thought Lucas could handle Bolton’s midfield.  Should I have to play in Lucas’ position, I see either moving Kuyt to partner Torres in a 4-4-2, or to have Benayoun trying to be me and remain in 4-2-3-1.  If this is the case, we are now suddenly looking at the same 4 players fighting for 3 positions.  Was it that tough? 

This team need creative attacking players… like me.  Although there’s only 1 me, we still need all the talents available to last an entire ‘title challenging’ season.  Normally, I would just ask Rafa to send you back to Ajax.  Instead, I’m demanding you to make a public apology to Rafa, and to the team, and to tough it out for the rest of this season.  We need you! 

Now go shut the hell up and honor your contract!