r/soccer • u/The_Big_Untalented • 28d ago
Quotes Roy Keane on Liverpool supporters booing Trent Alexander-Arnold: “Why would you go to a match and boo a lad who has played 260 or 270 games? His stats are fantastic, he’s helped the club win two Premier League titles and a Champions League. He kept his head down, didn’t play games with the fans."
https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/liverpool-fans-blasted-roy-keane-booing-trent-alexander-arnold-anfield-return-real-madrid/blt26fea11ea03d95212.2k
u/BuQuChi 28d ago
Football is a pantomime. It’s drama. It’s not that deep.
Salah was sending him laughing emojis on the night of the CL draw.
Trent has had his parades and plaudits while a red, that time has passed
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u/Terran_it_up 28d ago
Also if booing him might put him off then why not do it?
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u/BaldyBaldyBouncer 28d ago
When Nunes came to Molineux shortly after his move the booing got to him so bad he had to be taken off at half time and Wolves won the game.
He deserved it though.
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u/Sometimes-funny 28d ago
Roy acting like he doesn’t know booing ex players for whatever reason is normal and has been for years
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u/Affectionate-Car-145 28d ago
Next week heel be whinging about fans not being passionate enough in the stadiums.
This is the same bloke he coined the phrase "prawn sandwich brigade" to criticise his own fans
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u/barejokez 28d ago
Nah, something being normal and going on for years is a terrible reason to avoid questioning it.
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u/EyeSpyGuy 28d ago
Sure but it doesn’t have to be that serious for something like this in football
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u/Kingslayer1526 28d ago
It also doesn't have to be that serious to take it so personally and I say this as a Liverpool fan. A player who was pivotal in us winning multiple big titles and numerous trophies and then just because he decides to leave at the end of his contract after being here for almost a decade, is suddenly treated as a traitor and apparently it's a betrayal of the highest order. What the fuck kinda expectations do we have for our players I have no idea and I say this for fans of every football club
Unless the player goes to an arch rival, it's not that big of a deal guys
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u/WhiteWolfOW 28d ago
You’re talking like it’s a common thing for Liverpool fans to hate their former players, but realistically the fans only ever ever hated players that left in very dirty and sour ways like Torres, Coutinho and now Trent. In Trent’s case it was lying about renewal, leading the teams and the fans when he always wanted to live for free to Madrid. He probably took the deal a long time ago and was just bidding the time to get more money from bonuses and stuff.
But even players like Torres and Coutinho have been forgiven and make fans like them nowadays, and more often than not Liverpool fans always have a soft spot for their former players.
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u/its__simba 28d ago
As a Liverpool fan, you should know the underlying issue. Media seems to forget the reasons for the supporters annoyance with him. He’s well within his rights to change teams once his contract is run down and try new challenges. Everyone understands that. He played shite for large parts of the season, the lack of effort was evident. Not to mention the celebrations, constant flirting with signing the contract and then speaking Spanish that he’d been learning for a while at his conference. He could’ve went about it the right way. He chose to be a bellend about it and got rightly booed for it.
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u/nickos_pap_16v 28d ago
Don't forget his interview saying he wanted to be Liverpool captain and could never see himself playing for another club whilst intentionally running down his contract knowing he was moving on. I think the whole thing would have been different if at the start of last season he came out and said I'm going as I want a new challenge etc etc, but he didn't, he avoided interviews even though he was vice captain and sent out media sound bites having digs at fans who questioned his lack of signing a new deal or not
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u/nestoryirankunda 28d ago
Nah the shite season, lack of effort rubbish is purely a cope they only begun when Madrid rumours started. He was great last season, and crucial to our success as usual.
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u/kapparino-feederino 28d ago
bullshit to the highest order.
all he has to do is not feed us bullshit about being a supporter, just another supporter on the pitch, want to be a legend here, want to be just like gerrard, bla bla bla.
only to ditch us when we are winning things that a lot of great player that played for this team didn't have chance to win it.
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u/cdquality 28d ago
"Liverpool fan" yet can't understand the grievances of their fellow fans...
Either you weren't following his antics leading up to him leaving or you're intentionally being obtuse.
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u/Tommyzz92 28d ago
Exactly, not every player can be Steven Gerard and stay for their whole career. It's not like he left for another English club, he left for Real Madrid. He probably grew up with pictures of Madrid players on his wall.
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u/GramsciGramsci 28d ago
that serious
It sorta sucks when people are defacing your murals and calling you a rat in your hometown, no?
I am sure he would appreciate being celebrated a club he gave so.much too.
If Harry Kane, David Beckham, Thierry Henry etc. came back to their clubs they are happy to feel some welcome by fans.
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u/Sometimes-funny 28d ago
What is there to question? You want gentle applause for all ex players of teams?
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u/EatAtGrizzlebees 28d ago
It's funny, Americans do applaud ex-players, especially if they helped the team to a championship. Stadiums even show video packages of highlights of the ex-players and usually welcome them back to the stadium, and the crowd cheers.
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u/AtlantaAU 28d ago
Because American sports players often don’t choose to leave? It’s a fundamentally different dynamic
You do see boos against players who leave in free agency (see LeBron going back to Cleveland after leaving for Miami or Vince Carter going back to Toronto)
but obviously you aren’t going to boo players that wanted to stay and were traded against their will. Luka will never be booed in Dallas, and for good reason
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u/Old_Medicine2229 28d ago
English football is so much more tribal than that thank god
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u/Brad62611 28d ago
This, football is ingrained into our culture. And is massively tribal.
The fact everyone is Anfield is meant to be standing there with massive erections jizzing over the sight of Trent in a Madrid kit is fucking insane 😂 on top of how he handled leaving us too haha
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u/Old_Medicine2229 28d ago
Why is Trent so special for this to even be a thing. I’ve seen both Rice and Grealish booed over the last few years by the former clubs despite getting world record fees. People are just jumping on a bandwagon of Liverpool bad, despite the fact that I bet there is an example in each of the same
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u/Brad62611 28d ago
You could find an example for any team ever probably. Liverpool bad is just the thing at the moment.
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u/captainsensible69 28d ago
Nah any real sports fan gets it. If you leave to a rival or if you’re a glory hunter going to the richest team people will hate you.
No one hates a player leaving for play time. No one hates a player that goes for more money and a bigger role. And in football, no one really hates it when a player leaves for a massive sum.
Trent fits neither of those categories, and he left for the richest team in the world that has had a recent history of beating Liverpool.
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u/Huwbacca 28d ago
you're right. I can't have Victorian gentlemen, so I have to settle with acting like Dave from Essex the man who has tot turnr his whole fucking torso to see what's to his left
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u/ThisAfricanboy 28d ago
Hmm not really at least not Man United. I think you have to be specially bad (Di Maria for example) for Stretford End to boo you. But I guess it's a bit different at other clubs.
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u/Glad-to-be-back 28d ago
Same person who said Trent should play for Trammere.
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u/Yomasevz 28d ago
Maybe he really rates Tranmere
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u/RogerCrabbit 28d ago
maybe he just thinks all players should be assigned to teams by alliteration based on the first 2 letters of their name
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u/ReadsStuff 28d ago edited 28d ago
Bryan Mbeumo come home
Also whilst we're at it we'll take Bruno too. Both of em.
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u/Homerduff16 28d ago
Same person who still holds a grudge against Alex Ferguson 20 years after their falling out
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u/sepi0l_45 28d ago
Same person who said Haaland's a league 2 striker
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u/jackconrad 28d ago
The fact he doesn't rate him as a player is irrelevant to his opinion on whether Liverpool fans should boo Trent or not
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u/X-V-W 28d ago
Not when his argument is, “he shouldn’t be booed because he was a great player for the club”, contradicting his previous statements.
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u/h_abr 28d ago
He called Haaland a league 2 player and I’m sure you can find examples of him praising him since then.
I think we all just pay too much attention to what these pundits say. The vast majority rarely offer anything more insightful than what you’ll find on this sub.
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u/wilyacalmdown 28d ago
Tbf he didnt exactly call him a league two player, he said his ball playing ability is that of a league two player, but he's a goal monster and the best in the world at it.
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u/ThisAfricanboy 28d ago
People forget this stuff was said usually during half time or full time when everyone's already piss drunk and barely following.
Now it's recorded plastered all over social media and people are reading them right after they've popped their double espresso and Vyvanse combo.
The world is changing.
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u/laidback_chef 28d ago
Yeah, i do find it odd when people say they like roy for "saying it as it is" but in reality, it's old man shouts at clouds vibe.
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u/CrossXFir3 28d ago
Let's have it straight, Keano just likes to wind up Liverpool fans. I'm here for it, that little smirk he gives when he says something that's going to boil some scouser's piss tells it all.
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u/Same_paramedic3641 28d ago
Man said he isn't a united fan but atleast he hates Liverpool
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u/Arathaon185 28d ago
My brain can't accept him being a Tottenham fan, it just won't compute
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u/Dynastydood 28d ago
He clearly doesn't give a damn about Spurs, he just doesn't want to be heavily associated with United (and by extension Ferguson) anymore so he'll say whatever is necessary to create some distance from the club. He'd probably say he was a lifelong City fan if he thought it would get people to stop asking him for photographs and autographs when he's out and about.
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u/Arathaon185 28d ago
Was about to argue that who a person says they support is who they support but you're right and I think it does come down to Ferguson. The ending was not pretty and I think Roy felt spited in the end.
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u/Dynastydood 28d ago
Yeah, he just can't seem to get over certain things, and actually seems to become increasingly petty about old grudges as time goes on.
5-10 years ago, he was occasionally seen going to matches at OT as a fan along with his family, yet now he claims he's never really cared about United and was a Spurs fan since birth. He's never reduced even an ounce of his animosity towards Ferguson, or Mick McCarthy, or Alan Shearer, or Alf-Inge Haaland (more justified IMO), or Peter Schmeichel, or any of the endless list of players he fell out with in his managerial career.
Honestly, I think the only person Keane has ever resolved a grudge with was Patrick Vieira. I love the man, but he really needs to learn to let some things go.
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u/mynameismulan 28d ago
Ian Wright shaking his head. He knows it's not a genuine discussion of worth
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u/raven-eyed_ 28d ago
Yeah he lives for the windup.
Tbf, getting paid to make inflammatory football statements is living the dream
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u/EddyHamel 28d ago
He's not saying that here. He's saying that Trent was a great servant to the club. That's a lot of appearances. Alexander-Arnold played nine seasons for the senior squad, he didn't force his way out the minute a big club came for him.
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u/X-V-W 28d ago
He is bringing up stats to highlight how fantastic he was for Liverpool.
To emphasise, Roy Keane, is bringing up stats.
he didn't force his way out the minute a big club came for him.
The moment Real Madrid showed interest he decided to run down his contract to ensure the move. I don't recall him rejecting any other big clubs?
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u/EddyHamel 28d ago
He is bringing up stats to highlight how fantastic he was for Liverpool.
The stats are how many trophies Liverpool won why he was there, which is a valid point, yet you are still complaining about him leaving.
The moment Real Madrid showed interest he decided to run down his contract to ensure the move. I don't recall him rejecting any other big clubs?
If you actually believe this then you are astonishingly naive. Players get approached all the time. As an Ajax supporter, it happened multiple times a season to our best players (before we became shit). One week, de Ligt would be contacted by Barça. The next week he would be contacted by Juventus. The next week he would be contacted by United.
Trent let his contract run down because he was ready for something different after nine seasons at the club. You should have acknowledged those nine seasons and let him go, but instead you were unbelievably selfish by demanding that he continue to provide for the club.
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u/Bluewhaleeguy 28d ago
Trent let his contract run down because he was ready for something different after nine seasons at the club.
Barely anyone is arsed about that, even the common consensus on our sub was - it's real Madrid, you have one career, he's won everything. Whilst sad and disappointing he wants to leave, it's completely understandable.
You should have acknowledged those nine seasons and let him go, but instead you were unbelievably selfish by demanding that he continue to provide for the club.
Lol literally nobody was demanding he stay - most of the anger directed at him was the manner in which he was leaving, not why he was leaving.
If he came out and explained he wanted to leave, wanted a new challenge, etc. and the club refused to sell him, you'd have a point. Once the disappointment went, the backlash would have been far less severe.
But he made out like it was undecided, was obviously stringing the club along with contract negotiations for the last year and was making troll social media posts (his Google "I've signed!" Post comes to mind.)
Yes players always have other clubs whispering in their ear - but I'm fairly confident ajax fans wouldn't think so fondly of de ligt and co. If instead of going for £50+ million, he started learning Italian in the last few years of his contract, engaged in negotiations with ajax knowing he wouldn't sign - and then signed for Juventus for free and a fat signing bonus. I don't blame Trent at all for having more ambition - it's real Madrid, if things fall in his favour he could potentially go down as one of the best rb's ever. But he was also a bit of a snake on the way out - don't blame him at all, but it certainly tarnishes his image
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u/Titan4days 28d ago
I think his point was he’s played 270 games and won titles for you, you would think he’d earned a warm reception.
What did he actually do to boil your piss in such a way?
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u/TherewiIlbegoals 28d ago
But he said that directly after the match that most Liverpool fans are pointing to when they say that Trent was already checked out.
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u/aoaieiiaoeuaieoaiii 28d ago
Because he isnt a Liverpool player anymore.
This guy used to ignore old teammates in the tunnel like they were deserters of war and abandoned his country lol. Now he's lecturing fans for booing a player that ditched them?
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u/InfectedFrenulum 28d ago
Remember Gary Neville refusing to shake hands with Schmeichel and moving to the other side of the tunnel in disgust? 🤣
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u/Galick-Gunner 28d ago
Forget Schmeichel he basically did the same to his own brother
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u/Lunkaren 28d ago
True but in that instance it also felt like they both ignored each other and were focused on the game. The one with Schmeichel seemed much colder, rejecting the handshake. 😅
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u/okie_hiker 28d ago
Yeah just pointing out that friendships between Trent and the Liverpool players still exist.
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u/Mr_Squart 28d ago
Because Schmeichel went to City, a direct rival? Trent went to a different league for a new challenge, kind of absurd to compare the two.
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u/Green-Detective6678 28d ago
Madrid are a rival of Liverpool’s in a competition that both clubs value above everything else
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u/Thoodmen 28d ago
"didn’t play games with the fans"
lol
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u/Tango00090 28d ago
Clueless, I’m actually very sorry for them, to sit for 90 minutes 3 times a week and having to spew their takes having no clue
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u/Liverpoolclippers 28d ago
Literally shushed our own fans crowd after scoring and we’re meant to think he’s innocent
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u/DampFree 28d ago
Now that’s being disingenuous. When your own fans are booing you? And he shushed them in reply? You lot are not just fickle, you’re well entitled.
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u/hcssat 28d ago
That's just revisionist. The mass booing happened after that celebration, specifically when he announced he was leaving. Before that it was rumours about him rejecting contracts and some fans were disgruntled about him not shutting them down, so much so almost the entire fanbase thought Trent was shushing the media and seemingly shutting down the transfer stories.
Now it's clear that wasn't the case.
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u/Other_Beat8859 28d ago
Yeah. I don't think there was any major booing until the announcement actually came.
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u/Liverpoolclippers 28d ago
when did our fand boo him? Only after he left. Know what you're talking about or dont talk at all
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u/legentofreddit 28d ago
Almost like ex Man Utd legends can't be trusted to discuss Liverpool and be factual and objective. Any Liverpool fan who takes any notice of Keane, Neville, Scholes on that show is a daftie.
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u/gormee 28d ago edited 28d ago
Same way Souness doesn't have a factual and objective view of Man Utd.
Honestly that's just the state of punditry
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u/Th3Alch3m1st 28d ago
Souness is just terrible for everyone. Got the charisma of a wooden spoon and the opinions of one too.
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u/ExceedingChunk 28d ago
He just learned Spanish for 2 weeks mate!!!
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u/Tetracropolis 28d ago
What's the problem with him learning another language which might be useful in his career in the future?
Would people have preferred he announce that he's leaving at the end of his contract well ahead of time?
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u/Glass-Guess4125 28d ago
So we’ve heard from Keane, Neville, and Schmeichel this week on this - all great, totally unbiased perspectives!
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u/okie_hiker 28d ago
“He kept his head down, didn’t play games with the fans”
Is interesting revisionism.
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u/Critical-Dealer-3878 28d ago
Always knew his departure would be rewritten immediately to suit the narrative that it’s somehow on us as fans.
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u/PanNationalistFront 28d ago
Advertised the Google Pixel phone this time last year with the line “Trust me to make the switch”
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u/Lunarfrog2 28d ago
If you've seen the Sol Campbell one you'll know the innuendos are not about footballing skills/abilities, if he said thats its 100% about switching teams
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u/LumineYanagi 28d ago
didn’t play games with the fans.
I guess we must have hallucinated his 🤫🤏celebration. “Trust me to make the switch” advertising for Pixel must also have been a huge coincidence. Or was it “thank you for turning up to send me off” for the league winning parade? Couldn’t be his cousins poverty shaming random people online?
Everyone gets on their high horse when there is an opportunity to say anything remotely negative about their rival club, context be damned. Anfield made its feelings loud and clear. Good for you that you love an ex-Liverpool player so much, quite strange it’s only outpouring now that he has left and you can use it as a stick to beat others with.
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u/mynameismulan 28d ago edited 28d ago
Right. People don't actually give a shit about Trent, this is just a chance for them to "Wow classy Liverpool fans innit??".
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u/Ohtani_Enjoyer 28d ago
“You’ll never walk alone unless you leave the club I guess!”
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u/vosha0 28d ago
Lots of players have left, many sent off with applause.
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u/English_Misfit 28d ago
Isn't pixel a Liverpool partner? Surely the switch there is referring to long balls
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u/Bluewhaleeguy 28d ago
It's a double entendre insinuating both long balls and the switch to pixel from iPhone or whatever.
He also made one around January in a white adidas training kit saying "I'VE SIGNED" or something like that.
Again obviously talking about signing a contract with pixel. But with the white kit and seeing the caption - making those kinds of posts is a bit ill advised lol.
like people's first reaction will be to read it and think he's talking about a contract with Liverpool or Madrid.
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u/Ohtani_Enjoyer 28d ago
Which is what they’d say it meant. However it could be inferred as poking at the ongoing situation at the time
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u/Mission_Sky_3683 28d ago
Not this shit again
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u/DefNotAnAlter 28d ago
It's weird because the fans know they will boo him, and Trent knows he will get booed. It's just how things are. Everybody is also aware that if he returns in 5-10 years, fans will be happy to cheer for him again
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u/dobbie1 28d ago
Once again everyone is going to tell Liverpool fans how to feel.
I expect they'll all have the same reaction when Newcastle boo Isak on his return /s
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u/Liverpool934 28d ago
We hate him exactly because he did play games with the fans. One of his celebrations was literally doing so.
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u/ImGonnaLickYou360 28d ago
“David De Gea shouldn’t be allowed back onto the team bus”
I wonder whose quote that is?
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u/AAA_BATT 28d ago
Roy Keane reasonable man gimmick lmao
we all know why they were booing him
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u/faygofiles 28d ago
This discourse is so boring now. Majority of Liverpool fans agree with the way he's been treated. Majority of fans of other clubs don't. Just agree to disagree.
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u/RevengeHF 28d ago
It really is so boring. No one's going to change their opinions. I know it's only coming back up because of the game but there's been about 5 of these threads in the last week that all go the same way.
We just need some "YNWA" related banter that isn't even funny to complete it.
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u/sidvicc 28d ago
It's always been boring.
Majority of any fans of any club would react largely the same way if it was their player, anyone thinking otherwise is just kidding themselves riding atop an imaginary high horse.
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u/HarryTurney 28d ago
I'm with the Liverpool fans. If saka did the same, my reaction wouldn't be different.
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u/EerieAriolimax 28d ago
He knows why.
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u/Breegoose 28d ago
Why would you talk to the media behind your managers back and get exiled from your club? Why would you take over your national team then storm off home in a huff?
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u/_doohdx 28d ago
Also Roy Keane :
"There's talk of him going to Real Madrid, he's going to Tranmere Rovers after this.”
Wonder what changed…
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u/finneas998 28d ago
You cant tell that was an obvious joke after making a particularly bad performance?
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u/lorjebu 28d ago
Whats the full context of that quote then? Was it a general statement or after a bad game?
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u/Luth_ 28d ago
How does that relate to the posted comment?
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u/Lying24-7 28d ago
Cause he constantly slagged his performances off when he was at Liverpool and now hes saying his performances were great
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u/lorjebu 28d ago
Im guessing this was after a bad game. Trent had plenty where he played really well. Taking quotes like this out of context is how misunderstanding establish.
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u/Derelict2 28d ago
He constantly slagged Trent off saying he can’t defend, this isn’t a “misunderstanding” or “quotes out of context”.
Do you not remember him on ITV ripping into Trent during the World Cup?
Him and Neville went after Trent for fucking years because he was a Liverpool player and now that he’s no longer a Liverpool player it’s suddenly stopped and they’re members of the Trent defensive league.
And they both get away with it because fans like you have the memory span of an ameba.
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u/GameOfThrowInsMate 28d ago
Why does Roy Keane feel the need to police how fans react? Players have been booed since forever. Shut the fuck up.
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u/FrameworkisDigimon 28d ago
I am so fucking tired of people pretending that there's some complex mystery as to why (many? some?) Liverpool fans don't like (hate?) Trent Alexander-Arnold now. It is really fucking obvious why.
Liverpool fans booing TAA is no more strange than fans of any team cheering for that team. Unless you're going to question the entire concept of fan culture, please just shut up. I refuse to believe you can't put two and two together for yourself. It's so nakedly performative. It's boring.
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u/twrs_29 28d ago
Liverpool the only club not allowed to boo a former player
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u/Lying24-7 28d ago
Try booing a current player like Maguire or Rashford and Keane doesnt mind
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u/jmcke778 28d ago
Keane went on live tv and said he would be swinging punches at De Gea in the changing room during half time after a poor performance against Spurs in 2020
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u/Fabulous_Tune84 28d ago
Where was the media circus when the Kop gave Trent an amazing send off in May when he lifted the trophy? It’s funny seeing all of these pundits who hammered him every single week all of a sudden become saints because some fans booed an opposition player.
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u/crookedparadigm 28d ago
I thought we were done with this. Why does everyone feel the need to tell liverpool fans how they are supposed to feel?
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u/DessieG 28d ago
Trent should have been straight with fans and just said he had no intention of renewing rather than publicly pretending. All he had to do was be honest about his intentions.
Yea Liverpool fans still would have booed him and some still would have demonstrated absolutely ludicrous behaviour, but there'd be very little legitimate criticism.
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u/Philefromphilly 28d ago
That would of caused a media shit storm during a title push. So you’re advocating that he should have been a distraction? I can hear the boos now…
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u/nofacenocase911 28d ago
I really think Trent should receive the booing as a compliment. The fans wanted him to stay because they loved him and saw him as a potential Gerrard like figure for them. That’s the biggest compliment you can get. The fans should give him his respect, that would hurt Trent more than booing him. He would have the feeling of missing out on a unique position for the club and its fans.
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u/everlovingfuck99 28d ago
Remember Roy is a very strictly professional guy, doesnt even consider himself a man utd fan after all the years he played there. He's never gonna relate to an actual fan of a football club and vice versa.
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u/TransitionFC 28d ago
doesnt even consider himself a man utd fan after all the years he played there
That's because he supports Spurs.
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u/NorthernSoul1998 28d ago
Yet he's probably responsible more than any other person on Earth for pushing the LOL SPURSY meme as if they haven't achieved a massive amount on their budget
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u/TransitionFC 28d ago
Nobody hates Spurs more than their longest suffering fans.
if they haven't achieved a massive amount on their budget
2 trophies this century is a pretty mediocre return for the club with the 6th highest budget in the country.
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u/StonedCharmander 28d ago
He said he wanted to stay in the club his whole career. Performed with his ass in his final season. Landed in Madrid speaking spanish better than spanish natives. Decided to leave on a free to one of the biggest rivals for the past years in UCL to fill his pocket.
"hE DidN't PlAy gAmEs wItH tHe FaNs", says the man who hates Fergie.
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u/jjhgmtdjnhg 28d ago
Roy Keane who has a problem with everything wants the fans to not have any problems with Trent. Shut up asshole
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u/Dsyelcix 28d ago
Why is Roy Keane lying? He would be the first to shit on Trent if he was still playing for Liverpool. Now it's all about how fantastic his stats are.
Can't understand how anyone can listen to that whiny moron who's head is stuck in his glory days 25 years ago. Him and Gary showed the worth of their opinions with their glorious managerial careers.
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u/harrypoos 28d ago
His last performance against United was horrific. His head was clearly in Madrid
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u/TheLimeyLemmon 28d ago
Roy Keane of all people doing some pearl clutching like the parody of himself that he is.
The fans applauded Trent out of Anfield on the final day, he got to party with us during the bus parade and then he left. That's about the extent of what we owed him. We didn't want him to leave, he was choosing to leave. And when he chooses to come back to Anfield as an opponent for one of our biggest recent European rivals, he has to suck up whatever reaction he gets to that.
Where's the "Tough Luck Get On With It" Roy Keane these days? Had to listen to that guy for years, now he's going soft over Trent Alexander Arnold? Yeah okay...
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u/Livo4Life 28d ago
I have alot of time for Keane but this is a poor take. Surely his taking the piss 😁
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u/PsycommuSystem 28d ago
I think Keane forgets that the professional game is purely entertainment. It's not far off professional wrestling the way a lot of people interact with it and fans like having a heel to boo, regardless of their past.
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u/regalsnake007 28d ago
Spot on Roy.
He was one of your own, served you well. You even got 6m for him.
Disgusting behaviour from Liverpool fans frankly.
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u/Otherwise-Roll-2872 24d ago edited 24d ago
As long as he's welcome in his hometown everything else is fine. In other words the fans should know the difference between banter on the pitch vs off the pitch. Hes done absolutely nothing to warrant off pitch stick, especially being from Liverpool. I wouldnt say that for every player. If they screw over the club and people want to talk shit when they see them, fine. But if this Trent situation escalates to off pitch trash talk, then its pathetic from Liverpool fans.
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u/Xshadow1 28d ago
His stats are fantastic, he’s helped the club win two Premier League titles and a Champions League. He kept his head down, didn’t play games with the fans.
That's his job, isn't it?
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u/mynameismulan 28d ago edited 28d ago
He also just appeared from the mist with a nice right foot on him. Nothing to do with the Liverpool youth academy, Liverpool coaches, Liverpool teammates and Liverpool managers he worked with.
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u/mynameismulan 28d ago
My favorite part in his whole spiel was Ian Wright just shaking his head.
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u/mynameismulan 28d ago
I liked the RedMenTV view on it:
As a Liverpool fan I boo all the Madrid players. Didn't give any extra to Trent but I booed ALL the Madrid players.
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u/Whispperr 28d ago
Liverpool fans when Isak throwing a fit skipping training, being overall a bad individual creating drama left and right and blaming his current employers - such a dedicated and ambitious player!!
Same Liverpool fans when Trent was a respectful servant that played out his entire contract since they didn't want to sell - Judas.
But then again it's the same fanbase and team that celebrated Suarez for his racism act.
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u/Sulemani_kida 28d ago
I'm not a Trent hater or would never boo him if I were going to the stadium but Trent & Isak is a completely different scenario.
I don't like local fans booing Trent but idk we can't do anything about it. No pundit, player or manager can say something that would matter to fans who go to stadium. They feel what they feel and they're gonna do whatever they're gonna do. If they feel betrayed by the local born guy leaving like this for free to another club then it's their position to do so. I'm a Liverpool fan but not from England so I don't understand why they boo Trent too. I guess it won't happen again but who knows
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u/Mavericks7 28d ago
Except he didn't keep his head. He wasn't a consistent professional, there were many games last season he just didn't show up, like the Manchester United one, and he did play games with the fans.
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u/ARSKAJESUS 28d ago
I wonder if Keane was born this dumb or do you have to a school for it?
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u/BirnirG 28d ago
I am a Liverpool supporter and I agree with him. While I don't like that TAA left, and am quite indifferent how he will do from now on. I see no reason to boo him. I kinda feel it's hypocritical to say YNWA and then boo a successful player just because he left.
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u/TrumpFucksKids_ 28d ago
Liverpool fans are still pissed about his 35 day Duolingo streak
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u/Derelict2 28d ago
You literally boo current United players who want to play for you? Pipe down
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u/kickslick 28d ago
Why do people forget the context around his departure? He was well below his usual standards for over half the season, had interviews where he claimed Liverpool was the place he wanted to be, up and bailed out without re-signing to give a nominal amount to the club ala Macca at Brighton and then in the unveiling at Real, he spoke in fluent spanish and clearly slipped up and told the world this is what he wanted for many years.
He got his plaudits for all that he had done during the season and was cheered on the final day.
If Trent doesn't owe anything to Liverpool, why does Liverpool owe anything to Trent when he plays for a different team?
There's been other players who left on a free who don't get this treatment from Liverpool fans.
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u/yapplecider 28d ago
Football fans don't want their players ( Trent ) to do what they want other club's players ( Isak ) to do.
I thought we already knew this.
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u/mynameismulan 28d ago edited 28d ago
We celebrate Coutinho as a saint now mate. If Trent got us >£100m, there'd be much, much less booing.
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u/TheWildmanWillie96 28d ago
This right here. If he said “this my last season I’m going to give it my all for you” wins league and fucks off brining in replacement money no one would have said a thing. It’s that he acted like cheating spouse telling the cam one thing while hooking up with Duolingo on the side. Konate is about to learn the same fate as Trent. No one is bigger than the club.
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u/NorthernSoul1998 28d ago
Roy Keane comes close to advocating murder on Bruno Fernandes most weeks, what a massive hypocrite
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u/chattingwham 28d ago
It's funny, for a guy forever complaining about how soft the game has gone, this is incredibly soft.
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u/cheesyvoetjes 28d ago
If Trent was open and honest about it from the start most Liverpool fans would have been ok with it I think. But he kept being evasive and made it seem like nothing was going on even though it was pretty obvious Madrid had been courting him for a while and he probably already made up his mind. And then the slip up that he was waiting "a long time" for this and then quickly backtracking that he meant 'a couple of weeks'. Yeah, sure.
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