What's new

A Letter From Luis Garcia

SpunkyBackpack

Well-Known Member
Dec 8, 2005
7,831
9,372
This is on the OFFICIAL Liverpool website


Dear Reds,

First of all I'd like to apologise for not having been back in touch sooner, but I needed to take some time to take on board all the recent changes and then to put down these words for you.

I'm sure you will understand.

I would rather this be a letter of thanks and gratitude, not simply a goodbye.

Yes, that's right, gratitude, because that is the word that best sums up my feelings for you all.

Taking the decision to change clubs hasn't been easy. Not easy at all.

I've experienced three fantastic years at the club and in the city. Three years in which together, the fans and the team, we have accomplished some fantastic achievements, and I'm sure that these successes will continue to be repeated in the near future.

You know that I like a challenge and that I don't just settle for second best.

Back then Liverpool Football Club gave me the opportunity to be part of an ambitious plan to put the Reds back at the summit of the game.

I think that together we managed to achieve that.

As I said, I do like challenges and in spite of the fact that at that time I was playing for my home town club, one of the biggest in the world, I wanted to be a part of that project that was being presented to me by Liverpool, and so I accepted the challenge.

Now, after three seasons in the Premier League and having won some major trophies, the chance came up for me to return to La Liga and be part of a new project at a club I already knew.

The idea of enjoying things in a Spanish club like we experienced together at Liverpool over these last three years appealed to me, and that's why I accepted the offer.

I want to thank everyone working at Liverpool Football Club for how well they have treated both my family and I, making us feel at home from the very first day to the last.

I also want to thank the management, coaching staff and directors for the opportunity they gave me back then to be part of such an important and well-loved club as Liverpool. A club which has helped me to grow as a footballer and where to date I have enjoyed the biggest success of my career.

Without a doubt, this success has been possible thanks to the outstanding group of players with whom I've been able to share a dressing room over the last three seasons.

I'm not going to mention anyone specifically, because I think that the secret of this team's success has been exactly that: nobody wanted to stand out above the rest and there has always been a great togetherness in the squad, which made it into something more than a group of players, it was a group of friends.

Thanks to all of you for your help and your friendship.

I've left until last the thank you which for me is the most important: Thank you to the supporters.

Your support allowed me to settle quickly at both the club and in the city, and you made me feel really at ease with you all right from the word go; that's the kind of help that you notice most of all during the difficult times, of which there have been a few during my time here.

I'd like to especially thank you for making up a song for me and you should know that every time I heard you singing it, it was like an extra injection of strength and motivation, even helping me to overcome pain occasionally during a game.

Your unconditional support is the thing that ensures that this team manages to pull through in the most difficult circumstances; and I can assure you that the whole squad is aware of this and thanks you for it.

A football club isn't just made up of players, coaches and directors. More than anything else it's the supporters who make a club, and that perhaps is the ingredient which best distinguishes Liverpool Football Club from every other team. The supporters.

Because if one thing has remained obvious to me after these few years, it's that with supporters like you, Liverpool Football Club will never walk alone.

I really hope that the club wins lots of major trophies in the future; I'll be following it all from a distance, with the pride that you can only get from having been a Red and played for the home team at Anfield – a ground that every football fan must visit at least once in their life.

Thank you for everything. Yours most sincerely,

Your friend, Luís García



Is it just me that finds that a bit pathetic and slightly creepy? It reads like a mastabatory aid for Mark Lawrenson.


There's just something about Liverpool fans and the club that really hacks me off, stuff like this, that theyre somehow special, that they have some sort of spiritual superiority, that and their fondness for shirt burning at the drop of a hat. If it were possible to fuck a stadium seat i dont think most of the Kop would be facing the right way during a game.


Im ok with former players saying how much they love the club etc but do it in the press, the actual club putting it together reeks of arrogance. Can you imagine us posting 'a letter from Didier Zokora'? There's something about that letter that troubles me.


Anyway, in summary: i dont like Liverpool fans, that is all.
 

SpunkyBackpack

Well-Known Member
Dec 8, 2005
7,831
9,372
Well you're all wrong and i am right so there. Its creepy and i dont like it. Trust ol Spunky.


(ill never say ol Spunky ever again)
 

Reids-Belly

The Qemist
Sep 19, 2005
8,453
18
I've got to agree with Spunky. That is a bit weird and i do kinda dislike Liverpool fans.
 

mike_l

Well-Known Member
Jul 29, 2005
5,171
3,676
He left years ago didn't he? They haven't just put it up have they?
 

Rocksuperstar

Isn't this fun? Isn't fun the best thing to have?
Jun 6, 2005
53,290
66,758
fap fap fap

he loves the kop more than Gok Wan loves cock.
 

Yidiot

monkeyspank
Jul 19, 2006
605
302
gok wan is an anagram of go wank. food for thought for everyone there i think.
 

Rout-Ledge

Well-Known Member
Jul 29, 2005
9,611
21,718
I completely agree with the sentiments towards Liverpool fans, but I think the letter was pretty sweet.
 

Zimmy

Banned
Aug 1, 2010
1,613
0
My main problem is that YNWA doesn't make sense on it's own. Great anthem for a football club but as a motto? not for me

Even Ball Bag Ballague was adding it to the end of his tweets this week, I'd just like to know.......... what does it even mean?
 

StartingPrice

Chief Sardonicus Hyperlip
Feb 13, 2004
32,568
10,280
I'm confused...I thought what the LiverScouse had done (if a none-do can be classed as a do) is to conspicuously FAIL to put LFC back at the summit of football where they somewhat arrogantly believe there have an automatic right to be:shrug:

Am I wrong in this, did they win the EPL seven times in 12 seasons while I bent down to tie me shoe lace, or summit:shrug:
 

Misfit

President of The Niles Crane Fanclub
May 7, 2006
21,015
34,214
My main problem is that YNWA doesn't make sense on it's own. Great anthem for a football club but as a motto? not for me

Even Ball Bag Ballague was adding it to the end of his tweets this week, I'd just like to know.......... what does it even mean?
Dey are one big happy family, like la innit. Ey ey ey ey ey ey ey Calm down.

/burns shirt
 

Misfit

President of The Niles Crane Fanclub
May 7, 2006
21,015
34,214
I'm confused...I thought what the LiverScouse had done (if a none-do can be classed as a do) is to conspicuously FAIL to put LFC back at the summit of football where they somewhat arrogantly believe there have an automatic right to be:shrug:

Am I wrong in this, did they win the EPL seven times in 12 seasons while I bent down to tie me shoe lace, or summit:shrug:
It was a moral victory though - the most important kind to Liverpool fans.

I still remember Phil Babb. They'll never silence me!
 

StartingPrice

Chief Sardonicus Hyperlip
Feb 13, 2004
32,568
10,280
It was a moral victory though - the most important kind to Liverpool fans.

I still remember Phil Babb. They'll never silence me!

:think: Funny but neither 'moral' nor any of it's cognates (e.g. 'morality') seem to be high up on the list of words I associate with Scousers:wink:
 
Top