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I'm going to go cry now.
That's an understatement.
I'm going to DIE now.

Liverpool Football Club released this official statement today regarding the extremely speculated future of captain beloved, boyhood Red, Steven Gerrard, pictured above:

"The club has made it crystal clear we want to keep Steven at Anfield. Sadly, he has told us this afternoon that he will not accept our offer of an improved and extended contract because he wants to leave Liverpool. We very much regret the decision he has taken."

The front picture of Soccernet is a picture of Gerrard after the CL Final, kissing the Liverpool crest. You kiss it then Stevie, why do you want to leave now? According to him, no reason thus far:

'The last six weeks have been the toughest of my life.'

'The decision I have come to has been the hardest decision I have ever had to make,' he told Sky Sports.

'I fully intended to sign a new contract after the Champions League final but the events of the past five or six weeks have changed all that.

'I have too much respect for the club and the people at it to get involved in a slanging match.'

So why didn't you SIGN? You told them to "wait". Rafa waited. Now what do you want? 100,000 pounds a WEEK?! No one should ever be paid that high in the world, no matter what profession it is (andy you can ramble about this if you like), but we were willing to make you the highest paid player in the history of Liverpool FC. No one, not even King Kenny or Ian Rush even thought about demanding so much. Now Chelsea want you for 32 mil, and Liverpudlians are complaining no less than 40 mil. Is that what you WANT? To wear blue?! What happened to, "How could I leave after a night like this?"

Of all the people in the world, our skipper decides to leave after winning the Champions League. Our skipper. Beloved scouser skipper. Go to Spain if you have to Gerrard, don't stay in England and pour salt on our wounds. No one can see you in a "Fly Emirates" blue jersey and bear to live.

Now die-hard Reds fans are going on, demanding where the loyalty is, talking trash about him. That just pisses me off even more. STOP pretending that you don't care. Stop pretending that he doesn't matter. Stop pretending that whatever club gets him will be the most blessed club ever. You KNOW it hurts. You know you want to cry. Don't hate him and tell him he's the most egotistical piece of crap Anfield ever produced. He'll never change his mind if you do that. He'll never come back if you do that. As former manager Gerard Houllier, whom you all once adored when we won that treble but later trashed said:

"We don’t destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday."

He WAS our hero. He still should be our hero. He's our talisman. He can't possibly leave. Please Stevie... Anything. Just say you want to stay!! Say you don't want to leave! ANYTHING!

Though he hasn't filed an official transfer request, Rick Parry is apparently being a proud @#$O!U# by refusing to offer him anything more. You and Rafa both said that you would fight to the very end, the very last second until he put his signature down on a piece of paper to keep him. Don't stop fighting stupid Mourinho for him.

One day, I'm going to learn not to trust the words of footballers when they say they're "red for life". Or another color, like blue. Except Jamie Carragher. He's red for life.

I have died. Someone bury me. Remember, all the Tolkien books go in my grave with me.
Epitaph: You'll Never Walk Alone.
Not even you, Steven Gerrard.