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Originally Posted by NicReynolds
I don't follow how the mob makes money from a player staying at liverpool
They could make money betting on him still being a Liverpool player when it was odds on he was joining Chelsea. I don't know for sure as I am no way connected to any mobs.
But the main thing for them was to keep Gerrard in the city, if he'd have moved to London he'd have been on some other mobsters turf and from what little I do know about mobsters they don't appreciate that kind of thing.
If you take 5 mins reading up Gerrard in his younger days had run ins with a few low level thugs and had to reach out to a higher up enforcer guy to protect him from those. Since then he was always in the higher up mobs pocket, even had to write a character reference for him when he was on trial. Pretty sure he was found guilty and ran away from court. At the time Gerrard was Liverpool captain and was a candidate for the England captaincy, you think he would have wanted to have put his name on the line vouching for an obvious criminal unless he was being forced to do so or else?