Lucas is in his 10th season with the Reds, after joining from Brazilian side Gremio in 2007, making him the club’s current longest-serving player.
During that time, Liverpool have not enjoyed much success on the field, with only one trophy to show for Lucas’ decade on Merseyside: the League Cup in 2012.
The 30-year-old has outlasted four managers at Anfield, in Rafa Benitez, Roy Hodgson, Kenny Dalglish and Brendan Rodgers, and as such has experienced considerable high and lows.
And when results aren’t going the Reds’ way, the blame is often passed onto Lucas—whether deserved or not—which the veteran discussed in an exclusive interview with The Anfield Wrap this week.
“The fans are full of passion and you have to understand. You don’t have to agree and sometimes I don’t agree, and I have no problem to say that,” he said.
“One thing I’ve learnt, when things don’t go your way, you have a bad game or the team are on a bad run, it will always be two or three players people will blame, that’s the nature of human beings.
“For a few years, and sometimes I still feel that when I’m involved and we lose a game I know that people will blame me.”
‘Thinking as a player, you have to say ‘you should support (for) 90 minutes’.
“But as a fan—maybe when I’m watching a game as well, as a fan—it’s really hard to be positive and not say ‘you’re shit’!
http://www.thisisanfield.com/2017/02/lucas-leiva-believes-scapegoated-liverpools-difficult-years/