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    Where will Rafa go?

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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:45 pm

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    First off all. You call Mascherano one of them shit players. If you didn't notice. Who was playing center back for the team that beat you in the Champions League final? Ohh, yea. Mascherano. Macherano is probable one of the worlds best defensive midfielders.

    Rafa spoke out against the owners, because he wanted to make public how much twats there were, and how there were going to corrupt the club. A club £300 million in debt, because of the leverage buyout they did. They took out a loan against a club to buy the club. When they couldn't afford to pay off that loan. They refinanced it, and we were struggling to pay the interest in the end. Never mind the loan it self. Only until RBS were about to pull the plug on the loan, Liverpool would have went into administration. Ohh, and he was right. He was one of the first to make public that they had no proper money.

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    So the first season under George and Tom Hicks. We just came runners up in the Champions League. £29 Million net spend. Not bad. Looked all good so far.

    Second season under them we had a net spend off £-6.4 Million. That season is the season, you pointed out we bought Robbie Keane. It is fact, that Keane wasn't Rafa preferable choice. Instead, Rick Parry wanted him and spent all are money on him. Yes, it was a poor buy. Not all down to Rafa's fault. Anyway, we recouped £13 Million back that summer.

    Thrid season. We sold Alonso for £30 Million, and that was put towards the debts. Around £45 Million made from sales, and we only spend £38.8 Million on Johnson, Aquilani and Soto. Were did that missing £6.4 Million go? Oh, yea the debts. Funnily enough we had to pay RSB money due on the interest, which was around £6 Million.

    Next season. This gets even worse. With a basterd CEO, messing with playing side. Thinking he can play football manager while CEO. He sacks Rafeal Benitez because he tried to tell everyone how bad he was. Then Purslow and fucking Roy LMA Hodgson decides to loan Insua and Aquilani out for no reason. Then to bring in Poulsen and Konchesky as there replacements. My fucking god. But Fair play to him, for getting rid of the cancers, but he created more mess that we are still trying to correct now.

    2010 OUT; Dossena,Voronin,Insua,Aquilani,Plessis,Dalle Valle,Kacaniclic,Cavalieri,Benayoun,Riera,Nemeth,Mihaylov,San Jose,Mascherano, £42.65mIN: Shelvey, Jovanovic, Cole, Wilson, Meireles, Konchesky, Jones, Poulsen, £25.5m . Thats about, £-17 Million net spend. I wonder where all that money went to. Ohh, yea the debt. Good owners arn't they. I wonder if we were still under G+H now. Interest even more, and the debt bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if were still a football club, not just history.

    That not even before all the lies about spade in the ground bollocks, and wasting money on fancy plans for a new stadium, that wouldn't even be built. Also trying to plot against the current manager while going against the Liverpool way. Telling the media what was going on inside the club, and turning the club into a right circus.

    Fucking amazing owners weren't they. Invested very little off there own cash into the club for transfers, while selling off player to pay for the debt. So before you come out with more shite, face the facts. Just a shame Rafa was used as a scapegoat and the media turned on him like a pack off wolves.

    First of all I have never called Mascherano shit, he is a very good defensive midfielder, among the finest in the world.

    Benitez's net spend over the period of the Hicks and Gillett ownership was higher than Ferguson's over the same period, he also oversaw big wage increases, so you can fuck right off with that argument.

    You can't blame Hicks and Gillett for what Rick Parry did, indeed they even gave his powers to Benitez, which is quite a courteous thing to do but you scumbags don't seem to appreciate it. This just shows how paranoid you fucks are, not only do you have a new Messiah every year, you have to have a devil every year as well. Parry, Moores, Hodgson, Gillet, Hicks, Howard Webb, it's ridiculous.
    Maybe because, for the last years someone has always been fucking us up?

    Third season, you say you sold Alonso for £30m and put it towards the debts, but that's absurd, you spent over £38m, who is to say the £30m didn't entirely go on that, or go onto paying the wages of the players? Why do you say it was THAT £6m, why wasn't it another £6m? Maybe the fact you have a small stadium meant you couldn't spend as much on transfers and had to get players of the wage bill, or maybe you overpaid your current players, but no no it has to be the devils, Hicks and Gillett.

    2010 you got rid of a lot of shit players, and Benayoun, that sounds like good management to me. I don't know why you include Aquilani in that, he wasn't even transferred. Further, you talk about your -£17m net spend, I'll tell you where all that goes, it's all put it in the fucking bank because you have to pay Joe Cole and Milan Jovanovic paying their grossly inflated wages. Do you think when you sign a player on a free transfer, you just get them a lot cheaper? Of course not, the difference is that most of the money goes into their bank accounts instead of their old clubs.

    They intended on building a stadium, of course they did, I don't know if you noticed this, but there was a WORLDWIDE FUCKING RECESSION, bigger businesses than Liverpool had to put their plans on hold.

    In any case, the manager shouldn't come out and bitch about the owners like Benitez did, it's not a good idea, it just ends up with the team being fucked because they know the manager wants to replace him, and makes the manager more likely to be fired, even if he is right. United pay more interest on debts than you do and had less net spend during Benitez's tenure, do you hear Ferguson coming out pissing and moaning about it? No, because he is a professional.

    Your average net spend with Dalglish as manager has been £100,000, does he come out moaning about it? No, because he's a professional.

    Question for you Lucas, if Hicks and Gillett had stayed and done the same things your current owners have done, sold Torres, £100,000 net spend, fired Hodgson and appointed Dalglish, would that have changed your opinion of them?

    When they bought the club, they promised the former owners and the fans that they had money available to spend on the new stadium. When in fact, before the World Recension they didn't have enough to pay for it. They couldn't even afford to buy the club with capital, but bought the club with loans. Loans they couldn't afford to pay back, and to take out an other loan to buy a stadium. Also they promised not to buy the club with debts. But, oh wait. They did.

    I highly doubt they would have sacked Hodgson. He hardly opposed them, and they didn't give a fuck about the club. Just as long as they fucked off and got there profit. And if we sold Torres, it would have went towards the interest payments that were due in October or the debt. Not reinvested in the squad. And thats if we weren't in the hands off administrators. And I'am reserving my judgment about the net spend this summer, and am going to re assure you it will be a massive summer financially.

    Rooney. Do you think it is good, when owners buy the club with around £250 Million loan and then struggle to pay off the interest of the loan, then use Player sales to attempt to pay them off? And then spending less money to make the squad better? Liverpool were hours away from administration. All Rafa's fault wasn't it. Mischief

    And, Funny how they had the funds to pay the debt off on the day the club was sold, and never before eh?

    Rafa was used as a scapegoat, and the media fucking love every moment off it. Funny how Rupert Murdoch's Sky Sports gave Mr Hicks an interview, and it was the most staged publicity stunt I have seen in years. With his Stadium plans hanging on the wall, his puppy eyes and his blaming off Rafa and that Martin Broughton was a Chelsea fan, so he was against the club and other shite. The media especially Murdoch media outlets defending the cunts at every stop.

    Yes, Rafa did have some poor buys, but he was under a sell to buy policy. Every manager does. But he had some excellent ones. I still don't get how people work out that it was all Rafa's fault. scratch

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    Post by El_indian Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:18 pm

    From a footballing point of view (as opposed to all this profit/loss BS) the old managers were terrible, it's great to see NESV/FSG getting involved in the club from a grassroots level
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:28 pm

    El_indian wrote:From a footballing point of view (as opposed to all this profit/loss BS) the old managers were terrible, it's great to see NESV/FSG getting involved in the club from a grassroots level

    What do you mean? ...
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    Post by Kaka11|LFC Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:52 pm

    The-Reporter wrote:Even if Rafa sold what he spent.. spending that amount £250m+ even from scratch better build you an amazing squad. He built a squad with absolutely no depth and finished 7th.

    Thats shit.

    Are we forgetting the 2nd place finishthe year before, Liverpools best in a long time, from the squad he had built from scratch?
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    Post by El_indian Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:54 pm

    getting involved in all aspects of the club - even things lower down. E.g meetings/feedback with/from supporters clubs, free tickets to games for youngsters etc etc. those sorts of things
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    Post by Kaka11|LFC Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:56 pm

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    First of all I have never called Mascherano shit, he is a very good defensive midfielder, among the finest in the world.

    Benitez's net spend over the period of the Hicks and Gillett ownership was higher than Ferguson's over the same period, he also oversaw big wage increases, so you can fuck right off with that argument.

    You can't blame Hicks and Gillett for what Rick Parry did, indeed they even gave his powers to Benitez, which is quite a courteous thing to do but you scumbags don't seem to appreciate it. This just shows how paranoid you fucks are, not only do you have a new Messiah every year, you have to have a devil every year as well. Parry, Moores, Hodgson, Gillet, Hicks, Howard Webb, it's ridiculous.

    Third season, you say you sold Alonso for £30m and put it towards the debts, but that's absurd, you spent over £38m, who is to say the £30m didn't entirely go on that, or go onto paying the wages of the players? Why do you say it was THAT £6m, why wasn't it another £6m? Maybe the fact you have a small stadium meant you couldn't spend as much on transfers and had to get players of the wage bill, or maybe you overpaid your current players, but no no it has to be the devils, Hicks and Gillett.

    2010 you got rid of a lot of shit players, and Benayoun, that sounds like good management to me. I don't know why you include Aquilani in that, he wasn't even transferred. Further, you talk about your -£17m net spend, I'll tell you where all that goes, it's all put it in the fucking bank because you have to pay Joe Cole and Milan Jovanovic paying their grossly inflated wages. Do you think when you sign a player on a free transfer, you just get them a lot cheaper? Of course not, the difference is that most of the money goes into their bank accounts instead of their old clubs.

    They intended on building a stadium, of course they did, I don't know if you noticed this, but there was a WORLDWIDE FUCKING RECESSION, bigger businesses than Liverpool had to put their plans on hold.

    In any case, the manager shouldn't come out and bitch about the owners like Benitez did, it's not a good idea, it just ends up with the team being fucked because they know the manager wants to replace him, and makes the manager more likely to be fired, even if he is right. United pay more interest on debts than you do and had less net spend during Benitez's tenure, do you hear Ferguson coming out pissing and moaning about it? No, because he is a professional.

    Your average net spend with Dalglish as manager has been £100,000, does he come out moaning about it? No, because he's a professional.

    Question for you Lucas, if Hicks and Gillett had stayed and done the same things your current owners have done, sold Torres, £100,000 net spend, fired Hodgson and appointed Dalglish, would that have changed your opinion of them?
    How can you compare Liverpool to Man United you twat? You already had an established top class team, Benitez had to build from scratch meaning he had to spend to get quality, how thick can you get.

    How can you compare Benitez's situation to Dalglish's, they worked under different owners you moron, Dalglish has been given money to spend by FSG, he doesn't have to sell players to get transfer money. Rolling Eyes
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:14 pm

    Kaka11|LFC wrote:
    The-Reporter wrote:Even if Rafa sold what he spent.. spending that amount £250m+ even from scratch better build you an amazing squad. He built a squad with absolutely no depth and finished 7th.

    Thats shit.

    Are we forgetting the 2nd place finishthe year before, Liverpools best in a long time, from the squad he had built from scratch?
    He already had the best midfielder in the league when he came. Anyway 2nd means nothing, Arsenal have placed 2nd loads of times.. its no different to 4th, just means you have to play a wank team to qualify for CL.
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    Post by El_indian Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:46 pm

    why compare Arsenal who finish second all the time to Liverpool who don't?

    as Kaka mentioned it was our best season for a long time and we challenged well into the season.
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    Post by Kaka11|LFC Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:49 pm

    The-Reporter wrote:
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    The-Reporter wrote:Even if Rafa sold what he spent.. spending that amount £250m+ even from scratch better build you an amazing squad. He built a squad with absolutely no depth and finished 7th.

    Thats shit.

    Are we forgetting the 2nd place finishthe year before, Liverpools best in a long time, from the squad he had built from scratch?
    He already had the best midfielder in the league when he came. Anyway 2nd means nothing, Arsenal have placed 2nd loads of times.. its no different to 4th, just means you have to play a wank team to qualify for CL.
    Since when does one player make a team? It means that clearly he was doing a good job, maybe for Arsenal but you won the league 04/05, we haven't won in about 20 years so Rafa clearly did his job by nearly winning. Not to mention getting to two Champions League finals and winning one. Nobody can take away what he did for Liverpool, he did a fantastic job and was unjustly fired.
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    Post by luke. Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:58 pm

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    No chance, he left Valencia because he disagreed with the directors, he didn't get fired though, because he was very successful, and at Liverpool FC he couldn't even form a working relationship with good owners like Hicks and Gillet, people who bought him shitloads of ~£20m players like Johnson, Keane, Torres, Aquilani, Mascherano, he was always having a go at the owners in the media, he only kept his job for so long because the fans loved him. At Inter he lost a shitload of matches, the fans hated him and he was working under Moratti, a man who doesn't take any shit, but what did he say after the Club World Cup? He said to the media that this proves the owner should back me more. He lost his job very shortly after.

    Can you imagine that man working with Abramovich?

    Benitez wants the Chelsea job; Roman denied him.
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    Post by luke. Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:03 pm

    Arsenal last finished 2nd in the 2004-05 season.. so they barely even finish second all the time. Silly argument.
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    Post by crump Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:11 pm

    Aston Villa.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:14 pm

    I thought he would return to the Premier League but Chelsea and Aston Villa have better options available and I doubt he would want to go to Fulham.
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:17 pm

    Jord, don't even bother with RR. Hasn't got a clue.


    Should go to Villa I think, he'd do a very good job there.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:18 pm

    Dan wrote:Jord, don't even bother with RR. Hasn't got a clue.


    Should go to Villa I think, he'd do a very good job there.
    Really depends on whether Ancelotti wants to go there or not.

    If Ancelotti declares his interest for the job they may go for him ahead of Benitez.
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    Post by crump Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:19 pm

    He has the potential to be good at Aston Villa or go to Chelsea and cause calamity.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:28 pm

    crump wrote:He has the potential to be good at Aston Villa or go to Chelsea and cause calamity.
    I don't see him coping with the pressure at Chelsea. When you're there now it's win the Champions League or you're out. Ancelotti found that out the hard way.
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:29 pm

    cheesy wrote:
    crump wrote:He has the potential to be good at Aston Villa or go to Chelsea and cause calamity.
    I don't see him coping with the pressure at Chelsea. When you're there now it's win the Champions League or you're out. Ancelotti found that out the hard way.

    Rafa did very well with us in Europe.

    Although, he needs to be in control to work to his best, he won't get that at Chelsea. Villa will let him just get on with it.
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    Post by Hernandez_14 Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:30 pm

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    Post by Pimp Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:31 pm

    Rafas a quality manager. Whilst he wants to stay in England I think he'll go back to Spain, sadly not valencia because Id have loved to have seen him back at Che.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:33 pm

    Dan wrote:
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    crump wrote:He has the potential to be good at Aston Villa or go to Chelsea and cause calamity.
    I don't see him coping with the pressure at Chelsea. When you're there now it's win the Champions League or you're out. Ancelotti found that out the hard way.

    Rafa did very well with us in Europe.

    Although, he needs to be in control to work to his best, he won't get that at Chelsea. Villa will let him just get on with it.
    He did very well in Europe but in the league he was poor. Ancelotti was able to buy himself some more time because he won the league and FA Cup in his 1st season but if Benitez didn't win the Champions League he would probably get sacked.
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:37 pm

    cheesy wrote:
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    crump wrote:He has the potential to be good at Aston Villa or go to Chelsea and cause calamity.
    I don't see him coping with the pressure at Chelsea. When you're there now it's win the Champions League or you're out. Ancelotti found that out the hard way.

    Rafa did very well with us in Europe.

    Although, he needs to be in control to work to his best, he won't get that at Chelsea. Villa will let him just get on with it.
    He did very well in Europe but in the league he was poor. Ancelotti was able to buy himself some more time because he won the league and FA Cup in his 1st season but if Benitez didn't win the Champions League he would probably get sacked.

    Wouldn't say he was poor in the league, aside from his last season, we overachieved massively under him. Especially the year we finished second.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:40 pm

    Dan wrote:
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    crump wrote:He has the potential to be good at Aston Villa or go to Chelsea and cause calamity.
    I don't see him coping with the pressure at Chelsea. When you're there now it's win the Champions League or you're out. Ancelotti found that out the hard way.

    Rafa did very well with us in Europe.

    Although, he needs to be in control to work to his best, he won't get that at Chelsea. Villa will let him just get on with it.
    He did very well in Europe but in the league he was poor. Ancelotti was able to buy himself some more time because he won the league and FA Cup in his 1st season but if Benitez didn't win the Champions League he would probably get sacked.

    Wouldn't say he was poor in the league, aside from his last season, we overachieved massively under him. Especially the year we finished second.
    He did okay in the league but his success was largely based on what he did in the Champions League for you.

    If it hadn't been for your incredible run and eventual victory in 2005 he would have possibly been sacked as you finished 5th in the league and went out of the FA Cup to Burnley in the earlier stages.
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    Post by Kaka11|LFC Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:41 pm

    I hate how when you say overachieved, it makes it seem like your undermining the achievement/success. Maybe its true, but all that means is that he got the best out of their potential, the next season we massively underachieved, we will never know why but thats just how it happened.
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:44 pm

    cheesy wrote:
    Dan wrote:
    cheesy wrote:
    Dan wrote:
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    I don't see him coping with the pressure at Chelsea. When you're there now it's win the Champions League or you're out. Ancelotti found that out the hard way.

    Rafa did very well with us in Europe.

    Although, he needs to be in control to work to his best, he won't get that at Chelsea. Villa will let him just get on with it.
    He did very well in Europe but in the league he was poor. Ancelotti was able to buy himself some more time because he won the league and FA Cup in his 1st season but if Benitez didn't win the Champions League he would probably get sacked.

    Wouldn't say he was poor in the league, aside from his last season, we overachieved massively under him. Especially the year we finished second.
    He did okay in the league but his success was largely based on what he did in the Champions League for you.

    If it hadn't been for your incredible run and eventual victory in 2005 he would have possibly been sacked as you finished 5th in the league and went out of the FA Cup to Burnley in the earlier stages.

    He wouldn't have. I can guarentee that, David Moores wouldn't have even considered it.

    Also, you could argue that the Champions League became a priority the further we progressed, because the squad was so thin, we sacrificed the league to proritise Europe.


    @ Kaka, it's the same thing really. We finished second with teams below us having better squads than us.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:46 pm

    Dan wrote:
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    Dan wrote:
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    Rafa did very well with us in Europe.

    Although, he needs to be in control to work to his best, he won't get that at Chelsea. Villa will let him just get on with it.
    He did very well in Europe but in the league he was poor. Ancelotti was able to buy himself some more time because he won the league and FA Cup in his 1st season but if Benitez didn't win the Champions League he would probably get sacked.

    Wouldn't say he was poor in the league, aside from his last season, we overachieved massively under him. Especially the year we finished second.
    He did okay in the league but his success was largely based on what he did in the Champions League for you.

    If it hadn't been for your incredible run and eventual victory in 2005 he would have possibly been sacked as you finished 5th in the league and went out of the FA Cup to Burnley in the earlier stages.

    He wouldn't have. I can guarentee that, David Moores wouldn't have even considered it.

    Also, you could argue that the Champions League became a priority the further we progressed, because the squad was so thin, we sacrificed the league to proritise Europe.


    @ Kaka, it's the same thing really. We finished second with teams below us having better squads than us.
    I don't think that you overachieved the year you came 2nd. Your squad at the time was better than Arsenal's and arguably better than Chelsea's as well.

    Remember you won quite a few games without Torres and Gerrard so think what coulf have happened if they had both been fully fit for the whole season.
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    Post by Guest Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:48 pm

    cheesy wrote:
    Dan wrote:
    cheesy wrote:
    Dan wrote:
    cheesy wrote:
    He did very well in Europe but in the league he was poor. Ancelotti was able to buy himself some more time because he won the league and FA Cup in his 1st season but if Benitez didn't win the Champions League he would probably get sacked.

    Wouldn't say he was poor in the league, aside from his last season, we overachieved massively under him. Especially the year we finished second.
    He did okay in the league but his success was largely based on what he did in the Champions League for you.

    If it hadn't been for your incredible run and eventual victory in 2005 he would have possibly been sacked as you finished 5th in the league and went out of the FA Cup to Burnley in the earlier stages.

    He wouldn't have. I can guarentee that, David Moores wouldn't have even considered it.

    Also, you could argue that the Champions League became a priority the further we progressed, because the squad was so thin, we sacrificed the league to proritise Europe.


    @ Kaka, it's the same thing really. We finished second with teams below us having better squads than us.
    I don't think that you overachieved the year you came 2nd. Your squad at the time was better than Arsenal's and arguably better than Chelsea's as well.

    Remember you won quite a few games without Torres and Gerrard so think what coulf have happened if they had both been fully fit for the whole season.

    We did, but we also had them absent for a long time the following season and finished 7th.
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    Post by El Jefe Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:52 pm

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    No chance, he left Valencia because he disagreed with the directors, he didn't get fired though, because he was very successful, and at Liverpool FC he couldn't even form a working relationship with good owners like Hicks and Gillet, people who bought him shitloads of ~£20m players like Johnson, Keane, Torres, Aquilani, Mascherano, he was always having a go at the owners in the media, he only kept his job for so long because the fans loved him. At Inter he lost a shitload of matches, the fans hated him and he was working under Moratti, a man who doesn't take any shit, but what did he say after the Club World Cup? He said to the media that this proves the owner should back me more. He lost his job very shortly after.

    Can you imagine that man working with Abramovich?

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    Post by Kaka11|LFC Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:52 pm

    But we also lost our dictator in Alonso, thats what really killed us, people can brush it off as much as they want and say it didn't mean that much but Alonso was pivotal to our game. He dictated the game and was at the centre of everything. Because of him being able to dictate the game from deep Gerrard had the freedom to attack getting the best out of him which in turn brought the best out of Torres with their partnership. And Alonso could focus on his game because Mascherano had him and the defense covered. It was a team where everybody could rely on eachother to do their job which brought the best out of everyone.
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    Post by Demba Ba Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:53 pm

    Dan wrote:
    cheesy wrote:
    Dan wrote:
    cheesy wrote:
    Dan wrote:

    Wouldn't say he was poor in the league, aside from his last season, we overachieved massively under him. Especially the year we finished second.
    He did okay in the league but his success was largely based on what he did in the Champions League for you.

    If it hadn't been for your incredible run and eventual victory in 2005 he would have possibly been sacked as you finished 5th in the league and went out of the FA Cup to Burnley in the earlier stages.

    He wouldn't have. I can guarentee that, David Moores wouldn't have even considered it.

    Also, you could argue that the Champions League became a priority the further we progressed, because the squad was so thin, we sacrificed the league to proritise Europe.


    @ Kaka, it's the same thing really. We finished second with teams below us having better squads than us.
    I don't think that you overachieved the year you came 2nd. Your squad at the time was better than Arsenal's and arguably better than Chelsea's as well.

    Remember you won quite a few games without Torres and Gerrard so think what coulf have happened if they had both been fully fit for the whole season.

    We did, but we also had them absent for a long time the following season and finished 7th.
    A lot of that was down to the loss of Xabi Alonso.

    He was just as crucial to your team as Gerrard and Torres but Benitez was happy to let him go and try and get Gareth Barry instead.

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