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Another One-Off Rafa Story

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The only way Rafa will be back if its a joint ticket with Carragher as his number two. Even at that there would still be a big split between the fans.
 
gkmacca said:
You're right. Don't bring back McLaren!
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Indeed.

Pesam recently made the case as to why nobody should be swayed by a single league title when talking about McLaren. The exact same argument applies to Rafa.
 
Rosco said:
Indeed.

Pesam recently made the case as to why nobody should be swayed by a single league title when talking about McLaren. The exact same argument applies to Rafa.
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Rafa won TWO titles Rosco, in amongst the sackings and arguments.
 
To be fair, winning a title with Twente up against Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord is pretty impressive in itself.
 
Rafa has run his course. Something dramatic will have to happen for his return. I just don't see it happening.
 
After being thrown out of the studio during a recording of Pointless, TWICE, you still keep using this abusive phrase?
 
gkmacca said:
After being thrown out of the studio during a recording of Pointless, TWICE, you still keep using this abusive phrase?
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It's a term of endearment.

I hope Rafa comes back. It wouldn't take long before people came to their senses
 
quote="Rosco, post: 908821, member: 5"]I'll sway you on Brenten next[/quote]

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studsup said:
Benitez's 2nd and 3rd place finishes were punctuated with a 4th-placed finish in the middle and bookended by 5th and 7th place finishes. We finished 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 4th, 2nd, 7th under him. In the league, his record was not much better than Houllier's seasons in charge (7th - joint management with Evans, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 5th, 4th). Evans' record was 4-3-4-3, so not much better/worse than either of his successors too.

Ultimately, Evans, Houllier and Benitez all paid for not delivering on the key target of their jobs. Our targets have changed now, but that's a combination of the effects of the bad decisions taken at both the board and team level (appointing the wrong manager, buying/selling the wrong players, etc.) rather than just who was managing the team.

However, with the exception of Hodgson, all the recent managers left their mark in different, constructive ways. Houllier is largely credited with bringing discipline and a more professional attitude to the club, while Benitez's most telling contribution may well be bringing in the likes of McParland, Borrell and Segura to revamp the Academy. While Kenny's full season in charge was a major disappointment in terms of league results, he brought renewed hope in taking us to a pair of cup finals and winning a cup after a couple of painful seasons to forget
If we're to get back to where we were, it'd be on the foundations laid down by these guys. I prefer to have it that way, than to over-romanticize over the notion that a messiah will return and lead us back to the promised land. We tried that a season and a half ago; that worked for the half season and then it went flat again (albeit with some flashes of hope).
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Wow selective a bit, Rafa got us to the 5th in his first season which also included TWO cup finals one which also won us the European cup,what a shifty season that was finishing 5th !

Let's hope the fuck that never happens again eh?

In all reality his ONLY bad season was his last and even then we got to the Europa League semi's with only a perfectly good goal being disallowed stopping him taking us to our 3rd European final in his five year tenure.

What a fucking disaster eh?
 
Asbo said:
Wow selective a bit, Rafa got us to the 5th in his first season which also included TWO cup finals one which also won us the European cup,what a shifty season that was finishing 5th !

Let's hope the fuck that never happens again eh?

In all reality his ONLY bad season was his last and even then we got to the Europa League semi's with only a perfectly good goal being disallowed stopping him taking us to our 3rd European final in his five year tenure.

What a fucking disaster eh?
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Yeah, who would want those days back eh? It's better to have a project don't you know. Fecking Rafa, he made mistakes, he wasn't perfect so why would we want him?

For gods sakes, be bought Alberto Acq. and Robbie Keane that in itself wipes out 2005
 
Jerry Laser said:
So you are trying to quantify that Gareth Barry is a better player than Xabi Alonso with that?
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I think what Rafa saw in Gareth Barry was a more dynamic partner for SG. Alonso for all his talents lacked pace in the middle, and he probably noticed like many people that SG, and Barry had a natural chemistry when playing for England together. There was nothing wrong with that - no one is doubting Alonso's ability as a player but I sometimes think that the speed of the PL was not a perfect fit for him.
 
moron said:
I think what Rafa saw in Gareth Barry was a more dynamic partner for SG. Alonso for all his talents lacked pace in the middle, and he probably noticed like many people that SG, and Barry had a natural chemistry when playing for England together. There was nothing wrong with that - no one is doubting Alonso's ability as a player but I sometimes think that the speed of the PL was not a perfect fit for him.
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I think we also have to remember that this Rafa move was after Alonso had not had his usual typically inspired season
 
moron said:
I think what Rafa saw in Gareth Barry was a more dynamic partner for SG. Alonso for all his talents lacked pace in the middle, and he probably noticed like many people that SG, and Barry had a natural chemistry when playing for England together. There was nothing wrong with that - no one is doubting Alonso's ability as a player but I sometimes think that the speed of the PL was not a perfect fit for him.
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Well Barry is fairly pedestrian too, but Rafa didn't want Barry for CM. He said he wanted him to play on the left.
 
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