That still bothers me to this day.
Another One-Off Rafa Story
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That still bothers me to this day.
Yeah, he's a right speedster that Gareth Barry. Not to mention the fact that he can do a slightly-better-than-shit job at left midfield and left back. The possibilities are endless!
It was utterly fucking stupid of Benitez to consider that Barry would be an improvement on Alonso, and a number of us here said it at the time. Anyone that couldn't see it should have been convinced by our dramatic fall from grace after he left. He was pivotal to our play, and there's no way in the world that Gareth fucking Barry could have replaced him. It would take an utter moron to suggest otherwise. Oh.
As for his recent comments, well, nothing surprises me these days. He's fucking delusional, and his ego is eating him alive.
A bit off to be talking about being the Liverpool manager again when someone is in the job. Anyway, can't see it ever happening, certainly not under these owners.
Yeah, he never entered the equation it seems for the owners last time.
But when they resulted from the DOF idea so easily last time, you'd wonder if they might change their minds again.
But the thing that's been apparent in Boston in the past year is they are very image conscious with their appointments and even player signings with the Red Sox because their public image has been tarnished so much in the last 2 years. I can't imagine Rafa doing anything positive for the clubs image or for theirs.
If you ask me it probably wasnt like that. It has been said by Rafa or Xabi recently that their relationship was purely "professional", which in my eyes means they didnt see eye to eye. I suspect Rafa was putting his foot down or Xabi was and basically created this issue that occured. Rafa could be a stubborn bastard at the best of times, even to the detriment of his own project.....
Benitez was quoted in the Spanish press as saying he would “almost certainly” return to Liverpool in the future, but speaking ahead of Chelsea's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Rubin Kazan in Moscow he insisted he was referring to the city rather than the club.
“I have my family in Liverpool so that is my home and I will come back to Liverpool any time,” he said. “Just to clarify: I’m talking about my home, where my family is, not the team.”
Read more: Liverpool Echo http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2013/04/11/there-s-no-looking-back-at-liverpool-fc-brendan-rodgers-responds-to-rafa-benitez-specualtion-100252-33153659/#ixzz2Q9OyhLdf
“I have my family in Liverpool so that is my home and I will come back to Liverpool any time,” he said. “Just to clarify: I’m talking about my home, where my family is, not the team.”
Read more: Liverpool Echo http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2013/04/11/there-s-no-looking-back-at-liverpool-fc-brendan-rodgers-responds-to-rafa-benitez-specualtion-100252-33153659/#ixzz2Q9OyhLdf
Anyone who writes him off or disregards his achievement is blinded. That said, its a strange thing to say. Think his just trying to 'sell' himself to top clubs, a bit like how agents do the talking about their players.
http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarContenidos&idioma=in&ca=13
Just look at some of the records he set/broke.
http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarContenidos&idioma=in&ca=13
Just look at some of the records he set/broke.
This. It wasn't that he was poor (he wasn't), just that he didn't reach his own high standards, and TBH he hadn't really done so the previous season either. Alonso was Rafa's very first signing for us so there can't be any doubt that Rafa originally held him in high regard, and one thing on which most people seem to agree (rightly IMO) about Rafa is that he isn't a man to change his mind quickly or easily. I simply don't buy the idea that Alonso's departure was nothing more than a brain fart of Rafa's.
I dont even know what this is supposed to mean.
But then its you. So i dont care.
... and then posted, along with a load of other shamelessly embellished, relatively meaningless records, on his own website.
He won us the Champions League (which of course I will treasure until the day I die), and took us very close in the league one year. He also spent a great deal of time whinging that he didn't have enough money, whilst spending more than anyone else except Chelsea. It's painful watching him now, but ultimately, he was, and is, an infuriating man, who with just a sliver of humility and self-awareness, might have been the manager he thinks he is.
Or you could just fuck off.
Go to RAWK or some other fawning hole.
Go on lad, you'll love it.
I'd just love us to sell him
He didn't.
He said he was a player who could play multiple positions, left wing being one of them.
Let's be honest though Ry, it's not beyond the realms for Rafa to play a slow pedestrian player on the wing...
Really liked him as our manager, but yes, this was his most baffling and frustrating trait.
I was very scared when he tried to get Barry.
That was ONE game and one game only.
Nowhere near as problematic as his fetish for not very technical and slow wingers.
Nowhere near as problematic as his fetish for not very technical and slow wingers.
I think when Rafa does inexplicable and stupid things (and it's not as rare as you suggest, jm), he's genuinely trying to prove to the world that he's seen something that the rest of us haven't. Then if it works he can claim it was a masterstroke and add it to the list of achievements on his website. Problem is it mostly doesn't and he ends up looking like he's lost the plot.
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