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Benitez delighted by Purslow impact

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BENITEZ DELIGHTED BY PURSLOW IMPACT
Paul Hassall 14 September 2009

Rafael Benitez and Christian Purslow have today spoken of the burgeoning relationship they believe can lead Liverpool into a bright future.
The Reds' managing director has made an impressive impact during his short time at Anfield and has developed an understanding with the Spanish manager that they both believe can help bring the club a new era of success.

"We are working very hard together, very close," said Rafa.

"I would say we have a meeting not just every week but every day. We are on the phone and as soon as I try to do something or want to do something, he is there.

"So we are working very hard here and I think the relationship is good. I am really pleased.

"I think he understands the club. He was telling me about some games and he remembers who scored the winning goals and things like this – so sometimes it's a problem for me!

"He loves the club and he wants the best for the club."

The boss' glowing words are echoed by Purslow, himself a fluent Spanish speaker, who is full of praise for both Rafa the manager, and Rafa the business man.

"An absolutely key part of my job, is to make sure that the business and football side work well together," he said.

"And in people terms that means Rafa and I working well together.

"My view is that we have an extremely close professional working relationship. We speak all the time. We have very specific plans that we work to and stick to.

"I enjoy immensely that part of my work. Again central to success in any football club is the relationship between the leadership of the business and the football manager working well.

"And I couldn't be more pleased three months in as to how that is working.

"And Rafa – he's a pleasure to work with because not only is he a great football manager, he's extremely commercially literate.

"But I wouldn't be too excited about the Spanish – in that Rafa's English is excellent and he constantly tells me that my Spanish is terrible!"

The Reds' new managing director was also keen to point out that he has no intention of getting involved in team affairs and is committed to the 'football plan' he has helped devise alongside Benitez.

He said: "It is entirely the manager's job to decide who he wants in the football club at any point in time and I don't believe that should be second guessed. And it isn't.

"My job is to support that and to provide the financial backdrop to make that possible and that's exactly how it works. So every player at the club today is a player Rafa wants here.

"That's the way it must be and that's the way it will always be between him and I. We work together on that basis.

"And no, he's not going to buy a player because I want him to and he's not going to sell a player because I want him to. He's going to make all of those footballing decisions.

"And where we have to work well is in making sure we do so within a broad framework.

"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"And I'm delighted to say that we achieved all of those goals over the summer transfer window."
 
Interesting quotes.


"My job is to support that and to provide the financial backdrop to make that possible and that's exactly how it works. So every player at the club today is a player Rafa wants here.


"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"And I'm delighted to say that we achieved all of those goals over the summer transfer window."
 
I wonder is rafa slags off parry on the phone to purslow?

rafa - 'that parry was a bit shit wasn't he...?'
purslow - *sigh* 'yes, rafa he wasn't really good as you've been telling me for the last half hour, now can we FINALLY take about the plans for the january transfer window?'
rafa - 'for sure'
purslow - '...well, go on then'
rafa - '...that parry really wasn't very good at his job...'
purslow - *click*
 
We didnt previously have a list of players to buy or sell for broad values within an agreed budget?!

Fucking hell.

Actually, that explains a helluva lot.
 
[quote author=keniget link=topic=35823.msg943357#msg943357 date=1252941163]
Heh, "The Football Plan"...
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I bet it took them ages to come up with that.
 
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943352#msg943352 date=1252940786]
"that's the way it will always be between him and I."

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His English isn't much better than his Spanish.
 
"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"Of having a list of players to sell or buy" - Rafa - Here's a list of players I'd like, and here's also the get rid of list

"For broad values" - Other clubs will rip us off for the players we want, and rape us for the players we want to get rid of

"within an agreed budget" - Perslow - Rafa, you can spend what you make from sales
 
[quote author=Mors link=topic=35823.msg943368#msg943368 date=1252942507]
"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"Of having a list of players to sell or buy" - Rafa - Here's a list of players I'd like, and here's also the get rid of list

"For broad values" - Other clubs will rip us off for the players we want, and rape us for the players we want to get rid of

"within an agreed budget" - Perslow - Rafa, you can spend what you make from sales


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Er, what?
 
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943360#msg943360 date=1252941247]
[quote author=keniget link=topic=35823.msg943357#msg943357 date=1252941163]
Heh, "The Football Plan"...
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I bet it took them ages to come up with that.
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It's fucking clever though, we must be paying him a lot .
I wonder what he calls the commercial side, perhaps it is something really exotic like "The Money Plan"
Well at least the two of them seem to be hitting it off, which is crucial
regards
 
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=35823.msg943371#msg943371 date=1252943005]
[quote author=Mors link=topic=35823.msg943368#msg943368 date=1252942507]
"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"Of having a list of players to sell or buy" - Rafa - Here's a list of players I'd like, and here's also the get rid of list

"For broad values" - Other clubs will rip us off for the players we want, and rape us for the players we want to get rid of

"within an agreed budget" - Perslow - Rafa, you can spend what you make from sales


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Er, what?

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I thought the last line was the best thing Mors has ever posted.
 
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[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=35823.msg943371#msg943371 date=1252943005]
[quote author=Mors link=topic=35823.msg943368#msg943368 date=1252942507]
"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"Of having a list of players to sell or buy" - Rafa - Here's a list of players I'd like, and here's also the get rid of list

"For broad values" - Other clubs will rip us off for the players we want, and rape us for the players we want to get rid of

"within an agreed budget" - Perslow - Rafa, you can spend what you make from sales


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Er, what?

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I thought the last line was the best thing Mors has ever posted.

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Thats hardly saying much.
 
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=35823.msg943373#msg943373 date=1252943044]
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943360#msg943360 date=1252941247]
[quote author=keniget link=topic=35823.msg943357#msg943357 date=1252941163]
Heh, "The Football Plan"...
[/quote]

I bet it took them ages to come up with that.
[/quote]

It's fucking clever though, we must be paying him a lot .
I wonder what he calls the commercial side, perhaps it is something really exotic like "The Money Plan"
Well at least the two of them seem to be hitting it off, which is crucial
regards
[/quote]

After coming up with that idea, I'd suggest that you send in your CV to Mr Purslow.
 
[quote author=TheBunnyman link=topic=35823.msg943375#msg943375 date=1252943238]
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=35823.msg943371#msg943371 date=1252943005]
[quote author=Mors link=topic=35823.msg943368#msg943368 date=1252942507]
"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"Of having a list of players to sell or buy" - Rafa - Here's a list of players I'd like, and here's also the get rid of list

"For broad values" - Other clubs will rip us off for the players we want, and rape us for the players we want to get rid of

"within an agreed budget" - Perslow - Rafa, you can spend what you make from sales


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Er, what?

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I thought the last line was the best thing Mors has ever posted.

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Perhaps but point 1 is based on sweet FA, and the fact that we just sold someone for £30M makes point 2 sound a little bit mental

Cynicism for the sake of it.
 
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943379#msg943379 date=1252943579]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=35823.msg943373#msg943373 date=1252943044]
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943360#msg943360 date=1252941247]
[quote author=keniget link=topic=35823.msg943357#msg943357 date=1252941163]
Heh, "The Football Plan"...
[/quote]

I bet it took them ages to come up with that.
[/quote]

It's fucking clever though, we must be paying him a lot .
I wonder what he calls the commercial side, perhaps it is something really exotic like "The Money Plan"
Well at least the two of them seem to be hitting it off, which is crucial
regards
[/quote]

After coming up with that idea, I'd suggest that you send in your CV to Mr Purslow.



[/quote]

Dear Mr Purslow
You may know me from Six Crazy Minutes as the old wise one, at least that is what I started off as.
I have an idea you might be interested in, a code name for your commercial activities, I think it compliments you on field, and might I say, astutely named "The Football Plan".
I call it "The Money Plan". Yes I know it might seem a little obtuse at first, but if you think about it for a while, it is actually almost as clever as "The Football Plan".

While I am writing Rafa4PM on the site thinks it might be worth sending my CV on the basis of my bright idea.
You will probably know him as that fuckwit who thinks The Lying Rag shines permanently out of Rafa's arse.
You seem to be a pretty switched on cookie, and will have been around Rafa for long enough now to know that in fact it doesn't.
I am sure you have a clever Plan for him, you could call that "The Rafa Plan".

If Rafa's English really is better than your Spanish, I should call it a day on the Spanish class.
Anyways, when you finally invoke "The Rafa Plan", feel free to drop me a line , I am sure with the help of one or two of the brighter ones on the site we can solve your problem.

Kindest regards Vlads Quiff
 
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=35823.msg943388#msg943388 date=1252945296]
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943379#msg943379 date=1252943579]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=35823.msg943373#msg943373 date=1252943044]
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=35823.msg943360#msg943360 date=1252941247]
[quote author=keniget link=topic=35823.msg943357#msg943357 date=1252941163]
Heh, "The Football Plan"...
[/quote]

I bet it took them ages to come up with that.
[/quote]

It's fucking clever though, we must be paying him a lot .
I wonder what he calls the commercial side, perhaps it is something really exotic like "The Money Plan"
Well at least the two of them seem to be hitting it off, which is crucial
regards
[/quote]

After coming up with that idea, I'd suggest that you send in your CV to Mr Purslow.



[/quote]

Dear Mr Purslow
You may know me from Six Crazy Minutes as the old wise one, at least that is what I started off as.
I have an idea you might be interested in, a code name for your commercial activities, I think it compliments you on field, and might I say, astutely named "The Football Plan".
I call it "The Money Plan". Yes I know it might seem a little obtuse at first, but if you think about it for a while, it is actually almost as clever as "The Football Plan".

While I am writing Rafa4PM on the site thinks it might be worth sending my CV on the basis of my bright idea.
You will probably know him as that fuckwit who thinks The Lying Rag shines permanently out of Rafa's arse.
You seem to be a pretty switched on cookie, and will have been around Rafa for long enough now to know that in fact it doesn't.
I am sure you have a clever Plan for him, you could call that "The Rafa Plan".

If Rafa's English really is better than your Spanish, I should call it a day on the Spanish class.
Anyways, when you finally invoke "The Rafa Plan", feel free to drop me a line , I am sure with the help of one or two of the brighter ones on the site we can solve your problem.

Kindest regards Vlads Quiff

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Haha

I like it, let me know how it goes.
 
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[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=35823.msg943371#msg943371 date=1252943005]
[quote author=Mors link=topic=35823.msg943368#msg943368 date=1252942507]
"We call it 'The Football Plan'. That's what we have and that's what we work to. And this summer for the first time we road tested the idea of a Football Plan – of having a list of players to sell or buy for broad values, within an agreed budget.

"Of having a list of players to sell or buy" - Rafa - Here's a list of players I'd like, and here's also the get rid of list

"For broad values" - Other clubs will rip us off for the players we want, and rape us for the players we want to get rid of

"within an agreed budget" - Perslow - Rafa, you can spend what you make from sales


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Er, what?

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I thought the last line was the best thing Mors has ever posted.

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Thats hardly saying much.
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I know. It's called a double-edged compliment.
 
Did anyone read the Mail on Sunday yesterday?

"A Premier League Manager who is happy to share his opinions has good reason to being less forthcoming about what he thinks of his clubs transfer policy. The word is that his contract includes a £2million fine if he publicly critisises the board"

Anyone think it could be Rafa? He has been very quiet, and is usually outspoken - and hasn't he signed a new contract recently?

Surely money wouldn't shut him up?
 
[quote author=IanTheRed link=topic=35823.msg943467#msg943467 date=1252956080]
Surely money wouldn't shut him up?
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The prospect of taking a 2M hit would shut up any manager.
 
[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=35823.msg943528#msg943528 date=1252960511]
It sounds like a Gillett and Hicks idea, doesn't it. By the way, I'm confused about Purslow - he was hired as managing Director, wasn't he, but now the Echo are calling him the 'new CEO'. That is surely still being advertised, isn't it? http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2009/09/14/don-t-miss-our-exclusive-q-a-with-new-liverpool-fc-chief-executive-christian-purslow-100252-24687762/
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In Gillett's interview on Canadian radio last week he said he was delighted with how the MD was doing but that were still looking for a CEO.
 
[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=35823.msg943531#msg943531 date=1252960834]
Presumably it's a slip-up by the Echo, but it's a bit slapdash by them of all papers.
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I always saw MD and CEO as interchangeable terms for the same job. So I was little bit surprised we were on the lookout for a CEO as well
 
[quote author=IanTheRed link=topic=35823.msg943467#msg943467 date=1252956080]
Did anyone read the Mail on Sunday yesterday?

"A Premier League Manager who is happy to share his opinions has good reason to being less forthcoming about what he thinks of his clubs transfer policy. The word is that his contract includes a £2million fine if he publicly critisises the board"

Anyone think it could be Rafa? He has been very quiet, and is usually outspoken - and hasn't he signed a new contract recently?

Surely money wouldn't shut him up?
[/quote]

haha that must be rafa
 
As Purslow is heavily involved in (re)defining it as a role, he's certainly in a powerful position. Something about him gives me the creeps, but maybe anyone in that position would have the same effect!
 
[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=35823.msg943535#msg943535 date=1252961146]
As Purslow is heavily involved in (re)defining it as a role, he's certainly in a powerful position. Something about him gives me the creeps, but maybe anyone in that position would have the same effect!
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Well even so you'd have to say so far, so good.
 
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