Deja Vu

[darkstarexodus]

[quote author=rage link=topic=36284.msg958306#msg958306 date=1254785618]
[quote author=Rafiagra link=topic=36284.msg958300#msg958300 date=1254784870]
Bollocks to déjà vu

We are far better than we were under Houllier. Rafa's signings have been far superior.
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reina > dudek (although dudek has a champions league medal and was exceptional in his first few seasons)
hyypia & henchoz > skertel, agger, greek lad, pelashito
finnan > everyone rafa's played there till he spent 18 million on johnson but i think marcus b was better than johnson
riise > insua and on par with aurelio and as dor the fat italian
didi = masch
igor > lucas although no one is as shit as diao
kewell > riera
garcia/yossi > smicer
torres > cisse, spit
baros > voronin
kuyt > heskey
pongolle and alt > n'gog, el zahr, leto, gonzales, nunez
alonso> anyone houllier had in the team


have i missed anyone? in any case not all of rafa's signings have been far superior
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It's not just a matter of like-versus-like comparisons though. The team we have now works far better as a collective unit than under Houllier. Certainly there have been missteps but Rafa is far from a trainwreck when we look at the team he has assembled.

 

[rage]

[quote author=Ryan link=topic=36284.msg958311#msg958311 date=1254786075]
[quote author=rage link=topic=36284.msg958306#msg958306 date=1254785618]
[quote author=Rafiagra link=topic=36284.msg958300#msg958300 date=1254784870]
Bollocks to déjà vu

We are far better than we were under Houllier. Rafa's signings have been far superior.
[/quote]

reina > dudek (although dudek has a champions league medal and was exceptional in his first few seasons)
hyypia & henchoz > skertel, agger, greek lad, pelashito
finnan > everyone rafa's played there till he spent 18 million on johnson but i think marcus b was better than johnson
riise > insua and on par with aurelio and as dor the fat italian
didi = masch
igor > lucas although no one is as shit as diao
kewell > riera
garcia/yossi > smicer
torres > cisse, spit
baros > voronin
kuyt > heskey
pongolle and alt > n'gog, el zahr, leto, gonzales, nunez
alonso> anyone houllier had in the team


have i missed anyone? in any case not all of rafa's signings have been far superior
[/quote]

What a heap of laughable one-eyed bollocks.
[/quote]

why? because it shows rafa has bought badly on occasion rather than accepting his players are/were 'far superior' to houllier's. that is what i was responding to.

i'm not sure how its one eyed seeing as i feel that there are plenty of rafa signings on that list that are better than what we had before.

 

[Farkmaster]

[quote author=rage link=topic=36284.msg958573#msg958573 date=1254835634]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=36284.msg958311#msg958311 date=1254786075]
[quote author=rage link=topic=36284.msg958306#msg958306 date=1254785618]
[quote author=Rafiagra link=topic=36284.msg958300#msg958300 date=1254784870]
Bollocks to déjà vu

We are far better than we were under Houllier. Rafa's signings have been far superior.
[/quote]

reina > dudek (although dudek has a champions league medal and was exceptional in his first few seasons)
hyypia & henchoz > skertel, agger, greek lad, pelashito
finnan > everyone rafa's played there till he spent 18 million on johnson but i think marcus b was better than johnson
riise > insua and on par with aurelio and as dor the fat italian
didi = masch
igor > lucas although no one is as shit as diao
kewell > riera
garcia/yossi > smicer
torres > cisse, spit
baros > voronin
kuyt > heskey
pongolle and alt > n'gog, el zahr, leto, gonzales, nunez
alonso> anyone houllier had in the team


have i missed anyone? in any case not all of rafa's signings have been far superior
[/quote]

What a heap of laughable one-eyed bollocks.
[/quote]

why? because it shows rafa has bought badly on occasion rather than accepting his players are/were 'far superior' to houllier's. that is what i was responding to.

i'm not sure how its one eyed seeing as i feel that there are plenty of rafa signings on that list that are better than what we had before.
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You still haven't addressed any of my points, again:

1) How much money you think we'd make selling Babel, Riera, Voronin, Dossena, and El Zhar
2) How that amount of money would buy two quality players, given that the rest (if there was any that year) has been spent saying goodbye to rafa and his staff
3) How this won't leave us thin at LW/forward
4) Who would be the available top class managers who could reasonably be expected to improve on Rafa, by being reasonably expected to win the league in short order.
5) Why these managers would want the job knowing that if you achieve your best success in the league, and the best the team has done for years, you won't have any significant transfer budget the following summer, but will be sacked if you don't win the thing?
6) How it won't be a significant deterrent that the club doesn't really have a sustainable business model without investment, and the two current owners pursuing investment don't appear to talk to one another?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I feel like a sense of Deja Vu. I'm sure I've read the same bollocks spouted by Rage somewhere else.