Light the touch paper

[Skullflower]

[quote author=jexykrodic link=topic=38372.msg1031070#msg1031070 date=1263151763]
I wish Xabi hadn't reminded us of the missed opportunity with Barry, he would have improved us.

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yep barry would have been great for us.

 

[ILD]

[quote author=Brendan link=topic=38372.msg1031059#msg1031059 date=1263150012]
All he does is pass

Lucarse is much better
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🙁

 

[keniget]

[quote author=Skullflower link=topic=38372.msg1031066#msg1031066 date=1263151029]
gutting.
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Totally. Still pains me to think about it.

That move for Barry was a disaster from inception to end.

 

[Loch Ness Monster]

"He doesn't operate the same way to a lot of other managers, but you can't deny that he is successful in what he does. He keeps his distance emotionally - you are the player and he is the manager and that's the way he likes it. You have to accept that."

Another one to add to the 'Rafa has poor man-management skills' club.

 

[Judge Jules]

[quote author=keniget link=topic=38372.msg1031090#msg1031090 date=1263155097]
[quote author=Skullflower link=topic=38372.msg1031066#msg1031066 date=1263151029]
gutting.
[/quote]

Totally. Still pains me to think about it.

That move for Barry was a disaster from inception to end.
[/quote]

In the end it became one, but I don't agree about the "inception" bit. Alonso - who had been Rafa's own first LFC signing - had been short of his own best standards for quite a while by the time we first went after Barry, who had shown for England how well he dovetails with Stevie G.

 

[Portly]

Although it's to Alonso's eternal credit, that last season, after he had made the decision to go, he produced what was, in my opinion, his best ever form for Liverpool.

 

[ILD]

Yoda-esque Portly.

 

[Portly]

[quote author=ILD link=topic=38372.msg1031156#msg1031156 date=1263168609]
Yoda-esque Portly.
[/quote]

Thank you!

(I think)

🙂

 

[darkstarexodus]

I miss Xabi.

 

[keniget]

[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=38372.msg1031101#msg1031101 date=1263157395]
In the end it became one, but I don't agree about the "inception" bit. Alonso - who had been Rafa's own first LFC signing - had been short of his own best standards for quite a while by the time we first went after Barry, who had shown for England how well he dovetails with Stevie G.
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I've spent months on end arguing against that very opinion you've just posted and seeing people come out with it still riles me. It shouldn't, but it really really does.

 

[Whitey85]

[quote author=Dee link=topic=38372.msg1030875#msg1030875 date=1263118468]
He said: "I feel reborn and I want to smash the world."
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Lol. Did he really say that?

 

[Squiggles]

I prefer the the Purple nickname however....

AQUA, AQUA MAN!

 

[Judge Jules]

[quote author=keniget link=topic=38372.msg1031171#msg1031171 date=1263175173]
[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=38372.msg1031101#msg1031101 date=1263157395]
In the end it became one, but I don't agree about the "inception" bit. Alonso - who had been Rafa's own first LFC signing - had been short of his own best standards for quite a while by the time we first went after Barry, who had shown for England how well he dovetails with Stevie G.
[/quote]

I've spent months on end arguing against that very opinion you've just posted and seeing people come out with it still riles me. It shouldn't, but it really really does.
[/quote]

That wasn't my intention when posting it, but I stand by it all the same.

 

[keniget]

Heh, I know it wasn't JJ. I just very strongly disagree.

It's all by the by now anyways, so no point getting into it.