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Babel £16million
Keane £20million
Dossena £8million
Aquilani £20milion*
*If some of the stories are to be believed he no longer fancies him.
[/quote]Regardless of the money spent, rafa has been pretty woeful in the transfer Market Rebel.
Since the dissolution of houlliers team we have won nothing.
We have a better keeper and one world class forward to show for 6 years (13 transfer windows), and everywhere else we are weaker (or at best equal to) than we were when he took over.
That's the rub kid (rebel) Talk about cleaning up your mistakes all you like. We aren't progressing as a squad in any way*
*I still hold out hope for his youth policy.
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the squad is worth considerably more and if he was so woeful in the transfer market HOW did he manage to receive the third highest fee for a player in the league's history, how has he managed to sign the best striker in the world. HOW has he managed to sign one of the best goalies, the best DM, etc. this is niot the record of someone woeful in the transfer market. I'd say Houllier was woeful in the transfer market, go and look at the players he bought and what they were sold for
[/quote]So what about the other 80 or so players he's signed? We KNOW he got Torres, Reina, Mascherano and Alonso right, we KNOW that, so putting that aside (and bearing in mind I don't give afuck how much money we recoup by selling his failures who were NEVER good enough to play for us in the first place) explain Babel, Keane, Skrtel, Sissoko, Morientes, Nunez, Gonzalez, Zenden, Itjande, Carson, Pennant, Lucas..... This list goes on and on mate and the FACT is player for player we are worse than we were when he took over.
Reina, Gerrard, Torres and Mascherano are the ONLY players who have improved their positions. That's it. 6 years and 100's of millions spent and still (if time weren't a factor) 2001's Henchoz, Finnan, Riise, Hamman, Murphy, Hyppia, Owen and possibly Berger or Smicer would walk into our team and improve it. Thasafack!
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so we KNOW that so lets focus on the failures.
We have signed many players, we have sold many players under Benitez. for someone woeful in the transfer market to get the third highest fee in the league's history for a player he paid £10m for is not bad going, to sign the best striker in the world is not just lucky and it doesn't happen every day, it's exceptional yet you think he is woeful in the transfer market? Have you LOOKED at what other managers have done lately? many if not all are a lot worse (bar Wenger)
so for you to hysterically say Benitez is woeful is wrong and makes you look silly.
[/quote]So you are just going to ignore the massively unimpressive ratio of shit signings to good and just keep repeating that he isn't woeful in the transfer Market because we sold Alonso for a lot of money and Torres us worth a lot? Is that it then? End of argument? He's not woeful because once in a bluemoon he signs a worldy, and it doesn't matter about all the shit we've signed and how our first team hasn't improved because-
a) see the first sentence.
b) he sometimes gets decent money shipping the shit on proofing what a Market trading genius he is.
Cool, good chatting with you.
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so all the shit he signed managed 87 points in a harder era but the superior 01 team couldnt manage it?
[/quote]Look I understand what your trying to do, you think that by making up something I didn't say and then by boring everyone to tears with mindless detail about how this league is harder to win than that one you somehow think people will forget what a tedious cockend you've made of yourself for the last 10 pages. I hope they do Rebel, but I'd rather rub glass into my bellend than continue this charade any longer. It's like arguing with a child....an autistic child.....with brain damage....born of a relationship between a man and a handicapped chimp.