Rafa Benitez - Can he just sit at home and chillax??

[keniget]

Yeah well there is no doubt he was operating in a restrictive environment (not simply how much money he could spend but how and when he could spend it), but regardless of any of that if you have two fucking awful summers and the team falls apart as a result you can't really argue against getting the sack.

 

[Stulikesdrums]

Shit got real, yo

"I will wait 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. I want to manage Liverpool again. After Kenny retires." Rafa Benitez.

 

[vantage]

I'd love to see the reaction of the Rafa haters had he paid a combined £65m+ for Carroll, Henderson & Downing. This place would have gone into meltdown......

 

[themn]

[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=47171.msg1412994#msg1412994 date=1318802766]
Shit got real, yo

"I will wait 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. I want to manage Liverpool again. After Kenny retires." Rafa Benitez.
[/quote]

I sense a disturbance in The Force......round about the Dublin area.

 

[the count]

[quote author=themn link=topic=47171.msg1413006#msg1413006 date=1318803583]
[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=47171.msg1412994#msg1412994 date=1318802766]
Shit got real, yo

"I will wait 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. I want to manage Liverpool again. After Kenny retires." Rafa Benitez.
[/quote]

I sense a disturbance in The Force......round about the Dublin area.
[/quote]drinkies are going to be fun next week

 

[peterhague]

[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=47171.msg1412994#msg1412994 date=1318802766]
Shit got real, yo

"I will wait 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. I want to manage Liverpool again. After Kenny retires." Rafa Benitez.
[/quote]

oh dear. message to Rafa: if you want the job back, the ONLY way i can ever see it happening is getting yourself another job fucking NOW and proving you're a top manager. he's waiting for the perfect job: it doesn't exist, and if it did, he wouldn't get it.

 

[themn]

When and where is that quote from ?

 

[FoxForceFive]

Erm, you'd presume tonight?

 

[themn]

Erm, not necessarily, Mr Jon Warlock Fox Smart Alec

 

[FoxForceFive]

I'd be amazed if it wasn't.

 

[themn]

Well, let's just wait and see, Mr Cock-a-Doo-Dee.

 

[FoxForceFive]

It was. @propagandaphoto has it on his twitter.

Rafa then said he wants to work in the Premiership, had offers from china russia & Mexico but will wait.

 

[themn]

Indeed. It's from 'An Evening With Rafa Benitez' at The Empire, tonight.

*plots revenge on Jon Fox*

 

[Fabio]

Psssst


Themn

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/vi...p;index=17&nav=SEARCH&nid=74050808920

 

[Rosco]

[quote author=themn link=topic=47171.msg1413006#msg1413006 date=1318803583]
[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=47171.msg1412994#msg1412994 date=1318802766]
Shit got real, yo

"I will wait 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. I want to manage Liverpool again. After Kenny retires." Rafa Benitez.
[/quote]

I sense a disturbance in The Force......round about the Dublin area.
[/quote]

nothing can bring me down right now

 

[Rosco]

[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=47171.msg1413027#msg1413027 date=1318805342]
It was. @propagandaphoto has it on his twitter.

Rafa then said he wants to work in the Premiership, had offers from china russia & Mexico but will wait.
[/quote]

China, Russia and Mexico.

Football superpowers clambering for his managerial expertise.

 

[peterhague]

ha, tbf i thought he was offered the villa job in the summer? if so, he should've taken it imo; it's the best he's going to get right now. in england, at any rate.

 

[Rosco]

Not the reaction I was going for

 

[themn]

[quote author=Fabio link=topic=47171.msg1413032#msg1413032 date=1318806728]
Psssst


Themn

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=300608544386&index=17&nav=SEARCH&nid=74050808920

[/quote]

Blinkin sale's ended.

Don't trouble me with frippery such as this.

 

[Ryan]

[quote author=vantage link=topic=47171.msg1413002#msg1413002 date=1318803360]
I'd love to see the reaction of the Rafa haters had he paid a combined £65m+ for Carroll, Henderson & Downing. This place would have gone into meltdown......
[/quote]

This.

For all Rafa's transfer mistakes, never did he do anything approaching the 35M that was waxed on Big Dunc.

 

[vantage]

Yeah, the anti-Rafa brigade seem to be ignoring this point........

 

[Rosco]

Given the comments are largely aimed at me later tonight I'll dig out the 20 or so threads where I've labelled Carroll and Downing as wastes of money.

 

[Judge Jules]

IMO Rafa will not manage this club again as long as FSG own it. They'd initially have preferred a younger man anyway and took some persuading to give Kenny the job back. I can't see them giving the job to someone with Rafa's history of conflict - justified though much of it was - with the club's owners.

 

[Richey]

I don't think people moaned about Benitez's signings themselves did they? Some worked and some didn't. Same with all managers.

What people got sick of was his moaning about not having money to spend after his signings failed.

 

[Richey]

[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=47171.msg1413092#msg1413092 date=1318837812]
IMO Rafa will not manage this club again as long as FSG own it. They'd initially have preferred a younger man anyway and took some persuading to give Kenny the job back. I can't see them giving the job to someone with Rafa's history of conflict - justified though much of it was - with the club's owners.
[/quote]

Not just our owners, the owners of every club he has managed.

 

[Rosco]

I would be amazed if FSG ever considered him a genuine candidate. I don't see any big club giving him a job anytime soon

 

[keniget]

[quote author=Ryan link=topic=47171.msg1413071#msg1413071 date=1318827086]
[quote author=vantage link=topic=47171.msg1413002#msg1413002 date=1318803360]
I'd love to see the reaction of the Rafa haters had he paid a combined £65m+ for Carroll, Henderson & Downing. This place would have gone into meltdown......
[/quote]

This.

For all Rafa's transfer mistakes, never did he do anything approaching the 35M that was waxed on Big Dunc.
[/quote]

Oh I don't know, 20M on Keane who was essentially finished by that point is definitely up there.

I'm still amazed Spurs gave us some of our money back for him.

 

[Glock21]

Some support Rafa and some don't. This is normal. I want to ask everyone of you which club is the most suitable club for Rafa? I mean club whom owners don't give a fuck whether to buy a sofa or lamp or anything and give total fucking control to Rafa to spend gazillions.


Which club is suitable for Rafa? Man Citeh?

 

[gkmacca]

[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=47171.msg1413027#msg1413027 date=1318805342]
Rafa then said he wants to work in the Premiership, had offers from china russia & Mexico but will wait
[/quote]

...on tables.

 

[peterhague]

[quote author=keniget link=topic=47171.msg1413102#msg1413102 date=1318839091]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=47171.msg1413071#msg1413071 date=1318827086]
[quote author=vantage link=topic=47171.msg1413002#msg1413002 date=1318803360]
I'd love to see the reaction of the Rafa haters had he paid a combined £65m+ for Carroll, Henderson & Downing. This place would have gone into meltdown......
[/quote]

This.

For all Rafa's transfer mistakes, never did he do anything approaching the 35M that was waxed on Big Dunc.
[/quote]

Oh I don't know, 20M on Keane who was essentially finished by that point is definitely up there.

I'm still amazed Spurs gave us some of our money back for him.
[/quote]

quite a lot, too. anywhere between £12-16m - i think that was even dafter than us singing him in the first place.