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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
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Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
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6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
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There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
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Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
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6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
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There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
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Oh dear!

Its not all about the money you baloonhead!!

Wenger has won titles and built two great teams at Arsenal with this set to be his 3rd great team. Agreed he's 2 players short. A top class keeper and a dominant DM. But he's earned to right to let this team grow and mature.

Arsenal, like Liverpool, aren't on the Chelski/ Citeh / Manure level of finance, but would you ever say that winning the title was no longer a realistic aim for your club? And if the general feeling was that Arsenal could no longer compete, what would that mean for Wenger's future??

Wenger has probably made Arsenal more than he's spend in his time. And i'd say its probably a lot more. He's proven you don't need to be handed vast amounts to spend when you buy the right players.

And don't give me shit about the time Wenger took to win his first title.
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
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oh, NINE games...
[/quote]Dont get fucking sarccy with me, ive already said im not in favour of it, im pointing out that your shameless sensationalising and belittleing are duly noted.
I think sacking a manager 9 games into a season is daft but that doesnt mean im right.

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I wouldn't sake the manager after nine games even if he'd lost all nine games and were rock bottom of the league. people wanted rafa out during the winter slump but we eventually came 2nd. I'm not going to make out I have the patience of job but there is a right time and a wrong time and personally I don't ever thing the right time is midseason.
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Mid-season?? ?? Yeah right! Its mid-October now boy!!! Mid-October!!!!!!
 
Sack the manager after 9 games? Have all the changes made this an Everton site?
More sensationalist bollocks from the lunatic fringe. Agree with Farky's post.
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
[/quote]

Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
[/quote]

6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
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There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
[/quote]

Oh dear!

Its not all about the money you baloonhead!!

Wenger has won titles and built two great teams at Arsenal with this set to be his 3rd great team. Agreed he's 2 players short. A top class keeper and a dominant DM. But he's earned to right to let this team grow and mature.

Arsenal, like Liverpool, aren't on the Chelski/ Citeh / Manure level of finance, but would you ever say that winning the title was no longer a realistic aim for your club? And if the general feeling was that Arsenal could no longer compete, what would that mean for Wenger's future??

Wenger has probably made Arsenal more than he's spend in his time. And i'd say its probably a lot more. He's proven you don't need to be handed vast amounts to spend when you buy the right players.

And don't give me shit about the time Wenger took to win his first title.
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since chelsea and manu have spent big what exactly have arsenal won?
 
Given our site's been given a nice face lift, I think it's only fair that we add a new forum, right at the bottom of the forum list, especially for our 'special' friends.
 
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I've used the ignore function.

*bliss*
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Can you see his posts when other people quote them?
 
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Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
[/quote]

Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
[/quote]

6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
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There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
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Oh dear!

Its not all about the money you baloonhead!!

Wenger has won titles and built two great teams at Arsenal with this set to be his 3rd great team. Agreed he's 2 players short. A top class keeper and a dominant DM. But he's earned to right to let this team grow and mature.

Arsenal, like Liverpool, aren't on the Chelski/ Citeh / Manure level of finance, but would you ever say that winning the title was no longer a realistic aim for your club? And if the general feeling was that Arsenal could no longer compete, what would that mean for Wenger's future??

Wenger has probably made Arsenal more than he's spend in his time. And i'd say its probably a lot more. He's proven you don't need to be handed vast amounts to spend when you buy the right players.

And don't give me shit about the time Wenger took to win his first title.
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since chelsea and manu have spent big what exactly have arsenal won?
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So you're saying we should hope Manure, Citeh and Chelsea now stop spending for us to be equal on financial terms to win the league?

Has Wenger come out and say he has not enough money to try and compete with Manure and Chelsea?? Fucking hell!
 
Rafa's ten mistakes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/oct/21/rafael-benitez-10-mistakes-liverpool

This summer's transfer strategy
Rafael Benítez has purposely avoided conflict with Liverpool's owners, George Gillett and Tom Hicks, this season but there are signs diplomacy over their budget restrictions is beginning to wane as pressure mounts. "We signed three players and we wanted four," he said before Lyon. The fourth, it is safe to assume, was a forward. Not signing quality cover for Fernando Torres, and being so short of strikers that David Ngog started the critical game against the French and Andriy Voronin was reluctantly brought back from loan at Hertha Berlin, is proving catastrophic

Handling senior players
It is an exaggeration to say Benítez is a completely cold fish with players; sometimes he offers congratulations before pointing out their tactical failings. Even in Istanbul. That detachment is viewed as a positive when results go well, but presented as a weakness when they don't. A request that "senior players take the responsibility and take us forward" after defeat to Aston Villa did not sit well with its intended targets. Outside the dressing room, however, few dispute that Benítez was right

Trusting the owners
Protracted contract negotiations concluded in March with Benítez in control of transfer policy, the youth set-up and being promised around £20m to spend this summer above whatever he raised through sales. Hicks and Gillett had sold their master tactician a dummy. As summer progressed it materialised that the improved contracts given to Steven Gerrard, Torres, Dirk Kuyt, Daniel Agger, Yossi Benayoun and José Reina were coming out of Benítez's transfer budget. Yet another reason for the Spaniard to rue the day David Moores accepted the Americans' higher bid for his majority shareholding

Poor signings
While Benítez has been restrained on some transfers – such as when he discovered he had less than £2m for a new central defender late this summer, hence Sotirios Kyrgiakos – he has squandered plenty. Inexpensive errors such as Josemi, Antonio Núñez and Mauricio Pellegrino were excusable as he overhauled the squad and concentrated resources on Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano or Fernando Torres. But to be six seasons into the job and have a squad utterly reliant on two players, one inherited, while £11m Ryan Babel was left on the bench against Lyon is damning

Control of the youth academy
Martin Kelly was exceptional against Lyon on Tuesday, though not only in the sense of his impressive full debut. It is a rarity to witness a home-grown, local teenager being deemed worthy of consideration under Benítez and the dearth of talent coming through is why the Spaniard copied Arsène Wenger's global recruitment policy. The issue prompted a fallout with Steve Heighway, revered by Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, but many would argue this summer's radical overhaul of the academy system was long overdue

Distracted by events beyond his control
Gérard Houllier's presence at Anfield on Tuesday served as warning of what can happen to Liverpool managers who lose sight of the bigger picture. Benítez was the refreshing antidote to the stale odour of Houllier's final years when he took charge in 2004. Out went a fixation with statistics or United's greater spending power as a means to defend poor performances and an obsession with ex-Liverpool players turned media pundits. That is creeping back

Too passive over international call-ups
The Liverpool manager frequently complains about international commitments and their repercussions but rarely prevents his players, even those carrying slight injuries, from joining their national teams. Unlike, for example, Manchester United, Liverpool players do not often develop sudden, mysterious problems ahead of an international week. Torres suffered three injuries with Spain last season that may have cost Liverpool the title. Spain and England had qualified for the World Cup before their recent qualifiers, but Gerrard and Torres travelled with slight injuries and returned far worse

The 'list of facts' against Ferguson
Few managers would dispute the truth in Benítez's accusations against "the Ayatollah" in January – just not in public – with the list representing years of simmering frustration and arguably extended by events at Old Trafford this season. It was also a deliberate tactical ploy by the Spaniard, designed to heighten pressure on United ahead of their home game with Chelsea and as Liverpool looked to extend their Premier League lead at Stoke. Results that weekend ensured it backfired badly and Benítez has been hostage to the outburst ever since

Xabi Alonso's transfer
Or, rather, dealing with it. Getting £30m for a player who wanted to join Real Madrid, double what Benítez had been hawking him around Europe for the previous summer following two mediocre campaigns by the Spanish midfielder, was decent business. Replacing him with Alberto Aquilani, an Italy international who may well re-energise Liverpool but has been injured since March, was a risk that has heightened with every defeat. Liverpool could not afford patience this season and Aquilani's absence, coupled with Javier Mascherano's poor form, has brought an overreliance on Lucas Leiva; not the disaster many claim but a squad player all the same

Taking on too many internal battles
It is over five years now of being frustrated with Liverpool's transfer dealings, waiting for new investment, being caught in the middle of a divided regime when it finally came, seeing his job offered to Jürgen Klinsmann, falling out with trusted lieutenant Pako Ayesterán, involved in an internal power struggle with former chief executive Rick Parry and all the while seeing United, Chelsea and now Manchester City improve relentlessly. Many scraps were unavoidable, many were self-inflicted, and it is not alarmist to suggest that Benítez is looking battle-weary
 
Glock, you're such a cock.

What fucking good is it going to do by sacking Rafa? Fuck all! Yes, Rafa has his failings, but so do other managers. At this moment in time, it is not viable to sack Rafa for a number of reasons that have already been explained to death on this forum. You do not just become a bad manager overnight. At the end of the day, if (and a big if) we beat the twats from old toilet at the weekend we'll only be 4 points behnid them. Hopefully a win will give the team and club a massive confidence boost, and with injured players returning, we can get our season going again, including 3 champions league victories.

So what do you say, get off your high horse demanding rafa quits and get behind the team like any real fan would in these diffcult times?
 
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Glock, you're such a cock.

What fucking good is it going to do by sacking Rafa? Fuck all! Yes, Rafa has his failings, but so do other managers. At this moment in time, it is not viable to sack Rafa for a number of reasons that have already been explained to death on this forum. You do not just become a bad manager overnight. At the end of the day, if (and a big if) we beat the twats from old toilet at the weekend we'll only be 4 points behnid them. Hopefully a win will give the team and club a massive confidence boost, and with injured players returning, we can get our season going again, including 3 champions league victories.

So what do you say, get off your high horse demanding rafa quits and get behind the team like any real fan would in these diffcult times?
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Says Rafael fan like you. Yeah if we win against Manure blah blah blah....if we lose?? ?? You'll be the first one on your donkey and demand Rafael's sacking. Idiot.
 
No I wouldn't you prick. You should ride off into the distance on the donkey and take your bollocks views with you.
 
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Glock = Cock
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Couldn't agree more. I'm sure we're not the only ones who think the same.
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
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Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
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6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
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There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
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Oh dear!

Its not all about the money you baloonhead!!

Wenger has won titles and built two great teams at Arsenal with this set to be his 3rd great team. Agreed he's 2 players short. A top class keeper and a dominant DM. But he's earned to right to let this team grow and mature.

Arsenal, like Liverpool, aren't on the Chelski/ Citeh / Manure level of finance, but would you ever say that winning the title was no longer a realistic aim for your club? And if the general feeling was that Arsenal could no longer compete, what would that mean for Wenger's future??

Wenger has probably made Arsenal more than he's spend in his time. And i'd say its probably a lot more. He's proven you don't need to be handed vast amounts to spend when you buy the right players.

And don't give me shit about the time Wenger took to win his first title.
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since chelsea and manu have spent big what exactly have arsenal won?
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So you're saying we should hope Manure, Citeh and Chelsea now stop spending for us to be equal on financial terms to win the league?

Has Wenger come out and say he has not enough money to try and compete with Manure and Chelsea?? Fucking hell!
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Its funny how blind some people are. 12 games into the season and we have lost 6 of them, its fucking pathetic and should not be happening to our club.
Rafa is at fault and people need to stop trying to cover his ass. He picks the team we go out and play with and his teams have been fucking shit! he picks the players that we sign and although he has signed some great players like torres, agger, mascher etc he has signed more SHIT than good. wtf is lucas still doing at our club? why is that ponytailed faggot voronin at our club? the greek? degen... rafa is fucking over-rated and his true colours are coming out.
sack the cunt and bring in a coach that doesnt play defensively or leave his substitutions til the 85th minute and take off attacking players for defensive players.
ill use the lyon game as an example. benayoun was one of our better players on the night and instead of making a sub after they scored he waited til there was 5minutes left and instead of taking off lucas who is just a passenger in every game he plays... he takes off benayoun for voronin. He leaves babel on the bench and then babel cops all the stick for being shit. well maybe if our manager believed in him and had some confidence in him, we might see a star player. Id put my life on it that if babel was at a team like arsenal, he would be 1 of the best players in the world atm but no benitez is just a fat fuck.

i agree with glock.. rafa should be gone!!!
bring in someone like laudrup or bilic
 
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Rafa's ten mistakes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/oct/21/rafael-benitez-10-mistakes-liverpool

This summer's transfer strategy
Rafael Benítez has purposely avoided conflict with Liverpool's owners, George Gillett and Tom Hicks, this season but there are signs diplomacy over their budget restrictions is beginning to wane as pressure mounts. "We signed three players and we wanted four," he said before Lyon. The fourth, it is safe to assume, was a forward. Not signing quality cover for Fernando Torres, and being so short of strikers that David Ngog started the critical game against the French and Andriy Voronin was reluctantly brought back from loan at Hertha Berlin, is proving catastrophic

Handling senior players
It is an exaggeration to say Benítez is a completely cold fish with players; sometimes he offers congratulations before pointing out their tactical failings. Even in Istanbul. That detachment is viewed as a positive when results go well, but presented as a weakness when they don't. A request that "senior players take the responsibility and take us forward" after defeat to Aston Villa did not sit well with its intended targets. Outside the dressing room, however, few dispute that Benítez was right

Trusting the owners
Protracted contract negotiations concluded in March with Benítez in control of transfer policy, the youth set-up and being promised around £20m to spend this summer above whatever he raised through sales. Hicks and Gillett had sold their master tactician a dummy. As summer progressed it materialised that the improved contracts given to Steven Gerrard, Torres, Dirk Kuyt, Daniel Agger, Yossi Benayoun and José Reina were coming out of Benítez's transfer budget. Yet another reason for the Spaniard to rue the day David Moores accepted the Americans' higher bid for his majority shareholding

Poor signings
While Benítez has been restrained on some transfers – such as when he discovered he had less than £2m for a new central defender late this summer, hence Sotirios Kyrgiakos – he has squandered plenty. Inexpensive errors such as Josemi, Antonio Núñez and Mauricio Pellegrino were excusable as he overhauled the squad and concentrated resources on Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano or Fernando Torres. But to be six seasons into the job and have a squad utterly reliant on two players, one inherited, while £11m Ryan Babel was left on the bench against Lyon is damning

Control of the youth academy
Martin Kelly was exceptional against Lyon on Tuesday, though not only in the sense of his impressive full debut. It is a rarity to witness a home-grown, local teenager being deemed worthy of consideration under Benítez and the dearth of talent coming through is why the Spaniard copied Arsène Wenger's global recruitment policy. The issue prompted a fallout with Steve Heighway, revered by Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, but many would argue this summer's radical overhaul of the academy system was long overdue

Distracted by events beyond his control
Gérard Houllier's presence at Anfield on Tuesday served as warning of what can happen to Liverpool managers who lose sight of the bigger picture. Benítez was the refreshing antidote to the stale odour of Houllier's final years when he took charge in 2004. Out went a fixation with statistics or United's greater spending power as a means to defend poor performances and an obsession with ex-Liverpool players turned media pundits. That is creeping back

Too passive over international call-ups
The Liverpool manager frequently complains about international commitments and their repercussions but rarely prevents his players, even those carrying slight injuries, from joining their national teams. Unlike, for example, Manchester United, Liverpool players do not often develop sudden, mysterious problems ahead of an international week. Torres suffered three injuries with Spain last season that may have cost Liverpool the title. Spain and England had qualified for the World Cup before their recent qualifiers, but Gerrard and Torres travelled with slight injuries and returned far worse

The 'list of facts' against Ferguson
Few managers would dispute the truth in Benítez's accusations against "the Ayatollah" in January – just not in public – with the list representing years of simmering frustration and arguably extended by events at Old Trafford this season. It was also a deliberate tactical ploy by the Spaniard, designed to heighten pressure on United ahead of their home game with Chelsea and as Liverpool looked to extend their Premier League lead at Stoke. Results that weekend ensured it backfired badly and Benítez has been hostage to the outburst ever since

Xabi Alonso's transfer
Or, rather, dealing with it. Getting £30m for a player who wanted to join Real Madrid, double what Benítez had been hawking him around Europe for the previous summer following two mediocre campaigns by the Spanish midfielder, was decent business. Replacing him with Alberto Aquilani, an Italy international who may well re-energise Liverpool but has been injured since March, was a risk that has heightened with every defeat. Liverpool could not afford patience this season and Aquilani's absence, coupled with Javier Mascherano's poor form, has brought an overreliance on Lucas Leiva; not the disaster many claim but a squad player all the same

Taking on too many internal battles
It is over five years now of being frustrated with Liverpool's transfer dealings, waiting for new investment, being caught in the middle of a divided regime when it finally came, seeing his job offered to Jürgen Klinsmann, falling out with trusted lieutenant Pako Ayesterán, involved in an internal power struggle with former chief executive Rick Parry and all the while seeing United, Chelsea and now Manchester City improve relentlessly. Many scraps were unavoidable, many were self-inflicted, and it is not alarmist to suggest that Benítez is looking battle-weary
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Good read that. Thanks!
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
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Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
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6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
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There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
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Oh dear!

Its not all about the money you baloonhead!!

Wenger has won titles and built two great teams at Arsenal with this set to be his 3rd great team. Agreed he's 2 players short. A top class keeper and a dominant DM. But he's earned to right to let this team grow and mature.

Arsenal, like Liverpool, aren't on the Chelski/ Citeh / Manure level of finance, but would you ever say that winning the title was no longer a realistic aim for your club? And if the general feeling was that Arsenal could no longer compete, what would that mean for Wenger's future??

Wenger has probably made Arsenal more than he's spend in his time. And i'd say its probably a lot more. He's proven you don't need to be handed vast amounts to spend when you buy the right players.

And don't give me shit about the time Wenger took to win his first title.
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since chelsea and manu have spent big what exactly have arsenal won?
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So you're saying we should hope Manure, Citeh and Chelsea now stop spending for us to be equal on financial terms to win the league?

Has Wenger come out and say he has not enough money to try and compete with Manure and Chelsea?? Fucking hell!
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Its funny how blind some people are. 12 games into the season and we have lost 6 of them, its fucking pathetic and should not be happening to our club.
Rafa is at fault and people need to stop trying to cover his ass. He picks the team we go out and play with and his teams have been fucking shit! he picks the players that we sign and although he has signed some great players like torres, agger, mascher etc he has signed more SHIT than good. wtf is lucas still doing at our club? why is that ponytailed faggot voronin at our club? the greek? degen... rafa is fucking over-rated and his true colours are coming out.
sack the cunt and bring in a coach that doesnt play defensively or leave his substitutions til the 85th minute and take off attacking players for defensive players.
ill use the lyon game as an example. benayoun was one of our better players on the night and instead of making a sub after they scored he waited til there was 5minutes left and instead of taking off lucas who is just a passenger in every game he plays... he takes off benayoun for voronin. He leaves babel on the bench and then babel cops all the stick for being shit. well maybe if our manager believed in him and had some confidence in him, we might see a star player. Id put my life on it that if babel was at a team like arsenal, he would be 1 of the best players in the world atm but no benitez is just a fat fuck.

i agree with glock.. rafa should be gone!!!
bring in someone like laudrup or bilic
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Another idiot! Hardly proven league managers are they?
 
Torres suffered three injuries with Spain last season that may have cost Liverpool the title. Spain and England had qualified for the World Cup before their recent qualifiers, but Gerrard and Torres travelled with slight injuries and returned far worse

That is really infuriating ...
 
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Absolutely. I would say though, let's wait until the Man U game. If he loses that he really has no excuses left.

keeping/binning a manager 9 games into the season based the outcome of a single game makes complete sense
[/quote]It wouldnt be based on one game would it? It would be based on 9 games.
[/quote]

Would be based on 6 fucking years more like.
[/quote]

6 years
CL
FAC
CL final
CC final
CL qualification every year
CL 2nd stage every year

conisidering chelsea have spent more money (and they have) and considering the experience of manu I think rafa has done well, dare I say overachieved with a 2nd place finish.
[/quote]

There are plenty of managers that could take this team and with NO MONEY make a couple of moves and make it a title winning team.

Rafa is just not good enough to do it.

Over-achieved with 2nd place?? ??

I'm sure Mourinho would fucking laugh and spit on Rafael's face if Rafael said that to him.
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how much money did jose spend to achieve the league (ignoring the fact the man before him spent a fortune as well). don't make out jose won the league on a shoe string.
[/quote]

Oh dear!

Its not all about the money you baloonhead!!

Wenger has won titles and built two great teams at Arsenal with this set to be his 3rd great team. Agreed he's 2 players short. A top class keeper and a dominant DM. But he's earned to right to let this team grow and mature.

Arsenal, like Liverpool, aren't on the Chelski/ Citeh / Manure level of finance, but would you ever say that winning the title was no longer a realistic aim for your club? And if the general feeling was that Arsenal could no longer compete, what would that mean for Wenger's future??

Wenger has probably made Arsenal more than he's spend in his time. And i'd say its probably a lot more. He's proven you don't need to be handed vast amounts to spend when you buy the right players.

And don't give me shit about the time Wenger took to win his first title.
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since chelsea and manu have spent big what exactly have arsenal won?
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So you're saying we should hope Manure, Citeh and Chelsea now stop spending for us to be equal on financial terms to win the league?

Has Wenger come out and say he has not enough money to try and compete with Manure and Chelsea?? Fucking hell!
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Its funny how blind some people are. 12 games into the season and we have lost 6 of them, its fucking pathetic and should not be happening to our club.
Rafa is at fault and people need to stop trying to cover his ass. He picks the team we go out and play with and his teams have been fucking shit! he picks the players that we sign and although he has signed some great players like torres, agger, mascher etc he has signed more SHIT than good. wtf is lucas still doing at our club? why is that ponytailed faggot voronin at our club? the greek? degen... rafa is fucking over-rated and his true colours are coming out.
sack the cunt and bring in a coach that doesnt play defensively or leave his substitutions til the 85th minute and take off attacking players for defensive players.
ill use the lyon game as an example. benayoun was one of our better players on the night and instead of making a sub after they scored he waited til there was 5minutes left and instead of taking off lucas who is just a passenger in every game he plays... he takes off benayoun for voronin. He leaves babel on the bench and then babel cops all the stick for being shit. well maybe if our manager believed in him and had some confidence in him, we might see a star player. Id put my life on it that if babel was at a team like arsenal, he would be 1 of the best players in the world atm but no benitez is just a fat fuck.

i agree with glock.. rafa should be gone!!!
bring in someone like laudrup or bilic
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Another idiot! Hardly proven league managers are they?
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what we need is clearly something new because we are starting to go backwards..
laudrup, bilic are good coaches... benitez wasnt that special when he first came to us either.
or even bring in mourinho who i think is one of the best coaches in the world if not the best.
6 losses in 12 is pathetic
4losses in the league already compared to 2 losses in 38games last season..
 
Rafa was a damn sight more proven than they are at this moment in time. Yeah Bilic did well for Croatia, but they have gone backwards. As for Laudrup, who's he managed? Getafe? Yes, the number of defeats is not good, but as we are seeing, the big 4 are dropping points this season. Look at chelsea, lost to both Wigan and Villa already, United at home to Sunderland and away to Burnley. Granted we have lost a few more and aren't playing that well, but if we win at the weekend we'll still be close with the leaders. Plus I reckon the likes of Villa, Spurs, Man City and even Sunderland will eventually start to fall by the way side when it comes to the business end of the season.
 
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Its funny how blind some people are. 12 games into the season and we have lost 6 of them, its fucking pathetic and should not be happening to our club.
Rafa is at fault and people need to stop trying to cover his ass. He picks the team we go out and play with and his teams have been fucking shit! he picks the players that we sign and although he has signed some great players like torres, agger, mascher etc he has signed more SHIT than good. wtf is lucas still doing at our club? why is that ponytailed faggot voronin at our club? the greek? degen... rafa is fucking over-rated and his true colours are coming out.
sack the cunt and bring in a coach that doesnt play defensively or leave his substitutions til the 85th minute and take off attacking players for defensive players.
ill use the lyon game as an example. benayoun was one of our better players on the night and instead of making a sub after they scored he waited til there was 5minutes left and instead of taking off lucas who is just a passenger in every game he plays... he takes off benayoun for voronin. He leaves babel on the bench and then babel cops all the stick for being shit. well maybe if our manager believed in him and had some confidence in him, we might see a star player. Id put my life on it that if babel was at a team like arsenal, he would be 1 of the best players in the world atm but no benitez is just a fat fuck.

i agree with glock.. rafa should be gone!!!
bring in someone like laudrup or bilic
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That's one of the most god awful posts you'll read in a long time.

And that's saying something in a thread populated by (Gl)cock and his fabulous internet persona.

It's hard to take the "Rafa out" argument seriously given it's most vocal supporters are Rage/Zlatan/(Gl)cock.
 
Whilst I don't agree totally with Glock on here he does raise some points worth considering and is able to back them up.

I still don't agree that we should be getting rid of Benitez now as I can't see how that will help matters in the short term. He will turn things around to a degree definately and I think he deserves the chance to do so. The question is what exactly does he have to achieve this season to keep his job in the summer?
 
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Whilst I don't agree totally with Glock on here he does raise some points worth considering and is able to back them up.

I still don't agree that we should be getting rid of Benitez now as I can't see how that will help matters in the short term. He will turn things around to a degree definately and I think he deserves the chance to do so. The question is what exactly does he have to achieve this season to keep his job in the summer?
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Top 4 finish. Nothing else.
 
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Whilst I don't agree totally with Glock on here he does raise some points worth considering and is able to back them up.

I still don't agree that we should be getting rid of Benitez now as I can't see how that will help matters in the short term. He will turn things around to a degree definately and I think he deserves the chance to do so. The question is what exactly does he have to achieve this season to keep his job in the summer?
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You'd have to say even a domestic cup wouldn't appease most, if we fall short of second and a reasonable challenge.

The Champions League might do it, but you'd have to say in our current state that going all the way in the CL could be too much for this squad and would have a knock on effect on our league status.
 
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It's clear to all unblinkered people... [/quote]

So why start a thread?
 
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Whilst I don't agree totally with Glock on here he does raise some points worth considering and is able to back them up.

I still don't agree that we should be getting rid of Benitez now as I can't see how that will help matters in the short term. He will turn things around to a degree definately and I think he deserves the chance to do so. The question is what exactly does he have to achieve this season to keep his job in the summer?
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Top 4 finish. Nothing else.
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Would a top 4 finish be enough really? Houllier got that in his last season and still got the sack.
 
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