|
|
6th January 2008, 01:18 AM
|
|
BANNED
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 49
vCash: 500
|
|
|
RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0601_rafa.shtml
Rafa: I'm a dead man walking
Liverpool boss expects chop
By Jeremy Butler
RAFA BENITEZ has sensationally admitted he EXPECTS to be sacked by Liverpool.
And the Kop boss could get the elbow as soon as next month if Liverpool crash out of the Champions League.
The Spaniard is a dead man walking on Merseyside after American owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks REFUSED to discuss a new contract for Benitez despite his pleas.
And now the Kop boss is on yet another collision course with his bosses after again criticising Liverpool's lack of spending power.
A close friend of Benitez said: "There was no talk of a new contract when Rafa met with the owners last month.
"He also knows there will be very little money for him this month to buy the centre-half that he believes he needs.
"There is also the problem of Javier Mascherano (pictured). He will not sign because he does not know whether the manager is going to be there this season, let alone next.
"Manchester United and Arsenal are bringing in over £2million per home game, while Chelsea can turn to Roman Abramovich. Liverpool don't have the cash to live with them.
"Rafa wants to stay but now he believes he will be sacked because the owners have not shown they will back him."
Benitez's current deal has another two years to run but the Spaniard already appears to be making plans to leave.
He has been linked with the Bayern Munich job and sources in Spain claim Benitez's representatives have been sounded out by Real Madrid.
Defeat to Inter Milan next month would virtually seal Benitez's fate with the owners, especially after the Liverpool manager's latest dig.
Massive
Rafa moaned: "We must do almost everything perfectly to compete with the likes of United. Over a season it is a massive difference in what we bring in compared to United.
"They can buy two top-class players with this money every year. How can you compete? With the Premier League, it is clear we are a little bit behind the others. If they continue spending it will be more difficult."
For Hicks and Gillett, Benitez's bleating are growing harder to take and with the manager now admitting he expects the axe, they will find it even more simple to sack the Spaniard.
|
6th January 2008, 01:28 AM
|
 |
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 154
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
More shit stiring from the sunday rags.Just before a game as well.
|
6th January 2008, 01:33 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 13,985
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Let's see Rafa deny this, the yanks got enough stick for failing to respond to media speculation.
I'm not holding my breath, he's desperately begging for somebody to save his arse and doing it via "a close friend".
|
6th January 2008, 01:35 AM
|
 |
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 4,003
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermes
Let's see Rafa deny this, the yanks got enough stick for failing to respond to media speculation.
I'm not holding my breath, he's desperately begging for somebody to save his arse and doing it via "a close friend".
|
I thought you said everything in the papers was lies, Hermes? Or was that a close friend of yours? |
6th January 2008, 01:36 AM
|
 |
TLW Beer Monster
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Fletcher Memorial Home
Posts: 9,055
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by kopsawyer
More shit stiring from the sunday rags.Just before a game as well.
|
aye , Its the media trying to unsettle us for the big gmae with ermmmm...Luton
Or Maybe its benitez using the media to galvanise support again.
__________________
23 CARRA GOLD
I will die to try and get my team a win
Robbie Keane's a redman
He plays for us up front
We nearly signed Gaz Barry
Thank God cos he's a cunt
We hope he stays a redman
As long as he's alive
And when he reaches 40 he'll be tarmacking your drive
|
6th January 2008, 01:40 AM
|
 |
serial killer
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 9,282
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermes
Let's see Rafa deny this, the yanks got enough stick for failing to respond to media speculation.
I'm not holding my breath, he's desperately begging for somebody to save his arse and doing it via "a close friend".
|
Is there a single issue or scenario where you wouldn't back the owners who have done fuck all over the manager who has taken us to 2 European Cup finals?
Oh thats right, you're an employer, so the owners of the means of production have shit that just never smells according to you.
I can't work out whether you are a WUM or just one of the biggest cunts ever to find the way to turn a computer on. |
6th January 2008, 01:45 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 13,985
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
[quote=PaddyBerger15;945437]Is there a single issue or scenario where you wouldn't back the owners who have done fuck all over the manager who has taken us to 2 European Cup finals?
QUOTE]
Where is the difference in the owners refusing to respond and Rafa refusing to respond?
I don't want him sacked, but if he continues with this destabilising off the club the sooner he goes the better. If he doesn't issue a statement by the end of Monday I hope they boot him out and get somebody with an ounce of integrity.
He's turning the club into a pantomime.
|
6th January 2008, 01:47 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: liverpool
Posts: 7,125
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA Not Listening
|
6th January 2008, 01:48 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 4,003
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermes
Where is the difference in the owners refusing to respond and Rafa refusing to respond?
|
You saying it's all down to journalists lying anyway? |
6th January 2008, 02:00 AM
|
 |
Very poor choice of words
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 5,310
vCash: 25
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Butler is reporting on it and Bascombe isn't, therefore, the speculation has no foundation.
__________________
Oh Robbie Keane grew up in Dublin,
With Fowler's poster above his bed,
He played for Inter, Leeds and Tottenham too,
But he has always been a red!
He wears the sacred number 7,
And with his pace teams will be scared,
He'll do a cartweel and run towards the Kop,
As he kisses the Liverbird,
|
6th January 2008, 02:02 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 553
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Close friend of benitez or benitez himself?
why would rafa sanction someone to say this on his behalf? its either deliberate becos he knows the owners definately want to sack him or he's trying to get himself sacked becos he's had enough and real madrid look far more appealing, why stick with a club that gives you a net spend of 25 million even with increased television money when you can go to madrid and ask for any player you want not to mention its the club he supports anyway.
Rafa has been told to button it by the owners so why come out like this?
hope the story is just made up shit but everytime we think that it turns out there is some hint of truth.
strange and unsettling goings on at the club.
Could we see a situation where both the manager and the owners leave by this summer? hope the owners fuck off but I do wonder what game rafa is playing, we will only really find out in the summer I suppose.
|
6th January 2008, 02:04 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 553
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Malarkey
Butler is reporting on it and Bascombe isn't, therefore, the speculation has no foundation.
|
True, I did wonder why it wasn't Bascombe reporting this, hopefully your right. |
6th January 2008, 02:06 AM
|
 |
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: On The Run
Posts: 3,104
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
For fucks sake people.
Sunday rag = Bollocks
Comprende?
|
6th January 2008, 02:08 AM
|
|
Very poor choice of words
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 5,310
vCash: 25
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by liver bird
True, I did wonder why it wasn't Bascombe reporting this, hopefully your right.
|
It's not that I believe everything written, I just believe that Bascombe would have taken the reigns on a massive story like this if it had foundation.
I certainly believe that Butler, is indeed, chatting shit.
__________________
Oh Robbie Keane grew up in Dublin,
With Fowler's poster above his bed,
He played for Inter, Leeds and Tottenham too,
But he has always been a red!
He wears the sacred number 7,
And with his pace teams will be scared,
He'll do a cartweel and run towards the Kop,
As he kisses the Liverbird,
|
6th January 2008, 02:11 AM
|
|
Very poor choice of words
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 5,310
vCash: 25
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1892-LFCWasBorn
For fucks sake people.
Sunday rag = Bollocks
Comprende?
|
And they are just running out of things to say about us, the leeches. For example:
Rafa gets Hicks rap
30/12/2007
Related Articles
30/12/2007
Liverpool owner Tom Hicks has accused manager Rafael Benitez of behaving petulantly in the recent dispute over transfer policy.
His comments risk reviving the tension between Benitez and Hicks and his co-owner George Gillett.
Hicks, 61, revisited the row over transfers, which saw Benitez publicly accuse the American duo of failing to understand the European transfer market.
"We wanted to see what we could do with the players we had already bought," said Hicks. "Then he Benitez went to a press conference and kind of pouted and answered in the same way 20 times, 'I'm focusing on my team'."
Advertisement
Hicks was dismayed at the players' attitude in the loss to Manchester United.
He said: "Our team played like they mentally didn't think they were good enough to win."
Gillett and Hicks will make a final decision on the design of the club's new stadium on January 9.
__________________________________________________ ______________
Look at the date on the article, the end of December. And all this stuff happened mid November, no?
They are digging up old stories because they can't find anything else hardly. The soft cunts.
EDIT: Sauce: http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/sport/...8487-20269151/
__________________
Oh Robbie Keane grew up in Dublin,
With Fowler's poster above his bed,
He played for Inter, Leeds and Tottenham too,
But he has always been a red!
He wears the sacred number 7,
And with his pace teams will be scared,
He'll do a cartweel and run towards the Kop,
As he kisses the Liverbird,
|
6th January 2008, 02:14 AM
|
|
Forumite
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 13,985
vCash: 500
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Malarkey
It's not that I believe everything written, I just believe that Bascombe would have taken the reigns on a massive story like this if it had foundation.
I certainly believe that Butler, is indeed, chatting shit.
|
He did, if it did.
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/2511_rafa.shtml |
6th January 2008, 02:20 AM
|
|
Very poor choice of words
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 5,310
vCash: 25
|
|
|
Re: RAFFA EXPECTS TO GET SACKED?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermes
|
Well, it hasn't happened yet, has it Hermes? It probably has foundation, but you don't know how much.
Besides, how come he isn't reporting on the article on hand in this thread?
__________________
Oh Robbie Keane grew up in Dublin,
With Fowler's poster above his bed,
He played for Inter, Leeds and Tottenham too,
But he has always been a red!
He wears the sacred number 7,
And with his pace teams will be scared,
He'll do a cartweel and run towards the Kop,
As he kisses the Liverbird,
|
6th January 2008, 02:30 AM
|
|
| |
