Will Purslow keep his job under the new regime?

[Trumo]

"White liquid in a bottle? Gotta be milk" - Rafa Benitez today criticising Purslow for his downfall today.

 

We got 82 points and came second in the league, then Purslow came into the club and everything changed!

 

That's what he was saying in the Inter press conference.

 

Last season must have really fucked with his mind. We got 86 points and finished second. We got 82 three years earlier and finished 3rd.

[captainharris]

Rafael Benitez has launched a cryptic attack on Liverpool's ousted owners and current managing director Christian Purslow.

 

Benitez, whose six-year reign as manager ended in the summer, hit out at former co-owner Tom Hicks' claim that he was largely to blame for the Reds' worst ever start to the Barclays Premier League this season.

 

Hicks pointed the finger at Benitez for wasting much of the money he was given to spend during the latter half of his tenure.

 

But a clearly irked Benitez insisted the Americans were to blame, citing their of appointment Purslow in the summer of last year as the beginning of a downward spiral that ended in the Spaniard's exit.

 

In an outburst reminiscent of Eric Cantona's famous quote featuring seagulls and trawlers, Inter Milan boss Benitez compared events leading up to his departure to a bottle of milk.

 

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"I prefer not to talk too much about Liverpool," said Benitez, who watched his former club's Merseyside derby defeat on Sunday which left them second bottom of the table.

 

"I prefer not to talk about this because I feel really sorry for the fans.

 

"I was watching the fans and I was really sad after the defeat the other day.

 

"We have a saying in Spanish, which is: 'White liquid in a bottle has to be milk'."

 

Benitez, who led Liverpool to second place in the Premier League in 2009 but could only manage seventh last term, added: "What does this mean? It means that after 86 points and finishing second in the league, what changed?

 

"The Americans, they chose a new managing director and everything changed.

 

"So, what changed?

 

"The managing director is involved in all the decisions: new lawyer, new chief of press, new manager, nine new players, new medical staff, new fitness coaches - they changed everything.

 

"At the beginning, they changed the managing director who was talking with some players, and they changed everything that we were doing in the past.

 

"So, if you want to ask again what was going on, it's simple: they changed something and, at the end, they changed everything.

 

"So, white liquid in a bottle: milk. You will know who is to blame."

 

Pressed further on the matter, Benitez would only say: "White liquid in a bottle. If I see John the milkman in the Wirral, where I was living, with this bottle, I'd say, 'It's milk, sure'."

[Guest LFD]

What does that quote even mean?

 

I think it is a saying in Spanish and is like saying here - 'If it looks like an elephant, acts like an elephant - IT IS AN ELEPHANT!'

 

Meaning if everything was fine before Purslow came, then everything changed - it has to be Purslow that was at fault for the change.

[Kevin D]

What does that quote even mean?

 

Not sure, but we can definitely get a 10 page thread out of it.

[Ted]

Yeah, cos everything was fucking golden before Purslow came in wasn't it?

[Trumo]

If the milk turns sour....I ain't the type of pussy to drink it!

 

 

Know what I mean?

[Top of the Kop]

Before anyone gets the knickers in a twist, Rafa was pressed on the issue several times before he made that statement at the press conference, he didn't just come out with it.

[Monster Masch]

So he's blaming Purslow for last season?

 

Hahaha.

[Sarb24]

I think he forgets that he hated Parry and publiclly undermined him. Maybe Rafa should learn the English saying "the grass is not always greener on the other side". Just his way, blame everyone else. He got more control and lost the plot

[derrickt]

Rafa is definitely hinting something but cannot go into too much detail without getting shit. I am actually quite alarmed by what he said.

[Guest PurpleNose]

He looks fucking stoned in that picture.

[Sarb24]

Did Purslow ring him and tell him to take Torres off against Birmingham? Did Purslow tell him to sell Xabi Alonso?

[stringvest]

 

Didn't he find £100m from the Rhone group but it was refused at board level ? If so he succeeded. These people have fought, and continue to fight for our club. They maybe from a strictly business point of view, but I'd rather have a business man who fights than a 'fan' who does fuck all.

 

My personal view is that I'd be happy if he stayed.

 

Spot on

[derrickt]

"The managing director is involved in all the decisions: new lawyer, new chief of press, new manager, nine new players, new medical staff, new fitness coaches - they changed everything."

 

Is purslow really knowledgeable enough to make all this decision???

[Red Nick]

Rafael Benitez blames Christian Purslow for Liverpool decline - Barclays Premier League - ESPN Soccernet

 

I love Rafa

 

And yes Purslow is a total twat for appointing Hodgson and then he goes on 5 live and tries to tell the world how much better a manager Hodgson is and will be than Rafa, Purslow is a twat however he did his best to save this club.

[Woo]

I don't dispute that Purslow handled the Rafa situation poorly, and they were both wrong for their leaks to the press against eachother. However, I think Rafa gave as good as he got.

 

Also, we all know that Gillett and Hicks are the main ones to blame. But Rafa didn't mention them once. Purslow, like Rafa, was just an employee of the club.

[Kevin D]

"John the Milkman" made me laugh, Goatboy is going to have a field day with that.

 

Two egotists battling for supremacy in a fight nobody shoud care about anymore. Petty.

[derrickt]

Didn't he find £100m from the Rhone group but it was refused at board level ? If so he succeeded. These people have fought, and continue to fight for our club. They maybe from a strictly business point of view, but I'd rather have a business man who fights than a 'fan' who does fuck all.

 

My personal view is that I'd be happy if he stayed.

 

I agreed. But he stay as what that the big question? Business sense? or Football matters? Does he have the track record for footballing stuff?

[VladimirIlyich]

I think that over the next few years we will see who needed to go between Rafa and Purslow because its obvious the couldnt work together.

 

We needer new owners and got them but to get them we needed to sacrifice a top manager.

 

Your view depends on whether you think selling the club was more important than getting rid of a top manager who wanted to play politics instead of coach a lot of the time.

 

I would say that the club is always more important than any one individual.

[bus24]

The confirmation of the player power everyone suspected is the most worrying point for me.

[stringvest]

Rafa's Milk

 

Idiots lap it up.

 

Fuck off Rafa - you're insulting fans' intelligence and you know it

 

You're gone - get over it. Moooooooove on.

[James H]

Didn't Rafa spend the previous five years trying to get Parry out?

[Carra_is_legend]

I wonder who is doing ALL those tasks for Inter?

 

I bet it ain't Rafa.

 

I'm not saying Purslow is qualified to do those tasks. In fact he clearly isn't but if Rafa thinks he is able to do all those, he is clearly deluded.

 

There is a reason why Rafa is so successful when he is coaching players bought by others. This is not a criticism as he is quite simply a top class coach but it doesn't mean he can do everything, which is what he wanted at Liverpool.

[RedinSweden]

Rafa is a massive loon. I doubt NESV will allow him as much power, even if he is kept on.

[coop]

If im reading that quote from Rafa correctly i think he is saying Purslow had the say on everything, from fitness staff appointed all the way to the players signed.