Would you have Rafa back?

[Hand Shandy]

[fin-bat]

Merry christmas Raffa !

 

[Lightforce]

Yep, Slur was given 6 years of winning nothing before he won his first title. If we used the same yardstick as Rafa is measured, he would be fired long time before even winning anything.

 

You're really clueless. He was winning things before his first title, Fa Cup, League Cup, Cup Winners Cup, and its not only trophies that show progress, he was put in charge of a rebuilding job and was clearly improving things off the pitch aswell during that time.

 

Do you think we would have won the league this year with Benitez in charge? We hadn't much money to improve the squad, the ownership situation wasn't resolved until October, the usual suspects continue getting injured, so how would a title challenge materialise?

 

This season would have made it 7 years without winning the league. Well beyond unacceptable.

[zigackly]

[Torvald Utne]

You're really clueless. He was winning things before his first title, Fa Cup, League Cup, Cup Winners Cup, and its not only trophies that show progress, he was put in charge of a rebuilding job and was clearly improving things off the pitch aswell during that time.

 

Do you think we would have won the league this year with Benitez in charge? We hadn't much money to improve the squad, the ownership situation wasn't resolved until October, the usual suspects continue getting injured, so how would a title challenge materialise?

 

This season would have made it 7 years without winning the league. Well beyond unacceptable.

 

"Three years of excuses and it's still crap. Ta ra Fergie."

[Benitaur]

You're really clueless. He was winning things before his first title, Fa Cup, League Cup, Cup Winners Cup, and its not only trophies that show progress, he was put in charge of a rebuilding job and was clearly improving things off the pitch aswell during that time.

Ah, and a bloody Champions League and FA Cup is not superior then? Finishing second by 7th place in the 6th season is worse than Fergie's

 

Rafa improved 5 seasons in a row before slipping in his 6th season. And BTW, Rafa's slump of 7th isn't as bad as Fergie's 11th position in 88/89.

 

And Fergie's record:

86/87 - 11th

87/88 - 2nd

88/89 - 11th

89-90 - 13th

90/91 - 6th

91/92 - 2nd

92/93 - 1st

 

Seriously, I wouldn't compare Fergie's early record to Rafa's. Rafa is younger at the same time too.

 

Yep, I'm clueless huh?

 

Do you think we would have won the league this year with Benitez in charge? We hadn't much money to improve the squad, the ownership situation wasn't resolved until October, the usual suspects continue getting injured, so how would a title challenge materialise?

 

This season would have made it 7 years without winning the league. Well beyond unacceptable.

 

Ah, you gave the reasons that Rafa or any other manager won't succeed, and still admit its unacceptable.

 

Which magical manager would turn all our players to supermen then?

 

So far you are talking out of your ass

[Iantn]

 

Strangely hypnotic that mate.

[MLB]

He has one bad season because he sold good players, spent millions on shite players, lost at least part of the dressing room, becamse obsessed with politics and had us playing awful, negative football.

[PaulMcC]

Did he not have to get involved with politics seeing every person who was above him at the club was a complete cunt or knew fuck all about football?

 

That includes Cecil, Purslow lovers.

[Monster Masch]

Leonardo got Inter job.

[RobbieOR]

Haha maybe. They're never going to come out and say it publicly, that would be suicidal but it wouldn't surprise me if they'd just let it be known to members of the press that it won't be entertained. Off the record, of course.

 

Thats what has apparantly happened.

[RedKnight]

Really? That was a very accurate guess by me wasn't it.

[RobbieOR]

Very accuarate.

[RedKnight]

Almost as if I knew it when I typed it.

[billypilgrimnz]

And there you have it.

 

Admittedly anti-Rafa

 

Admittedly anti-Shankly

 

What wonderful Liverpool fans we have these days.

 

You are Rafa's mypost.

 

That's all I really have to say to you.

[marcus50bucks]

Dave Prentice: Liverpool won’t ask Rafa Benitez to Play it Again, but they’ll always have Istanbul

 

Dec 24 2010 by David Prentice, Liverpool Echo

 

IT’S that Casablanca time of year again folks, (tomorrow, five past one, Film4, movie pickers).

 

So Roy Hodgson could be forgiven for putting on his best Bogey impersonation this morning and drawling: “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, he has to walk into mine.”

 

In case you missed it, Rafael Benitez was relieved of his duties as Inter Milan manager yesterday.

 

And he received the news at the place he now calls home, here on Merseyside.

 

Rafa’s return to his spiritual home – at a time when he’s suddenly on the jobs market again – has sent the conspiracy theorists into overtime.

 

A collection of banners were pinned to the railings at Anfield this week – (looking suspiciously like the work of one fan) calling for his reappointment.

 

Letters pages, message boards and phone ins have given healthy backing to the idea.

While one supporter has even launched a petition calling for “the reinstatement of Rafael Benitez as Liverpool FC manager.”

 

It’s a well meaning, but ultimately futile gesture.

 

Rafa has returned to Merseyside, but he will not be returning to Anfield any time soon.

 

Rafa has divided opinion amongst Reds fans in his absence almost as much as he did during his reign.

 

But while the faces in the Anfield boardroom have changed, boardroom policy towards the former Reds boss remains unchanged.

 

He won’t be coming back. Unlike the movie masterpiece which spawned one of the greatest misquotations in movie history.

 

Rick Blaine never actually asked Sam to “Play it again.” And the Anfield power brokers will not be asking Benitez to play it again either.

 

But there’s one final Casablanca link.

 

Bogart and Bergman were finally prised apart at the airport in one of the most poignant partings in movie history.

 

“We’ll always have Paris,” declared Bogart, recalling the euphoric zenith of their ultimately doomed love affair

 

Likewise, the Reds and Rafa “will always have Istanbul.” And perhaps it’s best to leave it that way.

 

ECHO

 

Looks like we'll have to nip this one in the bud, unfortunately. It was never gonna happen to be fair.

[goatboy59]

 

"Fuck me he must have used a crowbar to get all that shite in"

 

"Shut up and keep smiling"

[PaulMcC]

Has Prentice ever wrote an article himself?

[goatboy59]

There's a bar in Casablanca called The Blue Parrot.

 

That's what Football 365 call him...

[Kevin D]

Thats what has apparantly happened.

 

I personally find the idea of Liverpool board members briefing against Rafa very difficult to believe.

[Code]

Over on the MF there is a poll about which manager you want as our next manager with several different options and also an open option.

 

After 32 votes have been made Rafa has got 0% of the votes so far.

 

Thank God for the MF, there migth be a future for mankind after all.

[Coro]

32 votes.

 

Wow.

[mypost]

Yep, Slur was given 6 years of winning nothing before he won his first title.

 

Much as I would like to agree with you, it took him 3 and a half years to claim something. It wasn't until 1995 that we could celebrate him winning nothing again.

[Torvald Utne]

Over on the MF there is a poll about which manager you want as our next manager with several different options and also an open option.

 

After 32 votes have been made Rafa has got 0% of the votes so far.

 

Thank God for the MF, there migth be a future for mankind after all.

 

On my bedroom wall there is a poll about which manager you want as our next manager with several different options and also an open option.

 

Rafa has 100% of the votes so far.

 

Thank God for me, there might be a future for mankind after all.

[Code]

On my bedroom wall there is a poll about which manager you want as our next manager with several different options and also an open option.

 

Rafa has 100% of the votes so far.

 

Thank God for me, there might be a future for mankind after all.

 

Your bedroom also have a spermometer, bless.