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  1. Spanish_fan
    True.
  2. Spanish_fan
    I read the rumours and now that I have seen Berbatov's workrate I find it surreal, just as surreal as the signature of Babel. He would probably have been benched too after 5 games and the Bulgarian needing hospital treatment.
  3. Spanish_fan
    Ribery has more creativity than all Liverpool attacking options put together. He cost 20 millon to Bayern, the same as a certain Keane.
  4. Spanish_fan
    His problem is that his attacking buys must be first and foremost great at defending. It sounds as a paradox but that is the way he sees football and that is why he is so much in love with Kuyt and his relentless chasing of defenders. Then if the player has attacking ability that is a plus, not the other way around. Pennant is a good example. Not very talented going forward, not very creative but he was the player who run most in the CH L final and that is why Benitez signed him like many others like Gonzalez or Nunez. That philosophy leaves very few quality players available that can fit into his system. Alves as right winger? (never a fullback with Benitez), Simao? Tevez? Silva? Eto'o? If they don't run 12 kms plus per game Benitez is not interested, no matter how good they are. You give Benitez the chance to sign Messi or Kuyt and I am convinced he would go for the Dutch. It would be funny seeing Messi dropping back to help Arbeloa deal with Sunderland left winger :laugh:
  5. Spanish_fan
    the reason of playing crap being the team not being fit and motivated, not that Rijaard's team's can not play attacking and atractive football, they did for three years. I have to explain everything :whatever:
  6. Spanish_fan
    The best football we had witnessed since Johan's Cruyff Dream Team. Don't know where you got that idea from cause nobody complained about Rijkaard during his 3 first seasons. He was sacked because the team played crap during his last two years and had lost control over the dressing room, nothing to do with negative tactics.
  7. Spanish_fan
    Negative tactics Rijkaard?. Don't make me laugh. He fell out cause the team was under performing and had lost control over the dressing room, but not because he was defensive minded.
  8. Spanish_fan
    Type of players he signs Rijkaard >>>>>>>>>>Benitez Enterteinment Rijkaard>>>>>>>Benitez Discipline Benitez>>>>>>>Rijkaard If you get him a disciplinarian assistant coach that pushes the players in training he may become an improved version of Wenger as he is top notch when it comes to spotting top talent, something that I don't see in Wenger.
  9. Spanish_fan
    Some of the signings Benitez has made in that department defy belief. Granted that he manages to get the best out of these type of players but their best is not good enough.
  10. Spanish_fan
    After 10 transfer windows it should be obvious what type of players Benitez favours. Wide positions Arbeloa, Dossena, Nunez, Mark Gonzalez, Kuyt, Zenden, Josemi are just workhorses. Riera has some skills but also tracks back a lot And the two most talented "wide players" were Luis Garcia and Yossi, also more hard-working than the average creative player but lacking world class ability. Babel is a puzzle to me and I can't understand the reasoning behind this signing. Great athleticism some dribbling skills but extremely poor decision making and he is not even hard-working, a characteristic of all Benitez signings. This summer Benitez spent over £30 million but didn't address the lack of creativity from wide areas, or better said, it wasn't his first priority. Central midfield. Alonso, a top signing who made me think that Benitez was going to play a more expansive football than he did at Valencia. Mascherano, Sissoko. Defense, defense, defense Lucas, a player asked to play a role completely different from what he did at Gremio. Central defense. Man markers and more Man markers to mix it with the exceptional playmaking abilities of Carragher at the back. Agger was the exception but he is second fiddle to Skretel, an Slovakian Carras clone. The only centerback who can score goals is benched. Strikers, Bellamy, Crouch, Morientes, Torres, Keane. Crouch contributed to the 2006 success but he is not good enough for a team that wants to win the Premiership. Bellamy. Workrate. Not enough ability (will leave with Hughes :P) Morientes, quality striker asked to play 40 yards from goal and on his last legs. Never good enough to be the link man Benitez wanted. Keane, Morientes revisited, played at the wrong position. Torres, the only qualified success upfront. You start adding up and the majority of signings are defensive minded. Even when Benitez buys a forward his first thing in mind is how hard he chases defenders. Creative players. Alonso, Luis Garcia but not good enough, Benayoun, ditto. Am I missing any? Had Benitez signed Alves who would had played as a winger and Simao, both very busy players the gap may have been closed, but I still think that Liverpool would come up short against United or Mourinho's Chelsea. The problem for Benitez is finding these extremely hard-working players, who are sound defensively for their position and with enough quality to make a difference in attack.
  11. Spanish_fan
    and what the Dutchman represents: hardwork over quality, but then again it is his strongest asset as a coach, to get the best out of grafters.
  12. Spanish_fan
    Molby had better players to work with and a coach that would allow him more attacking freedom. Can't believe how much stick Alonso gets when there are a few players in this Liverpool team that are not half as good as he is. Had Benitez signed more players of Alonso quality there wouldn't so much questioning about his ability as a player. Riera, Kuy, Benayoun, Arbeloa, Dossena, Babel, Crouch, Bellamy, Mark Gonzalez....... Those are the players that are/were dragging Liverpool back, not Alonso.
  13. Spanish_fan
    :thumbup:
  14. Spanish_fan
    A big no to that. He doesn't seem to know how to take Liverpool to the next level. He is more concerned about getting the Rufetes and Angulos rather than the Vicentes and Aimars. He makes things difficult for himself by signing too many players that are not top quality. Quality over quantity.
  15. Spanish_fan
    Xabi Alonso for me. Seriously underrated even if time after time when he is not available the team struggles to perform.
  16. Spanish_fan
    At Barcelona he had that reputation too.
  17. Spanish_fan
    Right side, like in 2005 2006 season.
  18. Spanish_fan
    You must be joking or didn't bother watching Mourinho's Chelsea except against Liverpool. Chelsea would attack with everything if the result was a draw, except maybe against United Arsenal and Liverpool. and when he was losing he would always attack, unlike Liverpool who have been in some games utterly dominated (Emirates or Old Trafford) and Benitez did absolutely nothing to turn the tide. Mourinho would take out defenders and bring in forwards. Benitez takes out strikers and brings in full backs.
  19. Spanish_fan
    Well, I am of the opinion that it is much better to sign 3 top quality players than 9 average ones and if the top quality players do not play as expected you can always sell them somewhere else recouping much of what you paid, sometimes even making a profit, but Benitez prefers to build a squad rather than a first 11 first. I am not disputing the fact that Ferguson had a a much better team when Benitez joined Liverpool, but the way things are going he will still have a much better team once all his old players have retired without spending more. At same point Benitez should stop this squad building and go for top players only. Shouldn't him? This is his 5th season and more than 50 players have been signed and still some of the first choice players are not a patch on United substitutes.
  20. Spanish_fan
    The problem is not that Liverpool failed to win at Villa but the 5 poor performances. Liverpool could easily be out of the CH L and with 3 points instead of 7 in the league. Tell me one single game this season when Liverpool deserved to win or that they have played reasonably well. Don't expect to win 2 and draw three (in the normal 90 minutes) playing like this. You may say, well, it is just a blip, but Benitez will get it right starting with ...Manchester United. Well, he never gets it right against them (perhaps there is a chance now that Queiroz is gone), but I don't think he will get it right in the following games either if we go by but what his team have done in the first half of the season during his four seasons here. It's a sense of deja vu.
  21. Spanish_fan
    3 games where the signs of previous seasons are already there. The only positive about those three games is that Liverpool undeservedly have amassed 7 points. Again, Liverpool are playing away games trying to nick a draw and they still struggle to break down teams. Reina kicks it long 9 times out of ten, the back four struggles to keep the ball and the wide players can't keep posession or beat their man. Liverpool should obliterate the majority of teams like Chelsea or United do but the odd exception and sorry but I don't see that with Liverpool. Yes, Liverpool will improve in the second half of the season when the other teams tire and Benitez uses a more unchanged and fresher line-up, but by then they will be so far from the top of the table that there will be no chance of catching up. I have seen this trend for four years and I don't think the inclusion of Riera, Dossena and Keane (played as a left winger ?!) is going to change that.
  22. Spanish_fan
    25 years old hardly turn into world beaters with time. Babel? At the moment is just a young player who has showed something positive in some games but nothing more. Benitez has signed players with zero chances of turning into world beaters but the odd exception. This "building squad" thing does not stand scrutiny when the players arriving are hardly any better than the ones leaving and after a year or two they are sold anyway. He never buys skillful, creative players as wingers because they don't run 14 kms per game as required by him. That's why he ends up buying lesser players who try to compensate their lack of ability with more hard work. If he was proved right no problem, but that is not the case and Liverpool always struggle to break down defensive teams, especially away from home. Too many draws in this league and you don't win it. As simple as that.
  23. Spanish_fan
    Players of note that Ferguson has signed since Benitez joined Liverpool: Van der Saar, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Tevez, Nani(?), Berbatov, Hargreaves, Anderson(?!), Rooney. Players of note that Benitez has signed for Liverpool: Reina, Agger, Alonso, Mascherano, Torres, Keane, Babel(?). 7 against 10 and with Benitez spending nearly 50 million euros more. Why after 9 transfer windows Liverpool still don't have a world class wide player after spending more than 300 million euros? The reason may be as simply as that Benitez is not interested in signing such a player, not lack of funds.
  24. Spanish_fan
    Manchester United - Transferübersicht - transfermarkt.de Liverpool have spent 304 million euros since Benitez joined the club. In the same time United have spent 260 million euros. Liverpool sells amount to 186 million euros and United sells total 173 million euros. In other words, Liverpool have spent more money that United under Benitez. The difference is that Ferguson has spent it more wisely. The trouble with Benitez is that more than 50% of his signings are for players who would struggle to be first choice for a team competing for a UEFA Cup spot. United targets are not Everton or West Ham targets like many of Benitez signings. For every Djemba Djemba that Ferguson signs Benitez comes up with 4 infamous signings. Liverpool have spent enough money to have far better quality out wide, either at fullback or winger than they currently have now. The only chance of becoming a world class player of all his options is Babel, and to be honest is a thin one and I am not even sure that he can play out wide in a 4-4-1-1 system like the one Benitez deploys. Arbeloa, Kuyt, Dossena, Bennayoun, Pennant (is he still around?) all players signed by Benitez are hardly world beaters.
  25. Spanish_fan
    Well, Benitez certainly belongs to the scientific school of thought and it has been a succesful one in recent years with coaches like Hitzfeld, Van Gaal or Mourinho and the same Benitez, but his method is way too conservative and along with his penchant for signing players not good enough has been his undoing. Perhaps if Benitez had inherited a squad ready to compete for the Premiership he may have won it, or maybe not, if he went on a rotation spree long enough to leave vital players out of important games. In a more competitive league where top teams lose more than in the premiership he certainly would stand a better chance, but having to dominate and win the majority of the games is not what Benitez is about.
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