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Rafa coming back

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  1. 1. Would you have Rafa back in the summer if/when RH gets the bullet

    • Yes
      205
    • No keep RH
      2
    • No get someone else
      52

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crisps

crisps

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Personally I think Rafa with a decent amount of money to spend could make us rival any team in the world, however I think with how bad Roy has been has sort of elevated Rafas stock amongst a lot of people.

 

Obviously there was a lot going on / not going on with the owners and board battles last year which probably did hold us back but I think Rafa made a lot of mistakes last year and drove us insane at times with persisting with out of form 'favourite' players (maybe this was because he just didn't have better personnel?) man management, stubborn-ness, negative tactics, strange subs and some rather expensive transfer flops. My only worry would be whether he'd end up exactly the same or acknowledge where he went wrong and bring in a slightly new attitude and approach which I think would work wonders...

 

To me at the minute he's like a flawed genius and he's his own biggest enemy, hopefully the new owners would help iron out these if we had better players etc - if this was the case i'd have him back right now.

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Superjay

Superjay

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I would love Rafa back but he wouldn't get a chance from the xenophobic media, today is a shining example of that.

 

Its disgusting really that these media studies over inflated ego graduates have anything to do with our beloved game but unfortunately people like ferguson, redknapp & mourhno have used them so much & with the emergence of sky we are now watching their game. They practically own the FA for f*** sake. That other little agenda driven mob the LMA have enough pull too to make the whole game very hard to break into by a man like Rafa who is stupid enough to believe its all about football.

 

Shanks would go mental at the state of our game today.

Andy @ Allerton

Andy @ Allerton

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I would love Rafa back but he wouldn't get a chance from the xenophobic media, today is a shining example of that.

 

Its disgusting really that these media studies over inflated ego graduates have anything to do with our beloved game but unfortunately people like ferguson, redknapp & mourhno have used them so much & with the emergence of sky we are now watching their game. They practically own the FA for f*** sake. That other little agenda driven mob the LMA have enough pull too to make the whole game very hard to break into by a man like Rafa who is stupid enough to believe its all about football.

 

Shanks would go mental at the state of our game today.

 

 

I think it would be great. Half the fun of supporting Liverpool is standing up to the xenophobia, lies, racism and stupidity of the English and British media.

Eiler99

Eiler99

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We need a new manager now. Rafa won't come now.

 

I'd give Kenny a go until the summer. If he's a up to it, let him keep the job. If he isn't, thank him for helping the club out and bring in a top manager.

 

There aren't many top managers around. Rafa is one of them, so he should be on NESV's shortlist in the summer anyway. Who knows, he might be the only top manager who'll want the job.

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Billy Dane

Billy Dane

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I think it would be great. Half the fun of supporting Liverpool is standing up to the xenophobia, lies, racism and stupidity of the English and British media.

 

 

:lol: element of truth in this. We're not English, we are Scouse!

Redray

Redray

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Yes please.

 

 

 

Not sure of this was posted yesterday but I missed it, other might have too.

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/9140414.stm

 

Extracts;

 

Three months into Benitez's tenure at the Italian and European champions and opinions are starting to change. Slowly but surely, the Spaniard is winning over the hearts and minds of fans, pundits and the all-important Italian press, who fell out so dramatically with Mourinho

 

 

"In some ways their football is even better than last season," said John Foot, author of Calcio: The History of Italian Football. "It's less cagey, less Catenaccio-esque than Mourinho would play.

 

"The first half hour against Tottenham was pretty expansive football and the team can almost play with its eyes closed now. It's already clear that they are going to be in contention for all these trophies right to the end of the season."

 

Italian football analyst Tor-Kristian Karlsen says Benitez's Inter are less liable to sit back and soak up pressure than they were under Mourinho during the 2009-10 campaign.

 

"The team keep the ball more under Benitez and the defensive line is usually pushed higher up the pitch," added Karlsen, a well-travelled scout and regular columnist for Calcio Italia magazine.

 

"Mourinho was more focused on defence and relied more on counter-attacks and the magic of individual players than the collective, rehearsed moves favoured by the Spaniard."

 

"I don't think Benitez got the credit he deserved in England. Partly because he didn't offer the sound bites and easy conclusions that make you a tabloid favourite, but also because his thinking and ideas on football may have been too prudent and unsexy to win over the ever so demanding supporters.

 

to Paco Lloret, Benitez's biographer and close friend, this system will suit the Spaniard, as it more closely resembles that which was in place during his time at Valencia, where he won two Spanish league titles and a Uefa Cup.

 

"Benitez is a much better trainer than a finder of players," Lloret stated. "He knows how to design systems and work with a team. Others might have a better eye for a player, but they wouldn't know how to train them like Rafa Benitez does.

 

 

 

"Benitez likes working behind closed doors. Everything which surrounds a club, like the media, Benitez knows it's important but he doesn't see it as a priority."

 

 

Murphman

Murphman

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I would love Rafa back but he wouldn't get a chance from the xenophobic media, today is a shining example of that.

 

Its disgusting really that these media studies over inflated ego graduates have anything to do with our beloved game but unfortunately people like ferguson, redknapp & mourhno have used them so much & with the emergence of sky we are now watching their game. They practically own the FA for f*** sake. That other little agenda driven mob the LMA have enough pull too to make the whole game very hard to break into by a man like Rafa who is stupid enough to believe its all about football.

 

Shanks would go mental at the state of our game today.

 

 

If Shanks won the league he wouldn't give a f*ck about those pygmies. Neither would Rafa, it's a non issue.

Ibby

Ibby

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i would only go for mourinho over rafa at the moment ie clean slate and all that but as he wont ever be coming to us its gotto be rafa imo.

Billy Dane

Billy Dane

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From the echo (courtesy of Fyds on Twitter)

 

Asked whether Rafa's criticisms of Hodgson were correct, 88% of fans or 1,286 out of 1,461 believed they were.

 

Seems the support for Rafa might be a bit more widespread than just this forum. Are any of the other forums running a similar poll to the one on here?

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