24 Apr 2015 23:45:29
to all the fans who want rafa back don't you remember his bad points, like losing xabi alonson because rafa wanted to sell him to buy barry and all the money he wasted, also that no matter how much he is given its never enough, now i don't know if the tend will stay with him where a manager should never go back to an old club because it always goes pear shaped (maybe after that thought he should come back to show you all he not the answer 0 but for me his bad points might have got worse also i could not stand his mad substituions, when we need to win he puts on a defender when we are getting beat that makes great sense i still remember stevie scratching his head i'm not saying he is a bad man or he never made us a top club in europe, i just think his bad points will outway his good ones plus maybe you all want to finish 7th ot lower again
25 Apr 2015 07:49:54
like losing xabi alonso because rafa wanted to sell him to buy barry
That's not the first incident in football. Xabi always wanted to return to his boyhood club. Rafa just added some fuel into it.
25 Apr 2015 08:04:38
I think there was an argument between rafa and xabi and in any argument there is 2 sides to the story and everyone just hears what they want to hear I'm sure rafa did not simply want xabi out because he thought Barry was a better player he is a top class coach he would have known he wasn't.
25 Apr 2015 09:08:56
Clueless ^^^
Rafa wanted Barry, to get Barry he wanted xabi gone. The bike isn't any better than what we have now.
25 Apr 2015 09:34:02
I rest my case with above poster it is not as simple as that if any worker at any company has a run in with the boss there is only 1 winner. in this case we as a club lost.But I would not like a boss who was too soft either so who is to say what really happened and just maybe rafa was justified in his actions FACT.
25 Apr 2015 11:29:11
Re cynical, Xabi wanted to return to his boyhood club? He signed for Real Madrid and this certainly wasn't his boyhood club. Xabi had no intention of leaving Liverpool before the horrible Barry mess.
25 Apr 2015 11:38:55
Who is to say Alonso Didn't use that as an excuse? Rodgers tried to sell Henderson and he's not pushing for a move.
25 Apr 2015 14:30:59
Rafa bought 59 players. Almost 40 were pointless and achieved nothing in a red shirt. Put Rafa, LFC and FFP together today, and I suspect we would end up a lot worse than the ninth place he left us in.
25 Apr 2015 16:13:32
Bigbad is spot on. The pro Rafa brigade are quick to say what he did (several years ago, I might add) and "selectively" forget his raft of blunders, failures and how he ran Xabi out of town (IMO) as well as his dreadful record in the TW (I think he bought much more than that) as you just stated. If the owners liked Rafa as a manager, why have they never and clearly are NOT looking his way for a new manager for arguably the THIRD time of asking? The brigade never ask themselves that question. Maybe because they know what the answer really is and can't bring themselves to accept it.