by RUSHIE#9 » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:55 pm
Whenever I see or hear people slaggig Rafa off and saying sack him I have one reply, who is there good enough to replace him? That question still stands IMO but if he doesn't get some kind of focus soon as to where he's taking this team and club then more and more people will be asking that question and they'll be more than justified.
I wouldn't be comfortable with any change in manager under the current owners as we're more likely to end up with Bruce Arena or some other muppet than anyone who can improve on Rafa's work.
The one man that is mentioned as being available at the moment is Rikjaard, but for me he isn't good enough for the job. He may have had success at Barcelona but in the last two years the problems mounted up for him there and teams soon sussed how to nullify his tactics and he had no response to it. Now thats not gonna be too much of a problem when you've got vast amounts of world class talent like Barca have, but when you've got Twit 'n' Tw@t saying no you can't sign so and so cause we won't be able to sell him on for profit then Rikjaard ain't gonna be the man IMO.