mungi wrote: . if the owners r still thinking of sacking rafa in a period wheree we r playing our best football then they r idiots
bigmick wrote:I'm absolutely amazed that people think this story is unbelieveable. You pay however many hundred million pounds for a football club, you seriously consider sacking the manager (and nobody will convince me that they didn't seriously consider it) and you don't look at other options
bigmick wrote:I'm absolutely amazed that people think this story is unbelieveable. You pay however many hundred million pounds for a football club, you seriously consider sacking the manager (and nobody will convince me that they didn't seriously consider it) and you don't look at other options particularly given the owners ignorance about the way the football World works, I would have thought the story is almost certainly based on fact.
My own feeling is that Capello will certainly have been considered, but that Mourinho will be their first choice should they pull the trigger on Rafa. I can see angry people reaching for their keyboards right now, but IMHo Rafa is not completely out of the woods yet as far as the owners see it. Failure to win in Marseilles or defeat at Home to Man Utd will make our season look very different to how it looks right now.
If both scenarios came to pass, I would be extremely surprised if they pulled the trigger, but much, much stranger things have happened.
I've been saying for a while now, that if we get positive results over the next couple of weeks Mourinho will become England manager. If the sh!te hits the fan with us, Capello will become England manager. It would be a grave mistake for people to overestimate the Americans grasp of what is the right thing to do IMHO. My guess is they won't have forgotten Rafa's ill-advised outbursts, and they wouldn't hesitate to get rid if they consider it right.
Ciggy wrote:If they where thinking of sacking Rafa then surely they would have had a few replacements insight there is not many world class managers around who are out of a job at the moment.
If people dont believe these stories then the march and the banners last week where unecassary.
But people do believe it these stories are not just plucked out of thin air clearly something has gone on, and Jonnymac off RAOTL is convinced the Yanks want Rafa out asap even if we win the league or another CL he is gone.
Also the wolf in sheeps clothing Parry might be the thrid party involved of saving his own @rse.
From someone off RAOTL
met one of the directors after the match on Wednesday who was once a business partner of
my dad. Anyway this director told him that the
misunderstanding was down to Rick Parry. Apparently Rafa
was instructed to conduct his transfer activities through
Rick Parry, then Parry would inform the owners then get
the ball rolling after he'd had the ok.
So, as instructed, Rafa told Parry he wanted to bring in
three players next year, one free, one cheap and one on a
Bosman. He also planned to sell one player for a fee
greater than the player he wanted to sign so the club
would have actually made money.
Here is where the problem occurred.....Parry failed to
inform the Americans of Rafa's plans.
Anyway Rafa waited and waited but obviously never got a
response from the owners so he phoned them just before
that infamous press conference last week. The Yanks told
Rafa to do one and conduct his activities through Parry
and in the meantime concentrate on coaching his own
players (hence the repetitive statements at the press
conference).
Rafa wore that tracky at Newcastle
as a final dig at the owners,
then handed his resignation
to Parry on Sunday.
Realising what he had done wrong,
Parry confessed to Benitez that he had failed to inform
the owners, and Benitez immidiately withdrew his
resignation. The level of comparitive peace now at
Anfield is due to Parry informing the Americans that the
misunderstanding was all down to him. The owners are
still said to be seething at how Rafa handled it in
public but accept that it was down to Parry's ineptitude
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