by Rush Job » Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:00 am
bigmick wrote:Rush Job wrote:s@int wrote:woof woof ! wrote:TBH I'm completely stumped when it comes to Rafa's apparent "attitude" to Robbie Keane. Having agreed a £20 million fee for the fella you would expect Rafa to be going all out to support, encourage and get the best from the player. Instead it sometimes seems that Rafa's been landed with a player that he didn't really want in the first place, almost shades of Mourinho and Schevchenko. Is it a case of Rafa expecting Keane to do a Torres and immediately step up to the plate and having failed to do so he's now on Rafa's sh'it list ? .
Not noted for putting an arm around players I'm wondering if Rafa has got it wrong on this one, not defending Keane here, but the world and it's dog expected better things from Keane at LFC, whats gone wrong ? surely Rafa bears some responsibility for it ? .
I wonder if Keane wasn't exactly top of Rafa's list of buys in the summer. Maybe he wanted Barry much more? Parry gets the list and goes for the one he likes best, rather than the one Rafa needs most? Pays so much for Keane that we can't afford the others Rafa was after, and totally blows Rafa's transfer plans out the window.
Mate that is exacly as I see it, from reading between the lines and from what has been said Rafa wanted Barry as his big signing and ended up with Keane who was more Parry choice.
The only reason I havent said so is because I know certain people would have seen it as me just trying to remove blame from Rafa so I kept it to myself.
The other thing is when people say how could he spend 20mill on Keane, well HE didnt, Rafa plays no part in monetary negotiations and if he did I dout he would have spent so much on someone who wasnt even his number one target.But obviously thats just my opinion.
I was wondering how long this theory would take to surface. When you say the reason you didn't say it Rushie (this thing about Keane been Parry's choice not Rafa's) was because you felt certain people would view it as an attempt to "remove blame" from Rafa, you were spot on.
The "Parry theory" is an attempt to remove blame for a misfiring 20 million quid transfer from Rafa, nothing more, nothing less
I ask you this, knowing Rafa as we do, does anybody seriously believe Parry would be able to spend 20 million quid on a player who Rafa doesn't want without the manager at the very least kicking off, and in all probability fecking off?
No, Keane was Rafa's choice and it's down to him and the player to try their very best to make the thing work. 20 million quid is a sh!tload of money, and we just happen to be fully engaged in the title race (oops) so sorting it out is far more impotant than any individuals ego. Step one, centainly while Torres is injured is playing Keane, regardless (yep, I mean regardless) of how he plays.
Expected. It was s@int who raised it mate, non of us know exactly what went on and I'm certainly not claiming to but what we do know is while Barry rightly or wrongly was Rafas number one target the money went on Keane instead because the money men (Parry/owners) didnt see enough sell on value because of his age, so Benitez was denied his number one target, although they had no problem shelling out even more for another player of the same age.
That says to me and I'm sure Rafa that the Barry deal falling though had nothing to do with money and everything to do with Parrys opinion of the player.
As I said its just me reading between the lines but it probably a load of nonsense due to my insatiable lust towards Benitez ay.Dont judge a book by the cover, unless you cover just another, because blind exceptance is a sign,
Of stupid fools who stand in line...... Like..
player! dossena plus keane equal benzema and insua... I know which of the 2 I would choose
its not what you said, its what they want to read that counts.