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simolonge wrote:

peewee wrote:I wonder who people will use as scapegoats when the owners are gone? I am surprised parry didnt get the blame for this. No doubt rafa is happy with his mega bucks contract, but he is here for the love of the club    

I hope the owners manage to refinance, there is no guarantee that whoever buys us will do any better. We still managed to get in second in spite of them pesky owners and dished out new contracts to key players and kuyt     even rafa got one ffs

I think now, after five years I finally understand you peewee.

You want to be the advocate of the devil, you like to be the one who gets al lthe attention and you do this by posting ludicrous statements and then sticking by them.

Do you work for Talksport of a weekend mate ?

peewee wrote:barry 

I fail to see your point about me living in asia and liverpool youth set up, oh and you recall I lived in malaysia for 3 years before I moved to thailand, so I hardly fecked off to thailand, oh and I thing you will find I responded tp ciggy's comment about local talent,

I liked you more when you actually read posts and understood them 

I liked you more when you used to be funny!

s@int wrote:As I said before Christmas :-

RAFA BENITEZ WIELDS AXE

Liverpool boss dumps SIXTEEN backroom staff


RAFA BENITEZ - ruthless
By CHRIS BASCOMBE, 06/06/2009

LIVERPOOL are facing a legal backlash after dismissing an incredible SIXTEEN backroom staff as part of the increasingly bloody Anfield Rafalution.

The club sacked 10 Academy staff last week and another six long-serving employees left in the last few days.

Distressed former employees with well over 150 years service between them argue they've been given no valid reason for the termination of contracts and are unhappy with the club's first offers for pay-off packages.

Liverpool are now braced for a series of courtroom challenges to the decision, with most of those sacked preparing unfair dismissal claims.

The Merseyside club face massive compensation bills and that's come at the worst possible time for owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett given their perilous financial situation.

Liverpool argue most of the dismissals are a series of cost-cutting measures overseen by new finance director Philip Nash, particularly at Academy level, with the club trying to reduce staff expenses by up to as much as £2million a year.


Benitez plans to replace some of them by adding to the Spanish contingent at Anfield.

A Kop source said: "You've heard of the night of the long knives. This is more like two weeks of it and it may not be finished yet.

"Rafa wants a clean sweep, but some of the staff won't go quietly and are taking legal advice. Some of them don't even feel they've been told why they're going."

The first round of departures included reserve coach Gary Ablett, Academy director Piet Hamberg and youth coaches Dave Shannon and Hugh McAuley.

Shannon will have a strong claim against the club having been cited in the recent autobiographies of Steven Gerrard, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Jamie Carragher as a major influence on their careers through the youth ranks.

In recent days the departure of six Melwood staff has been confirmed, including physio Victor Salinas, the club's players' liaison officer who has been at Liverpool for 14 years, and even the kit man.

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Number 9 wrote:

peewee wrote:barry 

I fail to see your point about me living in asia and liverpool youth set up, oh and you recall I lived in malaysia for 3 years before I moved to thailand, so I hardly fecked off to thailand, oh and I thing you will find I responded tp ciggy's comment about local talent,

I liked you more when you actually read posts and understood them 

I liked you more when you used to be funny!

aCe' wrote:Ah fck off Barry... Ofcourse they'r going to say they got sacked because the club is trying to lower the costs... but we all know that sooner or later we'll be signing some replacements and guess what.. Rafa will be the one picking them... Dont think the two Yanks are THAAT involved in the footballing matters in the club, deciding on who to sack from our youth academy and who to keep ...
All comes down to Rafa whether u admit it or not... wants things done his way and fair enough... not like i give  a fck or two about who the youth academy head coach is or anythin but lets not get all silly about pretty much everything here blaming the yanks for everything...

Lets not forget the fat wages our very own manager gets here... my point was and still is... that people like Shannon helped the club bring through some of our best local young talent in recent times, should have kept him if only for his experience...

experience of NOT bringing enough talent through? 

sounds to me like the system has been failing for the last 10 years and someone has instigated a revolution

DrPepe wrote:

aCe' wrote:Ah fck off Barry... Ofcourse they'r going to say they got sacked because the club is trying to lower the costs... but we all know that sooner or later we'll be signing some replacements and guess what.. Rafa will be the one picking them... Dont think the two Yanks are THAAT involved in the footballing matters in the club, deciding on who to sack from our youth academy and who to keep ...
All comes down to Rafa whether u admit it or not... wants things done his way and fair enough... not like i give  a fck or two about who the youth academy head coach is or anythin but lets not get all silly about pretty much everything here blaming the yanks for everything...

Lets not forget the fat wages our very own manager gets here... my point was and still is... that people like Shannon helped the club bring through some of our best local young talent in recent times, should have kept him if only for his experience...

experience of NOT bringing enough talent through? 

sounds to me like the system has been failing for the last 10 years and someone has instigated a revolution

get a clue...