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Postby Benny The Noon » Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:28 pm

Rush Job wrote:You lot took your time.

Oh suspected ages ago but got confirmation today  :D
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Postby erlee » Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:45 pm

>>8/10 - like who ?

hyppia okay

Crouch in fine form

robbie keane in fine form

bellamy in superb form
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Postby Benny The Noon » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:03 pm

erlee wrote:>>8/10 - like who ?

hyppia okay

Crouch in fine form

robbie keane in fine form

bellamy in superb form

so 4 players out of how many that have released ?
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Postby Judge » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:06 pm

does it Fu*king matter if dazzer is legbarnes. who Fu*king cares.

get a life you saddo's

let him have his say on football matters, ffs

anyway i think his sister is fit  :p


on a football note, if we fail to beat man city, then the exit door needs to be opened. Interpret that as you wish
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Postby Owzat » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:21 pm

Judge wrote:on a football note, if we fail to beat man city, then the exit door needs to be opened. Interpret that as you wish

The exit door should have been blown off the hinges during our six defeats in seven, whether someone decides to jettison Rafa through it is another matter.

I think he has to be fearing for his own future unless he really is stupid, shows when managers resort to quoting lyrics from the Anfield anthem. What next? Wearing a replica kit and "kicking every ball" on the touchline?!?! Kissing the badge and Gerrard's Rs?

One question is, no matter how much a manager loves the club and want the best for it, it all boils down to whether they are doing the club any favours by staying on as manager ie if they really loved the club, maybe they'd feck off and let a proper manager take the reins.
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Postby Judge » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:56 pm

agreed
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Postby Dazzer » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:01 pm

well personaly I have got to the point where my thinking is sack Rafa or don't sack Rafa I couldn't give a fu.ck I just want us to win vs city and get back any sort of momentum we once had. :angry:

Beyound that if we lose well I don't want to think about it , if we lose next game this is going to be the worst season for me watching football (in football terms).
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Postby bigmick » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:10 pm

Owzat wrote:shows when managers resort to quoting lyrics from the Anfield anthem.

I must confess I thought that had a distinct air of desperation about it myself to be honest, although predictably it went down well on here.
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Postby Emerald Red » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:19 pm

bigmick wrote:
Owzat wrote:shows when managers resort to quoting lyrics from the Anfield anthem.

I must confess I thought that had a distinct air of desperation about it myself to be honest, although predictably it went down well on here.

Or maybe he's just right.
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Postby LFC2007 » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:22 pm

He gets stick for not showing passion.

He shows passion, he gets stick.
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Postby Igor Zidane » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:24 pm

Fair analysis this  i think.





The truth behind Benitez
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He has won the Champions League, but only one of his last nine fixtures. He still appears adored by many on the Kop, but is derided by still more on messageboards and phone-ins. He is one of the most divisive figures in football. But how many of the criticisms commonly levelled at Rafa Benitez stand up to analysis?


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Rafael Benitez: Always on the touchline

1. Benitez practises a rotation policy

Once this was unarguable. The 2-0 win against Fulham in November 2007 was the first time in exactly 100 games that the Liverpool manager named an unchanged team. Now, however, the picture is very different. Jose Reina, Lucas Leiva and Dirk Kuyt have started every Premier League game this season. Emiliano Insua has only missed one. Glen Johnson and Jamie Carragher were ever-presents until injury and suspension respectively ended their runs in the team. And few question the places occupied by Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres in the manager's plans.

2. Benitez prioritises Europe over the Premier League

It was an allegation voiced by the former Liverpool midfielder Ronnie Whelan recently. It is another that had some truth initially. In the last 18 months, however, there can be little doubt that Benitez's views have changed and there is a recognition that his reputation depends in part upon winning the Premier League. The weakest side he has fielded this season, at Fulham, had far less to do with the proximity of the trip to Lyon than injuries and illness that ruled out Gerrard, Johnson, Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel, Albert Riera, Fabio Aurelio, Alberto Aquilani and Martin Kelly.

3. He has signed a lot of players and too few have succeeded

That is definitely true. In total, 76 have arrived at Anfield during his five-and-a-half years at the helm. Of those, 38 - in this observer's estimation - were not initially signed as first team players. A few, such as Insua, have become regulars; others - Dani Pacheco, Krisztian Nemeth, Daniel Sanchez Ayala, Mikel San Jose, Peter Gulacsi - are sufficiently young that they may yet emulate the Argentine. Many more of those 38, however, have already left Anfield, often as anonymous as when they arrived (Godwin Antwi and Besian Idrizaj, for instance).

The other 38 include 19 members of the current first team squad. Of those who have come and gone, five - Xabi Alonso, Luis Garcia, Alvaro Arbeloa, Momo Sissoko and Peter Crouch - justify being called successes. A further four - Scott Carson, Robbie Fowler, Craig Bellamy and Jermaine Pennant - produced mixed returns. The remaining 10 - Antonio Nunez, Josemi, Fernando Morientes, Mauricio Pellegrino, Bolo Zenden, Jan Kromkamp, Mark Gonzalez, Gabriel Paletta, Sebastian Leto and Robbie Keane - can safely be said to have failed. However, Benitez is entitled to argue that he made profits on several and that only Keane and Morientes ranked as expensive additions.

4. He has spent a lot of money

In the wider scheme of things, that is certainly correct. A total of £229 million is certainly substantial. It is, however, less than Manchester City's outlay in the last three transfer windows and little more than Chelsea's expenditure in the first 13 months after Roman Abramovich's takeover. It also excludes the money raised by selling players: around £118 million, meaning that, in six summers, his average spend is under £20 million. Whatever George Gillett and Tom Hicks insist, Benitez made a £12 million profit in January while his summer dealings only cost £2 million after the proceeds of the sales. In assessing the biggest buys, there is invariably the question of where the line is drawn, but of the 10 costliest, two - Aquilani and Johnson - are too soon into their Anfield careers to assess; three - Keane, Ryan Babel and Andrea Dossena - have disappointed; and five - Torres, Mascherano, Alonso, Crouch and Kuyt - have flourished.


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Rafael Benitez: A man under pressure

5. Liverpool haven't improved under Benitez

Benitez is entitled to argue that he started from a lower base than their three principal rivals. In Gerard Houllier's final season, 2003-04, Liverpool amassed 60 points (30 fewer than Arsenal, 19 less than Chelsea and putting them 15 behind Manchester United). In Benitez's first year, they took 58 (37 behind Chelsea, 25 less than Arsenal and leaving them 19 adrift of Manchester United). It supports the argument that he inherited a substandard squad overloaded with deadwood. Last season, Liverpool ended with 86 points. That indicates a considerable improvement. However, with 19 points from 12 games thus far this campaign, they are only on course for 60. Does that mean they have progressed and then regressed?

6. Benitez fails as a man-manager

Separately, Torres, Gerrard and Carragher have all said that they struggle to think of conversations with Benitez that weren't about football. It suggests he is only interested in footballers as players, rather than as people. Alonso's departure this year can certainly be attributed to Benitez's attitude during his attempts to sell his fellow Spaniard the previous summer. Yet if Benitez's methods do not make him the next Harry Redknapp, the moaners have generally been those who did not feature regularly and many of his players, past and present, have produced the best form of their careers under him. And they include, in Gerrard, Torres, Carragher, Alonso, Reina and Mascherano, the leading players at Anfield in that time.

7. His interference harms players

It was a complaint voiced by Pennant, who said he was frustrated by his manager's continual presence on the touchline, forever conveying orders. Benitez could respond that his attention to detail has been responsible for some of his tactical triumphs and that tinkering with his players' positions has had benefits. Under Houllier, Carragher was normally deployed at full-back and Gerrard was sometimes the deepest man in midfield. Converting both to new roles has been justified.

8. He is a poor judge of a striker

It is an argument that gathers weight every time Andriy Voronin is on the pitch and one that is used against Benitez whenever Crouch, Keane or Bellamy scores. Nevertheless, it is worth remembering that the two Tottenham forwards made their exit in part because the success of the Gerrard-Torres axis limited their opportunities, a fate that might have befallen Michael Owen had Benitez opted to bring him back to Anfield. Bellamy's exit, which has been lamented rather more in the past two months than during the previous two years, helped finance the signing of Torres. While there have been striking failures, notably Morientes, Benitez moved for Torres when others appeared unsure of his quality.

9. His is a two-man team

Liverpool did beat Manchester United 14 months ago in a match that neither Gerrard nor Torres started, but they slumped more recently at Sunderland when both were absent. Players of the calibre of Carragher, Kuyt, Reina and Mascherano could dispute that oft-heard analysis. What may be truer to say is that when Liverpool's captain and top scorer are missing, there is a reliance on Yossi Benayoun for invention. And what is probable is that most teams, to some degree or another, are dependent upon their two premier attacking talents.

10. Benitez is a defensive manager

It is another one to irritate the Liverpool manager. His preference for two holding midfielders, which was apparent from his time in Spain, is well known and helps account for Gerrard's berth further forward. But whereas there was a time when Liverpool were far from prolific - they only mustered 57 league goals in the 2006-07 campaign, for instance - they outscored Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal to end up with 90 last year.

11. The team miss Xabi Alonso

Gerrard has admitted it and few would dispute it. But until Aquilani is available on a regular basis, it remains to be seen just how much Liverpool will miss the Basque playmaker in the long term.



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Postby NANNY RED » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:25 pm

Rush Job wrote:You lot took your time.

Exacly , sussed it weeks ago. :;): same style of arguments :nod
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Postby NANNY RED » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:32 pm

Just gonna post this great piece what a lad wrote from OTK,
When i read it i rememberd an went cold at the thought,

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The three years which followed were uneventful for Souness and relatively disastrous for Liverpool. There was little success on the field, with only a 2-0 victory in the 1992 FA Cup final over Second Division Sunderland, but poor tactics, ill-judged transfer dealings and poor man management brought one of the bleakest spells in the history of one of Europe's most successful clubs of all time.

His appointment came just before Liverpool finished second to Arsenal in the race for the 1990-91 league title. He made a major reorganisation of the squad for the following season, bringing in Dean Saunders for a national record of £2.9million as well as defenders Mark Wright and Rob Jones and midfielder Mark Walters. He also gave a regular place in the team to 19-year-old midfielder Steve McManaman, whose debut had come under Kenny Dalglish in December 1990, and near the end of that campaign he gave a professional contract to a highly promising youth team striker called Robbie Fowler. During the first stages of the 1991-92 season, Liverpool were looking like serious title contenders, but it soon became an effective two-horse race between Manchester United and Leeds United, eventually being won by the team from West Yorkshire, while Livepool came sixth - the FA Cup win being their consolation. They also returned to European competition that season after six years of isolation following the Heysel disaster of 1985, and reached the UEFA Cup quarter finals where they were eliminated by Genoa of Italy.

Rumours about squabbles in the dressing room between the players and Souness were rife, with Ian Rush famously telling a Sky Sports interviewer that 'teacups being thrown' were nothing new. One of the few successes, barring the FA Cup triumph, that Souness enjoyed while manager of Liverpool was the fact that he had blooded several new prodigious young talents like Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler allowing them to play and develop in the first team. Both went on to be highly successful for both club and country.

Souness had major heart surgery in 1992, and led his players out at Wembley for the FA Cup final just days after leaving hospital. But there had been controversy over the semi-final against Portsmouth, which Liverpool needed a replay and penalties to win.

In the event of a victory for Liverpool, an interview was due to be published in The Sun, a British tabloid, with Souness celebrating the win and his own successful surgery. The photograph which accompanied the interview was of Souness, in his hospital ward, kissing his girlfriend with joy at his own recovery and his team's win.

The interview was due to go in alongside the match report on 14 April 1992 but the late end to the game meant that the deadline for publication was missed and the report, with interview and photograph, went in on 15 April instead - the third anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

Liverpool fans reacted with fury after seeing that the interview was conducted with The Sun - a newspaper which had been boycotted by many people on Merseyside for the intervening years over its reporting of the events at Hillsborough. Although he apologised profusely at the time, Souness has since said that he probably should have resigned.

1992-93 was even more frustrating. Just after the start of the season, he sold Dean Saunders to Aston Villa. While Saunders was a key player in Villa's near-successful title challenge, his successor Paul Stewart proved to be perhaps the biggest flop to play under Souness at Liverpool, scoring just one league goal from 32 appearances over the next 2 seasons and missing countless games through. Ian Rush was having a torrid time in front of goal, and Liverpool spent most of the season in the bottom half of the table. They entered March still only in 15th place, but an excellent final quarter of the season - in which Rush scored 11 Premier League goals - saw them finish sixth.

The fans were running out of patience with Souness, but he made one last attempt at revitalising Liverpool by signing defender Julian Dicks and striker Nigel Clough during the 1993 close season. The season began well enough, but a dismal run of form in early winter effectively ended hopes of the Premier League title and Souness finally stepped down at the end of January 1994 when Liverpool had suffered a shock FA Cup exit at the hands of Bristol City. He was succeeded by coach Roy Evans.

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now judge our current ill fortune against this and you will see why this is a media circus crisis not a real one
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Postby fivecups » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:51 pm

2 good reads Igor and Nan - cheers for those.
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Postby Sir Roger » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:32 pm

76 players!
SEVENTY SIX!!!
Is this guy hard to please or what? Or is he just bad at making his mind up?
By the way is this an English, European or world record by any chance?
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