Posted:
Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:19 pmby Torres 2007
What makes me laugh is that certain fans who start topics like this, and have knee jerk reactions when we get rubbish results, they all of a sudden start analysing Rafa, the team, Gillette + Hicks etc, the whole god damn show
That was a mighty piece, but regardless of what climate Rafa is working in, players up for the challenge, or what have you, the simple issue and solution to this problem is this:
We have players who are not good enough to win the league. It's just about quality. I think Rafa has got a core of players who are outstanding: Reina, Carra, Finnan, Gerrard,babel, ALonso, and Torres.
The rest are just not good enough.
When Mourhinio came to Chelsea, he won two league titles on the trot. Reason? he had quality all over the park. and with quality comes consistency.
What is annoying about Rafa, is that he thinks rotation is ok, and cannot see the problem. trouble is, the players replacing other players are not neccesarily of the same ability.
We need Kaka, Ronaldhino, or similar calibre. players who perform consistently, and can open teams up.
up and coming players, just forget it. we need to break the bank.
Its so simple, it slaps you in the face like a kipper.
Posted:
Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:58 pmby NANNY RED
Sammys got in on the act now:D dont know if anyone read this but just a little snippet from the mail
But it was their stalwart Sami Hyypia who gave the most damning assessment of the crisis engulfing Benitez, the club's American owners and the players who were supposed to be serious title contenders this season.
"We seem to be becoming like Newcastle," said Hyypia. "Every time we pick up a paper, there seems to be something new. But our job is to concentrate on the games.
"In the football world there are some things that happen very quickly and you can't do anything about them. The players hope that if there are arguments, they can be sorted out."
Posted:
Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:00 amby LittleHobo
he needs to ship out all the current wingers cause they are average and get better ones
its worrying really, here is a list of left mids/ wingers better than kewell, riise
giggs
joe cole
morten gamst pederson
petrov
rosicky
here is a list of right mids better than pennant, benayoun
wright phillips
david bentley
ronaldo
malouda
hleb
aaron lennon
summing up, even a team like blackburn has much better wingers than us which is highly worrying
Posted:
Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:35 amby roberto green
Isn't it mad how short some peoples memories are and how fickle some people are.I was looking back on some of the posts from September and everyone was saying yes it's defo our season blardy blah and we were in the best posistion for years(me included) yet just 4 months we are all in up heaval.We have had so many false dawns over the past decade yep we have won the cups and its great at the time and it gets no better than the european cup but at the end of the day we need the league.
We were never as good as we thought at the begining of the season when we were hammering Derby,Sunderland and co neither are we as bad as were making out now after all we have been beaten 2 times in the league(yes 2 times)and from the way most of us have carried on you would of thought it was ten times worse.
If we won our game in hand we would be 9 points behind in the title race and i know were not going to win it but that would be an improvement if we were 9 off the top at the end of the season and say we won a cup for good measure would this turn into a good season?
I know you can all say thats hypothetical but we have been in much worse posisition than this in the league and went on to have good seasons in the past like when we won the champoions league and FA cup the year after so thats why we can't do anything rash at the moment.
everyone just needs to calm down and be sensible and look at the bigger picture it may or may not be as bad as it seems.....
but then again it might!
signings (with the odd good one).
