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[Kharhaz]

In the comments on that article there's this link, funny rebuff from Tomkins 

http://tomkinstimes.com/2012/09/media-muppet-of-the-month-september-2012/

You only saw the inside of a couple of rooms, and the car belonged to the club. I’d expect that he knows exactly where he lives. It showed him with his family, and his wife of two decades, who was not some pretty little bimbo. Presumably not having a trophy bride makes him even more of an egotist in the eyes of Burley, who lives in Bizarro land

He may as well just wrote, "hes not married to some beautiful, big boobed, blonde gold digger, oh no, he was standing under the biggest, piniest ugly tree there is and waited for his wife to be to dropped down hitting every branch, so you see, no egos here !"

[devaney]

Rodgers removed £26m a week in wages during the last transfer window and it could have been more if he had let Cole go.

I've no idea what the figure actually is but that cant be right can it? Even assuming each person was on 100k a week that would be 260 players/staff shipped out?

Someone needs to get back to maths class. 

100K per week = 5.2M per year

26M / 5.2M = 5 players

In reality £26M is very easy to save in today world of high salaries. I remember reading something along the lines of:

Aurelio - 60K
Kuyt - 80K
Maxi - 80K
Aquilani - 70K
Bellamy - 70K
Carroll - 80K
Adam - 60K
Spearing - 30K

Total = £530,000
Annual = £27,560,000

Previously apologised for my mistake - £26m a year and not £26m per week.

It is only easy to save £26m per year in wages if you have a long list of extremely overpaid dross on your books which unfortunately we did and to a lesser extent still do in Downing,Henderson and Joe fkg utterly useless Cole !!!

[SouthCoastShankly]

I agree, it will take time to see whether removing all those players and attached salaries will pay off. I'll wait till then end of the season.

[Kenny Kan]

thank you Carol Vorderman

[Santa]

With all the talk of Brendan and his style of play, just like to have a quick shout out to Rodolfo & Pep for their excellent work at the Acedemy.

Not sure if there's a chance for Pep to come back and take on some technical role within the club, as both his and Rodolfo's work has began to pay off for us big time now!

[Boxscarf]

It's nice to see Rafa Benitez getting the much deserved credit he's due - It's nice to see a genuine legend of our club being treated with such respect by his once faithful support.

[jacdaniel]

It's nice to see Rafa Benitez getting the much deserved credit he's due - It's nice to see a genuine legend of our club being treated with such respect by his once faithful support.

I heard in his new book, Gerrard says that he never wanted Rafa sacked.  So all the stories of him losing the dressing room appear to be inaccurate.

[Octsky]

It's nice to see Rafa Benitez getting the much deserved credit he's due - It's nice to see a genuine legend of our club being treated with such respect by his once faithful support.

I heard in his new book, Gerrard says that he never wanted Rafa sacked.  So all the stories of him losing the dressing room appear to be inaccurate.

i think gerrard is just being politically correct, imagine roy keane controversy when he announced in his bio that he injured other players on purpose. gerrard is not that stupid.

[Boxscarf]

I heard in his new book, Gerrard says that he never wanted Rafa sacked.  So all the stories of him losing the dressing room appear to be inaccurate.

I heard that he had a dispute with Carragher because Rafa didn't want to offer Jamie a new contract, but that's all I know. Rafa was sacked because with him in charge the likes of Purslow and Broughton would have struggled to sell the club. Rafa was essentially the most powerful person at Liverpool at the time. He had the unwavering support of a majority of the supporters, in particular the match going supporters and I still believe he had the support of his players. He was sacked for non-footballing reasons.

[ycsatbjywtbiastkamb]

i think burley is being a bit harsh, no manager has ever come across well in those fly on the wall type documentaries.
graham taylor and phil neal became national figures of ridicule in the early 90`s after the F.A`s documentary and leyton orient manager john sitton ended up as a taxi driver after a similar mid 90`s fly on the wall documentary showed him ranting and raving at players.
if rodgers comes out of this with just a few david brent jibes thrown at him he will have done well.
it`s getting panned over here but everyone knew it would.

[the lone wolf]

I heard in his new book, Gerrard says that he never wanted Rafa sacked.  So all the stories of him losing the dressing room appear to be inaccurate.

I heard that he had a dispute with Carragher because Rafa didn't want to offer Jamie a new contract, but that's all I know. Rafa was sacked because with him in charge the likes of Purslow and Broughton would have struggled to sell the club. Rafa was essentially the most powerful person at Liverpool at the time. He had the unwavering support of a majority of the supporters, in particular the match going supporters and I still believe he had the support of his players. He was sacked for non-footballing reasons.

AGREE - NUFF SAID!

[Thommo's perm]

It's nice to see Rafa Benitez getting the much deserved credit he's due - It's nice to see a genuine legend of our club being treated with such respect by his once faithful support.

I heard in his new book, Gerrard says that he never wanted Rafa sacked.  So all the stories of him losing the dressing room appear to be inaccurate.

It wasnt the dressing room he lost...

[Kharhaz]

It's nice to see Rafa Benitez getting the much deserved credit he's due - It's nice to see a genuine legend of our club being treated with such respect by his once faithful support.

I heard in his new book, Gerrard says that he never wanted Rafa sacked.  So all the stories of him losing the dressing room appear to be inaccurate.

It wasnt the dressing room he lost...

I heard a rumour his nickname was El Loco...

[dundreamin]

All this is BS about rafa. I spoke to him and monse Christmas night 2010. He never wanted to leave and he loves LFC and Liverpool in general. It was twit and t.wat that was the problem. BTW I love rafa always did and always will

[Reg]

Some people have written a lot of silly things in the past couple of pages of this thread, I don't know whether its because they don't understand the situation, can't think things through or are plain stupid, the end result is people drift away from the forum.

Anyone seriously judging BR at this stage of his Liverpool career is a fool. The guy accepted the most difficult job in football, to reverse the decline of a major club where 3 managers had failed within the previous 18 months, the club had been virtually bankrupt by the previous owners, a colossal amount of money had been wasted on transfers and giving players new contracts when they should have been shown the door.

The guy's turned the club upside down which calls for courage and strength of character similar to the Mourinho's, Ferguson's and Brian Clough's of this world. He's shown every squad player they have to justify their place at the club by ignoring 'senior players' and gambling on his junior squad - not just one or two players but the whole ruddy team! Cole, Downing etc... there's the door lads, we don't need you.

At the same time, in just 2-3 games he has made Liverpool THE most attractive club for a young player to come and join and get their chance to play. Agents from all over europe will have heard the news and will be sending their starlets' cv to Anfield - 'Hey Bren, I've got this 17 year old in Portugal who's exactly your type of player'. And it will pi$$ off the Ferguson's of this world no end having spent a lot of money yet in 12 months time LFC will have an equally capable squad that cost us peanuts. As BR says, his lads will run through barbed wire for him, the Citech, Chelsea and Utd lads need 100 thou a week to get out of bed. 

That we've made a poor start means nothing. BR's put his cards on the table and its a very ballsy plan. And I think it will work. I think we will be 5-6th place this season with a team of youngsters and I can't wait to see who becomes the new backbone of the team and who else comes in, attracted by the new era. I don't see us buying anyone over 26 years old - and after what I've seen, I don't want them anyway. Bring in more young lads.

So to those with verbal diarrhea and spouting off out of ignorance, STFU until you have something intelligent to say.