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Brendan Rodgers sacked.

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  • #602
    JohnDaniels
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    Sand wrote: »
    Liverpool was the draw. Rafa was the funny story.

    Yeah because those players would have been signing with Liverpool without him. Should I post the stories where Ferguson says he did everything he could to sign Torres but he guessed in the end it was the Spanish draw of Benitez that mattered?


  • #603
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,180 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    JohnDaniels wrote: »
    Yeah because those players would have been signing with Liverpool without him. Should I post the stories where Ferguson says he did everything he could to sign Torres but he guessed in the end it was the Spanish draw of Benitez that mattered?

    If it entertains you, by all means go for it. Because this isn't a thread about Benitez. But its your time to spend however you see fit.

    Honestly, you make it sound like Liverpool was some joke of a side scrapping for relegation with Benitez somehow drawing players to an otherwise doomed enterprise by force of personality alone. Liverpool were European champions in 2005. Reina was signed in that summer. Torres was signed two years later with Liverpool still regularly qualifying for the CL, finishing 3rd the season before.

    The problem is its now 10 years later and Liverpool have qualified for the CL just once in the last 6 seasons and were eliminated in the group stages when they did. That's going to play a lot more in players minds than Benitez or Klopp.


  • #604
    JohnDaniels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭JohnDaniels


    Sand wrote: »
    If it entertains you, by all means go for it. Because this isn't a thread about Benitez. But its your time to spend however you see fit.

    Honestly, you make it sound like Liverpool was some joke of a side scrapping for relegation with Benitez somehow drawing players to an otherwise doomed enterprise by force of personality alone. Liverpool were European champions in 2005. Reina was signed in that summer. Torres was signed two years later with Liverpool still regularly qualifying for the CL, finishing 3rd the season before.

    The problem is its now 10 years later and Liverpool have qualified for the CL just once in the last 6 seasons and were eliminated in the group stages when they did. That's going to play a lot more in players minds than Benitez or Klopp.

    Didn't you specifically say the manager wasn't an important factor in signing players? Ferguson has said himself Torres decision was influenced massively by Benitez as have plenty of other players. If you think it isn't an important factor in a players decision then you are living in cookoo land. As with most of your posts in this thread you have ranted about something superfluous rather than engaging in the question asked. I guess we will see in the coming years the players attracted. I have a feeling they will be of a higher quality and I have a feeling much of that will be down to Jurgen but I guess we will see.


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