Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

raven136 · 25-02-2009 01:48PM

O Neills achievements though good are at clubs with little or no recent silverware.
Rafa has won 2 la liga's, a champions league and a uefa cup.
I dont want Rafa to leave and i dont want O Neill.

Whats strange about all of this is that the usual sources are quiet,Balague was saying last week on sky that this is nonsense and dont think Tony Barret has said anything about it either.

L'prof · 25-02-2009 01:49PM

raven136 wrote: »

Whats strange about all of this is that the usual sources are quiet,Balague was saying last week on sky that this is nonsense and dont think Tony Barret has said anything about it either.

A lot can change in a week though to be honest!

zing · 25-02-2009 01:55PM

Hopefully these rumours will spur the team on tonight

slingerz · 25-02-2009 01:57PM

lint316 wrote: »

Lets say if he was to go. Who would you all like to take over?

Jose.

The only manager capable of taking Liverpool to the Premiership.

Charlie · 25-02-2009 02:00PM

I wonder will Rafa now be tarred with the same brush that Keegan has been?

SlickRic · 25-02-2009 02:01PM

remember the days when Liverpool Football Club was a place of stability, a place to be proud of (particularly in terms of how it's managers are treated), and a perfect example of how an elite football club should be run?

if rafa goes, i'm afraid we can kiss these ideals that we have cherished so much goodbye.

we'll have officially begun in earnest our journey down the road towards a 'laughing stock' football club. how the mancs must be laughing....

zing · 25-02-2009 02:01PM

slingerz wrote: »

Jose.

The only manager capable of taking Liverpool to the Premiership.

And there was me thinking for all these years that we were already in it :eek:

Cyrus · 25-02-2009 02:01PM

slingerz wrote: »

Jose.

The only manager capable of taking Liverpool to the Premiership.

i reckon king kenny can do it

older horse but has form over course and distance

he was responsible for football like this

lint316 · 25-02-2009 02:01PM

I think Jose too. I reckon a few people are gonna have a go at us over that

zing · 25-02-2009 02:03PM

Kenny's been out of the game for too long I reckon. The man is a legend but I don't think he'd be right to take over

Boggles · 25-02-2009 02:05PM

It has definately been coming, I have been saying it for months, think it will be poor form if he walks out/kicked out now though.

mike65 · 25-02-2009 02:06PM

I've always though Jose was the obvious man if this happens. Heck he came pretty close
in 2004.

Highsider · 25-02-2009 02:07PM

Liverpool have a huge game and the press are making the rumours up to unsettle the team. That's the way i see it anyway's.

Highsider · 25-02-2009 02:10PM

Boggles wrote: »

It has definately been coming, I have been saying it for months, think it will be poor form if he walks out/kicked out now though.

Rubbish. Rafa would be perfectly within his rights to walk. The way he has been treated by Liverpool fans alone has TBH adjusted my view of the average Liverpool fan.

Mitch Connor · 25-02-2009 02:10PM

mike65 wrote: »

I've always though Jose was the obvious man if this happens. Heck he came pretty close
in 2004.

To be honest, I don't think Mourinho would leave Inter this summer, not unless he is sacked (which i don't think will happen). I also think he will be the next United manager.

mike65 · 25-02-2009 02:10PM

I guess thats better than the players doing it, re Riise/Bellamy. Mind you that worked a treat.

SlickRic · 25-02-2009 02:12PM

Highsider wrote: »

Liverpool have a huge game and the press are making the rumours up to unsettle the team. That's the way i see it anyway's.

do you really think the media hate us that much that they'd make things up deliberately to unsettle us?

i think we need to look a little harder for where the truth in this lies, as much as i'd like it just to be a rumour...

Highsider · 25-02-2009 02:12PM

Would hate to see mourinho at the club. He is an arrogant man and would be more suited to a club like man u IMO.;) And besides the club is in dire straights from a money point of view so we would'nt be able to get him anyway's.....at least there's something good about being broke for the club.

Iang87 · 25-02-2009 02:12PM

if he was to go i'd love to see jose there too. He's tried tested and proven,

this could be a welcome distraction from the game tonight for some players. Gerrard for example no1 is talking about his fitness yet so he can keep his head down try get it sorted without the added pressure

Highsider · 25-02-2009 02:13PM

SlickRic wrote: »

do you really think the media hate us that much that they'd make things up deliberately to unsettle us?

i think we need to look a little harder for where the truth in this lies, as much as i'd like it just to be a rumour...

Yes yes i do.

Iang87 · 25-02-2009 02:16PM

Mitch Connor wrote: »

To be honest, I don't think Mourinho would leave Inter this summer, not unless he is sacked (which i don't think will happen). I also think he will be the next United manager.

he'll never become united manager ever

raven136 · 25-02-2009 02:17PM

Highsider wrote: »

Yes yes i do.

same here.All you have to do is read Chris Bascombe to know what ****e is written these days.He went from being a great writer to spouting the usual bull about Rafa

SlickRic · 25-02-2009 02:17PM

Highsider wrote: »

Yes yes i do.

conspiracy theories are fun and all :rolleyes:, but what is your evidence of their hatred for us?

rumour spreading is not particular to Liverpool Football Club. we're not the centre of the universe...

Mitch Connor · 25-02-2009 02:20PM

Iang87 wrote: »

he'll never become united manager ever

ooooooooooook. Thank you Mr. Gill. Or are you Jose's agent?

I think the United job is exactly the type of job Jose would want - massive club, money to spend, control over all football matters from the first team to the academy, no interference from the owners.

SlickRic · 25-02-2009 02:20PM

raven136 wrote: »

same here.All you have to do is read Chris Bascombe to know what ****e is written these days.He went from being a great writer to spouting the usual bull about Rafa

you have plenty of proper journalists in the media who defend rafa too. let's not go down the road of the 'everyone is against us' mentality, it's not endearing.

zing · 25-02-2009 02:21PM

raven136 wrote: »

same here.All you have to do is read Chris Bascombe to know what ****e is written these days.He went from being a great writer to spouting the usual bull about Rafa

And if you read the sh*te he wrote at the weekend you might just get a clue as to where this all started from. Dunno what happened to him but as you say - he's gone from being a good journo to spouting typical NoTW sensationalist crap.

Mr Alan · 25-02-2009 02:22PM

Jose wont come to Liverpool. Ever.

People seem to forget that when Rafa took the job with us, the three canditates were Strachan, Curbishly and Benitez.

It'll be worse now with the joke we have become we will only be of interest to ****e managers. Jose is the highest paid manager in the world-Rafa gets paid less than David Moyes.

Rafa will walk into either the Real Madrid job (he has been their first choice for a number of years Boggles, despite what you like to pretend) or the AC Milan job (Ancellotti will be at Chelsea next year). The two biggest clubs in Europe where he will get the respect he deserves & he will continue on as a massive success while we quite literally plummet.

If Rafa leaves, it is quite simply a disaster for Liverpool & entirely one of its own making due to its shocking mismanagement at board room level. It will imo, spell a disasterous period for us.

~Rebel~ · 25-02-2009 02:24PM

Christ, Im having the same feelings that were reserved for when i thought a relationship was over in the past!

On the whole comparing managers thing, what it comes down to is;
Success at the Top Level V's Resources (both in terms of players and money). What Rafa achieved in Europe with an average group of players in his first year, imo, counts for a hell of a lot. With regards to the league, he HAS completely turned this club from one which wasn't looking like it could compete in any way shape or form, to one that can. I have absolutely no doubt that if he were to stay for another 5 years, Liverpool would win the league in that time.

Rafa, don't go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-l5FyA3pgo

Melion · 25-02-2009 02:26PM

Delighted to see that nobody could come up with a proper choice to replace Rafa. Mourinho would never EVER come here after seeing the way Rafa has been treated. O'Neill can fúck right off with his horrible long ball hoofing football. Im also glad to see a few people agreeing with me that if Rafa does go then it will set us back years.

And as for the Dalglish rumour :rolleyes: , please let that be a joke.

Melion · 25-02-2009 02:27PM

Delighted to see that nobody could come up with a proper choice to replace Rafa. Mourinho would never EVER come here after seeing the way Rafa has been treated. O'Neill can fúck right off with his horrible long ball hoofing football. Im also glad to see a few people agreeing with me that if Rafa does go then it will set us back years.

And as for the Dalglish rumour :rolleyes: , please let that be a joke.

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