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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

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  • #15302
    Cyrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,218 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    thegen wrote: »
    Not sure if this should be in the UTD or Liverpool thread or if it needs its own one.

    Setanta reports Fergie ranting about Benitez at press conference about up coming FA Cup semi final.

    Is it mind games or is Fergie feeling squeaky bum time as he would say himself?

    what did he say,

    you can be sure he wont be accused of cracking up :rolleyes:


  • #15303
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    LZ5by5 wrote: »
    Breaking News on Sky Sports News, Sam Allardyce hits out at Rafa Benitez's "humiliating gestures" after Liverpool scored their second goal against Blackburn. Don't quit your day job Sam.:rolleyes: The "gesture" is at 4:30 in the below clip.

    What is Sam complaining about exactly?


  • #15304
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    i dont see anything myself...


  • #15305
    yom 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭yom 1


    LZ5by5 wrote: »
    Breaking News on Sky Sports News, Sam Allardyce hits out at Rafa Benitez's "humiliating gestures" after Liverpool scored their second goal against Blackburn

    Humiliating gesture, hardly.

    All Rafa meant was "that's that game over", which it was.............. Fhact!


  • #15306
    thegen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭thegen


    Cyrus wrote: »
    what did he say,

    you can be sure he wont be accused of cracking up :rolleyes:

    Fergie was asked about Everton to which he replied Moyes had done a great job and contrary to Benitez they were a big club, he went on to have a go at Benitez saying his reaction to Liverpool going 2 up at Blackburn was disrespectful. Remember this was a press conference about the FA Cup semi final. Maybe not cracking up but then why brin up Benitez in then?


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  • #15307
    _blank_
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    It was definitely a gesture of some kind.


  • #15308
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    thegen wrote: »
    he went on to have a go at Benitez saying his reaction to Liverpool going 2 up at Blackburn was disrespectful

    Did Sam and Alex both say basically the same thing.

    You'd nearly think they were mates.


  • #15309
    thegen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭thegen


    Des wrote: »
    Did Sam and Alex both say basically the same thing.

    You'd nearly think they were mates.

    Des maybe they have employed a choregrapher so it looks graceful;)

    Mates:rolleyes: are they not condoms?;)


  • #15310
    Mr Alan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    Des wrote: »
    Did Sam and Alex both say basically the same thing.

    You'd nearly think they were mates.

    shocking!

    :p

    as i understand it the gesture that Big Sam is refering to is Rafa folding his arms?


  • #15311
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    What is Sam complaining about exactly?
    BastardPrince wrote: »
    i dont see anything myself...

    It was when Rafa cracks a wry smile and cross his hands in a "not a problem for this team" type gesture. Big Sam interpreted the gesture as directed at him, undermining his team and humiliating them by making a "game over" type gesture. Personally I just saw it as Rafa showing his delight at Torres beating a man obviously more physically imposing than him to a header and putting it in the back of the net.


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  • #15312
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    Mr Alan wrote: »
    as i understand it the gesture that Big Sam is refering to is Rafa folding his arms?

    As in "that's another day's work done so" when there was a fair bit of time left.

    I can see where Sam is coming from tbh, it is kind of disrespectful.


  • #15313
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,053 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    thegen wrote: »
    Fergie was asked about Everton to which he replied Moyes had done a great job and contrary to Benitez they were a big club, he went on to have a go at Benitez saying his reaction to Liverpool going 2 up at Blackburn was disrespectful. Remember this was a press conference about the FA Cup semi final. Maybe not cracking up but then why brin up Benitez in then?

    no worse than rafa bringing up fergie before chelsea match in the CL

    all tit for tat stuff


  • #15314
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Headshot wrote: »
    tit

    pics?


  • #15315
    elshambo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭elshambo


    It looks like the lads were running to him to celebrate and he was having none of it

    He smiled after scoring as well:eek:

    An absolute disgrace, big sam is right, 2-0 up against a poor team with a centre back up front on his own is no time to be smiling, clearly backs against the wall time if ever there was

    Outlandish behaviour!:rolleyes:

    The sooner people start ignoring Fergie's stupid little digs the better for all INCLUDING Man Utd


  • #15316
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    Headshot wrote: »
    i doubt PBP would be happy

    :confused:

    who?


  • #15317
    Mr Alan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    Des wrote: »
    As in "that's another day's work done so" when there was a fair bit of time left.

    I can see where Sam is coming from tbh, it is kind of disrespectful.

    pull the other one Des ;)


  • #15318
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,053 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Des wrote: »
    :confused:

    who?

    strange thing is I dont know

    too early for me still

    maybe i was trying to say PFB

    idk


  • #15319
    thegen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭thegen


    Clarification on what Fergie said.

    Benitez showed contempt and he was beyond the pale, no other liverpoll manager would have done it to a fellow manager.

    This is on Setanta news along with Allyrdyce moaning.


  • #15320
    internelligent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭internelligent


    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    What is Sam complaining about exactly?

    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5199709,00.html


  • #15321
    Highsider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Lol at big Sam.


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  • #15322
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,053 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Rafa wouldnt even turn up

    disgraceful


  • #15323
    yom 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭yom 1


    Des wrote: »
    I can see where Sam is coming from tbh, it is kind of disrespectful.

    Whether it is or isnt disrespectful, it will be deemed as being so because its Rafa. The media haven't had a stick to beat him with in a while so they'll jump all over this little snippet from Sam.

    Fergie could have turned around stuck his fingers up to Sam, laughed in his face whilst telling him his team dont deserve to clean Utd's boots let alone grace the same field as them and he'd be deemed to have acted in a professional manner*

    * the above is a ridiculous overreaction to this, but then again so is calling Rafa disrespectful


  • #15324
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    yom 1 wrote: »
    Fergie could have turned around stuck his fingers up to Sam, laughed in his face whilst telling him his team dont deserve to clean Utd's boots let alone grace the same field as them and he'd be deemed to have acted in a professional manner

    You DO know that Ferguson and Sam are good friends, yes?

    Hence, Ferguson would never do a gesture like the one Rafa did.


  • #15325
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    can only imagine a few more managers that happen to be fergies friend will have lots to say about Benitez over the coming weeks, fergie's rattled boys...


  • #15326
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    and this isnt disrespectful sam?

    Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce has mocked Liverpool rival Rafa Benitez over his war of words with Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson.

    Allardyce claimed Benitez had been "foolish" to cross swords with Ferguson.

    He added: "You can’t help him whingeing and moaning, can you? He loves it. Rafa is his own man and he’ll continue to manage in his own way — whether that is his stubbornness or his determination, I don’t know. We all have our quirks.

    "I don’t give a damn what they say before, during or after a game, but there have been occasions when I have shoved it on the noticeboard for the players and it has made a difference for them.

    "It’s great when a manager moans about the way my teams play, but it doesn’t worry me because I would rather have a big manager moaning about me and our tactics after we’ve got a result against them than have them saying what a lovely team we are after they’ve beaten us 3-1.

    "You’d be foolish taking on Sir Alex, because he knows every trick in the book."


  • #15327
    Mr Alan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    why would Rafa meet the man who publically slated his managerial abilities on more than one occassion? bemoaning the only reason he was in a job at Liverpool was because he was foreign


  • #15328
    yom 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭yom 1


    Des wrote: »
    You DO know that Ferguson and Sam are good friends, yes?

    Hence, Ferguson would never do a gesture like the one Rafa did.

    I know that, I just meant if it was the other way round! Probably should have said that.


  • #15329
    thegen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭thegen


    Maybe fergie is trying to take the limelight off the Everton game after Moyes claimed Mike Reilly is biased towards utd.

    Must say it is great to watch Allyrdyce whinge on Setanta, it is like a schoolboy looking for sympathy


  • #15330
    Highsider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    yom 1 wrote: »
    Whether it is or isnt disrespectful, it will be deemed as being so because its Rafa. The media haven't had a stick to beat him with in a while so they'll jump all over this little snippet from Sam.

    Fergie could have turned around stuck his fingers up to Sam, laughed in his face whilst telling him his team dont deserve to clean Utd's boots let alone grace the same field as them and he'd be deemed to have acted in a professional manner*

    * the above is a ridiculous overreaction to this, but then again so is calling Rafa disrespectful
    How dare you accuse ferguson of even considering doing such a thing. He is the most well mannered behaved manager the game had ever seen don't you know.:rolleyes:
    Nah but really how pathetic from big Sam. Agree the media will jump all over this one now as they have'nt had nowt to talk about since Rafa signed the contract. I'd say big Sam is bitter more than anything. He has never had a good word to say about Rafa even from when he did a few games on the TV when he was out of work.


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  • #15331
    Mr Alan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    Ferguson is afraid.

    End of story.


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