Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread [mod warning #11145, #32140 (see OP)]

ziggy wrote: »

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True. How he gets into that Argentina team, I don't know, or why would Barcelona be interested.

Just play Messi back there, problem sorted.

Ardent wrote: »

Good.

Is he your first choice?

you have to be daft if pool fans want Hodgson instead of Pellegrini

ziggy wrote: »

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Thought you were on about Masch. Sorry, it would be a ludicrous thing to say about Masch.

Ardent wrote: »

No. But anyone is an improvement on Bizarro Benitez.

What a silly thing to say.

folks do anyone want this shirt ?



size L

never worn

Mr Alan wrote: »

Vidic selling it?

do you want it?

i know your feelings for Torres

Dub13 wrote: »

This is a excellent post and the anti Rafa heads should read it....

http://irishkop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=350776&postcount=27

Mister men wrote: »

Fantastic post that will go over most fans heads. If you don't get it you just don't get it.

What exactly is so fantastic about the post?


That a guy puts up a post yesterday full of the same facts that others have been putting up since before Rafa left?


Even in this forum, I can remember the likes of Mr Alan posting pretty much the same things for months now, and I heard nobody calling his posts on it fantastic.


In twenty years time, nobody will be seeing a lot of those achievements as anything to brag about. Similar things were said about Ged. When he left he had brought us to our highest points total in the EPL at that time, his teams had long undefeated runs that were lauded.

The thing ios that over time, what gets remembered most is trophies.

Rafa has won trophies at LFC, one massive one, and as such will be remembered fondly by history.


The bits about the owners and the money grabbing side of thing? Well I would have expected that was obvious to all but the most blinkered supporters for a long time now.

Rosco1982 wrote: »

Got this in an email recently, it's the winning entry to a caption competition on the Guardian :




"And then he replaced me with Lucas!"

I lolled quite a bit.

Does your email get delivered by pigeon?

That pic with that line has been floating about since the start of the World cup.


And yes it was defo a LOL moment when first seen.:)

Dub13 wrote: »

This is a excellent post and the anti Rafa heads should read it....

http://irishkop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=350776&postcount=27

It's a crap post tbh. Another RCDNW fanatic cherry-picking useless stats to support his weak argument. At the end of the day, Benitez was sacked for a very good reason - gross underachievement after 6 seasons of failing to deliver the title at Anfield.

Ardent wrote: »

It's a crap post tbh. Another RCDNW fanatic cherry-picking useless stats to support his weak argument. At the end of the day, Benitez was sacked for a very good reason - gross underachievement after 6 seasons of failing to deliver the title at Anfield.

To be fair I would not regard it as a "crap post" by a "fanatic" either.

I just don't see it as a fantastic post as it is only stating what hundreds of others have said across many forums over the last X amount of months.

Tehnically what the guy said in his post is pretty much correct, it is just that the achievements he highlighted are not the kind of things that managers get remembered for in decades to come. Now being the manager that won a CL, that's an achievement that will be acknowledged in 20 or 30 years, and as such Rafa will be remembered fondly.

To be honest getting into online arguements about Rafa at this point is a bit redundant though.

He is gone. The job he went to shows that he is held in high regards. He was not a clown or useless or whatever some want to call him. I personally don't think he was the right man to take Liverpool further than he already had, but that does not lessen him in terms of being a quality manager. Sometimes a person of quality just is not the right fit for a role, that's just life.

I hope he does well in his future role(s), but once the new season begins, my loyalty is with Liverpool as always, and my burning desire will be for the manager* that is at the helm to be a success.
















* This becomes invalid if O'Neill were to somehow pox his way to the role.