Those are all fair and valid points but we have to remember that with Chelsea he had one system playing for two whole seasons with absolutely no flexibility what so ever.
Then last season when he had to change the tactics just one bit to accommodate the new players that were brought in, everyone saw how bad chelsea were.They had absolutely no structure or shape. They won games based only the talents of the players he had in his disposal. I know he had injuries to his wingers but even when they were back he stuck to that pathetic excuse of a diamond 442.
Its not only tactics cause look at the way he approached the away game at barca with all accusations that made that poor ref retire. And bring Collina to allow a goal that was clearly a foul.
Also although he beat Rafa time and again in the league, it was Benetiz who beat him when it mattered and thats twice in the CL semi finals, while having an inferior squad.
I dont think a Liverpool fan woule be very happy with you when you say Cl matters more to them than the league. In fact they would go ape-shit for you even saying that.
The league is their bread and butter and they have won it 18 times more than anyother team, so it irks them that they have not won it for 17 years
How is Liverpool's squad inferior when all the players were signed by Rafa? You give him money and he would spend 7m on Crouch and the amounst he spent on Pellegrini, Kuyt, Gonzales, Agger, Josemi, Aurelio, Zenden etc?
Which wingers were back, Cole was not fit after being out for a long time, Sheva was forced upon him to play no matter how bad his form was. Read the article and see the amount of crap he had to put up with
Robben is never fit
He was upset with Frisk for sending off Drogba for no reason whatsoever when Chelsea were leaing at the Nou Camp
The Collina one, I don't know which game you are refering to but we are not talking about his character