Rafa Benitez - Coach - Pool (18 Viewers)
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I am with you on this one Vinman, totally. Its not just that I despise Benitez as a man, for his lack of class and decency, its moreso, his lack of management talent, both tactically, motivationally, and in the transfer market, which makes me sick at the thought of him being our manager. I hope its all nonsense rumours...Because I have ONLY seen a decent liverpool outfit under Benitez when Gerrard, Alonso, Torress play well. Never the TEAM AS A WHOLE...also, his triumph and near miss in the champions league have been by far the luckiest of any manager I have known.
We need and deserve far better than an arrogant spanish goon whose feathers are ruffled far too easily and who buys 10 wretched players for every 1 decent player...
It astounds me that there is actual support for this move from people who say they support Juventus...they are merely supporting the continued demise of our once great club, in my heart and mind at least.
Ultimately...why the hell should we bring in a FAILING MANAGER to replace a FAILING MANAGER?
We need and deserve far better than an arrogant spanish goon whose feathers are ruffled far too easily and who buys 10 wretched players for every 1 decent player...
It astounds me that there is actual support for this move from people who say they support Juventus...they are merely supporting the continued demise of our once great club, in my heart and mind at least.
Ultimately...why the hell should we bring in a FAILING MANAGER to replace a FAILING MANAGER?
As a manager I think he's great at his best and at his middle or worst, he's very bad. He's kind of a hit or miss guy, great in big games but forgets to watch tape of the little teams. If he could build consistency in his team selection and mentality he'd be the best in the world.
People tend to exaggerate his transfers. It's hard to consider players like Sissoko, Cisse, Luis Garcia, Peter Crouch and Xabi Alonso as flops even though they are not all still at the club. I think a fault of Rafa's is that he doesn't give these guys enough time to settle at the club; ex. Robbie Keane, Mark Gonzalez.
As a person I think he actually cares about the future of the club, just looking at his face after a tough loss tells me this. He's brought in youngsters and our youth teams have done very well on their own right with a few of their graduates now training with the first team.
I think Rafa made one mistake this season and that was not replacing Xabi Alonso(directly, I think Aquilani can be a very good signing for us, but he was obviously a vision for the future with Lucas expected to be the present). That coupled with massive injuries to the squad (mostly our best players) has made this a very tough season. Especially with the amount the midtable teams have come along in the last two seasons (the EPL's top eight is probably better than the top 8 in any other league).
I don't see the point in firing Rafa until the season is sorted out, especially while we are gaining momentum in the Prem (5 games undefeated streak). Unless of course someone else gets him, which is out of the club's hands if should go.
People tend to exaggerate his transfers. It's hard to consider players like Sissoko, Cisse, Luis Garcia, Peter Crouch and Xabi Alonso as flops even though they are not all still at the club. I think a fault of Rafa's is that he doesn't give these guys enough time to settle at the club; ex. Robbie Keane, Mark Gonzalez.
As a person I think he actually cares about the future of the club, just looking at his face after a tough loss tells me this. He's brought in youngsters and our youth teams have done very well on their own right with a few of their graduates now training with the first team.
I think Rafa made one mistake this season and that was not replacing Xabi Alonso(directly, I think Aquilani can be a very good signing for us, but he was obviously a vision for the future with Lucas expected to be the present). That coupled with massive injuries to the squad (mostly our best players) has made this a very tough season. Especially with the amount the midtable teams have come along in the last two seasons (the EPL's top eight is probably better than the top 8 in any other league).
I don't see the point in firing Rafa until the season is sorted out, especially while we are gaining momentum in the Prem (5 games undefeated streak). Unless of course someone else gets him, which is out of the club's hands if should go.
Rafa's not an arrogant Spanish goon. He's actually a pretty nice guy. 
worse than Ciro is yet to be seen but I`m not sure he will be better than Gentile and Zacc
altough I rate him more than those two (not that I rate him that high)
We need a type of manager the winning type Benitez might won the CL with Liverpool (with less talent and with lots of referee errors and luck) but he never impressed me in the EPL never really fighting for the championship altough I admit their team has less quality players than their rivals but still I never saw any improvement in their game
Zaccheroni well don`t know why is he mentioned as I don`t remember him as a coach the only thing I remember is that he likes the 4-3-3 which could suit our current selection of players
Gentile well he won the under 21 tournament in 06 but lets face it Italy were big favourites back then and he also won the bronze in the olympics which is not bad at all, BUT senior teams are different than youth teams and on senior level does he has any experience and also it is being said on Football Italia that he would probably use the 4-4-2 do we have enough wingers to play that?
anyway don`t know who will be caretaker but at the end of the season I want someone way better than Benitez! I want someone who can bring us some glory
altough I rate him more than those two (not that I rate him that high)
We need a type of manager the winning type Benitez might won the CL with Liverpool (with less talent and with lots of referee errors and luck) but he never impressed me in the EPL never really fighting for the championship altough I admit their team has less quality players than their rivals but still I never saw any improvement in their game
Zaccheroni well don`t know why is he mentioned as I don`t remember him as a coach the only thing I remember is that he likes the 4-3-3 which could suit our current selection of players
Gentile well he won the under 21 tournament in 06 but lets face it Italy were big favourites back then and he also won the bronze in the olympics which is not bad at all, BUT senior teams are different than youth teams and on senior level does he has any experience and also it is being said on Football Italia that he would probably use the 4-4-2 do we have enough wingers to play that?
anyway don`t know who will be caretaker but at the end of the season I want someone way better than Benitez! I want someone who can bring us some glory
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