Houllier leaves Villa

[dom9]

Rafa's name is mud in England.

[spud_gun]

Rafa's name is mud in England.

Thanks to what is/was tantamount to a hate campaign instigated by the gutter press.

[dom9]

Thanks to what is/was tantamount to a hate campaign instigated by the gutter press.

The broadsheets included.

[Shaggy]

I've been asking Villa fans on FB for reasons why they don't want him.

Brace yourselves.

"Spent more than Ferguson, more than anyone, and never won the league."

"Last two seasons have been appalling, turned Inter from the best team in Europe to ****"

"Ferguson destroyed him psychologically"

"Wasted millions on absolute rubbish, any brain dead idiot could've bought Torres, Reina and Mascherano"

It is absolutely ****ing laughable.

[Lee]

They're regurgitating the same sort of **** that Sky and the like have been saying for the last few years?!

Some people are ****ing beyond hope.

[dom9]

I've been asking Villa fans on FB for reasons why they don't want him.

Brace yourselves.

"Spent more than Ferguson, more than anyone, and never won the league."

"Last two seasons have been appalling, turned Inter from the best team in Europe to ****"

"Ferguson destroyed him psychologically"

"Wasted millions on absolute rubbish, any brain dead idiot could've bought Torres, Reina and Mascherano"

It is absolutely ****ing laughable.

I'm sure they were well aware of Torres and how good he would turn out.

And as for Mascherano languishing on West Ham's reserves.

And who had heard of Reina in England?

[Liverpool]

tbf a large chunk of liverpool fans dont rate him

[Vermilion]

Wow, never realised Villa fans were so stupid.

Then again, some of our fans hold a similar view....which is even worse imho.

edit: ****! ****! ****! now it looks like i've stolen the above posts words!

[Shaggy]

Completely revisionist crap. We signed Torres unchallenged, if it was so easy why weren't all the big clubs queuing up to buy him?

[Vermilion]

Completely revisionist crap. We signed Torres unchallenged, if it was so easy why weren't all the big clubs queuing up to buy him?

What they say is all very easily proved wrong, thing is, it won't make a blind bit of difference to the fools.

[Kenneth]

For Villa fans to dismiss the idea of Rafa is ridiculous. However, he is somewhat over-rated by many Liverpool fans who just refuse to see his flaws. The fact that he was good at massaging the egos of the fans maybe has something to do with it. The owners is given as a blanket excuse for any criticism that come his way.

Whatever the context of the Inter job, he took it, his team were utter ****e by their standards and he was out after a few months. Can't blame people for giving weight to that, we would if a potential manager had just come through the same.

[Exiled_red]

On a similar note, a Chelsea fan I work with said he'd rip up his season ticket if Rafa got the job there, and that he'd prefer Redknapp out of the two

[Exiled_red]

I've been asking Villa fans on FB for reasons why they don't want him.

Brace yourselves.

"Spent more than Ferguson, more than anyone, and never won the league."

"Last two seasons have been appalling, turned Inter from the best team in Europe to ****"

"Ferguson destroyed him psychologically"

"Wasted millions on absolute rubbish, any brain dead idiot could've bought Torres, Reina and Mascherano"

It is absolutely ****ing laughable.

How much did O'Neill spend when he was at Villa?

Also I don't see the next Villa manager have to worry about playing mind games with Ferguson

[Mattshark]

For Villa fans to dismiss the idea of Rafa is ridiculous. However, he is somewhat over-rated by many Liverpool fans who just refuse to see his flaws. The fact that he was good at massaging the egos of the fans maybe has something to do with it. The owners is given as a blanket excuse for any criticism that come his way.

Whatever the context of the Inter job, he took it, his team were utter ****e by their standards and he was out after a few months. Can't blame people for giving weight to that, we would if a potential manager had just come through the same.

Do you think it was possible for Rafa to do much better with us under the conditions he was under though?

But if you ignore the context of what happened at Inter, your views have little relevance.

[Rich]

Let's not forget that indirectly we helped pay for the negative PR campaign directed at Benitez by former powers-at-be at LFC.

Mud sticks. Even professional footballers use SKY as their barometer, what hope the clueless chav fan?