Villas Boas (EX) Chelsea manager

[Gibbo]

at the time

Just always curious when people say things like that as ive heard people say he should have gone earlier before.

[Alex]

Where did I say his CV was **** though?

There's a woman in my office and her CV is amazing, she's a lazy **** and I not very good at her job, and she's still living off her past achievements. Bit like Rafa really?

You dont get a good CV in football by not being good at your job. The work he did with the lack of support he had was great. He got very close to winning the league for us. Not many of our managers have done that in the last 20 years.

Rafa is the most successful manager in my lifetime, which is why I hold him up there. Fair enough he didnt win the league. But he won the Champions league, FA cup and got us to a second final.

10 years ago we could only have dreamt of that. Too say he is living off past achievements is a bit much too. The same can be said for Wenger, Capello, Rijkaard and a whole load more. Doesn't make them bad managers because they haven't done much recently. Harry Redknapp is held in higher regard and all he has won is the FA cup in 30 years of trying.

[Shaggy]

You dont get a good CV in football by not being good at your job. The work he did with the lack of support he had was great. He got very close to winning the league for us. Not many of our managers have done that in the last 20 years.

Rafa is the most successful manager in my lifetime, which is why I hold him up there. Fair enough he didnt win the league. But he won the Champions league, FA cup and got us to a second final.

10 years ago we could only have dreamt of that. Too say he is living off past achievements is a bit much too. The same can be said for Wenger, Capello, Rijkaard and a whole load more. Doesn't make them bad managers. Harry Redknapp is held in higher regard and all he has won is the FA cup in 30 years of trying.

He built the best LFC side in 20 years, against a poisonous backdrop of oppressive ownership and back-stabbing. That's a fact.

Gratitude for you eh

[dom9]

Thread hijack. Surely move into the Rafa thread?

[Ben_Itez]

I hope Rafa gets the Chelsea job, it's the only was some of you will actually move on and relise that's he's not as good as you think he is.

I love being told how to think.......so if he took the Chelsea job won the league and CL in his first full season would you still love it? Would you be able to move on?

[AnfieldForever]

Thread hijack. Surely move into the Rafa thread?

My site, my thread

I should have known better than to bring this up on a Liverpool forum. I sincerely, apologise for my actions and any pain I cause Rafa, his family, or his minions.

Rafa

[AnfieldForever]

I love being told how to think.......so if he took the Chelsea job won the league and CL in his first full season would you still love it? Would you be able to move on?

He wont win it though, but yes, I could move on. You can't obviously (referring to your username)

[Shaggy]

"minions"

Is there really any need to be so bitter about his success and the respect he has from most Reds

You want him to fail - that's up to you. It's bitter, but it's up to you. Personally I think Reds should show more respect to a European Cup winning LFC manager. In 3 years he took Liverpool FC to the same amount of European Cup finals as Manchester United had reached in their entire history.

[Alex]

"minions"

Is there really any need to be so bitter about his success and the respect he has from most Reds

You want him to fail - that's up to you. It's bitter, but it's up to you. Personally I think Reds should show more respect to a European Cup winning LFC manager. In 3 years he took Liverpool FC to the same amount of European Cup finals as Manchester United had reached in their entire history.

Thats not good enough though.....

[Alex]

Also, I know that people don't like Rafa. But I have never really heard a decent argument for why. People say they don't like his football. But we scored plenty of goals, and didnt concede much. So that cant be it.

So what is it? I'm genuinely interested.

[Shaggy]

[AnfieldForever]

"minions"

Is there really any need to be so bitter about his success and the respect he has from most Reds

You want him to fail - that's up to you. It's bitter, but it's up to you. Personally I think Reds should show more respect to a European Cup winning LFC manager. In 3 years he took Liverpool FC to the same amount of European Cup finals as Manchester United had reached in their entire history.

I appreciate everything he’s done for Liverpool, I’ve never doubted that.

What I was trying to point out is that:
- I was glad he was sacked, the timing was right
- Spent millions on ****
- We played dire football at times
- Think that too many people have an un-healthy view of how good he was
- Saying that I wouldn’t be fussed if he replaced AVB

Are you honestly telling me that you’ve got the same respect for every former player that has won trophies for Liverpool (every single one?)

Houllier has been hammered on here several times, he won trophies too, doesn’t he deserve respect in the same way?

[AnfieldForever]

[destinydude]

Herd mentality.

[Alex]

I appreciate everything he’s done for Liverpool, I’ve never doubted that.

What I was trying to point out is that:
- I was glad he was sacked, the timing was right
- Spent millions on **** Everyone has bad buys
- We played dire football at times Everyone has bad patches. But we were no where near as boring as Chelsea and they won the league
- Think that too many people have an un-healthy view of how good he was Define unhealthy
- Saying that I wouldn’t be fussed if he replaced AVB

Are you honestly telling me that you’ve got the same respect for every former player that has won trophies for Liverpool (every single one?)

Houllier has been hammered on here several times, he won trophies too, doesn’t he deserve respect in the same way?