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[badpiggy]

Or alternatively they could look at the job as being the challenge of a life time, leading the club into a new state of the art stadium with significant financial backing to bring in top players. As well as managing a team captained by the best player in the world...

what club are we talking about again?

i think people - myself included - need to get their heads around the fact that someone like rafa can give 100% to liverpool while weighing up options and negotiating for the maximum possible in everything to do with the club. although rafa and mourinho seem to be totally different publicly, in one crucial way they are the same - 100% belief in their own abilities and 100% confidence in their plans. getting your own way all the time like both of them would want doesn't always come across very well and can make them appear machiavellian.

i don't question rafa's commitment because ultimately i just want long term success for liverpool so whether rafa does it or someone else does it i don't really care. i think rafa could make real successful because all the indications are that spanish/european style football is what he knows and understands best. he might just be realising that himself. if so, so be it.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

I think the Liverpool manager's job is getting almost too big. When you've seen people like Evans, Houllier and Rafa come to within a few points of winning the leage and failing, I think some people will think twice. People looking at the job, like Lippi, might hold out and go for a job where they think they have a higher prospect of success, eg Man U and Chelsea - these jobs will probably be available within a couple of years.

Evans was clearly out of his depth and took over after Souness had made a complete cu/nt of it. And throughout his reign we were always there, or there abouts.

Houllier was a complete hack. We got lucky in that treble season. We barely beat the brummies in the league cup final, out played by the arse, and we let a Spanish pub team hang around in the Uefa cup final. We needed extra time and two of theirs sent off to beat them. And I won't mention our league performance, or the last two years of his reign.

Rafa's the first proper manager we've had since Kenny. He's given us back our European pedigree, I hope he can do it in the league, but if he decides to leave then there won't be any shortage of takers, and proven quality ones at that.

[Le Chacal]

£6M ?? Pennant, Bellamy, Gonzalez, Paletta didnt come for free...
I want £30M to be spent on 2-3 first team players...No more squad players please!

[ARIMAN]

Sometimes I think Rafa has really good cheerleader in Ballegue

Its just, Real have had lots of oppurnitites to hire him earlier - why not?

Plus, its not that Rafa style of football is very Galactico - its on the whole very conservative and in the season that Valencia won the league, the top score one year was Baraja

I appreciate that at home, in possession, they were vgood (especially Aimar/Vicente), but we are hardly palying like that

I think Jose will ultimately be a better fit

Rafa is probably posturing for another contract/more control at LFC (which he may get at the Americans are in control)

However, the sadiest thing is the unstability does not let us build for next season (as usual)

[DannyMan2006]

Houllier was a complete hack. We got lucky in that treble season. We barely beat the brummies in the league cup final, out played by the arse, and we let a Spanish pub team hang around in the Uefa cup final. We needed extra time and two of theirs sent off to beat them. And I won't mention our league performance, or the last two years of his reign.

Not to mention the rubbish Porto,Roma and Barca we beat on the way to playing that pub team.

[Diego]

Rafa got £6m net last summer. Moores had to loan the club £10m so he could sign Kuyt and he had to sell some players to get in more money. We couldn't even afford to make a bid for Neill until we had sold Barragan.

The club was skint last summer. The club backed him up as much as they could but £6m net isn't that much. So he didn't get the money to challenge for #19.

[anfieldanfield]

Evans was clearly out of his depth and took over after Souness had made a complete cu/nt of it. And throughout his reign we were always there, or there abouts.

Houllier was a complete hack. We got lucky in that treble season. We barely beat the brummies in the league cup final, out played by the arse, and we let a Spanish pub team hang around in the Uefa cup final. We needed extra time and two of theirs sent off to beat them. And I won't mention our league performance, or the last two years of his reign.

Rafa's the first proper manager we've had since Kenny. He's given us back our European pedigree, I hope he can do it in the league, but if he decides to leave then there won't be any shortage of takers, and proven quality ones at that.

I liked Roy Evans, if Parry and Moores had given him more money to spend, he would have won the league.

[Los Rojos]

Evans was clearly out of his depth and took over after Souness had made a complete cu/nt of it. And throughout his reign we were always there, or there abouts.

Houllier was a complete hack. We got lucky in that treble season. We barely beat the brummies in the league cup final, out played by the arse, and we let a Spanish pub team hang around in the Uefa cup final. We needed extra time and two of theirs sent off to beat them. And I won't mention our league performance, or the last two years of his reign.

Rafa's the first proper manager we've had since Kenny. He's given us back our European pedigree, I hope he can do it in the league, but if he decides to leave then there won't be any shortage of takers, and proven quality ones at that.

Your posts in this thread have been spot on mate

[DannyMan2006]

I liked Roy Evans, if Parry and Moores had given him more money to spend, he would have won the league.

British transfer record on Collymore. He was backed alright. He never finished outside the top 4 though, something considered a success now.........

[NICKZS]

I liked Roy Evans, if Parry and Moores had given him more money to spend, he would have won the league.

Bollocks.

[anfieldanfield]

Bollocks.

He came ****ing close to winning it and we played some lovely football too.

[desertscouser]

I liked Roy Evans, if Parry and Moores had given him more money to spend, he would have won the league.

I liked him too but I doubt he would've ever won the league for us regardless of how much money he was given to spend (didn't he break the British transfer record on Collymore?). If we had a tougher manager than Evans at the helm, in charge of Mcmanaman, Collymore, Ince, Fowler, Ruddock etc then I believe we would've won the league. We had an unbelievably talented side who were far too indisciplined to have ever won the league.

[NICKZS]

He came ****ing close to winning it and we played some lovely football too.

We broke the transfer record with him in charge and we had a bigger lack of discipline than the club has ever seen. We wouldn't have won it by a stretch, certainly not with Man U's ability during that time.

You're right though we did play some lovely football

[Tee]

He came ****ing close to winning it and we played some lovely football too.

I agree. It does my ****in head in the way he gets slaughtered and referred to as soft old Uncle Roy. He came close and was unlucky - at least we played the 'Liverpool' way under him.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Rafa got £6m net last summer. Moores had to loan the club £10m so he could sign Kuyt and he had to sell some players to get in more money. We couldn't even afford to make a bid for Neill until we had sold Barragan.

The club was skint last summer. The club backed him up as much as they could but £6m net isn't that much. So he didn't get the money to challenge for #19.

Right you.

Lets have this.

Rafa's spending since he arrived:

In's:
Cisse*- £14m
Josemi - £2m
Nunez - Exchange for Owen
Barragan - £500k
Garcia - £6m
Alonso - £10m
Morientes - £6m
Carson - £1m
Pellegrino - free
Reina - £7m
Sissoko - £5.5m
Zenden - free
Crouch - £7m
Agger - £5.5m
Kromkamp - Exchange for Josemi
Bellamy - £6.5m
Pennant - £7m
Paletta - £2m
Gonzalez - £1.5m
Kuyt - £10m
Aurelio - free
Arbeola - £2.5m
Mascherano - loan

Total: £94m

Out's:
Owen - £10m plus Nunez
Heskey - £6m
Diao - free
Murphy - £2m
Welsh - £500k
Baros - £5.5m
Diouf - £3m
Diarra - £2m
Smicer - free
Nunez - £1m
Kirkland - £3m
Morientes - £3m
Barragan - £1m
Kromkamp - £2.5m
Traore - £2m
Cheyrou - 500k
Mellor - £500k
Warnock - £1.5m

Total: £44m

Net spend: £50m. Not including fees to leach ****ing agents and contract payoffs.


*not his signing, but he was in charge when the transfer went through.

He's had a decent amount to spend IMO.