rafas best buy

[Woobus]

Reina for me. Carson must also be up there, already made more from loaning him out than we signed him for and a chance we could get 8-10 million from his sale.

[AFII]

Reina without any doubt at all.

The most complete keeper in the world.

[Diego]

Garcia

[Nicey]

Pepe has to be

[RaviAlonso]

this is a hard choice.....

Pepe because of what a great keeper he is and will get even better,

Torres because of what he can do and what he WILL do in the future for the club along with Xabi and Agger.

Garcia: what he did for the club in three quick years....

but i say







.......Kuyt :whatever:

not really....Xabi for me,...Pepe was only a big ears sized trophy behind...

[Morph]

So hard to pick a best buy, he's got so many great purchases

Torres and Mascherano look to be the successful big money purchases
Alonso was an astute buy, worth well more than the 10mil we paid
Reina and Agger were magnificent purchases for only 6mil (ish)
Arbeloa a wonderful pound for pound purchase
Aurelio and Voronin, look to be great signings given they cost nothing
Crouch another clever buy from Rafa, worth more than we paid for him

Even someone like Carson is a great money spinner and we don't know how good Babel and Leiva might become

the only disapointments in the squad atm to me are sissoko and kuyt, but that's only given this seasons form

In short, I don't think he has a best buy, he has a lot of them

[jonesie]

Xabi Alonso by a hundred million miles.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Luis Garcia.

So many vital goals while he was with us.

Obviously Alonso, Reina and Agger are right up there.

[Joe King]

Getting Gerrard and Carra signing new contracts

[El Jefecito]

dont know about ferri - he might have played a useful role as a spy or he might not.

One thing i do know is that pellegrino was awful and cost us- literally - a goal a game when he started.

i totally reject the idea that he improved the sides knowledge of the zonal marking and if we needed to rest players - we should have used the reserves not this geriatric.

the reason it makes me so angry was the stakes t that time.....if people remember, we finished 5th to the blueshyte by a "pellegrino-sized" margin. it had a fairytale ending with us winning number 5 but if wed lost the final - and missed out on the champions league as we nearly still did!, it would have set this club back YEARS.

its about priorities, and i dont think rafa would accord the domestic league (or the overall best interests of the club) such a low priority again

Do you have any basis for that statement? At all?

[redblood]

who is it ?

Alonso by far I think, Torres may eclipse him and Agger and Reina give them all a run for their money but Alonso for me.

[Kaip]

Reina

[Red Chilli]

Pepe Reina.

We needed a class player in that position as Dudek's confidence was shot to feck.
Rafa picked Reina out of nowhere really, he wasn't a big name when he was signed and he came for a lot of money. But the way he pushes the defence out and covers for them is great.
He sometimes looks like he is ready to drop a clanger but his record is phenomenal.

Pepe

[enema of the state]

Do you have any basis for that statement? At all?

plenty

firstly the observation of watching every lfc game

riise, finnan, hyppia and carragher were excellent defenders and components of an already excellent defence (with henchoz) long before the argie plank turned up. I observed no improvement afterwards

Statistics tell us we conceded less goals in the last houllier season than in the 2004/5 which backs my observation up

whenever pellegrino played, he manifestly weakened our defence - only an idiot could dispute that

in 31 years of watching lfc, pellegrino is THE ABSOLUTE MOST HARMFUL player to the teams results i have ever seen

im well aware he was a good player when he was younger. when he was at lfc he was absolute shyte.

any credit due to him for subsequent improvement in the remaining defenders is an urban myth: Do you have any basis for that statement? At all?

the fact he is an argentinian is in no way relevant to my opinion - id feel the same if he had been english

[GreystonesLFC_WTF]

best buy: agger

best value buy: voronin

worst buy: josemi

worst value buy: pennant

worst signing: pellegrino

best buy: Alonso

best value buy: Reina

worst buy: josemi

worst value buy: Palletta

worst signing: pellegrino

Agree with most, disagree with some.