dear god... hicks : we lined up klinsmann

[Red_Al_77]

This is a shocking development. The manager has been undermined and to all intent and purpose is a dead man walking. Klinsmann of all people. What a mess we are in as a club.

It's a ****ing shambles from beginning to end.

[JohnDoe]

Do you mean Hicks and Gillett or the two posters immediately preceding your post?

Either way,

I meant G&H.

[Johnny]

Personally, i'm really pleased that G&H have said this because it brings the whole affair to a head.

It shows they don't want Rafa and now the Klinsman option has gone they felt they had to go public... what a pair they are. Poor Rafa, whilst I'm sure he was very much aware of the talks this public humiliation is appalling and he deserves so much better.

On a different note, all those who said everything was hunky dory have had an eye opener. So too those who thought the media was so ante LFC they had made the whole thing up. Its a lesson for the future, whilst much of the press do either make stuff up much of it doesn't and when every paper runs with a story more often than not there is something to it.

The klinsmann option is gone because they chose to back Rafa.

[FatTony]

I see a hell of a difference between what they did (cover bases) and how the press have spun it.

How the press spun it? It looks to me from the comments that G&H are trying to put a slant on it to lay the blame with Rafa, saying If Rafa went to Real Madrid.

In reality I don't think this was the case, I think its all come from them. My opinion only of course.

[Red_hot]

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH can we stop airing our dirty linen in public!!! **** i'd love to take a dovetail shovel to Hick's jaw.

There's not two days that goes past where we're not in the chuffing press... claim and counter claim. It's ****ing embarrassing. End of!

And then we wonder when the players are all over the place. The mind boggles.

[Morten_nogamst_Pedersen]

Do you mean Hicks and Gillett or the two posters immediately preceding your post?

Either way,

[Johnny]

Do you mean Hicks and Gillett or the two posters immediately preceding your post?

Either way,

Unprovoked attack there mate.:whatever:

[Skillz]

New contract for Rafa. That is if they are staying. **** me what is going on?

[Guest]

And Hicks isnt allowed to wear his heart on his sleeve?

Not condoning anything here but I really think its being blown out of proportion.

oh and ....

"so he doesn't need to play tricks with us supporters. He'll tell it like it is. "

he had you wrapped around his finger then when he went to the press kicking off. Rafa knew what he was doing, plain and simple. It worked mind

Probably, but I better be on Rafa's side than on the directors side. That's the revolutionary character in me.

In any case, I'm not pro as regards football demonstrations or protesting in public. We should ask a 'public kiss up and forget' PC between Rafa and the owners and stop this ****e right away. That's the more sensible thing to do.

I won't believe them in the future though.

[Guest]

Do you mean Hicks and Gillett or the two posters immediately preceding your post?

Either way,

[AFII]

I'm actually laughing at how pathetic this whole thing is becoming. We are an absolute laughing stock. No wonder we've been playing crap, all this tension is unsettling the club - evidenced by Hyypia saying he wants the off field issues sorted out.

G&H took their time doing their due diligence on the club, it's a real shame that Moores and Parry weren't as exacting. Moores is in the running to be hated by BOTH the Merseyside clubs - no mean feat! The DD they did took three days.

There's always something isn't there? Whenever we seem to be heading in the right direction, we come crashing back down to ground. Houlliers heart problems, that miserable winter in 2002/3 where we went from topof the league to nowhere, a shambolic takeover and the position of our most promising manager for the last two decades in doubt.

We do know how to royally f*ck ourselves over, who needs Man U to do it anymore?

[Airman]

The klinsmann option is gone because they chose to back Rafa.

Or because Klinsman said 'Thanks, but no thanks, I'm off to Bayern'

We'll probably never know, but all of this sounds too much like engineering Rafa to resign and thereby save paying up his contract. Otherwise, there's no logical reason to have said anything as Klinsman had denied everything already.

[hertsred]

This is really depressing. Would we be any better off with the DIC types running the show. By the look of things we couldn't be worse off.

[Darkon]

Or because Klinsman said 'Thanks, but no thanks, I'm off to Bayern'

We'll probably never know, but all of this sounds too much like engineering Rafa to resign and thereby save paying up his contract. Otherwise, there's no logical reason to have said anything as Klinsman had denied everything already.

Exactly my point - G&H just got the easiest way out of the saga served on a silverplatter when Klinsmann denied any talks a couple of days ago. They must know that the only thing this statement is going to contribute is to upset everyone, the players, the manager and supporters even more.

They are basically trying to unsettle everyone even more to get him to resign, or they are just the worst amateurs ever to have stepped in to the world of football...

[kopash]

I thought it was interesting that Rafa has weekly meeting with Parry and Foster