The 'where are they now?' files

[Fosterbloke]

It's nice to hear Gerrard say things like

What a huge compliment!

[wiw]

What a huge compliment!

He's pretty much admitted he was wrong which is impressive

[BobTheCharmer]

What a shame the club wasn't run the way it is now. I've no doubt that Rafa would've won at least one league if it was

Well he had a team that had Gerrard, torres, masher, alonso, carra and hyypia and he didn't manage it. He was too cautious to win a league.

[Paul12]

He was too cautious to win a league.

Wow. I really don't agree with that. My concern with his team's was that they were so tactically coached that it could be difficult to set them up optimally twice in the same week. I think he tried to make that less necessary through the players he bought, but he ran out of money before he could complete the task.

[Liverpool]

He's pretty much admitted he was wrong which is impressive

He's seem to have grown up and matured quite a lot since he left the Liverpool bubble. To be fair to him it was must have been a pretty intense situation to handle over the years.

[frank the tank]

What a shame the club wasn't run the way it is now. I've no doubt that Rafa would've won at least one league if it was

i'd say he is still sore about that alright. Benitez really got LFC - in much the same way Jurgen has. His valencia team were awesome and we were really pretty lucky to be able to hire Rafa. Him and Mourinho were the two top up and coming coaches back then.

I really enjoyed watching his teams and the way he improved the team in the first couple of years. Alonso was my favourite player.

Rafa really really improved players too. Obviously Gerrard went on to be a superstar for us and Alonso and Mascherano all went on be top players in their positions. But players like Carragher, Riise, Hyypia, Finnan......he made all of them better players than they were. Torres was awesome under him and never hit those heights again.

[frank the tank]

I’m not sure he would have taken to the transfer committee mode tbh.

true

Unless he got to pick them all

[frank the tank]

Wow. I really don't agree with that. My concern with his team's was that they were so tactically coached that it could be difficult to set them up optimally twice in the same week. I think he tried to make that less necessary through the players he bought, but he ran out of money before he could complete the task.

When you look at the spending we did around then, we punched about our weight a little bit.

The stories about players we missed out on were a bit of a sickener too. Missed on Dani Alves because we wouldn't pay the 12m or whatever it was back then. So we signed Pennent!!! Simao was obviously another one but there were rumours that we just fell short for the likes of David Silva from Valencia..... i think we got Albert Riera instead. Aguero aledgedly went to Atletico Madrid instead of us because we wouldn't spend £17m on a teenager from Independiente.

If we had a little bit more money back then, we would have won the league and more trophies.

[wiw]

Well he had a team that had Gerrard, torres, masher, alonso, carra and hyypia and he didn't manage it. He was too cautious to win a league.

You've named 6 players If only it was a 5-a-side league. Agree to disagree on the bit in bold I think

Wow. I really don't agree with that. My concern with his team's was that they were so tactically coached that it could be difficult to set them up optimally twice in the same week. I think he tried to make that less necessary through the players he bought, but he ran out of money before he could complete the task.

He was ahead of his time imo.

He's seem to have grown up and matured quite a lot since he left the Liverpool bubble. To be fair to him it was must have been a pretty intense situation to handle over the years.

Definitely Imagine wanting to switch employers and getting death threats

[wiw]

i'd say he is still sore about that alright. Benitez really got LFC - in much the same way Jurgen has. His valencia team were awesome and we were really pretty lucky to be able to hire Rafa. Him and Mourinho were the two top up and coming coaches back then.

I really enjoyed watching his teams and the way he improved the team in the first couple of years. Alonso was my favourite player.

Rafa really really improved players too. Obviously Gerrard went on to be a superstar for us and Alonso and Mascherano all went on be top players in their positions. But players like Carragher, Riise, Hyypia, Finnan......he made all of them better players than they were. Torres was awesome under him and never hit those heights again.

[Angryred]

When you look at the spending we did around then, we punched about our weight a little bit.

The stories about players we missed out on were a bit of a sickener too. Missed on Dani Alves because we wouldn't pay the 12m or whatever it was back then. So we signed Pennent!!! Simao was obviously another one but there were rumours that we just fell short for the likes of David Silva from Valencia..... i think we got Albert Riera instead. Aguero aledgedly went to Atletico Madrid instead of us because we wouldn't spend £17m on a teenager from Independiente.

If we had a little bit more money back then, we would have won the league and more trophies.

Rick Parry had a lot to answer for that too as kept questioning the need for those recruits & continuing to put off transfer talks with agents after Rafa had set them up...Read all about this in some article ages ago about the relationship between those two.

[shanks69]

Anyone watch football's darkest secrets on BBC1 last night? I caught the last few minutes and they were talking to Paul Stewart, the man is absolutely broken, not having watched the rest of the program I don't know the whole story but during the bit I watched he was talking about how during his time at LFC he was doing coke daily, I really need to download it and watch the rest of it.

Watching it now,powerful and emotional stuff

[Irishnev]

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That offside is a poor decision

[Norbs]

That offside is a poor decision

Cost us the title

Although Sterling would've probably missed it