The Rafa Thread

[Sarb]

Hey, cut Sarb some slack, he's an accountant

[Reece]

Damn, brown-nosing the wrong guy as usual.

Yeah, Reece is stupid, no insulation

I can change your avatar though you ****er

[El Jefecito]

Your lucky,mine is outdated and was funny for 3 seconds.

Look on the bright side. You could be "El Matador".

[Johnny]

Hey, cut Sarb some slack, he's an accountant

Ahhh,that explains a lot.

[Roboklopp]

Not flawed mate

Are.

[Roboklopp]

Rashid, I try to understand your posts at times, I just cant. You have completely pulled apart my post with negative, anti lfc bull****. I have no issue with people disagreeing but even you can surely see that the manner in which you post is going to cause conflict?
I mean you post a "I love Deco" thread in the liverpool forum whilst simultaneously dismissing existing Liverpool players.

Why do you do it mate? I want to like you, I really do, I enjoy heated discussions and argueing logically and factually, my problem with you is you are completely anti liverpool. And please dont say otherwise because actions speak louder than words and by your posts you clearly have a big issue with Liverpool and Rafa in particular.

For the sake of the whole forum, could you not please slightly tone down the negativity?

Exaclty how I feel- back in the old days I always used to wonder why everyone picked on him so much & when he was last back I even was happy to see someone I'd not heard of from the old KT days, but I'd forgotten how much he used to wind me up.

[Rashid]

I think I am decentr semi-match going red. I just have serious issues with managers who don't have their teams playing decent football. That's why I have been on such a downer with both Houllier and Rafa.

[El Jefecito]

I think I am decentr semi-match going red. I just have serious issues with managers who don't have their teams playing decent football. That's why I have been on such a downer with both Houllier and Rafa.

Rashid, when all is said and done. I think most would say that you lack BALANCE. Can you understand why they would say that?

I am not saying that you do lack balance. But I understand why others would.

Sarb is similar, if you were to judge him on what he posts you would say he is polarised. His problem is that he is too lazy to post when he agrees with stuff and only posts when he disagrees. So people pigeon hole him.

What you post is what you are!

[Roboklopp]

Rashid, when all is said and done. I think most would say that you lack BALANCE. Can you understand why they would say that?

I am not saying that you do lack balance. But I understand why others would.

Sarb is similar, if you were to judge him on what he posts you would say he is polarised. His problem is that he is too lazy to post when he agrees with stuff and only posts when he disagrees. So people pigeon hole him.

What you post is what you are!

Cant they just type "aye" or ".i."- swot I do (post wont allow just "i" cos it's less than 3 characters)..

[El Jefecito]

Cant they just type "aye" or ".i."- swot I do (post wont allow just "i" cos it's less than 3 characters)..

Mate. I've had a pint and a half of captains morgan before I posted. What is your excuse

[Darth Marty]

I think I am decentr semi-match going red. I just have serious issues with managers who don't have their teams playing decent football. That's why I have been on such a downer with both Houllier and Rafa.

Thats fine and fair enough. I genuinley know where you are coming from! I posted the other day that one of the reasons I get pissed off with Liverpool is that they dont play attractive footie and id far rather them play the Arsenal way!

However if you can just post in a more thoughtful manner id guess you would be welcomed for your posts and you wouldnt have to go bouncing from forum to forum. Theres loads of us here who post the odd bollocks post (ahem even I have been known to do so on the odd occassion) but its usually the exception to the rule, so please mate when you want to dismiss Rafa or have the need to slate a performance counter balance it by saying "but Mascherano played well" or "good call by rafa to put Lucas in goal" or something positive so that we can relate to you in a better manner!

Or just post as you are doing and **** us all off.

Id prefer the former though

[Rashid]

Point taken lads.

[-V-]

Reina
Carragher
Dossena (early days i know but i really like what i see)
Agger
Skrtle
Mascherano
Gerrard
Torres
Keane
Lucas and Babel (our up and coming stars)

Thats is a ****in brilliant squad that Rafa is building. He buys players that are technically very good, intelligent and incredibly hard working.

The super prospects coming through our youth ranks have fantastic potential

Rafa has turned this club back into a European Powerhouse practically overnight. And thats without ever publically saying that he would be in a position to challenge for the league. Rafa has always known that he never had the squad to challenge and that it would take time.

4 years into the building process we are no arriving at that special stage where we have a squad truly capable of challenging. Compare to the Mancs and Chelsea we are probably still 2 players short of winning the league but anything is possible with the group of players. If they get a run going we will be up their big time.

I get to quite alot of home games nowadays and towards the end of last season i thoroughly enjoyed us scoring 3/4 goals most home games. That will continue now and if we can also carry on scraping victories away at battle's like sunderland (we were missing 5 key players!!!) then we CAN win the title. As the season progresses our style of play will improve greatly and i believe we will score a massive amount of goals this season

[Laz]

Rafa has done well in Europe, but no better than Evans and Houllier in the league. Houllier in his time spent NET £12m a season - peanuts compared to Rafa.

This Net Spend difference between Houllier and Rafa is a convenient argument if you don't bother with any of the other factors.

Houllier bought in 40 players and sold 48 compared to Rafa's 51 in and 54 out. If you scrub the total Net Spend and instead make it an average per player, Rafa's net spend per player is £1,875,613 and Houllier's? £1,870,938.

So, you could say that Rafa's squad is a fecking bargain for just over £4500 per player more than Houllier's squad.











(my head hurts now )

[Rashid]

Someone mentioned contenders if Rafa goes, I have another one to add to the list - Slaven Bilic!