Rafa Benitez

[javier_monsterano]

Ok let's hear it, i'm sick of reading all this **** about rafa.

Are you 100% behind our manager or are you wanting him gone.

Now i am going to try a poll on this .I have no idea how to do it so here goes my first attempt.

[Exiled_red]

I'm behind Rafa, I don't believe we'd have made the progress we have with anyone else in charge.

[little dave hedgehog]

i'm behind rafa too, but i expect him to sort this **** out.

[dom9]

8 nil in favour so far.

[joyno]

one bad season, that's all. surely we can forgive him that.
he loves the club,he loves the fans, and i believe he is the strongest man that can take on the two yanks, and when he beats them the phoenix will rise from the ashes believe.

[Maxiedge]

abso-****in-lutely

In the summer, we signed the best young talent from Italy and, 2 seasons ago, from Spain. Thats the pull our manager has. Chelsea and Man U, with all their cash, still can't attract the players they want. Valencia and Zhirkov hahaha

Did you see him singing 'Walk Alone' before the game.

[BobTheCharmer]

Weird one this. I wanted him out a while back, 18 months ago. But this season I'm more behind him than at any other time. Its that backs to the wall mentality where you either take it or fight back. The world and his wife is standing up to have a pot shot at us. Why? **** off and follow your own team. Why do Utd fans want him gone if he's doing such a **** job for us??? the media, mates, other fans, my boss you name it they've all got something to comment on. Well LFC don't bow to outside pressure.

Rafa, Rafa, He'll continue to make baffling decisions which bemuse many. My only problem with him at present is he insistence on playing the same system even when its not working. Why not try 433? 442? Its this stubborness that may yet cost him his job. Also Kuyt is well overdue a rest although he's the only one not getting injured. His form is abysmal. We need a performance from him. The manager needs one.

I think Rafa might be cursed.

Break the curse and we'll easily get top 4. Someone is due a hiding soon. Everton will do for starters. 5-0.

[Kenneth]

Two defensive midfielders, at home, time after time. That can't be explained simply by aquilani being injured. This is why my faith in Rafa less than 100%.

[TheElephantMan]

Why would anyone want to destabilise the club by losing our manager?! We're not Newcastle United. We've had some really **** luck this season, it will change eventually. When we have a fit first eleven we are as good as any team. We just need to get through this tough period.

[ValueFinder]

How can anyone be 100% behind him. Just goes to show how a decade+ of mediocrity has made everyone forget the potential of the club ans it seems most are happy to be challenging for second rate prizes and top 4 finishers.

What a slowly diminishing disaster LFC are becoming under this guy who starts the team off with a -1 handicap every match with his woeful zonal marking system and team selections.

If he goes soon, they just MIGHT be able to haul themselves back to where they belong. If he stays, hello Leeds UTD.

[ValueFinder]

I'm behind Rafa, I don't believe we'd have made the progress we have with anyone else in charge.

What progress?

[TheElephantMan]

How can anyone be 100% behind him. Just goes to show how a decade+ of mediocrity has made everyone forget the potential of the club ans it seems most are happy to be challenging for second rate prizes and top 4 finishers.

What a slowly diminishing disaster LFC are becoming under this guy who starts the team off with a -1 handicap every match with his woeful zonal marking system and team selections.

If he goes soon, they just MIGHT be able to haul themselves back to where they belong. If he stays, hello Leeds UTD.

You're either a pre-pubescant, a Manc or an Evertonian.

[ValueFinder]

Bellamy, Fowler, Cisse, Keane, Crouch - Just a few of our attacking players he's got rid of when still in the prime of thei careers(except Fowler but he replaced him with ****ing voronin) and we are now left with Ngog and Voronin and Kuyt.

He persists with a football imposter, the very worst player I've ever seen in the premiership in Lucas *vomits*, he purchaches average players like Riera who was never going to do much, he rests our top players when they're fit in CASE they get injured and he destroys top talents like Babel and Keane in terms of confidence.

He's a terrible manager.

[ValueFinder]

You're either a pre-pubescant, a Manc or an Evertonian.

Or someone who sees it for what it is.

Raise your glass to a sixth place finish.

If he didn't win the CL he'd have been gone long ago, he's worse than Houllier.

[Exiled_red]

What progress?

Under him we've qualified for the champions league every season, something we weren't doing before, we've progressed to the champions league final twice, last season put up a sustained title challenge. And our net spend to do all this has been ~£80m, in a time when teams have been throwing money around.