Benitez: I have no cash for a summer spree

[cream]

This **** stinks. The club is rotten from top to bottom, the yank *******s have really ****ed this club over.

[el matador]

Is it possible that Rafa might have screwed this season on purpose? I wonder if he wants us to finish just outside the top four to **** the Yanks over. Playing negatively and making odd team selections/substitutions would contribute to our lack of success over the course of the season. If Rafa doesn't get money to spend then failure to qualify for the CL is his way of hitting back?

Although this sounds ridiculous its not beyond the realms of possibility.

At times rafa's team selections have bordered on madness. Our match against pompey away this season is an example. I think rafa has (or had) the ability to turn it on and off when he wanted and when he wants to make a point he will make the point quite conclusively.

Just when it matters he can pull the results out of the bag but when he's angry with stuff going on around the club we can also suffer some results that defy belief.

however, the players havent responded very well recently and i dont think rafa has the answers to get us out of this lull.

[TheElephantMan]

so he has gone out to got 38 draws?

We have won roughly 50% of our games this season - form which at the end of the season will see us in the top 8.

[banditos]

Is it possible that Rafa might have screwed this season on purpose? I wonder if he wants us to finish just outside the top four to **** the Yanks over. Playing negatively and making odd team selections/substitutions would contribute to our lack of success over the course of the season. If Rafa doesn't get money to spend then failure to qualify for the CL is his way of hitting back?

WTF??? Up there with the all time crackpot conspiracy theories. Maybe he's on the take from some asian betting syndicate.

[Frenchie]

Not this crazy theory again

If he was deliberately losing, why would we have come out firing against Spurs?

Why did he produce the only ever 'celebration' i've ever seen from him, when Nando fired in that stoppage time winner at Villa Park?

Is there a vid of this anywhere didnt see it.....?

[oldschool]

Maybe if Rafa stopped buying **** and playing players out of position he could have money to spend or not have to worry about buying.

[Vermilion]

What the **** is happening to some of this clubs fans...they're all turning into clones of Newcastle supporters....with crazy conspiracy theories and insults about the manager thrown around like confetti.

All this is...is reality, as long as we have these owners...this will be the reality...it's why sacking the manager won't work, because the best managers won't want to work under similar condidtions at a club with such high expectations, and one that's judged against it's history and it's wealthier opponents, it's also why we'll have trouble competing...because other clubs get their top targets..while we pick up the left overs.

This is our recent history....which was meant to change when Moores finally sold out....it didn't...which now means it's our future too, unless something changes financially, and at the moment our owners value the club too high for that to happen.

[Neil Young]

Maybe if Rafa stopped buying **** and playing players out of position he could have money to spend or not have to worry about buying.

How ****ing tedious.

[Imy]

We are so ****ed

Normally after the inevitable non championship challenge we all look forward to next season and think that may be the one, BUT this time not only i'm i looking forward to the end of this one i certainly am not looking forward to the next either

[JohnDoe]

just says to me rafa is going nowhere.

no money for transfers, no money to sack him. He is staying till he gets a better offer

Yep, we're screwed.

[TheElephantMan]

WTF??? Up there with the all time crackpot conspiracy theories. Maybe he's on the take from some asian betting syndicate.

I agree - suggesting that a manager would want to prove a point to his employers that he cannot win the league without a transfer budget is crazy. It's up there with the fake moon landings and the Yanks blowing up the twin towers.

[Neil Young]

Someone on Newsnight Review last night said when people can't explain something they turn to conspiracy theories. It made me think of religion and the LFC forum and I immediately realised she had made a very good point.

[kingfunk]

To the tune of "We are ****ed":

We are ****ed, we are ****ed we are ****ed,
we are ****ed we are ****ed we are ****ed,
We are ****ed we are ****ed we are ****ed,
we are ****ed we are ****ed we are ****ed.

We are ****ed.

[Icon]

To the tune of "Were ****ed":

Were ****ed, were ****ed were ****ed,
were ****ed were ****ed were ****ed,
Were ****ed were ****ed were ****ed,
were ****ed were ****ed we are ****ed.

Were ****ed.

We're?

[Frenchie]

lol