Timing of Rafa's Juve link is appalling in Hillsborough anniversary week
Rafa Benitez has an appalling sense of timing and it may just be that the Liverpool fans will finally turn on the manager.
Just 24 hours after the 21st anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster is not the time for your agent to be quoted talking about meetings with Juventus.
Hillsborough is an open wound still on Merseyside. When the facts come out, all the outrageous and false accusations about Liverpool fans will be put to bed once and for all when it will be proved beyond all doubt what really happened.
With such a long struggle and such a big event for so many people, Rafa's current tussle is put into very stark perspective. The timing is shocking. It's ill judged and insensitive.
Let's be clear on this. Even at the Benfica game at Anfield, the Liverpool fans were chanting his name, getting right behind the manager and backing him all the way.
They are staunch until the end and yet that is why they deserve respect and for the manager to respect them and the history of the club.
Rafa will undoubtedly blame the agent. But it's hard to believe Rafa didn't know what was going on.
The club is a soap opera right now. Will a new owner come in and try to keep Rafa? We really don't know. Nor does Rafa and maybe that's why he's looking elsewhere.
But would you give him backing in the transfer market? His record is shocking. He has bought so many players and yet his revolving door transfer policy has hardly taken the club forward or improved the squad. There have been far too many duds.
It's time for Rafa to go. It's been six years and it's time for Liverpool to say: "Thanks very much and goodbye."
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Rafa Benitez has an appalling sense of timing and it may just be that the Liverpool fans will finally turn on the manager.
Just 24 hours after the 21st anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster is not the time for your agent to be quoted talking about meetings with Juventus.
Hillsborough is an open wound still on Merseyside. When the facts come out, all the outrageous and false accusations about Liverpool fans will be put to bed once and for all when it will be proved beyond all doubt what really happened.
With such a long struggle and such a big event for so many people, Rafa's current tussle is put into very stark perspective. The timing is shocking. It's ill judged and insensitive.
Let's be clear on this. Even at the Benfica game at Anfield, the Liverpool fans were chanting his name, getting right behind the manager and backing him all the way.
They are staunch until the end and yet that is why they deserve respect and for the manager to respect them and the history of the club.
Rafa will undoubtedly blame the agent. But it's hard to believe Rafa didn't know what was going on.
The club is a soap opera right now. Will a new owner come in and try to keep Rafa? We really don't know. Nor does Rafa and maybe that's why he's looking elsewhere.
But would you give him backing in the transfer market? His record is shocking. He has bought so many players and yet his revolving door transfer policy has hardly taken the club forward or improved the squad. There have been far too many duds.
It's time for Rafa to go. It's been six years and it's time for Liverpool to say: "Thanks very much and goodbye."
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As I said in one of the other Rafa threads after watching the memorial service - we couldn't ask for a more dignified manager, for anyone more respectful of everything LFC. He embraces Liverpool, the city and the club, more than any of us could wish for. It is one thing that surely everyone connected with LFC can agree on.
**** off Lawrenson.
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