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    Originally posted by Fan65 View Post
    I picked this team out of the squad Rafa has left us

    Reina
    Johnson
    Agger
    Skrtel or Kyrgiakos
    Carragher
    Gerrard
    Mashcerano
    Rodriguez
    Kuyt or Babel
    Torres

    It's a team made up from players that are good enough to be chosen for their countries in the World Cup.

    Add Benayoun, Aquilani,and even Lucas, all potential internationals

    It may need tuning up a bit (left back, striker etc) but what a legacy to inherit.

    It may be a task to hold on to some of them but Rafa has done well with little financial support and I salute him.
    My thoughts exactly...The new manager with new ideas and a more attack minded approach will get the best out of these players. Obviously 2/3 more additions and I think we got a pretty darn good team to challenge for the title. "At the end of a storm, There's a golden sky."

    If we can keep this side together, I'm very optimistic we can turn things around. When you down, the only way is up and we will rule the roost again.
    Liverpool FC - League Champions 2011/2012

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      When you walk through the storm
      Hold your head up high
      And don't be afraid of the dark
      At the end of the storm
      There's a golden sky
      And the sweet silver song of the lark

      Walk on, through the wind
      Walk on, through the rain
      Though your dreams be tossed and blown
      Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
      And you'll never walk alone
      You'll never walk alone

      Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
      And you'll never walk alone
      You'll never walk alone

      Liverpool FC - League Champions 2011/2012

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        Originally posted by Rix007 View Post
        My thoughts exactly...The new manager with new ideas and a more attack minded approach will get the best out of these players. Obviously 2/3 more additions and I think we got a pretty darn good team to challenge for the title. "At the end of a storm, There's a golden sky."

        If we can keep this side together, I'm very optimistic we can turn things around. When you down, the only way is up and we will rule the roost again.
        i was just looking at your signature, and we really need at least one middle finger smiley that looks genuinely pissed off. one for your friends, and another one for people you actually hate.
        dave of mutilation

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          Originally posted by Operation View Post
          Yeah, don't worry, it will all be fine
          Can we stop with the 'it'll all be fine' ****...it won't all be fine till the owners have been kicked out on their arse, saying things like oh it'll all be fine is just more evidence of the apathy that's led us to where we are now, yeah just sit back...it'll be fine.

          So dissappointed in this club just now, we've just got rid of a manager who's been wanted by some of the biggest clubs in europe, watch who we replace him with.

          I'm now living in the faint hope that we could maybe appoint Hiddink, because if not... we will NOT be moving forward any time soon, we'll be sat here next season bemoaning how lfc has now totally accepted mediocrity as the norm, with a mediocre manager and a squad full of mediocre buys because that's all we can afford, the short term turmoil is far from over anyway, Rafa leaving is only the beginning.

          This imo is the reality, and it won't... 'be fine', not by a long way.
          Last edited by Vermilion; 05-06-10, 10:24 AM.

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            Originally posted by little dave hedgehog View Post
            i was just looking at your signature, and we really need at least one middle finger smiley that looks genuinely pissed off. one for your friends, and another one for people you actually hate.
            LOL, definitely need one of those..
            Liverpool FC - League Champions 2011/2012

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              They got rid of him at the first plausible opportunity to do so. The owners had been wanting to do it for a good long while I'm sure.

              He was rocking the boat, he stood up to them, he badgered them constantly to invest, he even spoke about it publicly. I think he upset just about everyone high up at our club in order to stand up for what is right for Liverpool football club.

              I bet the owners were relieved he had one bad season and some of the fans turned on him, as they knew they could get rid of him without too much fuss. It's just not Liverpool and I'm still fuming about it

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                Originally posted by Taxi View Post
                I spent much of last season critising Rafa. I didn't agree with the substitutions, I didn't agree with the formation and two defensive midfielders, I didn't like our displays against the leagues cannonfodder and most of all I didn't like losing. As the evil Chelsea and Man Utd marched on, with the pretenders Arsenal hanging on to their coat tails, we dropped further and further back and I wished that the league would end at Christmas, for all it meant to us.

                On the 15th April I sat watching the Hillsborough coverage and the football instantly became insignificant, being a fan of this great club is something special. We've been through so many highs and extreme lows that we have a bond that very few other teams have. Unfortunately, it tends to be trajedy that brings this togetherness, but all the same we have something very special. That day Rafa sung YNWA with the fans in his slightly broken english, he looked a little awkward singing it but he did it. He looked in pain throughout the ceremony, he is one of us of that there is no doubt.

                I look back on his time with us with sadness and happyness, I think of him sitting crossed-legged to not obstruct the view of the fans, I think of him drinking in the pub with fellow reds in some irish bar in Cologne and I think about Istanbul. When I look back to my moaning last season, I realise that it was in the same way that I moan about my wife. I will moan about her in one way or another until the day I die, but would I change her? No, never. Whilst that may be a long time in football, I believe that at the very least, our man deserved another season. 1 bad season and he's been kicked out, 1 bad season...it beggars belief. 2 Champions league finals, and FA Cup and second the season before last. In 6 years he's achieved more than most will in a lifetime with less financial backing and we've sent him packing. Its madness and sadness rolled into one.

                I'm finding it hard to look in the mirror at the moment, I cannot help but think that my complaints last season and those of many otherss may have assisted with his departure and there will be a little emptyness here unless he one day returns to finish his work and walks on by his own accord, job completed. He may return one day, this is a possibility, no?

                Good luck Rafa.
                Excellent post.

                Re. the bit I've highlighted: I have to say I was mindful of this all the way through. I doubt it made much difference so I don't think people should feel bad about it but there is a lesson in it - one you are clearly only too well aware of now.

                As for your comparing moaning about Rafa with moaning about your wife then that's the thing for me people like me, who were usually on the other side of the argument, to remember if and when things get heated again in future.

                .
                Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



                May the Lord bless this post.

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                  Originally posted by Pablo1981 View Post
                  They got rid of him at the first plausible opportunity to do so. The owners had been wanting to do it for a good long while I'm sure.

                  He was rocking the boat, he stood up to them, he badgered them constantly to invest, he even spoke about it publicly. I think he upset just about everyone high up at our club in order to stand up for what is right for Liverpool football club.

                  I bet the owners were relieved he had one bad season and some of the fans turned on him, as they knew they could get rid of him without too much fuss. It's just not Liverpool and I'm still fuming about it
                  Aye Pablo. Aye.
                  3rd place. Worst champions ever.

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                    Originally posted by Pablo1981 View Post
                    They got rid of him at the first plausible opportunity to do so. The owners had been wanting to do it for a good long while I'm sure.

                    He was rocking the boat, he stood up to them, he badgered them constantly to invest, he even spoke about it publicly. I think he upset just about everyone high up at our club in order to stand up for what is right for Liverpool football club.

                    I bet the owners were relieved he had one bad season and some of the fans turned on him, as they knew they could get rid of him without too much fuss. It's just not Liverpool and I'm still fuming about it
                    well said, next manager will be a nooding dog and it will takes us years to get back into the top 4 again, even with thos 2 scum gone, it will take a while before we get back in there.

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                      Originally posted by cannotmakeit View Post
                      well said, next manager will be a nooding dog and it will takes us years to get back into the top 4 again, even with thos 2 scum gone, it will take a while before we get back in there.
                      That my friend is impossible to say. If we get billionaires in we could very well be title challengers the immidiate season after. Reason being that Liverpool will always attract the best players, especially a Liverpool that looked like it was going to be contender at the highest level.
                      Forwards.......

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                        Originally posted by DannyMan2006 View Post
                        That my friend is impossible to say. If we get billionaires in we could very well be title challengers the immidiate season after. Reason being that Liverpool will always attract the best players, especially a Liverpool that looked like it was going to be contender at the highest level.
                        Past tense.

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                          Souness view


                          “He was there six years and made a net spend of around £140m but only signed two players who I would regard as truly world class – Fernando Torres and Jose Reina."

                          So there you have it, Rafa clearly had megabucks to spend! What a pillock
                          Forbes knows best... FACT

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                            Thats rich coming from that tool! The manager that sold beardsley and bought saunders as a replacement!!! Replaced class with **** and who was the one who started our decline.

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                              Another one of those so called 'legends'. They've got the right to say what they want, no matter how **** their opinions are. He's had his chance but monumentally blew it; he arguably built the worst Liverpool team in our history and he thinks he can offer an informed opinion?

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                                Originally posted by Finnish_Red View Post
                                Souness view


                                “He was there six years and made a net spend of around £140m but only signed two players who I would regard as truly world class – Fernando Torres and Jose Reina."

                                So there you have it, Rafa clearly had megabucks to spend! What a pillock
                                No Souness is right. We should have signed George Weah's cousin

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