Rafa Benitez Leaves Liverpool

[Shaggy]

It's difficult for Rafa though, if they win, say, the double next season, he'll have the usual morons calling him a failure. A thankless task.

Regardless, I wish him all the best. FORZA INTER

[Shaggy]

Also it's just not right - we've just sacked a top class manager who's been swiftly snapped up by the European champions.

[kris90210]

It's difficult for Rafa though, if they win, say, the double next season, he'll have the usual morons calling him a failure. A thankless task.

Regardless, I wish him all the best. FORZA INTER

True. Will be interesting to see how he gets on! Whoever he goes to will be my second team

[Leyton388]

Also it's just not right - we've just sacked a top class manager who's been swiftly snapped up by the European champions.

Shows you just the kind of idiots we have running our club!

[Exiled_red]

It's difficult for Rafa though, if they win, say, the double next season, he'll have the usual morons calling him a failure. A thankless task.
Regardless, I wish him all the best. FORZA INTER

Also it's just not right - we've just sacked a top class manager who's been swiftly snapped up by the European champions.

[Assassin]

Inter must think all there christmas's have come at once, their manager walks and Rafa is unceremoniously dumped

Elite managers like Rafa will never be out of work. Good luck to him, he deserves better treatment than he has received with us.

Whe the ongoing debacle is sorted out, I hope one day the new competent owners will be able to entice Rafa back

Rafa YNWA

[Roboklopp]

unlike your sad self I am not permanently hooked up to my PC and do have alife outside Est1892.

Yet trawl through posts days old.


And it's on my phone. Good try though.

[Chris]

Inter must think all there christmas's have come at once, their manager walks and Rafa is unceremoniously dumped

Elite managers like Rafa will never be out of work. Good luck to him, he deserves better treatment than he has received with us.

Whe the ongoing debacle is sorted out, I hope one day the new competent owners will be able to entice Rafa back

Rafa YNWA

Yep, they got £16m for Mourinho and have now got Rafa for nothing by the look of it, decent business, meanwhile not only have we sacked a manager snapped up by the CL winners most media reports seem to think we'll now go and pay Fulham to take a manager with half the CV.

[Roboklopp]

Also it's just not right - we've just sacked a top class manager who's been swiftly snapped up by the European champions.

No, he's clueless remember- all the English media say so.

[Craig_H]

FFS, if they really insisted on rafa going, they could've at least kept him until Inter came knocking and we could've got some cash for him, instead of paying £6m to ditch him.

[Fernandinho]

i was thinking about that Craig but i thougt inter probably wouldnt have chased him if we was with us, they would have just gone elswhere because they could easily bring in another coach

[dww]

FFS, if they really insisted on rafa going, they could've at least kept him until Inter came knocking and we could've got some cash for him, instead of paying £6m to ditch him.

They might not have been able to negotiate a confidentiality clause that way. I imagine a full and frank account from Rafa of the financial restraints and political pressures in the job would not have been good for the recruitment drive.

Still seems like a bad call to me too, even assuming I was on the board and wanted Rafa gone. They wouldn't even have had to demand compensation to be £6m up on the deal.

[Pablo]

That £6m is only for Rafa too. Add to that the cost of:

Sacking his backroom staff
Signing on fee for new manager.
Possible compensation for new manager if at another club.
Same for hiring new backroom staff.

I remember reading it cost £20m to get rid of Houllier and hire Benitez and staff. I image this will cost roughly the same It makes no sense to me!

[Craig_H]

You have to wonder how much avoiding the fallout of some Rafa revelations would be, compared to a minimum of £6m, and probably more, if you consider compenstation from Inter.

[dww]

That £6m is only for Rafa too. Add to that the cost of:

Sacking his backroom staff
Signing on fee for new manager.
Possible compensation for new manager if at another club.
Same for hiring new backroom staff.

I remember reading it cost £20m to get rid of Houllier and hire Benitez and staff. I image this will cost roughly the same It makes no sense to me!

I suspect that we are hoping that Rafa will want to take some/all of his staff with him or that our new manager will be willing to work with most of them.

You have to wonder how much avoiding the fallout of some Rafa revelations would be, compared to a minimum of £6m, and probably more, if you consider compenstation from Inter.

I would imagine it depends on whether you are looking at it from the perspective of the club or the owners. Given they seem determined to hold out for £300m above the market value of the club to sell it I imagine the £6m seems like chicken feed in their demented world.