Rafa Benitez Leaves Liverpool

[Nicey]

Jesus we are Jinxed as a club .. 4 mother ****ing Points !

[RichC]

Rafa has been the bigger man here and fair play to him - he's left for the good of the club.

Be nice to see the ****ers at the top taking a step back and doing the same - (wakes up and smells the coffee!)

Shocking how this has been done - upmost respect for Rafa for all the good times even the bad at least he stood by his decisions.

[Montana]

Statement from LMA ........ nice words to sum up Rafa's reign

http://www.leaguemanagers.com/news/news-6594.html

[Craig_H]

LMA Chief Executive, Richard Bevan said;

“The LMA shares Rafa’s disappointment in leaving Liverpool, but he can be extremely proud of his reign at Anfield. He has made such a significant impact on the English game during his 6 years at Liverpool. In such a high pressured position, Benitez has excelled most notably with the successes in the Champions League and he has always shown his dedication and commitment to the club.”

[Nicey]

thats pretty much me at the moment - kinda just bamboodlesed with it - it's not a word but it's how i feel

Firstly - I have always said I think rafa as man was brilliant and worked under some shocking pressure from the press/owners/other managers/players - he also did some great great things for liverpool and should be remembered.

I did however, as mentioned even yesterday before this broke that I felt it was time to move on.......not against rafa personally, but i deep down felt that a complete fresh start from the owners/board/management would be good and revitalise the club.

But the thought of liverpool with the current regime and no rafa is a scary one - we are struggling to sell the club, players will most likely leave and whoever comes in will be a yes man or no mark who will be here until or if we get sold.

I am just a bit kinda wtf here - without being too harsh or selfish so don't all take this the wrong way, i don't care about rafa and i don't care about the owners, i care about LFC and whats going to happen to us. - When all the dust settles, benitez is a multi millionaire, with some major successes and will get another high profile job - the yanks and the board are all cunts who are in it too line their pockets(be it through selling to a billionaire or raping the club for whats left)..............but where will it leave us the fans and Liverpool Football Club??

Dont get me wrong, love the guy know he will be more than alright, my anger is an extention of what has happened to your wonderful football club in such a short period of time, Rafa being sacked is the the cherry on the **** cake we have been served for the past two years and who knows what more lovely surprises these douchebags have in store for us ...

[Fernandinho]

short term pain for long term gain. its gonna be tough but lets give rafa his deserves as a wonderful fan and manager of the club while looking forwards to positive changes towards the future

[Gaz]

Seriously gutted

Istanbul Wednesday 25 May 2005 was one of the greatest days of my life, for that I'll always be grateful.

The man always conducted himself with the utmost dignity and i'm gutted to see him go.

Whether people like it or not he'll always be mentioned in the same breath as Shankly, Paisley and Fagan for what he brought back to this club

[Rich]

I'll be not going anywhere near Sky Sports News for quite some time as they'll be happily gloating over this for days. ******s.

This is a calamitous day for the club IMO, as it proves that lunatics are in control of the club.

[cannotmakeit]

what a depressing day....

[Kenneth]

[ntto]

just been watching sky sports news - they had Jamie Redknapp, Julian Dicks, David Fairclough, Phil Neil and Tommo on - every single one of them said Rafa had lost the dressing room and players were going to leave if Rafa stayed.

Surely there must be something in this of ALL of them are making this point??

[Broner]

EXCLUSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8KfE...ayer_embedded#!

[Kenneth]

EXCLUSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8KfE...ayer_embedded#!

[Kronenburg1892]

.....but where will it leave us the fans and Liverpool Football Club??

With no-one to fight our cause in the club now.

Enjoy the rape.

[kris90210]

I'm genuinely really upset by this. Whatever the rights or wrongs of his management methods, he was a gentleman, a classy man and one of us.

He didnt deserve it to be like this and he didnt deserve to be shoved out without having had proper backing.

YNWA Rafa, i hope you go elsewhere and clean up on trophies.

Great, great post. Couldn't agree more