Rafa Benitez Leaves Liverpool

[banditos]

Maybe Johnson got sick of being told he needsd to work on the defenisve side of his game.

[banditos]

I think it's fairly obvious that it was Carra and Gerrard, no other players carry enough weight for it to be relevant with the exception of Torres

Can't be carra. He just came out and commited himself to the club and tols those who weren't of a similar mind to **** off.

[Reece]

I think it's fairly obvious that it was Carra and Gerrard, no other players carry enough weight for it to be relevant with the exception of Torres

Assuming it's true of course.

[Exiled_red]

That's what I'm concerned about, I think our most valuable assets are on their way - a new manager will be offered a paltry amount to replace Torres, Gerrard and Mascherano.

Rafa had his faults, but I admire his stubbornness and his fearlessness - he's one of us.

The new man is likely to put up with more **** and accept very limited transfer budgets as this is why the'll pick him.

Ultimately Rafa was considered a pain in the arse because he was concerned about the team and not H&G's profit margins. He also inconvenienced them by making this information public

[Broner]

Heard Jamie Redknapp's interview on SSN earlier, what a classless little cunt he is.

Rafa had to go blah blah blah.

Bet he's ****ing loving it.

He should show a bit of ****ing respect to a Club he used to play for and it's supporters.

******.

[sean_lfc]

Gutted.

As I said earlier, this is no way to run a football club; massive debt, running on emotion instead of strategy, getting rid of Rafa without having a better plan in place... it's all amateur bull**** and beneath Liverpool FC. Say what you want about Rafa, he had class, he was a very good manager and no name on the table or being proposed is close to his level. If we had the opportunity to bring in a world beater, great-- but no matter what, Liverpool is downgrading to satisfy the ego of the management who did not like being scrutinized by the manager. I am ashamed of them for doing this to Liverpool.

Wherever Rafa lands, I will have found a new team to support. He will always be a manager of the supporters, of the people. He was ours. YNWA Rafa. You will be missed.

Fantastic post mate, couldn't agree more. What a gentleman Rafa was, what a true true human being

[Leyton388]

Jamie Redknapp is a turd!

[Fierce]

Can't be carra. He just came out and commited himself to the club and tols those who weren't of a similar mind to **** off.

Not sure that changes anything mate. He could also have been talking about Rafa of course

Assuming it's true of course.

Of course. The brother of all **** ups

[Exiled_red]

Heard Jamie Redknapp's interview on SSN earlier, what a classless little cunt he is.

Rafa had to go blah blah blah.

Bet he's ****ing loving it.

He should show a bit of ****ing respect to a Club he used to play for and it's supporters.

******.

I used to like Redknapp, but he turned into a gob****e since he started working for sky

[Leyton388]

Redknapp deserves to have his Mrs John Terried!!!!!!

[Roboklopp]

Respect to your friends and family. If they love the club more than you, I dread to think what they'd wish on the Americans.

Very good.

[tomasjj]

....as two key players said they would look to leave if Rafa stayed on when asked if happy at the club

One is a defender, one a midfielder.

Ah, that would be the 2 moaning scousers who think they should run the team.

[breffniboy]

I have had a lot of problems with the way Rafa managed things at times but I still have a profound sense of sadness about the whole thing.

If we were a cash-rich club I'd perhpas be saying yes, let's get rid, becuase we will easily attract a new manager who'll buy well and get us going - but wait, surely if we were that sort of club, then maybe Rafa himself might have been able to do it? We'll never know now.

The root cause of our problems is those two quick-buck, spin-merchant yanks who care so little about the club they compared us to their takeover of Weetabix. Money money money, what we as fans emotionally invest in, they see as just a greasy till to fumble in for pence and halfpence.

With those inveterate conmen in charge the very soul of the club is being walked on, it'll never be the same. Remember when we were proud to say we never washed our dirty linen in public and all that? Well there's filthy rags hanging from the rafters now. Stinks to high heaven.

These are very, very dark times, to have focused on the manager was just an example of looking in the wrong place for a solution when the real problem lies elsewhere. It's just moving the deckchairs on the Titanic is all. When we get our new man in, I fear we'll soon hanker for the old one - with all his many flaws - when we realise what a passionate committed job he was doing in the face of no support, broken promises, media leaks and two cuntbag owners whose sole pressing objective is not the restoration of our club or putting money in but instead to keep the music going long enough to collect a fat profit despite taking the club backwards.

The musing over Martin O'Neill makes me smile too. Hmmm...would we 'take him' or not? Laughable. O'Neill would be even more acerbic with the owners than Rafa was, is presently at a club that's way better run than ours and could well pass us out, and has ALREADY been pleading with his current Yank owner for more transfer funds. To think he'd deign to entertain the notion of joining a tin-pot nest of ****ing vipers like us is an example of our delusions of adequacy.

Today I'm truly, utterly and completely ashamed to the very core of what Liverpool FC has become, I really am.

[Monty]

To Summerise - We have a bunch of cunts running the club, they told Rafa he wouldn't have any money to spend and they wanted him out, Rafa knows he can have the Inter job takes his pay off and will show everyone what a great manager we have lost.

The bit that EVERYONE is missing is that without a manager who fights to stop Braughton selling Torres to Chelsea???
Who fights to stop Mascher and Gerrard leaving and the combined £130 being paid against the debt keeping RBS happy and allowing the Yank ****ers to stay in charge for longer.

Who?? ****ing answer me that, the Chairman and CEO have got rid of the only obstacle stopping them from selling our best players to appease RBS and H&G.

Far too many people post on here without any concept or understanding of the real world which is there right but I can't put everyone on ignore.

Whether you like Rafa or not this imo will go down as the worst day in our clubs history (aside from the obvious tragedy's of Hillsbrough & Hysel) the lunatics are well and truely in charge of the asylam now the warden has been sacked.

It could well be mate. People are going round with their heads in the sand. This could be, without new owners, one of our darkets days.

[Shaggy]

I have had a lot of problems with the way Rafa managed things at times but I still have a profound sense of sadness about the whole thing.

If we were a cash-rich club I'd perhpas be saying yes, let's get rid, becuase we will easily attract a new manager who'll buy well and get us going - but wait, surely if we were that sort of club, then maybe Rafa himself might have been able to do it? We'll never know now.

The root cause of our problems is those two quick-buck, spin-merchant yanks who care so little about the club they compared us to their takeover of Weetabix. Money money money, what we as fans emotionally invest in, they see as just a greasy till to fumble in for pence and halfpence.

With those inveterate conmen in charge the very soul of the club is being walked on, it'll never be the same. Remember when we were proud to say we never washed our dirty linen in public and all that? Well there's filthy rags hanging from the rafters now. Stinks to high heaven.

These are very, very dark times, to have focused on the manager was just an example of looking in the wrong place for a solution when the real problem lies elsewhere. It's just moving the deckchairs on the Titanic is all. When we get our new man in, I fear we'll soon hanker for the old one - with all his many flaws - when we realise what a passionate committed job he was doing in the face of no support, broken promises, media leaks and two cuntbag owners whose sole pressing objective is not the restoration of our club or putting money in but instead to keep the music going long enough to collect a fat profit despite taking the club backwards.

The musing over Martin O'Neill makes me smile too. Hmmm...would we 'take him' or not? Laughable. O'Neill would be even more acerbic with the owners than Rafa was, is presently at a club that's way better run than ours and could well pass us out, and has ALREADY been pleading with his current Yank owner for more transfer funds. To think he'd deign to entertain the notion of joining a tin-pot nest of ****ing vipers like us is an example of our delusions of adequacy.

Today I'm truly, utterly and completely ashamed to the very core of what Liverpool FC has become, I really am.

Great post mate, agree with every word. I know you've been very critical of Rafa - much of it difficult to argue with - and so it's great to hear this from someone from the other side of the fence, as it were.