Rafa Benitez Leaves Liverpool

[oldschool]

Point to a £10m or £11m signing in the last two or three years, who's been a brilliant world class aquisition.

You think those sort of fees are gonna get us David Villa and Kaka?

Do you think Rafa would've been signing Kuyt and Babel if he'd been given proper backing in the market?

It's the same reason why Ferguson bought Valencia and Owen instead of Silva and Villa last summer - because his board have stopped backing him properly too. The difference is, he'd previously had decades of proper backing. Now that looks to have stopped, and as you can see, the mancs have stopped winning the title after 3 years on the spin.

So you think wasting 20M on two strikers turn wingers is justified?

[Neil Young]

Edmonton Public Library

Thanks.

But now I'm confused. Which is it - cricket or Edmonton? It could be either since although, neither of them makes any logical sense in the context of the thread as a whole, on precisely the same grounds both fit perfectly with the rest of oldschool's argument.

[Shaggy]

Torres cost £20m, a bit hard to forgive if he got that wrong, along with Masch.

He has had probably 4 of Gerrard's best years to work with also.

Crouch was useless

Laughable.

[oldschool]

Thanks.

But now I'm confused. Which is it - cricket or Edmonton? It could be either since although, neither of them makes any logical sense in the context of the thread as a whole, on precisely the same grounds both fit perfectly with the rest of oldschool's argument.

Go have a cry, at least I won't accept mediocrity from this once great club like yourself, maybe with Rafa now gone, it can return to it's former glory.

[Neil Young]

So you think wasting 20M on two strikers turn wingers is justified?

Maybe they were wingers who were being played out of position by their previous managers.

[oldschool]

Laughable.

You mean Crouch? Yeah he was laughable, over-rated English player.

[Shaggy]

I meant all of it.

[Neil Young]

Go have a cry, at least I won't accept mediocrity from this once great club like yourself, maybe with Rafa now gone, it can return to it's former glory.

I wish I was you.

[Shanks]

Regardless of how much money he has had to spend, it still doesn't alter the fact that he made some costly decisions, which may or may not have cost us fourth place last season and that for me is Rafa's fault.

He could have gone out and bought Ribery and Villa but it doesn't help if you start taking them off and resting them, in games you need to win.

[oldschool]

Maybe they were wingers who were being played out of position by their previous managers.

Oh that must be it after all they have done such a fantastic job for us thus far on the wing.

[MrMichael]

Go have a cry, at least I won't accept mediocrity from this once great club like yourself, maybe with Rafa now gone, it can return to it's former glory.

[Kenneth]

"Let's have a look at some of the crap he has brought (+5M)" Ok

£6.3m – Fernando Morientes - I, and almost every fan I know was made up with this one.

£6m – Craig Bellamy - I couldn't believe he brought him. - The mistake was selling him imo.

£6.7m – Jermaine Pennant - See above. - Yeah, a **** up from the off.

£9m – Dirk Kuyt - He isn't worth £9m for a winger. He is.

£11.5m – Ryan Babel - As above. - Poor choice of use for 11m, agree.

£7m – Andrea Dossena - He was doomed to fail from the start. - Decent pedegree, but I'll give you this one.

£19m – Robbie Keane - I wasn't convinced, but most on here were pretty happy at the time.

£8m – Albert Riera - Mixed views at the time. Were there any hints of his attitude before we bought him? If so, bad move, if not, so so.

£17.5m – Glen Johnson - £17.5m for a RB that can't defend ...- Good player, over-priced by about 5 million (less than Rafa's pay-off), but happy he's here.

£17.1m – Alberto Aquilani - If Rafa stayed I bet he would have got sold like Dossena, maybe now he will have half a chance to succeed. - Yeah, daft buy.

So not a clear set of transfer **** ups really.

[Kenneth]

Ask Ferguson about Veron and Berbatov, or Mourinho about Shevchenko and Wright-Phillips...

Again, anyone would have gone with Jose's decisions re Shevchenko and Wright-Phillips, some times things don't work out. Ferguson's choices were laughable though.

[The Birdman]

I'm only stopping by to say Oldschool you are a ****ing prick and hopefully with Half Term nearly over we won't be hearing too much from you again soon.

[Neil Young]

Oh that must be it after all they have done such a fantastic job for us thus far on the wing.

You've got me there what with your use of facts and everything.