Rafa Benitez Leaves Liverpool

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It's this sort of thing that I worry about with someone like Hodgson coming in. I know that he along with Venables and Robson were keen to stress that the coaching culture they were bought up in was not the one that has produced two decades of ****e coaches and managers in this country. Nonetheless, I wonder how many of the best practice methods and best practitioners he will have had access too in recent years.

Obviously similar criticism would be at least as pointed against Dalglish but you would have expected him to lean on the likes of Lee who have that experience.

I agree to an extent. Coaching in the goalkeeping department is one of the areas we have succeeded with. Pepe has been fantastic throughout.

But defensively we have gone backwards of late, Skrtle has gone **** and Insua has not improved at all so Im not sure we'll lose much from the loss of Pellegrino. Our set-piece defending hasn't been everyones cup of tea.
Also its questionable whether Sammy Lee has brought anything positive since his return. He was strangely quiet last season

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Bruce angry...

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A bit rich from Bruce that! Bet he wasn't thinking of LFC when he was taking the back handers! I was gutted when that come out!

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Bruce angry...

What a load of absolute ignorant nonsense.

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Martin Skrtel feels there was an air of inevitability about Rafa Benitez's departure as Liverpool manager.

The Reds finished an under-par seventh in the Premier League during the 2009/10 campaign, as well as suffering early exits from both domestic cup competitions to compound failure to qualify for the UEFA Champions League knockout stage.

Liverpool defender has become the first player to publicly discuss Benitez's exit and the no-nonsense centre-half believes it was the right time for the Spaniard to leave.

"The management needed to make some changes and they sacked Rafa," Skrtel, who revealed Benitez sent a text saying "omg, been sacked lol " to each individual player after it was announced he would be leaving, told The Independent.

"What can we do?" added the 25-year-old. "Nothing. We are only players and we have to wait for the new management."

Skrtel, who is preparing for Slovakia's World Cup 2010 game against Paraguay on Sunday, admitted he was unsure as to who will be Benitez's successor at Anfield.

Despite reports linking Fulham boss Roy Hodgson with the managerial hot-seat, the Slovakian defender chose to express his gratitude to his ex-boss.

"I don't know. Rafa brought me to the club and I'm glad about that and I thank him for that," he added.

"Now we have to wait for the new management. We will try to do better than this season."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11669_6216759,00.html

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Martin Skrtel feels there was an air of inevitability about Rafa Benitez's departure as Liverpool manager.

The Reds finished an under-par seventh in the Premier League during the 2009/10 campaign, as well as suffering early exits from both domestic cup competitions to compound failure to qualify for the UEFA Champions League knockout stage.

Liverpool defender has become the first player to publicly discuss Benitez's exit and the no-nonsense centre-half believes it was the right time for the Spaniard to leave.

"The management needed to make some changes and they sacked Rafa," Skrtel, who revealed Benitez sent a text saying "omg, been sacked lol " to each individual player after it was announced he would be leaving, told The Independent.

"What can we do?" added the 25-year-old. "Nothing. We are only players and we have to wait for the new management."

Skrtel, who is preparing for Slovakia's World Cup 2010 game against Paraguay on Sunday, admitted he was unsure as to who will be Benitez's successor at Anfield.

Despite reports linking Fulham boss Roy Hodgson with the managerial hot-seat, the Slovakian defender chose to express his gratitude to his ex-boss.

"I don't know. Rafa brought me to the club and I'm glad about that and I thank him for that," he added.

"Now we have to wait for the new management. We will try to do better than this season."


http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...216759,00.html

I smell clownery here.

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[Leyton388]

LOL thats quality!!

[Craig_H]

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Wtf lmfao

[DannyMan2006]

A genuine big LMFAO!!!!

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Rafa Benitez gives to Rhys Jones Memorial Fund
Page last updated at 03:18 GMT, Friday, 25 June 2010 04:18 UK
E-mail this to a friend Printable version Rafa Benitez has also donated £96,000 to the Hillsborough families Liverpool FC's former manager Rafael Benitez has donated an undisclosed amount to the Rhys Jones Memorial Fund.

His cash injection will help build the new community centre in memory of the 11-year-old who was shot dead in Croxteth in 2007.

The new Inter Milan boss arranged for a cheque to be delivered to the Jones family on Thursday.

Mr Benitez said: "In all my time at Liverpool this is one of the stories that affected me most."

Rhys Jones was gunned down while walking home from football training through the Croxteth Park Estate.

His killer Sean Mercer was convicted two years later after a lengthy police investigation and scores of arrests of gang members across Liverpool.

Mr Benitez added: "I am doing this on behalf of the people that cannot. I know that every person on Merseyside would have loved to give the fund a donation but they are in hard times and can't find the extra cash.

'So dignified'

"To think that this lovely little boy was taken from his family in such awful circumstances is heart-breaking.

"I still remember his mother, father and brother Melanie, Stephen and Owen coming to the match not long after Rhys died and how they were so dignified, it is something I will remember for a long time.

"I hope this money goes towards making this community centre happen for all of those people who are working so hard for it."

The £1.5m development is just yards from where Rhys honed his football skills and will include a purpose-built sports facility when it is finished.

The 11-year-old was shot as he walked home from football practice Melanie Jones, Rhys' mother, said: "I'm lost for words really. This is so kind of Rafa and his family and we are once again overwhelmed by the generosity.

"He didn't have to do this and we have let him know just what a difference it will make to this project.

"Something good will come out of our tragedy if we manage to keep Rhys' story in the hearts and minds of everyone."

Rhys' father Stephen added: "It's an amazing gesture, and as Melanie says the football clubs together with the players and managers have been a great help ever since we lost Rhys.

"We will put the money to great use and continue to try and sing the praises of sport over joining gangs or getting involved in crime. It's really given the family an amazing boost this."

Mr Benitez made a £96,000 donation to the Hillsborough Family Support Group only a few weeks ago and has also donated money to the Lily Centre - a Liverpool based charity that offers support to women with breast cancer.

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