Is this the beginning of the end of Liverpool Football Club?

[Baracus]

Anfield is going to miss a 'ell of alot of songs now that Rafa has gone.

Rafa benitez...Rafa Benitez lala Rafa :weep: tears

[CJ]

rafa rafael rafa rafael rafa rafael rafael benitez

[RedSince1964]

Anfield is going to miss a 'ell of alot of songs now that Rafa has gone.

Rafa benitez...Rafa Benitez lala Rafa :weep: tears

Rafa

If only you were able to have the funds available to you when you bought Torres, Masher etc, at once and get the top quality players you wanted then maybe! we'd have won the Prem a couple of years ago and you'd still be in the job you loved.

BTW people, i'm not saying Rafa didn't make a few ****e signins ( Babel, Riera etc), but, every manager at sometime do, make the same mistake at one point in charge of their Team.

Thanks Rafa for what you done/acheived for our Club whilst in charge and, good look at whatever you decide to do in the future.

[squaddie]

Everybody's clearly wound up.... Everything that could possibly have been said, has been said... Im gonna give the site a wide birth for a couple of days and come back with a fresh head. Much love people....

YNWA

[Jaymo]

It is very easy to get into that trap, Jaymo. But I dont think this is the end of the club. I think the Mancs will overtake us. We may not be the most successful club in England for long. However, that does not mean the end of LFC.

We may bounce around in mid table mediocrity. We may even get into administration. But I am fairly confident the current owners will be ousted at some point. Maybe not in the near future, but I am sure at some point they will be ousted. Simple reason being they dont have a viable financial plan to run a club of our size and will run out of luck with the creditors at some point.

What i meant was the beginning of the end of the club as we know it, im sure it will take a while for us to sink.. but i think that we are sinking faster than people think. I am liverpool football club born and bred, and im sure it hurts my dad and others who have followed Liverpool all over europe to the likes of paris and rome alot more than it does me. But Liverpool is my passion, and to see it in this state hurts.

I have a sneaky suspicion that things aren't that rosy in the red half of Manchester, and they too could be seeing the same things we are in the not too distant future.

[Mattshark]

I'm sure we'll find out a lot more over the coming months what really went on.
If we get MON, then it won't be the worst appointment in the world.

Yes it will, he is a talentless long ball whore.

[red g]

To me, Rafa is the greatest manager i have witnessed (due to being born in 1991), he built a Liverpool team which is the best I've been around to see.. The likes of Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Alonso, Agger and Carra etc and now he has gone i have this empty feeling inside.

Today in football history counts for Jack ****, its whoever has enough money that can attract the biggest names, and at out current financial state we could more or less be busking outside Liverpool One.

People talk about getting this manager, and that manager.. and oh look what John Smith has done at a certain team.. when in reality its not who we want, its who wants to manage us because as a job proposition we don't look particularly great; no money, some players want out etc...

My brother tells me that we'll go out and get Mourinho (not a possibility anymore) and sign a load of big name players, but it winds me up to talk football with him because most of the time hes chatting ****e, usually me and my dad just look at each other with bemused faces wondering where he gets these ideas from.

Am i just being a doom monger, or is there any light at the end of this tunnel?

Our list of Liverpool managers in that time

Souness
Evans
Houiller
Benitez


We need to get the next one right......

[Lecter]

If we get MON, then it won't be the worst appointment in the world.

Thats true but I'm struggling to think of many worse

[Norbs]

To me, Rafa is the greatest manager i have witnessed (due to being born in 1991), he built a Liverpool team which is the best I've been around to see.. The likes of Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Alonso, Agger and Carra etc and now he has gone i have this empty feeling inside.

Today in football history counts for Jack ****, its whoever has enough money that can attract the biggest names, and at out current financial state we could more or less be busking outside Liverpool One.

People talk about getting this manager, and that manager.. and oh look what John Smith has done at a certain team.. when in reality its not who we want, its who wants to manage us because as a job proposition we don't look particularly great; no money, some players want out etc...

My brother tells me that we'll go out and get Mourinho (not a possibility anymore) and sign a load of big name players, but it winds me up to talk football with him because most of the time hes chatting ****e, usually me and my dad just look at each other with bemused faces wondering where he gets these ideas from.

Am i just being a doom monger, or is there any light at the end of this tunnel?

It's the beginning of a new era, for sure.

Look at our players and then look at how we finished in the league. Torres, Gerrard, Reina, Mascher, Agger, Johnson, etc are all top class. We should've made it in to the CL with the squad we have and yet we struggled. Next season's going to be interesting but seeing that we've got Liverpool coursing through our veins, we've got to embrace the situation and live with it.

Y N W A

[peekay]

It's the beginning of a new era, for sure.

Look at our players and then look at how we finished in the league. Torres, Gerrard, Reina, Mascher, Agger, Johnson, etc are all top class. We should've made it in to the CL with the squad we have and yet we struggled. Next season's going to be interesting but seeing that we've got Liverpool coursing through our veins, we've got to embrace the situation and live with it.

Y N W A

As I said earlier it is easy to get really depressed, but I think we can work our way back from this, inch by inch. If we retain most of out stars for the next season, I think we can compete for CL places. And then we go from there. New owners and things could be looking a lot rosy all of a sudden.

Lots of ifs and buts we have a long way to go before we call it quits.

[Jaymo]

It's the beginning of a new era, for sure.

Look at our players and then look at how we finished in the league. Torres, Gerrard, Reina, Mascher, Agger, Johnson, etc are all top class. We should've made it in to the CL with the squad we have and yet we struggled. Next season's going to be interesting but seeing that we've got Liverpool coursing through our veins, we've got to embrace the situation and live with it.

Y N W A

Out of that lot i can only see Reina, Agger and possibly Johnson staying long term, as Steven needs a league title somewhere along the line.. for possibly one of the greatest midfielders in the world, he needs a league medal, with him having just turned 30 he isnt going to have much left, what 3 maybe 4 seasons?

Fernando is 26 and one of the top strikers in the world, no way would he stay if more of the same was to happen next season, and unfortunately hes not going to have a rest again this summer meaning a season of the same injuries when we need him most.

I really hope i am eating my words next season

[JHP]

I recall worrying at times through the good years that it would all come to an end, especially after Shankly and Paisley left. Especially I remember coming home from work and seeing on the main news that Dalglish had resigned.

I seriously worried that was the end. I remember then the appointment of Souness and after loving him as a player thought he could maintain the success - unfortunately that didn't happen.

I sincerely hope I'm being too pessimistic again but I really think the beginning of the end began either when Dalglish resigned or just before that when the pressure began to grow and which ultimately became too much for him.

In my more optimistic times I think we'll get new owners in the near future and slowly get back to where we belong. But the longer that takes the greater the risk it won't happen.

[Leyton388]

Hillsborough ripped the heart and soul out of the club and we have never recovered from it. It was the reason Kenny resigned from being Manager and who could blame him.

[JHP]

Agree, Hysel also played a part.

Maybe we can blame Thatcher for getting the seats ripped out of the Kop.

[Leyton388]

Agree, Hysel also played a part.

Maybe we can blame Thatcher for getting the seats ripped out of the Kop.

It all played its part (Apart from the thatcher thing). Plus the fact that after such Horrors we had david Moores take over the club.