Pack your bags Roy

[Shaggy]

The most unpopular men on the planet - David Cameron, Robert Mugabi, Tom Hicks, Rafa Benitez and Little Dan Perkins

[Fernandinho]

In backwards order?

[Arn]

Keyboard hardmen are in full flow alright. Must be tough being so opinionated Lec.

I wonder why more or less everyone think that you're a **** and why they are only in full flow when they read crap from you

[Arn]

The most unpopular men on the planet - David Cameron, Robert Mugabi, Tom Hicks, Rafa Benitez and Little Dan Perkins

In backwards order?

[danperkins]

No...

You claim rafa didnt sign any good players in his last 2/3 years.

This is not a fact.

Oh i forgot Johnson/Maxi/The Greek/Aqua & who else have been good buys, wonder how many LFC fans would agree with you on that? Seriously it is not just my opinion its a general consensus and the evidence and facts are in teh performances which you clearly have not been watching.

Oh and Aqua, yeah £19.4 million quid for one season or half a season and where is he? Gone! Flopped and gone. Your so opinionated and focused on bloody disagreeing with me that you have made yourself look a bit silly by saying that Maxi/Aqua and Kyriagkos were good buys,common?

[danperkins]

I wonder why more or less everyone think that you're a **** and why they are only in full flow when they read crap from you

What you mean the Rafa supporters? I have mates that are Rafa supporters that go on like you do. This is an internet forum mate, people that post on here all want their say including me why else would we join?

Get over it dude, some people can accept others opinions and some can't. Agree to disagree does not compute with some folk.

[Fernandinho]

WTF. Danperkins im sorry but you are really short sided on this one. Rafa had practically 0 money to spend on players and managed to find an experienced defender who brought in something we didn't have. Absolute aerial dominance. A thread from set pieces and a great asset in defence. He gives his all and has played better games then players (skrtel) who cost 4 times his price. Pop over two the MOTM thread from this season and you will notice the Greek has two MOTM despite playing very few games. How was he a poor buy??? How many has Torres had? Its not all about cost.

[Craig_H]

Oh i forgot Maxi/The Greek/Aqua & who else have been good buys, wonder how many LFC fans would agree with you on that? Seriously it is not just my opinion its a general consensus and the evidence and facts are in teh performances which you clearly have not been watching.

Mr Blobby was the highest selling single one week, and number 1 - just because lots of people thought so, doesnt make it the best song.

As for watching the performances, i would hazard a guess that i see a lot more Liverpool games than you do.

Oh and Aqua, yeah £19.4 million quid for one season or half a season and where is he? Gone! Flopped and gone. Your so opinionated and focused on bloody disagreeing with me that you have made yourself look a bit silly by saying that Maxi/Aqua and Kyriagkos were good buys,common?

Gone - and who let him go? Wasnt rafa.

Maxi is an argentine international and a technically proficient player, for free - of course he's a good signing.

And Kyrgiakos' performances have been excellent value for the £1.5m. And you say i'm the one not watching the games?

As i said, you're a teenager who plays FM too much. Unless a player is Messi, he's ****.


And whatever you might think of players, and the notion that 'Rafa didnt sign a good player in his last 2 years at LFC:

IT IS STILL YOUR OPINION - IT IS NOT A FACT.

[Craig_H]

WTF. Danperkins im sorry but you are really short sided on this one. Rafa had practically 0 money to spend on players and managed to find an experienced defender who brought in something we didn't have. Absolute aerial dominance. A thread from set pieces and a great asset in defence. He gives his all and has played better games then players (skrtel) who cost 4 times his price. Pop over two the MOTM thread from this season and you will notice the Greek has to MOTM despite playing very few games. How was he a poor buy??? How many has Torres had? Its not all about cost.

Danperkins is a typical 'sky' fan, players have to be 'flashy' and 'trendy', expensive and do step overs - otherwise they're no good.

[Neil Young]

OK, we all know LDP is talking crap. I don't mind that; it's the fact he has verbal diarrhoea that makes it so tedious. But let's move on.

I suggest a rousing chorus of 'Hodgson Out' after a lamentable performance against Blabber****e's men and he'll be gone in within days.

[Fernandinho]

Danperkins is a typical 'sky' fan, players have to be 'flashy' and 'trendy', expensive and do step overs - otherwise they're no good.

Have we ever found out how old Danper is?

[Craig_H]

Have we ever found out how old Danper is?

12?

[Lecter]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rorysmith/100013046/liverpool-roy-hodgson-and-the-tortured-analogy/

Liverpool, Roy Hodgson and the tortured analogy
By Rory Smith

This summer just gone, I bought a car. I don’t want to reveal the manufacturer, but it was one of those old, revered badges that always make you turn your head on the road. True, they’ve not produced anything desperately brilliant for the last 20 years or so – other than one model which overperformed completely despite being tested against more expensive motors – but there’s still a lingering respect, a residual gleam to the name.

Anyway, I got this car on the cheap, to be honest. It had been going really nicely until the previous summer, 2009, and had actually seemed to be getting better with every service since he’d bought it in 2004. It was running beautifully a year ago, the guy who sold it to me told me. Firing on all cylinders. Literally, if a metaphor can ever be literal. It was going faster than pretty much anything else around it and with an effortless grace, too. Moved up through the gears really nicely. Still wasn’t the best car around, but a bit of tweaking in the engine and he’d have been flying, though definitely not literally.

The problem was that, last year, he’d had to get some parts exchanged. He’d not had the money to go to the official dealer – which are always overpriced anyway, he said, and he was spot on, or at least he would have been if this wasn’t a metaphor – but he’d had to change the fuel injection, because it wanted to bring its kids up in Spain, wasn’t a fan of high tax rates and they’d had a few disagreements anyway. He’d bought a new one, a fancy Italian one, but he wasn’t quite sure where it would work and how soon he could get it fitted. He’d upgraded the driver side rear tyre, too, but that seemed like a sensible move, what with the homegrown regulations the DVLA had brought in.

Sadly, though, it didn’t quite work. When he first drove the car after coming back from holiday in 2009, it spluttered a bit when he turned the ignition on and it just couldn’t get going. Every time he thought he was getting somewhere, a piece fell out, or broke, or tore an adductor, and it started struggling again. He said he’d made a few mistakes along the way, too, including telling some of the more important parts that they really should start behaving like important parts and taking it to Reading, while he had a bit of a habit of driving through potholes.

So I bought it off him. I replaced some of the parts, too, though I kept hold of the most important ones, even if one had to leave because its wife couldn’t settle here. The ones I bought were all of my own choosing, though, even if I did accidentally buy two fanbelts but forget to mend the steering wheel. The guy who sold it to me said it maybe wouldn’t be able to get up to 100 miles an hour without major, expensive surgery, but that it should certainly be capable of going fast enough to get it to Europe, though probably not the nice bits. Now, though, it just won’t go at all. It’s barely moved for the last couple of months. I’ve driven it very badly, none of the parts are working and I’ve put a couple of them in the wrong place. The passenger side rear tyre, for a start, is completely bald. It’s a diesel engine, but I’m running it on petrol, just to see how it goes.

Yet, to be honest, I think it’s the previous owner’s fault. I mean, how can I expect to drive it well when it wasn’t perfect in the first place? If he’d left it in a better state, I wouldn’t have had to buy all those new parts, which just don’t work. True, he wouldn’t have sold me the car, but that’s by the by. Of course, it’s a bit of a puzzle why a car that could do 70mph last year can only do 19 now, but that strikes me as being because of the changes he made two years ago, not the ones I made this summer, or the way I’ve put the car together. Definitely. It’s his fault. I’m doing the best I can, under the circumstances, really.

[danperkins]

I also think some of the signings like Johnson and Aquilani deserved more time. GJ at the beginning of last season was adding a lot t the team and then got injured and Aquilani started to be effective towards the end of the season. Look how Nani and Berbatov have improved this season relative to previous seasons at United. The problem is that with our lack of money and injuries to Torres and Gerrard we were unable to give new signings time to grow in the team. All of the top teams except us in recent years have had the luxury of allowing players to take time to get used to the team as they have rarely had to wait to sell players to buy in replacements and have had time and money to invest in replacements.

It will be interesting to see how United go now when it looks like Fergie might have to be more reactive in the market when addressing real issues, and faces not dissimilar problem to those Rafa faced throughout his reign.

Fair points but we knew Berbatov was a class act, just a lazy *******, and Nani was showing a hell of alot more progress and promise than Babel, two similiar players. Nani went one way Babel went the other.

Glen Johnson was young and English and was horribly over priced, it was common knowledge that Johnson was not a particularly good defender but Rafa bought to boost the dynamics down the right so he over paid for Johnson, IMO a defender should be able to defend first and foremost, it is clear from all of last season (apart from first 7 games where Johnson was class) that Glen cannot defned to save his life, zero positional sense and awareness as a defender hence so many cries to move him up to RM. He has been a liability for us and hasn't even provided much in an attacking sense either which is meant to be his strongest asset.

As for Aqua, Rafa said Aqua would have cost us £30 million quid if we bought him uninjured, considering Aqua had done nothing of note since U21 Italy we got royally screwed on the fee, as Rafa was deeply so engrossed in the Alonso saga and getting his way over Real Madrid, that time elapsed, there was hardly any other options available and Aqua was a last minute risky buy.

Guy hadn't completed a full season in 6 years, had only 11 caps for national team and plus we bought him injured. We didn't him properly until Late November i think, by then we were languishing horribly and we missed Alonso's create spark so much and we had nobody to step in as Aqua was injured or Rafa was protecting him, so we had to put up with the joys of Masch/Lucas partnership, the least creative partnership since Poulsen/Lucas.

Think Aqua was on £85,000 a week too so i've read (figures add up on Roma books) and we spent £19.4 million on him last season alone, and for what exactly? he was just not cut out for English football and was always going to move on.

Aqua won't be coming back thats for sure and if Johnson keep playing the way he has been well then i can't see him being here much longer either, well certainly not at RB.

Aqua was a flop no matter how much its justified, sure we all agreed that Keane was a flop he only got 6 months and was made an example out of by Rafa in the Rafa vs Parry war, thats like us saying Keane would have turned heads if he had still been with us. Johnson will have to go along way to change people's opinions of him but thus far now into his second season he has been a flop, massive money spent on this guy.

[Lecter]

"I have come here to win, and my players have to have the same mentality."

"I am young, I want to win lots of matches and in the right way. I hope the players think like us that it is possible to win titles.

"I want the supporters to be proud of the team, of the manager, of the players, of the club."
Rafael Benitez


“Are people suggesting that we should be doing the same as Arsenal, who have had the same team together for the last six years and Chelsea, who have just won the league?

“If so I would accuse them of being unrealistic at this moment in time.
Roy Hodgson


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“When you see the supporters and how the club works it is like a religion to them. We will try to do our best to bring more trophies back for them.”
Rafa Benitez


“This is a new team, there are four or five new players. We finished seventh last season so I don’t understand why it’s suggested we should be comparing ourselves every day with Chelsea or Manchester United at this early stage of the season.

“It will be nice if we can get there. We will see but I certainly don’t make that demand upon the players.”
Roy Hodgson

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When they start talking and talking about us, it shows they are worried about playing Liverpool,”
Rafa Benitez

"Northampton are a formidable opponent"
Roy Hodgson

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“No, I'm not thinking about a draw. We're going out to win.”
Rafa Benitez



"It was a good point because we knew it was going to be a tough game. (Referring to a draw against a mid-table Dutch side)
Roy Hodgson

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Never call me the special one!"
Rafa Benitez

"To suggest that, because I have moved from one club to another, that the methods which have stood me in good stead for 35 years and made me one of the most respected coaches in Europe don't suddenly work is very hard to believe.
Roy Hodgson

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“To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more.”
Rafa Benitez

"The protest does not help but it is something I have had to live with since I came to the club,"
Roy Hodgson

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“I have a lot of confidence in the team, maybe Milan are favourites -- they have a lot of good players -- but we have confidence and we can win.” (Referring to one of the best teams in the world at the time)
Rafa Benitez


To get a result here would have been Utopia (Referring to Everton)
Roy Hodgson

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I picked the team which I felt was right for the game and I have no regrets about that. In the first half Burnley were better than us but in the second half we were better. The bad thing is we conceded a poor goal and it was then always going to be difficult for us to score on a bad pitch against a team that was fighting for everything.
Rafa Benitez - refuses to blame youngsters after Burnley loss

"These players have to accept responsibility. I accept responsibility for changing a lot of players in the team, I did it because I honestly thought the players I put on the field were good enough to win the game and they weren't.
Roy Hodgson - lays into youngsters after Northampton loss