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Rafa Benitez has defended the manner of Fernando Torres exit from Liverpool and his subsequent criticism of the club’s former owners.
Torres left Anfield during the January transfer window to join up with their Premier League rivals Chelsea, and subsequently criticised the much maligned duo of Tom Hicks and George Gillett over broken promises.
Benitez suggests the striker’s comments did not come as a surprise to him or anyone within the club at the time.
He said: “I think all the players and staff knew what was going on who were here at this time.
“It was a difficult time and we had to manage the situation.
“Had it not been for the situation we could have achieved even better things but I think we managed to achieve good things given the situation.
“Only time will tell whether Fernando was right or not to say those things.”
Speaking about his relationship with Torres and the struggles the striker is currently experiencing at Chelsea, Benitez suggests the fact they were both Spanish certainly helped him get the best out of the forward.
He added: “Fernando is a good professional and although he had some injuries he was learning the English style.
“He was scoring a lot of goals at the beginning and at the end.
“He has a good mentality, he has good quality and his relationship with me was good also because we could talk in Spanish.
“When we needed to say something in Spanish we could say it clearly and we were not hiding anything.”Comment
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Hang on a sec Rafa, we had new owners who were just about to put their money where there mouth is, but Nando decided to walk. FFS."Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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What does he mean by 'we', he refers to this all the time when asked about if he's ready.Are we winning?Comment
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Justin Bieber.
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"I can do some things but I'm not fantastic in the kitchen. I can do a Spanish omelette."
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Interesting what he says there. It's easier to work with the defence than the attack, think he said this plenty of times when he was with us as well. Our failings actually were because we didn't invest a lot in that area, we were always brilliant defensively with him.Are we winning?Comment
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When we won the Champs league, and then stayed the No1 Rated side for season in season out in europe.... that's when we should have been buying the top players....and we'd have got them too at that time, the mismanagement of lfc by H&G was immense, at almost every level!
ps: *note to self * just let it go!
Last edited by Vermilion; 15-04-11, 10:11 AM.Comment
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Originally posted by Vermilion View PostWhen we won the Champs league, and then stayed the No1 Rated side for season in season out in europe.... that's when we should have been buying the top players....and we'd have got them too at that time, the mismanagement of lfc by H&G was immense, at almost every level!
ps: *note to self * Oh! just let it go!
It's hard mate as with the proper backing, we would have steam rolled all over Europe and the Premier League. Rafa was the right man, the time wasn't right which makes it even harder.Are we winning?Comment
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KeaneOriginally posted by NigelLG View Post
Crouch
Bellamy
Babel
Morientes
All of the above failed to deliver........but did cost a few quid to._____________________________________
Weak willed, Wank or do they have a masterplan?
Think we have the answer..Slot!!
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I think we really need to let go of Rafa and Nando and move on.Originally posted by Vermilion View Postps: *note to self * just let it go!
There is a lots of 'what could have been' fantasising(sp) but at the end of the day it don't matter now. We have new owners and a new Manager and new players."Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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More money would have bought better players.Originally posted by red g View Post
You've still got an axe to grind eh?Are we winning?Comment
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