Rafa Watch

[Craig_H]

But spurs will still have to come to Anfield. And I don't see us shipping 9 or being destroyed by the Manc clubs.

Far too early to be reading much into anything.

[Baracus]

Part of me wishes he was still here under these honest people we now have running things.

I'm convinced he'd have brought us the title had he been given the chance to work with them.

Hicks and Gillett lead us all down a rotten dead end with their stinking greed and lies, god only knows what it was like to try and plan ahead.

Oh well, must look forward.

Would have love to have seen it too mate.

The ability to sign players 1st without worrying about shifting players.

Without the need to wheel and deal or result to buying bargain basement players and hoping for the best.

Hes had it all his life, Valencia, Liverpool and Inter Never had free rein at any club.

[Baracus]

Rafa..





Harry replace Capello, Rafa to Spurs?

If Mancini ever gets the sack and Mourinho is not available. Rafa to City. Or I would say Arsenal and the Chavs. I'm heard some deluded Arsenal fans asking for Moyes to be brought in

[Shaggy]

It pains me to say it but I don't think any of the top 4 or 5 over here would take him, so effective was the hatchet job Sky did on him. It's ridiculous really. I think he'd win stuff with Arsenal. City...he'd ****ing walk it.

[little dave hedgehog]

i was thinking exactly what shaggy just wrote. except now he just wrote it and i seem horribly unoriginal.

[Kenneth]

i was thinking exactly what shaggy just wrote. except now he just wrote it and i seem horribly unoriginal.

I guess you both should then.

[little dave hedgehog]

yeah good point. go have your own ideas, shaggy.

[Zapater]

have valencia got a different board?

It's ironic because yes they did. But the president now, Manuel Llorente is the same man that Rafa fell out with. The have had several different presidents since but Llorente is having another spell. They both have respect for eachother and realise that they both just wanted the best for the club but had different views on how to do that.

[peekay]

IIRC, the Valencia board and the players were first not too sad to see Rafa leave. The fans were devastated though. There was a poll in the local newspaper in which one of the options was rename one of the streets after Rafa. Only 10% voted for that option. That is because around 85-86% voted for another options which was rename 5 important streets in Valencia after Rafa .

Within a few months both the players and the board realized what a huge loss Rafa was to the club and they mended fences. It is staggering that man is still out of a job. I have never seen a football manager so loved by the fans and so hated by the management.

[Redspin]

Likewise suffering our worst result in 8 years is a sure indicator we are going to finish in the top 4. We have had two good results in the league from five games even if it is early days and our last three games we have been utterly ****e, the second half of the Brighton game I decided to answer work emails instead.

Considering we played for an hour with ten men and lost our best defender very early, then played for nearly half an hour with only nine men, only an idiot would use that result as any kind of yardstick. Perhaps you and your work emails deserve each other.

[Chrono]

Considering we played for an hour with ten men and lost our best defender very early, then played for nearly half an hour with only nine men, only an idiot would use that result as any kind of yardstick. Perhaps you and your work emails deserve each other.

Can't be bothered.

[Shaggy]

David Villa & Mascherano met Rafa after Valencia Barca last week & signed shirts for his wife's charity.

[Lee]

Brilliant picture.

Could've been taken four or five years ago too had Villa signed for us.

[Roboklopp]

Ace. Fantastic to see Rafa looking so relaxed & well too.

[Shaggy]

Terrible jeans mind.