Rafa Watch

[Kenneth]

Zzzzzz

[Joey Jones]

I think Rafa could have gotten our current team into 4th spot this season .....and he is definitley waiting to come back to Anfield

So he's not guaranteed to get top 4 with a superior Chelsea squad but he could have got us there, hmmmm.

[Alex]

Ignoring our bias towards him (hard I know) How do people think he will be viewed after this Chelsea job. He has actually surprised me how well he has done considering. A FA Cup Semi final, Europa League final and a potential 3rd place finish. He basically could not have done better even if he wanted too.

Think he will come out of this with his reputation significantly enhanced, and will have alerted a few European heavyweights of his skills again.

Mind you, it could all come crashing down for him in the next 3 weeks.

[ChesterDave]

Bitter fan in work praised his efforts. Never rated him before

[Mattshark]

I think Rafa could have gotten our current team into 4th spot this season .....and he is definitley waiting to come back to Anfield

It would have taken more than Rafa to get our side to 4th.

[G]

We'll all think he's done a good job. Everybody else will think he's managed the bare minimum required with the set of players at his disposal.

Any chance of a fair assessment on Rafa within the English game disappeared years ago.

[Mattshark]

We'll all think he's done a good job. Everybody else will think he's managed the bare minimum required with the set of players at his disposal.

Any chance of a fair assessment on Rafa within the English game disappeared years ago.

I think it is hard to judge, Chelsea have 3 good attackers in hazard, Oscar and mata, but they are all young and two are new to the league. The defence needs work and they need a dm and a striker.

[Arn]

It would have taken more than Rafa to get our side to 4th.

Impossible to say really. All we can say is that the key players in the squad already know his system.

[Mattshark]

Impossible to say really. All we can say is that the key players in the squad already know his system.

Doesn't matter because our squad just isn't that good.

[Arn]

Doesn't matter because our squad just isn't that good.

It isn't as good now yes but who knows how strong it would have been if Rafa had built the squad.

I doubt that he would have bought Allen and Borini for example.

[Mattshark]

It isn't as good now yes but who knows how strong it would have been if Rafa had built the squad.

I doubt that he would have bought Allen and Borini for example.

Both of whom have been injured pretty much all season so making any sort of judgment on them is at best idiotic.

What you have is worthless speculation and a dislike of Brendan purely for not being Rafa.

[BobTheCharmer]

It isn't as good now yes but who knows how strong it would have been if Rafa had built the squad.

I doubt that he would have bought Allen and Borini for example.

Of course he wouldn't have signed them , he might of signed Barry and keane.

[Lee]

Ignoring our bias towards him (hard I know) How do people think he will be viewed after this Chelsea job. He has actually surprised me how well he has done considering. A FA Cup Semi final, Europa League final and a potential 3rd place finish. He basically could not have done better even if he wanted too.

Think he will come out of this with his reputation significantly enhanced, and will have alerted a few European heavyweights of his skills again.

Mind you, it could all come crashing down for him in the next 3 weeks.

He's done a decent / good job.

I think they should've won the World Club Championship and beaten Swansea over two legs in the League Cup.

But towards the end of the season he's rotated well, he's phasing out Terry and Lampard (which should've been done ages ago), they're in the final of the Europa League and they should finish third.

Problem Chelsea have is that they have no reliable striker. Done the sensible thing with moving Luiz into the holding role and Ivanovic into the middle.

So yeah. Could've done better and could've done worse.

Also - does anyone else here think that he's not massively keen on Hazard?

[Arn]

Of course he wouldn't have signed them , he might of signed Barry and keane.

Who knows and that is my point. You can't look at the squad we have now and say that Rafa wouldn't got us into the top four because the squad would have been built in a different way and we would have played a different system.

[Mattshark]

Who knows and that is my point. You can't look at the squad we have now and say that Rafa wouldn't got us into the top four because the squad would have been built in a different way and we would have played a different system.

And we'd still not have had a scouting dept and a lot of players not possessing enough quality.

How about actually supporting our manager?