Rafa Watch

[Rich]

Let's be honest, even if he's a huge success there he'll only last a maximum of three seasons.

[Phoenix07]

It's a stellar job and an excellent opportunity. When you look at the jobs across football, there aren't many at the top end. He's a Madrid lad and he'd have superb chances to snap up silverware with the world's elite players, even if for a year or two.

[Alex]

Everyone else has had a go, so its only fair.

Taking Ronaldo off for a Left Back would be great

[Rich]

I'd love Rafa to have a crack with Real Madrid, he deserves managing 'his' club.

[Shaggy]

As much as I love and rate him, I really don't think he's right for them other than the fact he has the club in his heart. You worry it'll end in tears.

Be funny as **** watching him hooking Ronaldo on 65 minutes.

[Vermilion]

Rafa will go to Madrid, win only the league, get sacked, and be ready and waiting if BR fails to put things right.

Back up plan sorted, winning the league there will be enough to sway fsg into thinking he can work under any conditions and with any structure that's in place.

[Keyser Soze]

I hope he gets it, he must've been waiting for this for years. Can't see him lasting like, I dunno, he will rub a few people up the wrong way surely

He's a Real Madrid guy though isn't he, he'll know the politics and some of the people.

Its a poison chalice though - you've got to win the league or CL too survive

Good luck to him though i hope he smashes it (if the rumour is true).

[wiw]

I hope he gets it, he must've been waiting for this for years. Can't see him lasting like, I dunno, he will rub a few people up the wrong way surely

[-V-]

Was it not Florentino Perez who offered Rafa the job back when he was with us

[EwarWoo]

If he does good on him. Reckon he'll do a great job.

[Shaggy]

Loads of reports that Rafa is going to Real Madrid

[fidget]

Rafa with the money FSG gave to Kenny and Rodgers would make us title challengers IMO.

[JudgeRed]

Rafa with the money FSG gave to Kenny and Rodgers would make us title challengers IMO.

[Doc_Piptorious]

I know it might seem like I am ragging on him, but if we got him back it would in many ways be like what he was trying to do at Napoli except over there he had less clubs ahead of him in terms of financial clout etc than he would if he was back at Liverpool.

So basically we would be looking for him to overcome at least four clubs despite having less resources than them.


Now I do think he would be better than Rodgers in that he would get the team finishing higher on average over the period of three or four seasons, but I have my doubts if he would do better in the league second time around than what he achieved first time around.

Basically I want a manager that makes us regular to semi regular title challengers again or who at the very least makes me think that he will. Rafa I think is the guy to make us a regular top four challenger and as good as that sounds right now thanks to the season we have just seen, I kinda want to be greedy and have someone that makes me think he can take the club a step further than what everyone else has failed to do since Kenny's first spell as gaffer.

[Doc_Piptorious]

interim at the chav cunts.

cant remember the details exactly but where were they in the league before he came in and gave them some stability, got some bit part players to turn in a shift, etc.

Don't know if I would call it an example of him excelling though. He was in charge of one of the best first team and squad combos in the country. I think he


He had a good Europa league win with them (which funnily enough is often used as an example of how good Rafa is, but then becomes a competition that our own supporters like to call a joke competition to play the kids in


He managed Chelsea for 48 games in all comps, had a win % of 58.33% and led them to winning the Europa league.

The man he replaced, Roberto Di Matteo, managed Chelsea for 42 games, had a win % of 57.14% and won the Champions league and the FA cup in that time.

Another interim Chelsea manager in Guus Hiddink had a win % of 73.91% from his 23 games there

Ancelloti at Chelsea had a win % of 61.47% after his 109 games as manager for them.

Avram Grant got 66.67% from 54 games

Jose is sitting on 65.34% after 285 games.

Scholari was 56% from 36 games.

And the worst of them all in recent times was AVB with 47.5% after 40 games.


So do not really see him as having had excelled there. I think he did well there, especially giving the rubbish he had to put up with from the numbnut element of the supporters of that club, but given the quality players he had available to him I think he did what would be expected from a good manager when they have such players available.