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J*o*n*D*o*e wrote:maureen had it easy at chelski and in the end was found out, if he`s so fooking special why aint he there now, i would of liked to have have seen how well he would of done given the same funds Benitez was given and inherited some of the he did.

Rafa along with the players has given some of you the best moments of your footballing lives, to the rest of us he`s added another chapter in this great clubs history, we are within touching distance of the leaders having not lost a league game, all this after playing some of the worst football seen under him and suffering major injuries to key players, lets give the guy a bit of backing and i dont just mean on these boards, tomorrow night we need to show the rest of the country and the fooken rags that Rafa is one of us and going nowhere.

mo for Anfield, pleeeaaaaaaaaaaaaase no

back in my shell

bigmick wrote:I posted this paragraph earlier today on another thread (earlier today that is NZ time) and battened down the hatches, expecting to get absolutely slaughtered by all and sundry jumping in to defend Rafa and to put the boot into Mourinho at the very least, and me when they'd got sick of that. I'm very surprised that it didn't really happen.

Now I'm well aware that many have probably tired of the same old points been raised by the same old posters, but this was a slightly different question. Not advocating getting Mourinho in as manager or anything like it but simply asking the question would we be more likely to launch a challenge if he were manager? Here is the paragraph...


  As a footnote, not wanting to crank up the controversy particularly but I may as well ask the question. The press are predictably talking up the possibility of Mourinho replacing Rafa. Now I don't like the little ponce any more than the next man, special he certainly ain't, but were he to take over at the end of the season, would we have more or less chance of winning the Premiership? I don't think from a tactical point of view he is anywhere near Rafa's equal, and probably isn't in the transfer market either. My hunch is that he would try something really simplistic. He'd put his arm around Gerrard and tell him he is the best midfield player in the World, he'd tell Torres that he was the one player above all others that he wanted to sign when he was Chelsea manager, he'd do an interview whereby he'd call Alonso "the General", and say that Carra was the one centre half that Drogba hated playing against. Then he'd probably go and play pretty much the same team in the first couple of months of the season. Hand on heart, would I want him as Liverpools manager? NO. Hand on heart do I think we'd have more chance of winning the Premiership with him in charge? yes.



Now is the lack of people jumping in a sign of the fact that I've eventually bored everyone into submission and the mere sight of a Bigmick post is enough to prompt a quick scroll past (quite likely I must admit), or do people maybe think the same thing. Would we be more likely to launch a serious title challenge if Mourinho (and we might as well use him as an example as we all know him, as opposed to Lippi or one of these other feckers) were in charge, or Rafa with his current philosophies?




Disclaimer: I am not saying we should sack Rafa and bring in Mourinho.

s@int wrote:

neil wrote:with the players we currently have even I could pick a first team, stick to it, rest players when they get lazy,to-wit dropped and have a better chance of success. We just need someone to allow the players to appear important rather than the managers sheer genius.

If you are willing to drop Kuyt and play Crouch, you have got the job mate 

bigmick wrote:Of course not Saint. If we had won the Champions League twice in three seasons Rafa could probably have finished tenth this season and nobody would hve said much. Equally though, if the over passionate Gerrard hadn't dug us out of the sh!te in the dying seconds against Olympiacos three years ago, we wouldn't be having this debate then either as Rafa would probably have gone by now.

I keep going on about direction. I ask the question here, if Rafa were to make it clear that he intends next season to change the team as many times in the first fifteen or so games in all competitions as he has this, would people be happy to go for another season and see if we can make the thing work, or would we be looking for a change in direction? Equally, if we made it clear that it was our plan to go into Away games next season with the same amount of attacking intent as wea re showing this season, would it be time for a change?

For my part, if that is the intention then I believe it would be time for a change (although that doesn't necessarily mean Mourinho). The reason of course is  that I have made no secret of my belief that it is an impossibility to achieve success in the English Premier League without the guts of a settled team.

Red Red Tom wrote:I'm confident we'd win trophey's under Jose, and maybe 20 years ago he'd have been welcomed.

whylongball? wrote:Normally its yourself that is hard to beat.
Rafa can beat Morinho anyday..He let himself down with his stubbornesss

You're on the spot , mate. 

Big Niall wrote:he spent a lot but in his three years in England he won the league twice and never lost a home game in the league.

Whether people like him or not he has proved a top manager in the english game.

I'd welcome any manager I thought could win the league.