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Rafa/squad - How big will the changes be?
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:17 pmby Cool Hand Luke
I have heard rumors from reliable sources that Benetiez wants to get rid of most of the players in the current squad. He is said to be unhappy at the quailty of the players and believes they are not capapble of getting the best out of his ideas.
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:21 pmby dawson99
dunno about that
the rumour mill is rife with stuff though, i think most of it is pretty far off the mark meself though.
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:26 pmby Boocity
Has wrote:I have heard rumors from reliable sources that Benetiez wants to get rid of most of the players in the current squad. He is said to be unhappy at the quailty of the players and believes they are not capapble of getting the best out of his ideas.
Any clue on 'the reliable sources' or do you work for a tabloid 
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:35 pmby Ciggy
Well we all know whos not good enough for the squad, but if they all go we will be like everton with 19 players in the team so what do we do about injuries 
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:11 pmby supersub
I've heard from a reliable source that most reliable sources aren't very reliable and the best reliable sauce is HP brown sauce because it goes with everything.
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:14 pmby Leonmc0708
To be fair to Has, after you have finished ripping him to shreds, the fact that 5 changes where made for the Chelski game makes me think he is not totally happy with what he has to work with.
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:54 pmby Paul C
I don't blame him if he isn't happy with the squad as we've got too many mediocre player, not bad players but player that aren't good enough to play at the level Liverpool want to be at.
I'd personally keep, Alonso, Gerrard, Hamman (squad player), Sami, Carra, Riise, Kewell (if he pulls his finger out), Josemi, Garcia, Cisse, Baros, Warnock, Nunez, fork the rest off and start from scratch 
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:10 pmby taff
supersub wrote:I've heard from a reliable source that most reliable sources aren't very reliable and the best reliable sauce is HP brown sauce because it goes with everything.
hear hear
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:33 amby Dalglish
Leonmc0708 wrote:To be fair to Has, after you have finished ripping him to shreds, the fact that 5 changes where made for the Chelski game makes me think he is not totally happy with what he has to work with.
Would you be Leon ?
The players he has brought in are in a different league to the likes of Biscan, Smicer, Traore, Diouff etc......
Even Hyppia and Kewell are playing well under their ability.
Only Caragher and Gerard have performed to the required standard IMO........
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:57 amby anfieldadorer
I think Rafa is defo unhappy with some of our current players
But in terms of our lack of money to do some buyings, i think he's still keen in digging some players capability out of our available resources
He was good at it when being in Valencia
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:35 amby azriahmad
At Valencia, benithez inherited a good squad who had failed when it comes to reaching the very pinnacle - they lost the CL final twice. He lost some players at the start, Mendieta, as an example but strengthen the squad well and they were able to play as Benithez wanted.
It seems that now he has much more problems in translating his ideas to the players. It is not known what the problem is but it seem to indicate that the quality and the desire of the players, bar a fery few, are there. So, this Liverpool job is much more difficult than the Valencia job. Benithez has done it twice at Valencia, that shows that he is a capable manager and not just lucky the first time around.
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:21 amby 106-1093504160
i'm not sure some of the lads are capable of playing what he wants, look at biscan, he looks like plug out of the beano
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:28 amby anfieldadorer
Ignore this
(wrong thread) 
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:30 amby Fowler_E7
changes are deffo needed if we are going to make any progress, some of the current squad clearly are not good enough and need replacing.
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:36 amby 106-1093504160
we havent been good enough since 1991