And I think all the "Rafa was a poison" camp should remember that Rafa was a successful manager until he lost the support of the owners. Prior to H&G he won 4 trophies in 2 seasons, and you cannot say Houllier left behind a fantastic squad. The season he bought Torres we reached the CL final. The following season, the one where the squad he had built had gelled, we ran United close for the title (and would have won it had we been able to do more than draw for two months after Gerrard got arrested). However that season coincided with withdrawal of his funding, and the start of his struggles with Parry, which became worse under Purslow. Since then we've done nothing but slide, and while Benitez had a hand in it you would do well to remember the events that preceded the things you rant on about.
Rafa was poor in the sell-to-buy need-a-bargain-footballer transfer market imposed upon him by H&G; but that's not why we hired him, was it? Yes, perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut, but sweeping the bullsh!t peddled by those clowns under the carpet would only have given them more time to sell the club for a profit or screw us further. 'The Liverpool Way' of ignoring mismanagement may have continued to cost us; but maybe that's what you want?
his job was and i quote the only thing george gillett got right the only thing and i quote " just coach and manage the team rafa " unquote and if he had stuck to thatr he might have stil been manager of LFC , dont believe all this nonsense about he outed the owners big business were always going to pull the plug on H&G in the long run ans i said they would loads of times , and as for the benitez debate well its jovanovic this thread is about a player given 70K a week by benitez and sounded out by benitez , and as for board room struggles every club he has been at from tenerife to inter he has had board room bust ups so think long and hard who is a common denominator in all of there bust ups not parry , not purslow , not moratti its benitez .
