KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum How would Rafa have spent FSG's money?

Before anyone accuses me of being negative or disrespectful towards Kenny, this thread is a bit of fun and not a dig at anyone at all. If you don't like it, post elsewhere..

I was thinking about the money the Kenny has spent or will have spent by the end of the summer (£100m+) and wondered how our personnel might have been different in Rafa was still here (for better or for worse).

1) Would Torres have stayed if RB was still here and he had money to spend? (probably not as Torres wanted out long before, but you never know)
2) I'm pretty sure that Rafa wouldn't be trying to sign Downing if he thought Mata might be available
3) Would he have signed Carroll - if so, would he have paid £35m - who might he have signed instead?
4) I'm sure he wouldn't have signed Henderson - who would he have bought instead?
5) Would we have signed Suarez?
6) Would we have Commoli?
7) There have been a few bargains in Europe this summer; would Rafa have picked them up?
8) one thing's for sure, if Rafa hadn't left we wouldn't have been lumbered with the likes of poulsen & konchesky, and we might even have had Aquilani at our disposal. And we wouldn't have Aurelio.

There's positives and negatives here - interested on what people think our team might be against Sunderland if RB was here?

As I said, this isn't a dig at Kenny because we don't know how his signings will perform and we don't know how Rafa's possible signings might have panned out - it's purely theoretical to see the differences, that's all.

I think Rafa would have signed 100 spanish players for about 8 mil each then complained FSG didnt give him enough money and how he is struggling without finiancial backing!!!!!!!

if you do some homework and look at the top targets rafa wanted you'll find names like david silva, david villa, dani alves. our interest was off the back of our 2 champions league finals when we were considered to be a real force in europe and 2 years before the big teams snapped any of them up. but we settled for ryan babel and the likes cos we couldnt cough up the exta £5m or whatever

benitez had and wasted millions of pounds it make me laugh when people say he had no money to spend , PLEASE CAN THIS WHAT WOULD BENITEZ DO CR@P STOP , he was part of the down fall of the club and if he is this great manager as the deluded liverpool fans say why hasnt he got a job if he is that good , its because he is TOXIC

Not sure about downing but i think he would have surely bought mata and Suarez. I think instead of carroll we would have got llorente or gomez.

I agree I want the WWBD talk to stop, but you are clearly deluded here. He always had to sell to buy. You can't build a top team like that.

here here totaly agree the man had one great season and the was struggling from thier on he sign a handfull of quality players and five handful of rubbish and if u blame he was,nt getting the backing just look what wagner was doing with less money and the players he was buying for less money so if he was that great of a manager he still should of being able to buy quality players with the money he had at his disposel and not the toatle rubbish we had you talk about poulsen and konchesky what about Antonio Nunes ,Djimi Traore, biscan come on like....

BS. If Rafa had been given full backing, we would have bought david villa for around 12m before he moved to valencia. Dani alves for 15m before he moved to barca. I know javi martinez was on his radar too.

Put it this way, Rafa can probably buy the same talent at 1/3 the budget given to Comolli.

All the flops that rafa bought were his 2nd or 3rd choice signings. I can't fathom how we can blame him when he has already done an excellent job wheeling and dealing for LFC.

Just ask - who could damien commoli sign if dumb and dumber were still owners? You think he could do a better job than rafa?

And to top it off, the only reason why we have 50m quid to sign carroll and suarez was largely due to rafa's signing - fernando torres.

Benitez didn't sign Traore or Biscan!!