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please mate stop this poor old rafa crap he sent the club backwards year with the horrible toxic style and multi millions wasted plus if he and the brainwashed fans would admit his shortcomings and massive mistakes he might be better thought of

I agree with this. Rafa knows the EPL, loves LFC, and is a fair hand tactically. If he can learn from his mistakes during his tenure here (ie improve his man-management and accept that maybe sometimes the players will be right), and can be given the same freedom to purchase players as given to King Kenny, then he has every chance of succeeding here, but not with any of the players who were part of the squad he mismanaged still in the squad (ie Carra, Skrtel, Agger, Gerrard, Reina, Lucas, Kuyt). It must be a clean slate, or his preconceptions of some of the players could cloud his judgement.

In 10 years, maybe after Kenny retires, but only if he proved that he can be humble when necessary. Being a stubborn [oops] is necessary to be a top manager, but both he and Wenger are overly so, to their detriment. Players would run through walls for Shanks or Paisley (or even Fergie and Mourinho), but not so much for Rafa unless he could earn their respect.

The other question is: would more supporters accept him than accepted Hodgson?

rafa had good moments but he would never work on or adress the zonal marking or the inconsisencey or the odd torres resting periods or the bad signings or the 2 man club. he cud bring us to a certain point but not beyond it where as kenny can get us to the top, i will never forgive rafa for going from 2nd to 7th in a year

What a load of bull. The reason why we dropped to 7th was because dumb n dumber refused to sanction signings that rafa wanted. All we needed was a couple of class players n we would have brought the team to the next level. But because of the lack of ambition by owners, we had to sell our key players like xabi and that led to our downfall. People might say that xabi would have gone anyway but i disagree. If we had gone on to sign world class players n showed real ambition, i bet my last penny he would have stayed. He's still a red till today.

People forget that the reason why Kenny has millions to spend was partly due to rafa. Torres alone earned the club 30m quid!

I am not saying poor old Rafa, but keane was not his signing and that's just a fact, plain and simple. I have a different view of things and completely disagree with you. I know he had certain man management problems and he woudl definately have to work on them, but tbh I think you are on a mission to crucify Rafa. It's pretty obvious to me that he knows more about football than either one of us but apparently you seem to think he was a nobody and a crap manager. When you reach the semi finals of the CL 8 times, I might start to pay attention when you call a tactical genius toxic.

rafa was a great manager, and im convinced that had fsg taken over when he was in charge we would be one of the best teams in europe today. the man was just unlucky that he got stuck with zig and zag running the club.

just unbelievable and shocking !!!!!

Rafa is linked with Leicester City. That says it all. In fairness I think he was / is a good manager but he is trouble and thats why I would never have him back and neither will any of the other decent clubs for that reason.

100% correct stanley !!!!

Yeah,he's a nice guy but he would bring to much baggage with him,and for the record,Keane was signed by Rafa,Rafa cleared that up ages ago.