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I have just read the Spanish news report which as the title of this post suggests, Liverpool could end up losing Rafa and in turn (according to Torres - supposedly) 6 first team regulars will also leave - Agger, Reina, Kuyt, Mascherano, Arbeloa & Torres.

Surely the board can see that what Benítez is asking for is for the good of the club. So why don't they grant his wishes or at least come to some sort of happy compromise?

I don't know how much truth there is in this report but one thing I am sure about is that Rafa will not take these pathetic politics for ever. Everyone has their limits and I worry about how much patience Rafa has left...

I'm not worried but I am concerned. I cannot see any other solution other than the obvious, give him his bloody contract!

well with parry at the helm and the yanks that can stand the sight of eachother Rafa may get his contract sorted the season after next!

Well take Rafa and those six out and we can forget the league, CL and winning just about anything for a long time...

the worrying thing is that these stories are appearing at all - everyone who knows anyone involved with Liverpool FC knows Rafa loves the club and the city and that his wife does not want to leave ...... i mean she has already told him once that if he goes then he goes alone coz she is not moving ...... so for this situation to get so far he must be really getting frustrated ..... its time for gillet to follow hick's lead and back rafa like he deserves .... rafa has shown enough in his time at the club to deserve the full backing of everyone involved and if that means parry gets the boot all the better imho

And Parry can take those 2 Yanks with him. Please!!

I reckon we should take these reports with a grain of salt. The reputations of the European media (All media for that point) shows that they are very rarely correct with these sorts of stories. Don't take heed unless it comes from Rafa's mouth.

you know the sad thing about all this is that Liverpool FC always seem to shoot themselves in the foot just when important games are coming up and even more importantly now when we are really competing for the title and the side is really taking shape.

If I was a cynical sod, I would be thinking that we have moles on the board who are deliberately trying to de-rail our chances!!!

The players won't leave if Rafa does. It's just Balague playing Rafa's (agents) puppet in the press again. You always get the press talking about mass player exoduses when a manager leaves, just look at Mourinho leaving Chelsea, but it never happens. In fact Torres actually said in his interview with Samuels

"But I'd like to stay here, and in that way maybe it does not matter if Rafa is here."

(first post by the way)

i am not so sure alonso would want to play for madrid - he is basque after all and real madrid are hated by the basques!