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Well I hope Keane lashes one in against us in May....providing we are winning of course....and then goes up to Rafa pointing his shirt badge at him.

people talking about selling keane days or weeks ago WHAT tottenham didn't need him a week ago or even a few days ago they didn't find out the full extent of defoe' injury until saturday/sunday and because of that we could demand a quite ridiculous amount of money and also why are people talking about crouch and bellamy and how they wasn't good at us because of rafa' slow and defensive tactics they where just bad players i also see how nobody has mentioned the fact we out scored everybody last season with 6 players getting into double figures (torres, gerrard, crouch, benayoun, kuyt, babel) and with this slow defensive tactics torres became the most prolific foreigner ever.... because TORRES is the best... and crouch and bellamy where just the best we could get because of the money we had there is a difference all that has happened this season is 7 of our players had basically no time off in the summer and obviously as we all know our best player has been injured for most of the season putting all the pressure on gerrard to score... and my theory on the draws is ... benitez tried to be so solid NOT defensive just solid so that we only needed to score one goal to win because without torres we probably only have one in us and now he is back and confident the goals we come and the draws will go away

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Generalfrancoout off the subject But who would you like to replace rafa ?
And what's wrong with being impossible to breakdown ?
and if rafa just wanted a fast striker on the solider of the last defender he would have spent his money on villa or even just kept owen, torres is much more than that and to say we are not a real team is ridiculous we only need to sign a fast winger best centre midfielders in the world by miles brilliant goalkeeper best striker in the world and the best leader in world football and 90% of what i just said was all done by rafa

In the heel of the hunt the lad was treated bad, He became part of what is going on behind the scenes at our club. My take on it is this. The Keane transfer has been a Issue since he joined the club. He and Barry are roughly the same age and one of Parrys main points for not buying him was his age (18million). Then 20 plus for Keane was handed out.......This was always going to stick in Rafas gut. Even when he tried to find the funds for Barry by selling Alonso it didn't happen. Selling Robbie back to spurs at the min IS a great piece of bussiness, I'd say they where bursting there sides laughing knowing they get him back in the summer for 6 million tops. I don't think Rafa wanted to let him go now, For one he didn't let Crouch go last year and if our season goes bad because Torres gets injured it's to ease for Parry to blame him. I think Rafa has been told this transfer See's weather or not you do the deals from now on.

martin o'neill's teams have always played a poor quality of football - exactly what you are bitching about rafa doing
rijkaard had a great team at barca but let the personalities rip it apart - not good enough man management

general are you really a liverpool fan or just on here to wind people up? only you have no constructive points just lots and lots of whines ...... its fine if you aren't a liverpool fan i really couldn't care less would just prefer it if you were honest!

no need to be sorry i just wasnt sure if you were here on a wind up - your opinion is your own and you are fully entitled to it .... whether i agree or not is irrelevant ...... be kinda boring if we all thought the same!

You say his record isn't very good but compared to whom, with what resources?

The issue is making LFC a team capable of winning with the Premiership or Champions League.

When he arrived we weren't challenging for either trophy. He hasn't had the budget of his main competitors in either England or Europe.

In Europe in the last 4 years we've won the CL, been the finalist and got to a semi final. Who in England has a better record? Who in Europe? Milan didn't even qualify this year. Who?

In the league we've closed the gap on our main rivals considerably. I would say in a one off game we're probably the best in one off games/ two legs.

As a squad player for player we're much stronger than when he arrived. Some players come, some players go but in general we've got stronger. Not an overnight solution but he has never been given that sort of cash.

Are there weaknesses? yes such as the lack of creativity at times to break teams that defend deep but we are getting better as results show.

The reason that everyone asks for an alternative is EXPERIENCE of the last twenty years... Souness, Evans, Houllier ...they all came with big expectations... who is to say O' Neill or Rikard will be different to them. Klinsman... that who Gillete wanted... which doesn't exactly bode well over any replacement... and which top quality manager would want to work with Hicks and Gillette?

i would like to point out that spuds have spent far far more than we have done in the last few years yet look where they are!!

nope spuds have spent more and arsenal arent far off no matter what people think about wengers spending he has actually spent a lot of money

i do wonder where spuds get the money from though!

or the director's bonus