KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum List of possible Rafa replacements!

These are some names of managers ive put together!

Leo Beenhakker
Marco van Basten
Slaven Bilić
Raymond Domenech
Joachim Löw
Dick Advocaat
Giovanni Trapattoni
Frank Rijkaard

He's not going anywhere. Too stuborn to walk and too expensive to sack.

I would rather have Mark Hughes come than any of them to be honest!

I dont think Rafa will be going anywhere, He has been very cabnny really. Fan pressure on the owners led them to give Rafa an extension on his contract and full power over practically everything that goes on at Liverpool Football club. The owners were trying to do a pr masterpiece by agreeing to all that thinking it would change our perception of them - failed miserably in that but gave Rafa a lot of power.

We now just cant afford to sack him and his team - it would cost millions, and we dont have that amount of cash to splash about. No wonder Putslow says so categorically that Rafa is not going to be sacked - he knows the state of the piggy bank.

If miraculously we were able to find the cash to sack him, then it would have to be Huddink, Mourinhio (dont like him but he does have the ability to instill confidence and belief in the players), or even MArtin O'Neill who is used to working on a restricted budget and is showing himself to be quite savvy as a Prem manager

Well I certainly think that the players have lost faith and trust in him. Just how significant that is though is debatable.

Would Gerrard and Carra tell Purslow how the players feel or just keep their heads down and wait for something to happen? Would Purslow tell the owners that they need to take some action?

There is a power vacuum at the club - absent owners who hardly talk to each other, a fairly new CEO who is trying to keep everyone on an even keep and a manager who controls nearly everything and has a long contract.

The only thing I wonder is if the sacking of Mark Hughes might just make the owners think that if they are sacking him, it might be the right time to have a word with Rafa too. The problem of finding the money to pay him off though remains.

I suppose the easiest way is to forget about any possible transfer deals and sell off some of the lesser names in the squad and who spend their time in the reserves and use that cash to pay off Rafa, because we certainly cannot afford the consequences of selling any of the major players

We are stuffed at the moment thats for sure.

Ok that was just a list of a names! More a topic for debate on the list of names.

Leo Beenhakker is a Dutch manager has coached Real madrid,Ajax,Feyenoord and numerous other teams.Was technical Director at Ajax for a couple of years and his now Technical director at Feyenoord.

By the way Van bastens record is'nt that Crap. His managed the Dutch National team and Ajax. Total of 85 games 55 wins 15 draws and 14 loses.

Joachim Löw is the Current German national coach. He took over from Klinsman. Managed Germany in Euro 2008 were they lost in the final to Spain.



45 games in charge of the Germany National team with 31 wins and 8 draws.

All this talk of the players want the manager sacked blah blah blah. Its the bloody players fault, the manager doesnt get on the field, the players need to forget all the behind the scenes crap and get on the field and do what there paid millions to do and stop blaming people for there pathetic performances!!! its like what our manager says to us , " i can only do so much lads, u have to go out there and perform" rafa can only do so much, the players need to stop [oops] bitching and start performing. And all u forum nerds need to start blaming the players more so then rafa too because hes a proven top class manager , its the players underperforming!!

I think thats too simplistic a view. It has been shown time after time what a difference a change in manager can have on players who are underperforming. If the players, for whatever reason, have lost faith in a Manager, then saying "get out there and perform" wont make a bit of difference. They ARE going out there week in and week out, maybe questioning the managers team choices, mulling over things said in training, wondering if the Manager is going to make a strange substitution. Maybe they dont believe the formation of the team is working and are concerned that it never gets changed.

There are loads of reasons why players stop playing well.

It doesnt matter how much they are paid either because that doesnt automatically give them confidence or belief in what is going on at the club.

so its not one bit the players fault that they are playing like feeble amateurs? u are kidding me

Yes,I agree that the player's have got to be held accountable too.Because they have certainly under performed this season,well most of them,anyway.But it's the manager who choose's the tactic's & pick's the player's.Rafa's tactic's are so negative,it's painful to watch.That midfield yesterdasy was appallingly bad.Maybe mash getting sent off is a blessing in disguise,because for 3 games it breaks up that terrible midfield pairing of mash & lucas.Although I would prefer mash to lucas,it might force rafa to pick a more positive line up.