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Also, lets not forget that he wanted to sign David Villa and David Silva whilst they were still mostly unknown and much cheaper than what they were eventually sold for....and the list goes on, he discovered Xabi Alonso, he signed Mascherano, Lucas was unknown until he signed him, he brought Torres, and my favourite...LUIS GARCIA! What a player that lad was......

Rafa was very definitely one of the very top managers in the world between 2005 and 2009. However it remains to be seen if he still is as good a manager now as he was then. There is no guarantee that he is still as good and to be fair, despite whatever interference went on at Inter, he was not succesful there nor was his final season at Liverpool

But he 'was' successful at Inter. He won 2 cups in 4 months - how much more were you expecting him to win?. He wasn't given the chance to try and win the league as they sacked him in December when he was 8 points off the top....with 2 games in hand!! He won more at inter in 4 months than our last 3 managers have won since 2010 put together.

I wouldn't generally count competitions like the Super Cup or other glorified friendlies as a barometer of success unless a manager won the preceding competition to get into it.

He had an impossible task to follow Mourinho and he wasn't given the time to succeed at Inter. My point still stands though that he has not proven in recent years that he is still one of the very top managers in world football. He may very well be and I wouldn't be surprised but he has to do it again now.

christ let this be the end of the rafa threads.

cautious, lucky, robotic, huge ego, zonal marking, no clue about player fitness after paco left - everyone got injured-half the inter team was in treatment and he hired the two newcastle fittness coaches too.. won't last long at all in chelsea team, already both him and his deluded supporters have an arrray of excuses at the ready.

How? 2 months before Rafa was installed as Inter's manager Jose Mourinho had just won the Champions League, Italian cup and Serie À with an Inter side who looked unbeatable I remember there quarter (maybe semi) final against Barcelona that year they shut up shop and Barca didn't do anything at all. Come forward 5 months and theree 15th in Serie A, out of the Italian cup and out of the Champions League, who's fault was it then? [/quote]

Not to be picky, but they were through to the last 16 of the Champions League, I don't know why people keep saying he got them knocked out...

hard to say yes or no. i couldn't say never in his case but happy with who we have right now