KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Rafa has a point about the finances but..........?

He's also wasted a fair bit on players that havnt worked out or fallen out of favour. In all i dont think he's bought too well and his next signings need to be spot on whatever the money situation is next season.If he's still there that is lol.

This is all silly! Yes he has had some bad buys but he has also had some wonderful buys! Lets not keep harping on this. All managers have bad signings.

could it be down to the scouting department maybe?? im not saying rafa is great in the transfer market but the scouting department are the ones identifying the players and saying they are good enough once rafa asks about them.

over the years some of the players rafa has wanted are great players, villa, ribery, robben, aimar etc but we havnt got them for one reason or another, mainly due to rick parry, meaning rafa has had to spend over the odds to bring in 2nd or 3rd choice players in an emergency.

like i said, im not saying rafa is a god in the transfer market, but he does have to put up with a lot of [oops]@ and all is not quite as clear as it appears and all is not rafas fault

It is a fair point and argument by Rafa and in all honesty it's the truth for me....it also backs up a reason why Mourinho won't join Liverpool with the current owners and / or no investment-funds being made available for new players. I agree a new manager can motivate the players but only so much. We know Stevie has a pain in his arse, probably more so with Rafa, but Torres has already commented that we need investment and new players. If no funds are made available, we still have the same problem regardless of who is in charge.

another thread in the forums "if you had 100million for the summer" a lot of people here posted their wish list, yes it could still happen - but what if Rafa bought your wish list players if that money was available for him.

With all the ranting and raving from you lot about Rafa, he could still be here come next season.

good comment redryan....didn't rafa only take over all transfer dealings since last year?

It's your fault Emp!

plz stop this defending of genius rafa and his crap signings....we cant afford to waste money like this season after season.enuff said

Keane wasn't he first choice signing it was Barry, but Parry went ahead and brought Keane, he said he only wanted Keane if he could have Barry as well as he had a different system in mind. Parry went ahead and brought Keane and told Rafa he would have to sell to fund the Barry move.

In short Alonso could still be with us now if Rafa had been in charge of Transfer dealings then.

He has made some strange choices don't get me wrong, but I think a lot of the stick is unfair there have been countless first choice signings over the years that he couldn't have and had to make do with alternatives which were no where near the same level.

there has also been many targets presented by Rafa which Parry & Co differed over and allowed other clubs to come in and sign, Vidic and Evra are perfect examples.

no mujtaba and emp! some comments here against Rafa, fair enough, I agree some are valid, but if you think that getting rid of Rafa will solve our problems then you must be very naive and narrow minded to think that.

getting rid of Rafa can help in some way but it certainly won't fix our biggest problems - ie lack of funds this season - ie lack of investment from the owners.

clean slate lads....owners, rafa, and dead wood. If one of these are still in the frame at the start of next season then we'll still have the same problems.

i think Kean maye have done better if we had have signed barry as well but what i want to know is where his assumption that Barry is better than Xabi came from??! Im not slaggin off GB i think hes a good player and would have been pleased if we had signed him but not at the expense of losing Xabi.
The few good players he signed... half of them have been sold!!