KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Yossi attacks Rafa and explains why he left

I think most intelligent liverpool fans knew this sort of thing was happening in the club.

Rafa may have been a shrewd tactician (in europe anyway) but his man management was awful. Its no surprise that morale and spirit was so low

Liverpool midfielder Yossi Benayoun has signed a contract extension that will keep him at Anfield until 2013.

The 29-year-old Israel international, who had two years remaining on his current deal, has been handed an additional two-year stay.

Benayoun moved to Merseyside from West Ham in July 2007 and made 42 appearances last season, scoring nine goals.

He said: "I am very happy that we have reached an agreement. Of course, to be at a club like this is a dream come true and I want to keep playing here.

"Hopefully now I can concentrate on the hard work that needs to be done and try to play better and better and win some silverware."

Benayoun becomes the fifth member of Rafa Benitez's squad to pledge his long-term future to the club following Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Daniel Agger and Dirk Kuyt.

Benitez said: "You know that our idea was to extend the contracts of some players and Yossi was one of these players.

"He has been really good for us over the last year, scoring crucial goals and getting assists, so we wanted to keep him and I'm really pleased with the extension."

So rafa rewards him with a new contract which he was happy to sign,and sings his praises and then gets treated with trash like this...F*ck off yossi you ugly BEAUT!

Don't really like it when players bad mouth people when they have left a club although it is an attack on Rafa, not LFC.

One thing though. Rafa signed him and gave him his opportunity to play at a big big club. I don't remember if any of the other big clubs wanted him at the time but I think he has something to thank Rafa for.

Having checked out that link, I hope it's true about El Zhar. He, like a few more, has to go!

I hope Insua goes too, unless he improves massively. His positioning, awareness and lack of pace last season were way below the standards we need.

It takes two to tango as they say but the more you think of Rafa's man management with players and his dealings with the current and past regimes, he does seem the common link when it comes to unrest. Fallings out with Parry, Hicks, Gillett, Purslow, Heighway, Alonso, Riera and Yossi - are they all wrong?

rafa is about as sutle as a bull in a china shop and as no man managing skills what so ever but he could attract quality players even though he signed a lot of sh1t lets just hope hodgeson can attract top footballers.the problem that i fear is the players where being linked with are lower level prem footballers which worries me as there the type of players roy as always dealt with.

i have, its been a while plus my memory isnt that great but one autobiography that i have reed and can remember is robbie fowlers, have you reed it? in that it shows what a control freak he was.

It's safe to say all is not well at Anfield. Maybe We have been focusing on the owners situation to see what was going on. I liked Rafa, But to be honest the football was bad, defensive and everybody (no matter how staunch a Rafa man you are) shook there heads at some of the substitutions. It's making more sense now that Roy has come in. The team needs a man manager at the min

Just another reason of why it was the right decision to part company with that monster Benitez, only bad thing about it is that it should of been done much much sooner.

the worst part is we have lost 2 quality players in yossi an alonso due to rafa being a 1st class w4nker