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I cant help but like benitez, i know he is cryptic and stubbon but he loved the fans, the club and the city the whole time he was here. Yes he did make some bad transfer signings but also some very good ones that may not have worked in the team but we didnt make a loss on eg. crouch, bellamy. You look at Fergie and if benitez had of bought the likes of anderson £18 mil, hargreaves 18 mil, veron, all them awful goalkeepers you forget, the large number of youger players he buys that dont succeed but go not noticed because he does buy a lot of players. Kleberson eg.

Every manager has his ups and downs, but as much as i respect rafa for what he did, he should just shut up and just oncentrate on his job at inter instead of having a jibe at Hodgson.

Who started the whole thing?

Your embarrassing the fans mate and this site!

I would rather Rafa ignored Hodgeson TBH.

They are nowhere near in the same league when it comes to management. Rafa has won League titles in the top leagues , Uefa Cups, Champions league, Fa Cups etc etc while Woy has achieved nowhere near that despite being 13 years older.

Its a fight that doesnt need to be had as Rafas record shows that Woy is nowhere near him when it comes to management.

Roy is someone that thrives on Lowering expectations and threats mediocrity as success Rafa would have being better served just ignoring him.

Pity it was as easy for us Liverpool fans who have to put up with his negative nelly tactics and deluded press conferences every week.

Winning the Champions' League embarrassed the club, did it? Reaching a second CL final embarrassed the club, did it? Winning the FA Cup embarrassed the club, did it? Winning four trophies in 6 seasons embarrassed the club, did it? Coming within a hair's breadth of the Premiership title embarrassed the club, did it? Turning Torres, Mascherano, Alonso, Gerrard, Carragher, and Reina into the players they have been for the last few seasons embarrassed the club, did it? Establishing the academy (and getting Kenny Dalglish involved) so that it could produce players like Kelly, Pacheco, and Amoo, and attract budding stars like Suso embarrassed the club, did it? Over six seasons, Rafa did a great deal to enhance the reputation of LFC, thank you very much!

A touch of reality in your opinion, if you please!

He certainly has not embarrassed the club more than his successor though, who I'll remind you is the one who started down this mudslinging path. Benitez is not the kind of person to back down from a fight, so once Roy threw the first punch it's not surprising the riposte contained greater venom. Roy doesn't have a leg to stand on, mate, and the one concentrating on events on the pitch should be him. If Roy wants to be the better man he needs to start behaving like it.

Rafa was just defending himself and rightly so, hodgson annoys me more and more everyday, hodgson is not even in the same class as benitez, he has no right to criticize him, all he's won are some mickey mouse leagues

Exactly.

Roy should of kept his mouth shut, there was no need to start talking about rafa and especially bringing kenny into it. From what I've read on other sites, and seen on Paul dalglish twitter is a lie what Roy has said. Kenny respected rafa anf couldn't thank him enough for getting him back into the club. And If some old c"nt was slagging me off and didn't have a clue what was going on I would of defended meself.

Rafa had every right to, and I'm glad he added "every press conferance is worse than the last one".

Roy should shut up now, like rafa said and concentrate on his players instead of slagging off

True but it was obvious that every anti-benitez hack would use Rafas comments as a stick to beat him with again while ignoring simple negitive Nelly Roys part in it all.

Rafa should have just ignored him as Hodgeson is deluded and doesn't know what he is talking about anyway.

People always describe hodgson as a nice guy and he might be but he is also a arrogant deluded fool, he isn't respected by anyone of any note except his bum-chum fergie can't wait to get rid of him before he really messes us up by losing agger, pacheco soon followed by reina and torres and beyond that suso and sterling we have to rid our club of this fool.

rafa made mistakes but with the conditions he worked in no one could have done better