I received this email from Bilal Muambi, he is an LFC Supporter who currently resides in Perth, Australia.
They say Rafa Benitez will keep his job because, just like my missus, it’s too expensive to get rid of him. But does his job deserve to be in jeopardy on the back of one bad season?
Let’s imagine Fergie failed to qualify for the knock-out stage of the Champions League, was eliminated in bleak midwinter in the FA Cup, and watched his side limp home, say, eight points behind the title winners. Would he be under threat then? Those who say ‘yes’ should cast their mind back to the 2004-05 season because that’s precisely what happened.
Nor was that an isolated dreadful season for Manchester United. Three years earlier they’d finished third, behind Liverpool, lost in the fourth round of the FA Cup to Boro, waved goodbye to the League Cup after a 4-0 thrashing by Arsenal, and, best of all, had been dumped out of Europe by Bayer Leverkusen.
Does anyone seriously believe United would have been better off today had they sacked Fergie after those two joke seasons – well, anyone apart from me? No United stuck by him and look what happened – they wasted £16million on Nani, £15million on Hargreaves, £19m on Carrick and, best of all, £32million on Berbatov.
Nice one Antione. Much better defensive display today just one slip up cost us dearly. Great to have Masch back and lots of positives to come out of the game.
Too many idiot sheep shouting for Rafa’s head instead of getting behind the lads on the park. What a waste of time and energy these people are. I do wish they would go and find another club as they simply are not supporters if they dont support.
Yet another ref offering no protection to our players and turning a blind eye to sly digs and late follow throughs/tackles by the opposition.
I feel really positive about the spurs game having seen todays performance.
Keep the faith,
Stan
Superb Antoine!!!
This is all quite true, the problem Rafa has is that he does not have the media support that Farguson has…..I for one am sick to death of those idoits jumping on the band wagon and kicking Rafa while we are not doing well. When we start playing well again, it’ll be,’well that’s what we expect’ not that Rafa has turned it round……
u 4get 1 thing mate fergie has won the prem several times we aint fact
rafa has to go
Antonie didn’t write that ps, but thank him for fowarding it to us!
Rafa must not go, as a previour post said, it would cost too much to fire him and to getva new manager who is willing to come with such penny pinching owners and a recent lack in wins, motto mention the change that would bring getting used to and learning new ways… Rafa must stay for a cry minimum till the end of this season..
I do not want to see him leave. I want to see that prince buy our team, or have the fans have shares, then buy some good local talent to blend with ours, and the the end of the storm will be long gone…
YNWA
Rafa got the tactics right (considering the current situation with injuries), then stoke get an undeserved equaliser, yet thats rafas fault? if “fans” have nothing to say except sack rafa, then just shut up, we need supporters at this time. He wont be sacked, not during this season anyway, so just get behind him and the team, and we might just see some better performances.
And fergie did have two bad seasons, but he was rightly kept on, because the board and fans rightly had faith he could turn it around, and we should have that faith in rafa, its only 6 months since he gave us our best league season in history, but unfortunately for lfc fergie also had a good season.
You are jokin, right? How many home titles have won Fergie before failed 2002 season? and how many titles Rafa have won? Fergie is an epic man for mancs, which for us Rafa is defenetly not.
Remember that it took Fergie 5 years to win his first trophy with United.
It took Rafa one season to bring home the biggest one of them all.
fergie won 18 tittles for utd and rafa?
so 1-2 years in between was nothing for fergie cuz he was winning tittles and rafa won 0 tittles in past 5-6 years.
so there’s no point to compare them.
sack rafa.
Fergie Did not Win 18 titles?????
ROFL! get your facts right please.
That Was Superb!
Cheered Me Up Abit!
Give Rafa A Chance.
He Has So Many Injuries To Deal With And The Owners Are No Help!
Rafa does not have the tactics right. Sure, his injury list is horrific, but leaving Riera on the bench and Babel out altogether (I know their form hasn’t been great to say the least) and putting fullbacks out on both wings was a horrible idea. He should have subbed in Aquilani and Maxi sooner as well. In addition, the 4-2-3-1 formation usually played sucks, because it revolves all around Torres and Gerrard, and puts Kuyt out on the wing. Further, I think that Keane would have worked out had he actually be used as a striker instead of a winger. A 4-4-2 or 4-1-2-1-2 would have worked out much better given the players rafa has or had at his disposal.
Granted, if we had been given that penalty or if Kuyt’s last shot had gone in, we probably wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Brian I wish you would read Ryan’s rant, his heart and mind are not at Liverpool.
Rafa was right in leaving him behind.
Well, I didnt see what new managers will bring to Liverpool that Rafa will not.
Antoine: I’ve seen parts of it. Maybe Rafa was right leaving him out, but leaving Riera on the bench was not a great decision. His rant happened after he was left out, correct?
That is correct Brian but Ryan had a good opportunity on Wednesday to prove his worth and did not.
Riera is coming back from an injury and quite honestly he has not been that great this season.
ok you want to say that that we should look up at that ONE BIG trophy from 2005 and just because of that give chance to rafa to do this with club?
wtf are you waiting,to get relegated or what, hello we were just beaten by club from championship, we are out of CL, carling cup, FA cup, we are far from 4th place and like this we wont even get there and what maybe we can win europe league, that sounds more like a joke.
Fergie needed 5 years and how many rafa will need to win premier league 20? give me a break,if he got lucky for one night in CL that doesnt mean that he can win premier league like that.
no1 wanted to sack fergie for 1 bad season cuz he won 15 league tittles and + fa/carling cups.
and rafa in these 6 years won how many? i can count on one hand i think.
He should have left Ngog out today as for 86 minutes we played with only 10 men. If kuyt had played up front or even pecheco we’d have walked it!!!!
Your missus is too expensive to get rid of?
I wanted Babel to put a string of good performances together, but after seeing his rant, I wish we’d get rid of him. Won’t stick his foot in cos he might get injured? Someone wrap him in bubble-wrap. Could even call it Babel-Wrap. ha
Lucas has his heart in the club. He’s taken an almighty amount of stick, mostly unfair. He works his bollocks off. He may not have quality, but he does his job. I’d rather have someone who’d run himself ragged for the club rather than a player who doesn’t want to put a foot in. Played well against Stoke too.
Come on, Rafa got us to 2nd place last season and if not for some lousy luck the title would’ve been ours. And if Fergie really is that much better than Rafa, he would’ve found a way to get his Mancs round all those defeats they suffered against us Reds.
Money wasted on Carrick?
He’s been there 3 whole seasons and won 3 premiership medals, which btw is 3 more than the whole Liverpool team combined.
He also has a Champions League winners medal, and a League Cup winners medal.