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  1. I believe that good news is not so far away so we need to keep the faith. Personally, I dont think that Benitez was starved of cash. True, we did sell players to raise capital but we have spent big in comparison to most PL outfits. We have to keep our feet on the gtround here. We have 2 poor owners that from what I hear, are not far off being history and the sooner the better. Our main problem is lifting players heads back up and instilling some self-belief and team spirit again, something that was clearly missed last year. Rafa did appear to have lost the players and once that happens then days are numbered. You could compare it to the owners losing the fans. Something always has to give. RBS will enforce a swift sale to the right custodian I feel, and I am sure we will have good news soon. LFC are on the up again now. Roy, please take us back to where we need to be.

  2. True that maybe I wrong in saying that he didn’t get the financial back but I do believe signings behind his back example Keane didn’t help him to be honest. I think the quality of players signed under Benitez tenure has been poor and his reluctance to change the system under which he played was a major part of his downfall. However if you compare him to other Liverpool managers he’s not down bad and in terms of money spent and generated he did well for the club.

  3. He should of been man enough to work alongside keane, why sell crouch? alonso? bellamy? warnock? benitez sucked the remaining passion out the players and he had to go. Roy will no doubt restore this passion!! owners are not staying no matter how hard they try because RBS wont allow it, The futures bright! The futures Liverpool at top again!!

  4. If Hodgson scrapes us into UEFA cup places he’ll be doing well, we mustn’t weigh him down with unrealistic expectations the way some people did with Rafa.

    It’s true that Rafa is one of our most successful managers despite having one hand tied behind his back, but Roy does not have the same pedigree. We must not turn on Roy just because we spend the next couple of seasons struggling to stay in the top 10.

    If you only have a top 10 budget you can only expect a top 10 finish, just because Rafa was clever enough to take us higher we shouldn’t burden Roy with the same expectation.

  5. Does anyone know what is going to happen to Reira and that junk of Lucas? Reira said that he wants to stay but i doubt Liverpool will accept his wishes after what he said last year. And for Lucas i think Liverpool are asking to much for that shit of a player. We should pay some to get rid of him more than asking money.

  6. Benitez is the best manager Liverpool have had for years. And I am afraid: the best manager the club will have for many, many years from now. You need to have a lot of british – or just Ferguson – arrogance to not understand this valuation. I saw
    Hodgson in Halmstad and in Malmoe and from my swedish point of view he is still that minor manager.

  7. I wouldn’t exactly call Malmo, Blackburn and Udinese ‘notable European sides’ as you put it. I dont think he is the right man, and while I support him I expect him to fail. Just like he did at Blackburn

  8. Arun, I think there are an awful lot of Liverpool fans (yourself included) who are kidding themselves that Roy Hodgson will play more attacking football. This seems to be based more in hope than in evidence.

    Hodgson has often been brought in to clubs that were in trouble (Blackburn, Viking, Fulham). In each case, he has organised them and stopped the rot. But he has done that by making his teams difficult to break down, not by playing attacking football.

    Take his last two jobs – with Finland and with Fulham. Finland drew five of their fourteen Euro 2008 qualification games 0-0. With Fulham, they scored 39 goals in each of his two seasons there. Their away record was appalling last season – one win all season and only 12 goals scored.

    Hodgson’s appointment doesn’t signal a return to glory. It’s all about the owners having a quieter life and it’s an admission that Liverpool are now fighting for Europa League places with Aston Villa, Everton and maybe teams like Sunderland and Birmingham, both of whom will outspend Liverpool over the next twelve months.

    I absolutely agree with Dan that British fans (and the media) have grossly underestimated how good a manager Rafa BenĂ­tez is, and how anyone can suggest that Hodgson is an improvement is beyond me.

  9. Rafa had to sell to buy players you know, it’s not that i don’t believe he made mistakes but which manager doesn’t. I think that his entire career shouldn’t be based on one bad season which wasn’t all down to him. In football you need a bit of luck to succeed! as for Hodgson at Blackburn they was already on a downward spiral.

  10. I say let’s judge the man at a later date instead of us getitng pessimistic. I know I would be happy to get players of the calibre of Ashley Young. RBS will be dealing with this- let’s make no mistrake about it.
    Now is not the time for doom and gloom. Change is happening at the club now and it will all be for the good of it.

  11. RH is a stooge put in place by the owners so they can run the club how they want. His records nothing to sing and dance about and i doubt we’ll see atacking football. He might be a nice guy but i predict no top 4 quality signings as there’s no money and RH isn’t interested in how much we have to spend he said that already. The only one left at the club who truely cared about the players and fans was sacked by Purslow while on holiday and the Liverpool way went with him.

  12. I think Rafa’s only problem was his stubborness in never changing his system and relying far too much on Torres. When he wasn’t playing we often didn’t look like scoring which is never a good sign.

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