Keep up the Faith

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We need to address the problem which certainly isn’t the manager who has been trying his best in virtually impossible circumstances. The atmosphere and mood at the club changed in the summer when halfway through the window after promising key players that the team would be invested in the rug was pulled and we ended up losing Alonso and buying shite like Kyriagkos.

Have a look at the managers record pre the Yanks if you want to see where the problem is.

So let’s see Rafa won the Champions league and lost in the Carling cup Final in extra time in his first season.

In his second season we won the Community shield, The European super cup and the Fa Cup.

In his third season we were on the way to Athens for a second Champions league final in three seasons.

Up until then commercially the club may not of been run properly but we had a single owner with Liverpool’s best interests at heart. We had stability in the boardroom and a clear chain of command and most importantly everything stayed in house.

Since the Yanks have taken over the club has been a Circus with the manager seeing the owners a couple of times a year having to speak to them individually in transatlantic phone calls or worse still having to go through Parry. There has been no clear chain of command with the owners not talking to each other or one not talking to Parry and one not talking to Rafa.

The club has been an absolute shambles with basically no organization and things that should of stayed private splashed across the tabloids.
Every season when we have got in a good position the Yanks have opened their big mouths and things have gone tits up.

Two seasons ago we lost three League games all season, we were right in the mix at the top of the table when the ridiculous Klinnsman situation hit the papers and we lost two Legue games in a week in the aftermath.

Last season we were top of the table approaching Xmas and Hicks who wasn’t talking to Gillet at the the time tried to get the fans onside and went public offering Rafa a new contract through the press. What ensued was a behind the scenes power struggle between the Gillet and Parry camp and the Hicks Rafa camp on the other side.

Instead of concentrating on winning football matches and winning our first title in two decades the club was torn apart from within. People talk about the Rafa rant being the turning point last season if you watch the press conference again Rafa was asked one question before he ripped into Mr Alex Ferguson and guess what the question was.

That’s right Rafa was asked about his contract something that never should of been brought up during a season and certainly not just before Xmas games, probably the most crucial part of the season.

Already this season we have had Gillet sticking the knife into Rafa and the two of them coming out with complete bollocks about how much they have invested in the squad and that we have spent more than City.

Anyone with half a brain can see that the problem at Liverpool is Hicks and Gillet and not Rafa, we were doing really well and winning plenty of trophies until the pair of free loaders turned up and destroyed the club. Successfull clubs are stable clubs you only have to look down the road at United.

Since United won their first title United have had two unsuccessful periods one when Mr Alex Ferguson announced he was going to retire and the other when the Glazer versus the Irish mafia takover was happening. United went three seasons on the run without challenging for the title and won a single Cup competition.

If Mr Alex Ferguson with all the advantages he has over Rafa wasn’t successful when United were in turmoil behind the scenes how can we expect Rafa with a much smaller budget and a far worse situation behind the scenes to be successful now.

IF we get rid of Rafa now all we will do is let the Yanks off Scot free, we will end up with a Leeds or Newcastle situation were when things get tough the board blame the manager and sack him and then gain some respite. The problem at Liverpool like it was at Leeds and Newcastle is not the manager it is the Board.

Sacking the manager will be like sticking a plaster on a patient that has cancer. We need to root out the cancer that is Hicks and Gillet before they it is too late.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: “Always support the team, no matter how bad they are playing.
If the team is doing badly, cheer even louder as they need your support more.”

(SOURCE:RAWK)

10 Comments

  1. Great piece! We need to address the problem that is H&G. I never thought I would say this, but I miss David Moores.

    YNWA

  2. I agree about the shambles of the finances, the aweful ownership of the club. But that was almost our first team yesterday, a squad which Rafa has bought, spend plenty on money on. And yet could manage ONE shot in the whole second half against a less than gritty Arsenal team.

    Two holding players in a must win game at Anfield? How can anyone with players such as Torres and Gerrard produce such a display lacking in any sort of creativity as that shown yesterday?

  3. Top post. Too bad most of our fans forget things like this following a bad result and need to be reminded every other time. Right now our club needs to show UNITY, from the board and most importantly the fans. Sometimes can’t believe how quiet it gets at anfield. It’s very disheartening. But we’ll get through this.

  4. Even if Rafa were the problem, G&H aren’t going to pay to sack him. If it’s the budget, they aren’t going to increase it. We need them out waaay before we do anything with managers.

  5. Yesterday really was a game of two halves. I thought the first 45mins was one of the best the team has put together; however, the second was probably one of the worst.

    Having taken the lead, surely the mentality should have been, same as the first – chase down everything and don’t let Arsenal settle on the ball.

    Also, surely the time to bring on Alberto was after they equalised – Rafa always waits too long in my opinion. We needed an immediate response. Giving Alberto 20 odd mins is simply not enough. Does anyone know what he can do?

    The whole team and Manager need to wake up and start playing with real urgency, because if they don’t then LFC is in real danger of missing the CL next season.

  6. Completely agree Minnie.

    I would have thought Aquilani needs games to get match fit. More time against a Arsenal team that are not exactly going to clatter him would have been ideal.

  7. anyone else noticed how anfield is eerily quiet after we go ahead? When a team is struggling, the fans should be there to help haul the team up. When we’re ahead, the stadium should be still buzzing. When we’re behind, the stadium should make Old Trafford look like Spotland. When the match is over, the fans should go home hoarse.
    If we can back the players like a champions league night on Wednesday, we can help instill morale and confidence in the squad.
    Benítez loves this club. He signed for the club, for the FANS, ignoring the working conditions under the fatcats. These are the same FANS that want him gone, who has brought them further than they could have dreamed of in 2003/2004. People say he has bought badly. I would say some of his signings has been dodgy. Voronin doesn’t count (free transfer), degen looks a good back-up when he’s fit. BUT, take a look at the team in 2005 CL final and the team for last night’s match and on paper, tell me which is the better team. Thought so…

    Y.N.W.A IN RAFA WE TRUST

  8. Another pointless apologist post making excuses for Rafa and trying to pin the blame on the owners.
    First of all, Rafa won the Champion’s League with Houllier’s Liverpool team. He has since dismantled that team – save for Stevie and Carra – and has since been unable to get past the Semi-finals. So don’t give me that.

    Secondly, the owners notwithstanding, Rafa has HAD money to spend. he has been given more transfer funds than most other clubs and by and large he has gotten most of the players he wanted on the market. It just happens that most of those players have been crap. Torres didn’t cost nothing, neither did Keane, neither did Johnson, neither did Aquiliani. All those funds came from the owners. So don’t give me the owners are ruining this club because they have provided the fund when needed as far as was possible.

    Thirdly, the owners are not the ones that decide who plays ont eh pitch – Rafa does. The owners are not the ones who decide to play with 2 holding mid-fielders at home and playing negative football instead of attacking – Rafa does. The owners are not the ones who decide to play sub-standard or out-of-form players week-in and week-out regardless of whether or not they are playing well ( I’m looking right at Kuyt, Lucas, and Insua) , while leaving the club’s 20million investment decaying on the bench long after he’s been declared fit by the team’s medical staff and his own father who’s a professional physiotherapist – again: Rafa is the one that makes those decisions.

    So don’t give me this nonsense about the owners this and the owners that – that’s absolute b0ll0cks! Plain and simple. Stop making excuses for Rafa – you’re not helping the team one bit by doing this. It’s friggin’ ridiculous.
    I mean, come one.

  9. I agree Teddy. The owners have nothing to do with that performance of tactics on Sunday. Even if the owners had further millions to spend on the squad, not sure Rafa is the man to do it with his buyng in bulk hit and miss transfer policy.

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