I would love to know exactly how much Rafa has spent while he has been there. It said in the paper yesterday he has signed over 90 players. (It was The Mirror though).

And £36m received up front for next seasons sponsorship

Failure? one bad season in his whole reign makes him a failure?

You really think getting rid of him will change much?





You could bring Jose in and we still wouldn't make progress on the current top 4 under these owners we are just going to fall behind.

Can't believe people think we are going to bring someone new in the owners will give him money to splash and everything will be fine.

Truth is the club is debt ridden and its only going to get worse.

No, failure to win the Premier League despite stating it as your goal for the best part of a decade makes him a failure.

Lets face it, Rafa is a fraud. The Champions League win was a total fluke but the much more difficult challenge of winning the Premier League is way beyond him. Hundreds of millions of pounds spent on players whilst only selling one against his will can hardly be a source for sympathy for him.

have to agree there the owners have screwed liverpool up big time

You clueless gobe

Fluke


You must be a bluee supporter

I don't buy the owners are to blame for Liverpool. They sanctioned big tranfers this summer in Johnson and Aquilani. I suppose the old "net spend" argument that Liverpool fans are so obbsessed about will rear it's ugly head.

United's current form is not down to the owners, it's down to the management and the players. Scouse fans need to realise that it's the same scenario with their club. Liverpool have one of the most expensive squads in the premier league and are under peforming. If some fans want to bury their head in the sand and blame the owners, good luck to them.

Lets see if your still saying that when your in a battle to finish 3rd.

Oh aye, forgot about that.

Suppose I am being Naive when I see £38m being spent on 2 players - Johnson and Aquilani - and struggle to understand where the board is at fault. Did Benitez not want these players?

The real fun(not if you are a Lpool fan) will come in May with No champons league football 2010-2011 season. Then the vultures Man City/ Chelsea will be out to test the resolve of the owners on the sale of their prize assets. Gerard and torres.

It was the biggest fluke in history. Benitez is living off that win when its clear to everyone, bar the bin dippers that the guy is out of his depth in the premier league. Liverpool will be mid table fodder in a few years once Torres has left and Gerrard is too old.

Fella, Rafa is a world class manager, he has world class pedigree, he's won numerous honours and his record speaks for itself. There is no way that the man is out of his depth, if he was, then there are 16 other managers in the league who are out of their depth because he's easily in the top 4 managers in the league. We're having a bad season but that doesn't make a career.

Torres out for 6 weeks due to knee surgery.
Benayoun out for 4 weeks with fractured rib.
Gerrard out for 2 weeks with hamstring injury.

Im sure you don't really believe that.

As for Saddened. Honestly, stick to discussing the Xbox and the ice in Warrington, as you are so clearly out of your depth when it comes to footballing knowledge. Mascherano, a good squad player? That's why he'd walk into pretty much any team in world football. Glen Johnson a 2m player? Aquilani a 5m player? Oh dear oh dear, utterly clueless.

When fit and playing together, our first XI can compete with the majority of top sides in world football. It doesn't mean I think we're better, just that we are up there. Our squad depth is shocking, nobody will deny that, but just dismissing some absolutely fantastic players as poor and nothing players is pretty laughable, especially from a bluenose whose squad consists of poor, nothing players.

As for the board backing Rafa. I think our squad is the 5th most valuable in the league and I'm pretty sure we have the 5th highest wage bill. Unlike other clubs (United, Arsenal), we've not had the time to build from our academy, we've not had plenty of players through the academy like United have Giggs, Scholes, Neville, O'Shea, Fletcher and Evans, whereas we have Gerrard and Carragher. United have been able to spend big on players as squad players, as they've had plenty of places taken up by academy produced players, we're having to sign more players which means we're buying quantity not quality. It doesn't mean Rafa's transfer record is good, it's poor in many aspects but he has made some fantastic buys and missed out on some fantastic players to no fault of his own.

How dare you talk sense. Rafe decided that to turn a team that finished 2nd into title contenders that they should spend a whopping £18m on a right back. It's not his fault though.



In his defence, he has managed to turn a one man team into a two man team during his reign.

I'm amazed Rafa is still in his job. Think I saw that Liverpool have lost 10 of their last 20 with 6 wins and 4 draws which is embarrassing for a team looking to challenge for the title.

On his transfer record I agree he paid too much for Johnson who i personally had valued at around £7-8mil not the astronomical sum Liverpool parted with for him. Rafa does like to accumulate average as can be seen by the current Liverpool squad, which is going to continue to struggle with Gerrard, Torres and Benayoun out while Carragher is looking like he is past it.

Only thing is who do Liverpool get to replace him? They need to finish in the top 4, looking less likely by the week, to be able to give any manager some money in the summer so do they stand behind Rafa or do they get rid and stump up some cash and go for broke on getting 4th this year? Gunna be interesting viewing whatever the outcome.

Rafa should try and tempt Van Nistelrooy to come until the end of the season. He'll cost next to nothing and is a proven goalscorer.

Ruud was quoted the other week that he'd never play for Liverpool because of his time at Manchester united

I've seen that you're linked with him, then I saw that he's wanting £85,000 a week to come back to England, so presumed that you wouldn't be signing him.

Sky Bet are offering 4/1 (from 6/1) for Benitez to leave Liverpool before the weekend.

Must just be lucky in the Champions League then with the other final and the semi's he got to.

To be honest I couldn't give a flying fcccuk what anyone other fans think.

Chelsea and City will be the new top 2 get use to it.

We all know Sky bet should be taken seriously after they stopped taking bets last year on Benitez still staying here. We should've signed Franck Ribery as well by now.