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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 19, 2008 11:17:05 GMT
If they get beat tonight will he be sacked? What do you reckon?
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Post by knowles on Feb 19, 2008 11:20:09 GMT
His time must nearly be up
I can see them winning about 3-1 tonight though. It would be typical of them, and then lose in the league at the weekend
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Post by smithsplastercast on Feb 19, 2008 11:28:53 GMT
Must be on borrowed time. That result at the weekend and the position they are in, league wise, coupled with his relationship with the owners means he will be gone.
Martin O'Neill been linked with job i see today!!
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Post by Maccca100 on Feb 19, 2008 11:30:25 GMT
NO
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Post by albanianstokie on Feb 19, 2008 11:58:20 GMT
Not now, he'll defo go at the end of the season though if he doesn't win the champions league I think.
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 19, 2008 12:02:38 GMT
I know what you mean. Liverpool do this European thing very well. But Benitez methods just work in Europe better than the Premier League.
O'Neill would be ideal for Liverpool.
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Post by u2oxeterstokie on Feb 19, 2008 12:27:39 GMT
He should have got the bullet just before Christmas!
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 19, 2008 12:28:57 GMT
The supporters demonising the board and constant support of Benitez looks rather flawed.
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Post by mumf14 on Feb 19, 2008 12:33:03 GMT
A little bird told me that Liverpool have debts of £350 million by way of loans.Interest payments are in excess of £30 million and without Champions league success they would be at least £15million pounds short of of repaying their loans to the Royal Bank Of Scotland and American bank Wachovia.
Negotiations between DIC and the American pair are so well advanced that the only issue is over the precise price value of Liverpool.
DIC might be willing to splash out close to £450 million to acquire the club thus making Hicks and Gillett a profit of £100 million.
Sheik Maktoum and DIC head (no pun intended) Sameer Al Ansari have been approached by intermediaries and they have both said that they are both buying Liverpool.
Benitez future lies in how quicly the deal can now be done.
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Post by madeleyite on Feb 19, 2008 13:07:21 GMT
Luckily TP's not doing well enough to be linked with a job that big - I can see it now, Work aarder Geraaard!
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Post by Jimbo on Feb 19, 2008 13:28:42 GMT
O'Neill is a good call.
Liverpool are a strange club really. Massive fan base and make loads from sponsorship and merchandise. Plus they have quality in Carragher and Gerrard. But they always seem to go out and spend big money on overpriced and average players. For such a big club it does surprise me.
The media are often quick to point to 'Rafa's rotation', but other managers do it too, especially Fergie these days. Yet the difference is they have quality players to bring in, and match-winners all over the field.
I don't think Rafa will go any time soon, but he's almost certain to be off at the end of the season. It's partly his own doing, as by falling out with the owners he's been on borrowed time for the rest of the season.
There's no one who could come in at this stage of the season and they'd certainly miss out on fourth place.
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Post by POS51 on Feb 19, 2008 13:31:45 GMT
My cousins a 'glory huntning' Liverpool fan. 'Rafa was a 'tactical genius' only 2 weeks ago. Now he should be sacked because he 'aint got a clue' people think us Stoke fans are fickle.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Feb 19, 2008 13:34:02 GMT
It's almost entirely Rafa's fault. I don't understand why the American owners are the ones copping (no pun intended) the wrath of the Liverpool fans.
Rafa was the one who started the spat with the owners by blasting them in public over not giving him enough in the transfer market after he'd gone out and spunked £70 odd million in the transfer market in the summer.
Rafa's rotation policy clearly doesn't work, yet he persists with it.
Many of the players he's brought in simply aren't good enough, and many of the ones who are (Babel, Crouch, Alonso) aren't getting anywhere near the amount of time on the pitch they warrant.
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Feb 19, 2008 13:36:31 GMT
Many managers use the rotation system but where Ferguson and Wenger are better managers are that they know their best team.
If ManUre or The Arse were to play a Champions League final tomorrow, both managers could tell you right now what team they'd play. Benitez wouldn't have a clue.
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Post by Jimbo on Feb 19, 2008 13:40:10 GMT
Exactly Robbie D!
But the transfer policy of going out and buying lots of average players was the same under Houllier too.
You can't challenge for the league when you're rotating the likes of Voronin, Benayoun, Kuyt et al.
They have the resources and reputation up there to bring in top players, yet with the exception of the excellent Torres, continually go out and buy mid-table players for £7-10m.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Feb 19, 2008 13:41:07 GMT
Exactly Jim. He's the Spanish Houllier, only with a flukey European Cup to his name.
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 19, 2008 20:15:06 GMT
Well lucks on Rafas side so far. No way was that a red card for Materazzi.
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Post by boothenendboy on Feb 19, 2008 20:19:04 GMT
cheating torress,he needs to wash his hair.
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 19, 2008 20:22:20 GMT
I missed the first ten minutes due to oversleeping. It doesn't seem I missed much if the rest is anything to go by.
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Post by Olgrligm on Feb 19, 2008 20:40:45 GMT
I saw Matterazzi get booked for..well, for being within 10 yards of Torres when he fell over. What happened that he got sent off?
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Post by Northy on Feb 20, 2008 8:18:53 GMT
My LFC supporting mates all say it's time for Tinkering rafa to leave, definetly at the end of the season
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Post by soicowboy on Feb 20, 2008 9:40:25 GMT
Did superbly well to get Liverpool to the final last year but thought was there for the taking-went behind to a soft goal so he did what- brings on Harry Kewell ???
Bolloxed that game up big time I thought
Agree re O'Neill
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