fuv. This cun that is all imll
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
cinider thay updaye frm 9tpub
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yay
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
now he's talking in the third person
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
not a tez h8r but picking fights with moratti is making him look like a recidivist choad
chill big man, don't pick fights with bigger men
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, but he only needs to buy "4 or 5 good players" to make it right. Again.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 19 December 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
What's he gone and said now? Blaming it on the guy who's bankrolled five straight scudetti and the Champions League, does that really have the air of a successful strategy?
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/9302348.stm
"There are three possibilities for the club," the former Liverpool boss said in Abu Dhabi. "One, 100% support for the coach and buy four or five players to build a stronger team with competition among the players to be able to carry on winning matches and trophies."Two, carry on like this without a project, without planning, and go ahead with one person to blame, for the whole season."The third," he added, "is to speak to my agent to reach an agreement if there is not this support. Simple."
"Two, carry on like this without a project, without planning, and go ahead with one person to blame, for the whole season.
"The third," he added, "is to speak to my agent to reach an agreement if there is not this support. Simple."
I'm sure Ronan or Darragh will have the detail, but wasn't he only 4 or 5 players from winning the title right up until he left Liverpool?
But Inter's president Massimo Moratti told his coach: "It's not the moment to ask for reinforcements."
That'll be a no then.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
How is he meant to work there with a chairman like Moratti clearly undermining him and his abilities?
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, it's unbelievable, isn't it?
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
when he gets sacked from inter he'll have earned prob about 15 mil this past twelve months for refusing to do his job
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 December 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
treble winners + rafa + £100m transfer fund = might just about scrape a champions league place.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 19 December 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa omg.
this guy is a fucking loony bin.
like i just thought he was a bad manager before but this is shocking.
how the fuck can you take over a treble winning side only minus a balotelli (albeit with an added coutinho) and say there is no plan? HOW DO YOU THINK THEY WON THE FUCKING TREBLE?
This guy IS THE WORST FUCKING MANAGER.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 19 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, you might think that 'having a plan' would be the manager's job, at least on some level
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 19 December 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
this is really quite strange, or would be for any other manager. maybe he knows he is going to be fired but wants to make the best case possible, combining moratti's harsh words after the defeat to werder bremen with some supposed withholding of support to make it look like constructive dismissal.
there isn't really any way to cut it that doesn't make 'four or five players' sound ridiculous. certainly inter's squad is fairly old, and the injury to samuel shows that they could use a little cover, but the same applies to just about any team. he does however have coutinho and biabany -- surely preferable to balotelli in benitez eyes, can you imagine those two working together? adding several new players of similar quality would give inter a ridiculously top heavy squad.
still i find it interesting in the context of benitez' control freakery. mourinho is another who would like total control, and he overstepped the mark at chelsea when he thought he could leverage his personality cult among players & supporters against abramovich. but these days he seems basically aware of his own limitations, whereas benitez clearly asks for the impossible.
by contrast his inter team this year have sometimes been playing a chaotic free-flowing football that is quite unlike him. it's almost like he knew he had signed up for a suicide mission in taking over after mourinho's treble, and consequently has a sort of carefree lucidity. it's difficult to see how his career recovers now, but in his yearning TOTALCONTROL of all aspects of the team, individual psychologies entirely neglected and players treated as mere automata, he sat set a high water mark for determinist folly in football.
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
benitez_howling_at_the_cosmos.ogg
― WE HAVE A 15-YEAR-OLD ENROLLED, DON'T HAVE SEX WITH HER (acoleuthic), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder what odds you can get on rafa eventually becoming england manager
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
12/1
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
That has to happen, surely? Would be the best thing ever.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
thing is that my 'houllier is a better manager' line is being dismantled at villa
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
roy hodgson wants 5 or 6 new players in january.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yes but he took over a shit team and his first move was to sell his best player because the club was going broke
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
no no roy hodgson took over a team that had finished second only 18 months before iirc
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, clutching at straws maybe. point is, reckon it's fair enough to say they need more quality in the event of an injury crisis. maybe not the best timing. i am starting to enjoy some of the fury rafa brings about though.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ah yeah he burns off calories sure
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ps were you around for jol?
"injury crisis" inter in their last game:
Julio Cesar, Chivu (Stankovic 54), Maicon, Cordoba, Zanetti, Lucio, Motta (Mariga 87), Cambiasso, Eto'o, Milito (Biabiany 70), Pandev.Subs Not Used: Castellazzi, Sneijder, Muntari, Materazzi, Alibec, Benedetti, Santon, Nwankwo, Orlandoni.
Hmmmm must be so hard to start 11 internationals incl. eto'o, milito, lucio, cesar and maicon while having sneijder on the bench.
totes feel his pain, wouldn't swap not having cesc, vermaelan and rvp for only having to play your first team.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
just in case i'm not online when the inevitable happens
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:04 (4 weeks ago)
surprised it's taken this long already
moratti must be preparing some really long fuck you speech when he reads him the riot act
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
rafa confuses me. won la liga twice with valencia, but subsequently seems he's shite?
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
tactically he is brilliant, he just can't manage for shit
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf barca were combusting post-rivaldo/luis enrique and lol galacticos too busy being drunk and famous to be great
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
see i wasn't paying much attention to spain at the time. his signings are a good laugh generally.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
he had a p good director of football at valencia iirc
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Monday, 20 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"Benítez e' Fuori!" [Benítez is out] read the front page of this morning's Gazzetta dello Sport. The paper names Zenit St Petersburg manager Luciano Spalletti as favourite to replace Benítez, with former AC Milan manager Leonardo as an alternative.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 20 December 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"There are three possibilities for the club," said Benítez after the game. "One, 100 per cent support for the coach and buy four or five players to build a stronger team with competition among the players to be able to carry on winning matches and trophies.
"Two, carry on like this without a project, without planning, and go ahead with one person to blame, for the whole season. The third is to speak to my agent to reach an agreement if there is not this support. Simple."
Oh wow, just wow. If only he'd inherited a treble-winning squad or something, then he might not be in such a difficult position.
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 December 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish I could remember what game it was, but earlier in the season was the first time I'd seen Coutinho and Inter were something like 4-0 up and rampant (I don't think it was against Spurs but it could've been). Coutinho was fabulous, trying all sorts of audacious things and having great fun, until Rafa came charging out to the edge of the technical area and started directing the lad around. He didn't have a clue what he was supposed to do and eventually ended up static somewhere at left midfield. He kept looking round for guidance, getting none and then shuffling forward or sideways five or six yards as if hoping that would make everything make sense. It was kind of heartbreaking.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 December 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds exactly like the spurs game
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
when this happens can we lock thread and declare me winner of all long-running hotly contested ilx footy debates pls
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Monday, 20 December 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
If Rafa does leave Inter, there are suggestions that the Italians will target England boss Fabio Capello which has obviously resulted in the British media suggesting that Roy Hodgson would be favourite to replace him.KOPTALK sources claim that John Henry and Tom Werner have shortlisted Rafa as a possible candidate to take over from Hodgson - who will be replaced at the end of the season if not before - but we can't see that happening as things currently stand. Just because they haven't ruled him out (as yet) doesn't mean that they will seriously consider bringing him back.
KOPTALK sources claim that John Henry and Tom Werner have shortlisted Rafa as a possible candidate to take over from Hodgson - who will be replaced at the end of the season if not before - but we can't see that happening as things currently stand. Just because they haven't ruled him out (as yet) doesn't mean that they will seriously consider bringing him back.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Supposedly Rafa's daughter was reregistered at her old school on the Wirral a couple of weeks ago :/
― Stevie T, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
just you darragh? team game iirc
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
that would be beyond hilarious
its too much
Roy to Inter, Capello to Liverpool, Rafa to England.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Capello to Inter, Moyes to England, Rafa to Everton
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Rafa for England, Big Sam to Inter, that'd work too
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Capello to Blackburn would be ;_;
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
rafa to sheffield united
― caek, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
'arry to Engerland, Rafa to Spurs.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
rafa to newcastle, pardew to arsenal, wenger to barcelona
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
England opting for Hodgson over Redknapp has a ring of likelihood to it, especially given the first thing Hodgson would say upon getting the job would be "we have to be honest about the fact we are not one of the best teams in the world" which would be both true and A+++ trolling.
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 December 2010 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link