Rafa Benitez, Football Manager

chris man, i cant do this with you again dude it's too real for both of us :)

Would you want rafa back at lfc now?

i have come around to rafa being the best england manager ever:

i. lives for cup comps
ii. loves trolling the english press
iii. can understand scouse

leonardo installed at inter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/9320450.stm

Benitez was sacked after six months in the job after asking the Inter board to back him in the transfer market

so not the full story

(good use of 'installed' btw, I like these words with specific technical football meanings)

x-posts - soz, just realising how angry i'm coming across on here! i really like rafa, not cos of some blind faith or obsession but because i believed in the vision he had and in what he was trying to do. he got liverpool. i'd love him to come back, but it's not gonna happen.

I was reading Pay As You Play in a haze last night and I'm sure it said Rafa was up there with Wenger, and far better than Ferguson or Mourinho, in transfer astuteness. I can't remember the argument, and it seemed skewed by expiry of contract being considered a massive loss, but not to that extent.

not at all chris, i was referring to previous heated discussions tbh

IK- it was skewed like a fox if that was the outcome

the protagonists on this thread are incapable of rational opinion.

rafional though

Let's just clear up here, rafa: actually won things at Liverpool, roy: will never win anything with anyone again.

that's rubbish though.

rafa started with an established top 3 side and gerrard and carragher at peak, roy started with, kindly, a bit of a fuckin shambles. what did rafa look like winning last year? or this year with an inarguably class outfit at inter?

I'd start an actual discussion except your dislike of rafa is the sort of rabid internet argument fodder that ceases to be about the topic. There's probably a similar argument going on total fishing messageboards or philatelists online, just with "lakeside carp world" or "johnson's centenary ha'penny red" in place of "rafa"

well that's a very reasonable position to take, i'm sure. what d'you propose instead then? dropping a fairly tatty rafence and refusing further discussion isn't all that satisfactory.

Presumably not if you need to convince the world rafael benitez is evil incarnate!

ha ha ha it's absolutely true tbf

it burns when ppl cant see it it burns

As always I am focussed on eating celebrations and getting drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ydPUprifs

haha the old brass eye retreat

let's hope cardiff don't ever get on his bad side eh

loooooooool

pardew at least had the good grace 'to have it made known' in a statement rather than ad libbing some shit excuse

rafa, deconstruct this game

Stankovic speaks:

“He insisted on immediately diving into his training programme with weights and a marathon run until we collapsed. He was persistent.

“The result was we had 30 injuries in October. We beat every record with regards to injuries and it’s because our muscles were on the verge of exploding. Each of us had at least two injuries on the go at once.”

the world of football currently has a rafa sized, rafa shaped caesura at its centre

little caesar more like

rafa

talk abt him

the things he has done

the person he could yet become

this week is a rooney week, next week the boss is back, week after i'm on hols, and tbh we've been thorough itt imo

i would like to identify his special mystery quality that makes ppl virulently wish for his endless failure

i share this wish but it comes from somewhere dark and is really not rational in the slightest

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FUCK YOU RAFAAAAA see there it goes again

rafa talks about doing england again a lot, is he really going to take the newcastle or villa job if ever offered? sunderland even? it seems impossible to imagine

presumably his stock is still high enough in spain for a dece job to eventually crop up there

i have come around to rafa being the best england manager ever:

i. lives for cup comps
ii. loves trolling the english press
iii. can understand scouse

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 24 December 2010 06:30 (8 months ago) Bookmark

^ kinda feeling this actually

pretty sure atletico madrid bought falcao just so benitez could get into a massive row within him in february next year

would be cool to face up the simmering resentment boom-bust punch n judy england show by putting in a boss people cannot stand str8 from the get go imo

besides dani alves and gareth barry are there any more players ppl can remember that rafa wanted but didnt get the fundz for? wondering what he would have built without the perennial excuse

malouda

oh yeah! vidic, or was that a fair and square gazumping?

he did have a moan about how slow the liverpool executive machinery worked iirc

omg

http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarContenidos&co=1032

"It is true that we were asking about the situation with him [Silva] but we are not happy with the situation now and he will not be a target for us."

“No, I don’t think we will sign him,” said Benitez. “I don’t want to say too much.”

Reports yesterday suggested Liverpool had been “fussy” and dragged their heels during contract negotiations with Chamakh’s representatives, who were eager for the player to move to Anfield.

heinze, though that wasn't funding.

Will rafa ever manage real or barca?

srsly deems u gotta see that video

"We know Villa is a very good player, we know the price and we know the players we have, so when you consider everything we decided he was one of the names, but at this moment, not our target."

"Keane is one of the other names and OK, we are still working with other names. We were in contact and we will see now."

on phone atm, but will check it asap

xposts. Off the top of my head: Malouda, Jovetic, Pato, Walcott, Ramsey, Alves, Simao Sabrosa.

dodged a few bullets there tho

ahaha yeah that vid is like a recording of the last thing d-mac will see as his life slips away

"Keane is one of the other names and OK, we are still working with other names. We were in contact and we will see now."

lolll i forgot how he used 'ok' in midsentence all the time