The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[J70]

This is incredibly boring,

After watching The match from Croker I watched 10 miins of this and had to switch over. There is absolutely no comparison between the games. Boring , sterile crap

Listen I've seen plenty of awful gaelic football games in my time and you don't have to go too far back to find them. Why people try to keep comparing two different sports is beyond me?

I wonder who "the hoops" in his name are (I guess after that statement they're definitely not going to be Celtic!).

[corn02]

This is incredibly boring,

After watching The match from Croker I watched 10 miins of this and had to switch over. There is absolutely no comparison between the games. Boring , sterile crap

Listen I've seen plenty of awful gaelic football games in my time and you don't have to go too far back to find them. Why people try to keep comparing two different sports is beyond me?

That's not really fair is it? It was relevant yesterday because the majority would have watched the two games. One was very entertaining and one was shite. Noone was comparing the sports.

[The Real Laoislad]

This is incredibly boring,

After watching The match from Croker I watched 10 miins of this and had to switch over. There is absolutely no comparison between the games. Boring , sterile crap

Thanks for such a great input,Now f**k off and start your own bitter thread about such topics as you have mentioned above.
This is a Liverpool FC thread not a soccer is shite thread

[nifan]

Another pop from Rafa at the powers that be yesterday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/7563980.stm

[slow corner back]

If you were boss of a multi national company would you take sh*t like that from a manager in public. Benitez is walking a fine line and has been for some time. How long does he have left on his contract? One things for sure LFC has not been a smooth ship since the yanks became involved although Benitez does not help the situation.

[under the bar]

You really can't blame Hicks & Gillette for not giving Benitez the money as they must think he's a buffoon in the transfer market.  His record is a joke, buying players who wouldn't get a game for Wolves.

[J70]

You really can't blame Hicks & Gillette for not giving Benitez the money as they must think he's a buffoon in the transfer market.  His record is a joke, buying players who wouldn't get a game for Wolves.

If Hicks and Gillette think Benitez is a buffoon, then their obvious recourse is to fire him, is it not?

[under the bar]

If Hicks and Gillette think Benitez is a buffoon, then their obvious recourse is to fire him, is it not?

Yes.  And they will.

[Mentalman]

If Hicks and Gillette think Benitez is a buffoon, then their obvious recourse is to fire him, is it not?

Yes.  And they will.

They will in their hole. They have no interest in LFC at this point other than getting out with a profit. Sack Rafa and they have to pay him off firstly. Then to attract another manager of any renown they have to offer a new sizable transfer budget - not on the cards. What manager worth their salt would take a job where two septic tanks, who've barely attended a game, have a veto on who you spend your transfer budget on?

[bingobus]

If you were boss of a multi national company would you take sh*t like that from a manager in public. Benitez is walking a fine line and has been for some time. How long does he have left on his contract? One things for sure LFC has not been a smooth ship since the yanks became involved although Benitez does not help the situation.

Why the feck shouldn't say what he has said? He is constantly asked, day in day out and he is been painted in the press as been the baddie in all of this. He has been told that the money is there, he hasn't sent a whole pile of it the summer, he has sold to buy so far. He has targetted one player that he really wants and the player wants to come. Then two f**king Yanks who wouldn't know if it was pumped or stuffed decide that the player is to expansive at that price!!! wtf would they know. Then Parry the clown, who they wanted sacked not 5 minutes ago, sides with them.

Rafa runs the football side, if he has 18m to send and he wants to send it on Gareth Barry, Ciaran Whelan or Donna & Joe then so be it. If it flops and we don't progress, then have the balls to sack him. Don't sit across the Atlantic sending bullshit emails and empty promises. Parry manages to make an arse out of everything. Them 3 should be more worried about trying to get this stadium off the ground, improve the business side of things and leave the football to the footballers.

Under the bar, he may have bought a few donkeys but they soon where shown the door and most of the them at a profit. As for his good buys, I don't need to list them.

[Mentalman]

Much made of Rafa's transfers:

http://www.liverweb.org.uk/benitez.asp

Basically take out the current squad and Rafa's tranfer activity is more or less neutral.

As to the quality of some of them, it has to be said he's not slow to move players on who have not performed. However he has had a poor record on the wingers IMHO.

I find his slightly autocratic style frustrating, and I' not a fan of the team's style of play, but soccer isn't like any other big business - the manager picks the players he wants to sign, selects the side and lives or dies by the results. Clubs that are run in any other way are generally not successful in the long run.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Steve Finnan has admitted his Liverpool days are numbered and he may be forced to quit Anfield to enhance and extend his career with the Republic of Ireland.

The 32-year-old will add to his 50 Republic of Ireland caps in Norway tomorrow night after he was persuaded out of international retirement by new coach Giovanni Trapattoni.

But Finnan has had a disagreement with Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez after he tried to sell him behind his back as an original component in the Aston Villa Gareth Barry deal and he knows Benitez has less than two weeks to find the right deal for player and club.

Finnan said: 'You will have to ask the club and the manager what is happening. We have spoken but he didn't want to say too much.

'I am trying to get into the team but I have been fit for a month and I am just not playing any games.

'I suppose when the transfer window closes, we will know what is happening and if I do stay I will have to see if I can get into the team because obviously I want to play.

'You could say I am in limbo, that's about right. I have come out here to play international football which is obviously a very good level and that can only help.

'We'll have to wait and see what happens afterwards.

'We have a big squad at Liverpool and there is a lot of competition for places as you would expect at such a club and it is up to me to continue training hard and take my chance when I get it.'

[The Real Laoislad]

Steve Finnan has admitted his Liverpool days are numbered and he may be forced to quit Anfield to enhance and extend his career with the Republic of Ireland.

The 32-year-old will add to his 50 Republic of Ireland caps in Norway tomorrow night after he was persuaded out of international retirement by new coach Giovanni Trapattoni.

But Finnan has had a disagreement with Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez after he tried to sell him behind his back as an original component in the Aston Villa Gareth Barry deal and he knows Benitez has less than two weeks to find the right deal for player and club.

Finnan said: 'You will have to ask the club and the manager what is happening. We have spoken but he didn't want to say too much.

'I am trying to get into the team but I have been fit for a month and I am just not playing any games.

'I suppose when the transfer window closes, we will know what is happening and if I do stay I will have to see if I can get into the team because obviously I want to play.

'You could say I am in limbo, that's about right. I have come out here to play international football which is obviously a very good level and that can only help.

'We'll have to wait and see what happens afterwards.

'We have a big squad at Liverpool and there is a lot of competition for places as you would expect at such a club and it is up to me to continue training hard and take my chance when I get it.'

Sad to see one of Liverpool's most consisdent defenders over the past seasons go..Kind of fucked for someone to fill that roll now though i would have thought..
Maybe we'll sign someone decent before the end of the month

[J70]

Just for Laoislad...

[The Real Laoislad]

Just for Laoislad...