Jan 17 2010, 09:09 PM
QUOTE(solstice818 @ Jan 17 2010, 09:03 PM)
WANTED: REPLACEMENT FOR RAFA BENITEZ
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/1...r-Rafa-Benitez/
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RAFA Benitez was determined to make it work out at Liverpool and, in a way, he has.
The Spaniard is OUT of the Champions League, OUT of the Premier League title race, OUT of the FA Cup, OUT of the Carling Cup and if the two Yanks had any money, would be OUT of a job, too.
Benitez and Liverpool are like a deeply unhappy married couple waiting desperately for one of them to pluck up the courage to ask for a divorce.
Both know it’s going be a painful and expensive parting of the ways – especially with 42,000 unhappy kids to think about – but it’s the only sensible way forward for both of them.
Benitez, a big success in La Liga with Valencia, must get out of Anfi eld and back to the Costas before his reputation as a top European coach is destroyed.
Owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett inherited Benitez and have never been happy with his demands. They must make the Champions League – or it will be financial Armageddon at Anfield.
The Spaniard has now been on Merseyside for five years. He won the Champions League with, largely, Gerard Houllier’s team and won an FA Cup thanks, mainly, to Steven Gerrard’s genius.
He’s spent £250m to ensure that Liverpool, once guaranteed top-four finishers, are now scrambling along with Spurs, Man City and Villa to clinch that Champions League place. But if Rafa must go, then who comes in?
Here are the Kop Ten candidates.
JOSE MOURINHO
The Special One looks certain to leave Serie A and Inter Milan in the summer for yet another top job. But he’s on record as saying he wants to become the No.1 at Old Trafford. All together now, Stand Up If You Hate Mour U...
KOP BOSS? No chance
KENNY DALGLISH
King Kenny – an Anfield legend on and off the pitch – would be a popular choice but bringing back old superstars doesn’t always necessarily work – see King Kev at Newcastle. Could be a stop-gap, though.
KOP BOSS? Caretaker only
GUUS HIDDINK
The Russian coach has gone through more clubs than Tiger Woods and says he would like to boss again in the Premier League. But he’s 63 and more likely to end up back at Chelsea.
KOP BOSS? A Bridge too far
MARTIN O’NEILL
He’s been linked with Liverpool since he was impressing everyone at Leicester. But why switch from anAmerican-owned club on the up for one that’s going down the pan?
KOP BOSS? No Yanks
ROY HODGSON
Hodgson, 62, is an English version of Hiddink and would gladly swap life beside the Thames for the Mersey. But he’s hardly a long-term solution.
KOP BOSS? Give him a ring!
LAURENT BLANC
He’s young – 44 – and has just led Bordeaux to a league and cup double. But Fergie has apparently nominated the Frenchman, dubbed Larry White when a Man United player, as his Old Trafford successor.
KOP BOSS? Wrong Reds
MICHAEL LAUDRUP
The great Dane is currently jobless after quitting Spartak Moscow but hugely impressed as coach of Madrid’s third club Getafe.
KOP BOSS? Would walk to Anfield
JURGEN KLINSMANN
The German is also out of work after being unfairly sacked by Bayern Munich. He is very pally with the Yanks and has been linked with an Anfield move many times.
KOP BOSS? Herr we go!
ALEX McLEISH
Working miracles down at Birmingham and knows how to do it without money! Scots do well at Anfield – Shanks and King Kenny.
KOP BOSS? He’s Scot what it takes
RONNIE WHELAN
Former Red Ronnie has slaughtered Rafa continually, so why not let the Irishman show us how it’s done. Has been a boss at Southend, Nicosia and Limassol, so he has a European pedigree!
KOP BOSS? Whel I never
The Spaniard is OUT of the Champions League, OUT of the Premier League title race, OUT of the FA Cup, OUT of the Carling Cup and if the two Yanks had any money, would be OUT of a job, too.
Benitez and Liverpool are like a deeply unhappy married couple waiting desperately for one of them to pluck up the courage to ask for a divorce.
Both know it’s going be a painful and expensive parting of the ways – especially with 42,000 unhappy kids to think about – but it’s the only sensible way forward for both of them.
Benitez, a big success in La Liga with Valencia, must get out of Anfi eld and back to the Costas before his reputation as a top European coach is destroyed.
Owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett inherited Benitez and have never been happy with his demands. They must make the Champions League – or it will be financial Armageddon at Anfield.
The Spaniard has now been on Merseyside for five years. He won the Champions League with, largely, Gerard Houllier’s team and won an FA Cup thanks, mainly, to Steven Gerrard’s genius.
He’s spent £250m to ensure that Liverpool, once guaranteed top-four finishers, are now scrambling along with Spurs, Man City and Villa to clinch that Champions League place. But if Rafa must go, then who comes in?
Here are the Kop Ten candidates.
JOSE MOURINHO
The Special One looks certain to leave Serie A and Inter Milan in the summer for yet another top job. But he’s on record as saying he wants to become the No.1 at Old Trafford. All together now, Stand Up If You Hate Mour U...
KOP BOSS? No chance
KENNY DALGLISH
King Kenny – an Anfield legend on and off the pitch – would be a popular choice but bringing back old superstars doesn’t always necessarily work – see King Kev at Newcastle. Could be a stop-gap, though.
KOP BOSS? Caretaker only
GUUS HIDDINK
The Russian coach has gone through more clubs than Tiger Woods and says he would like to boss again in the Premier League. But he’s 63 and more likely to end up back at Chelsea.
KOP BOSS? A Bridge too far
MARTIN O’NEILL
He’s been linked with Liverpool since he was impressing everyone at Leicester. But why switch from anAmerican-owned club on the up for one that’s going down the pan?
KOP BOSS? No Yanks
ROY HODGSON
Hodgson, 62, is an English version of Hiddink and would gladly swap life beside the Thames for the Mersey. But he’s hardly a long-term solution.
KOP BOSS? Give him a ring!
LAURENT BLANC
He’s young – 44 – and has just led Bordeaux to a league and cup double. But Fergie has apparently nominated the Frenchman, dubbed Larry White when a Man United player, as his Old Trafford successor.
KOP BOSS? Wrong Reds
MICHAEL LAUDRUP
The great Dane is currently jobless after quitting Spartak Moscow but hugely impressed as coach of Madrid’s third club Getafe.
KOP BOSS? Would walk to Anfield
JURGEN KLINSMANN
The German is also out of work after being unfairly sacked by Bayern Munich. He is very pally with the Yanks and has been linked with an Anfield move many times.
KOP BOSS? Herr we go!
ALEX McLEISH
Working miracles down at Birmingham and knows how to do it without money! Scots do well at Anfield – Shanks and King Kenny.
KOP BOSS? He’s Scot what it takes
RONNIE WHELAN
Former Red Ronnie has slaughtered Rafa continually, so why not let the Irishman show us how it’s done. Has been a boss at Southend, Nicosia and Limassol, so he has a European pedigree!
KOP BOSS? Whel I never
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/1...r-Rafa-Benitez/
I would like to blame
1) The Amercans
2) The players (they all played like flop, thanks to the injuries too)
3) Rafa
Added on January 17, 2010, 9:12 pm
QUOTE(normeck @ Jan 17 2010, 09:09 PM)
Beardsley urges Liverpool to stick with Benitez
sos : Soccernet
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Former Anfield star Peter Beardsley believes Liverpool should stick by under-pressure manager Rafael Benitez.
And he insists the Spanish boss, who has signed more than 100 players in his five years on Merseyside, is the best man for the job even if Liverpool do not finish in the top four at the end of the season.
Beardsley puts most of Liverpool's woes this season down to injuries to their most influential players, Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.
Beardsley said: "He's (Benitez) signed a lot of players but look at most teams in the world. If they lost their stars then they would struggle. If you lost Rooney out of Manchester United's team they would struggle.
"The criticism is a bit over the top. I would definitely stick with him. What have they got to lose? It's only going to be the same players I would imagine for whoever takes over anyway. I would give him to the summer definitely and beyond then because he has done a brilliant job at Liverpool.
"They were really close last season to winning the league. When you look at the Premier League as a whole this season most of the top teams have lost three, four or five games which is unusual.
"He has got the respect of the players. In the main, most of the fans want him to stay.''
If the board decide Benitez, whose side drew at Stoke on Saturday after exiting the FA Cup against Reading in midweek, should lose his job, however, Beardsley believes Kop legend Kenny Dalglish would be the perfect man to take over.
Dalglish currently is working with the academy and Beardsley, speaking on Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme, said: "If they were to make a change that would be the perfect change. He (Dalglish) knows the club inside out. He and Sammy Lee get on like a house on fire so there wouldn't need to be wholesale changes. But at the moment I wouldn't do anything.''
Beardsley also believes there is no chance Gerrard, who was on the brink of joining Chelsea in 2005, will leave his hometown club.
He said: "When he turned down the Chelsea thing I think he committed himself to Liverpool for life and I genuinely believe he'll be there for life.''
And he insists the Spanish boss, who has signed more than 100 players in his five years on Merseyside, is the best man for the job even if Liverpool do not finish in the top four at the end of the season.
Beardsley puts most of Liverpool's woes this season down to injuries to their most influential players, Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.
Beardsley said: "He's (Benitez) signed a lot of players but look at most teams in the world. If they lost their stars then they would struggle. If you lost Rooney out of Manchester United's team they would struggle.
"The criticism is a bit over the top. I would definitely stick with him. What have they got to lose? It's only going to be the same players I would imagine for whoever takes over anyway. I would give him to the summer definitely and beyond then because he has done a brilliant job at Liverpool.
"They were really close last season to winning the league. When you look at the Premier League as a whole this season most of the top teams have lost three, four or five games which is unusual.
"He has got the respect of the players. In the main, most of the fans want him to stay.''
If the board decide Benitez, whose side drew at Stoke on Saturday after exiting the FA Cup against Reading in midweek, should lose his job, however, Beardsley believes Kop legend Kenny Dalglish would be the perfect man to take over.
Dalglish currently is working with the academy and Beardsley, speaking on Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme, said: "If they were to make a change that would be the perfect change. He (Dalglish) knows the club inside out. He and Sammy Lee get on like a house on fire so there wouldn't need to be wholesale changes. But at the moment I wouldn't do anything.''
Beardsley also believes there is no chance Gerrard, who was on the brink of joining Chelsea in 2005, will leave his hometown club.
He said: "When he turned down the Chelsea thing I think he committed himself to Liverpool for life and I genuinely believe he'll be there for life.''
sos : Soccernet
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