Ok, I'm not saying this is right or wrong.

Part of the reason for success that we had is because SAF create some sort of "siege" mentality like us against the rest of the world such as FA, EUFA, the press or others. This will sort of unite the players and motivate them more.

Mourinho did try to emulate this kind of tactics during his years at Chelsea.

I'm DEFINATELY sure that in private i.e. locker room he will give the players a good scolding for performing terribly. Proof, that famous Beckham cut above the eyebrow.

Just that in public he will not condemn the players.

I have to echo on of popsoul's sentiments that if anything, this may serve as motivation to other visiting sides, that Man Utd can be beaten at Old Trafford. Am hoping to have the same impact as our win at Stamford Bridge had.

Anyone here from Liverpool?

I might need some help in getting stadium tour and match tickets

if dubai company buy us..anything will impossible start from that point..benitez will be wise to use all the money and build a team that unbeatable..but..when?pray gillet bankrup la...

that is dubai goverment...not the company in dubai

Unfortunately, the way we criticize the team(from what I seen) was to lay the blame on Lucas even when the whole team play badly...Most of us did...

Rafa was never far away from my hit list..... Was about to restart the whole Rafa debate again....
Lucas didn't get much action last season But I also remember whenever we played; he would always gets the stick besides Kyut.

solstice818,

I'd be blunt, can you please stop getting so emotional and please please not have this undying need to reply to everything.
Most of us have had run ins with guys from the other thread, and me and air_mood have actually managed to get the united thread temporarily locked before, but do I get the same amount of stick as you do over there?
You want me to post up the totally inapporopriate and offensive 'retards arguing on the net photos as a reminder?

Is David Weather good? I havent seen much of him...Any idea?

Both of them together with Xavi won the Euro Championship for Spain, although El Nino played a little deeper than he should in support of the target man Villa.

if tactical deployment always win , than with rafa's genius on tactics ,liverpool would have been infront by many points by now.

the present day football is much more than on tactical battle alone.

rafa benitez military style tactical plan may be useful on and with big team but the same tactics on smaller team may backfire as he found out many times . the reason is simple , small team in the likes of  fulham or stoke wouldn't give a damn , they just go out with the bus park in front and frustrate the hell out of you. how do you deal with that

the article is good reading though

Rematch! Rematch!

well, if u have been watching the matches that were drawn...all of them had chances to be won but didnt due to poor finishing.
even the stoke game had a weirdly disallowed goal.
basically rafa's tactics didnt backfire, the players just misfire.

i think a lot of teams will use their pacey striker to go up against vidic, and using short, simple, quick passes to forwards

And although many strikers will be able to match Torres (who isn't exactly the fastest anyways) when it comes to speed, few can equal his acceleration and the ease in which he changes pace and direction. I think it is this and not raw speed that troubles ppl like vidic and carragher.

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Added on March 19, 2009, 6:11 pmAlso, read somewhere that Rooney and Gerrard are actually friends? 
That's the last thing i would expect, with the "I hate Liverpool" and "I hate Man Utd" bile from both of them... unless of course I what i heard/read is wrong 

Everdying tells Evans to go read articles by Paul Tomkins on rotation myth.

and Gerrard just said "We fear no-one"

\m/

F*** me and i said "Bring on any team"

^^

Probably no-one wants us

=.=

For the love of football, no more Chelsea. Its been done to death and as cliche as it sounds, it had always been and always will be mere tactical battle between the 2 clubs. I know we can beat them but i would like to see us playing another club, preferably a none English club. It is European football after all.

it'll be united.

Thierry Henry’s frequent admissions that he would only return to England from Barcelona to play for Liverpool make him a possibility.

Sausa-ges : http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/90074

disagree. i'd keep babel. despite his flaws, he offers much more than henry.

i do rate aaron lennon and glen..aaron still 21...he can give us witdh,speed,pace to our right flank..the most important..he is better than kuyt at that position..kuyt cant play as a winger as he cant beat defender at all.....aaron will..for glen..at chelsea he dont play enough to show his potential..how he can shows his potential al chelsea..even wayne bridge,the 2nd top left full back for england dont play enough there...at posmouth glen show he is great defender even outshine the arsenal full back in the current epl teams teams of the season..he can attack and score goal ...he will be good addition to our squad..

I would say the problem lies with Rafa. He only works well with a specific type of players, players who are self motivated and hungry for success. Although many would say that these are the only kind of players that one wants in a team, i disagree. Managing is about making the most of what you have, inspiring and guiding others to be outperform expectations, it is about bringing the best out of people and not only working with the best.

Still, Rafa is relatively young as a manager (and a very successful one that that compared to those of the same age) and has plenty of time to learn. If he were only less stubborn

Come to think of it (totally unrelated), I believe Gerrard's partly to blame for the Keane fiasco, remember the 'friendly chat' he had with the ex-player who promptly blabbed to the press'? As captain, how could he then face Keane during training and vice versa?

a majority of the players? a majority of the remaining players i would say, those who don't get shipped out. It wouldn't matter if Liverpool were rolling in the money. But Liverpool isn't. Honestly, call me a muppet but i still have my reservations about rafa and he has yet to do anything to convince me otherwise.

as for being professional, cannot agree with that at all, Gerrard's been a model spokeperson has he? 

i fancy hiddink, but the fella seems to be destined to manage chelsea instead.
rafa's tactically astute, and most importantly young, but he is not yet the finished article - give him a few years and he will be, although i rather he did not do his learning at the expense of Liverpool.
he's set himself up for a very very big fall, I'm afraid, hopefully the pressure won't be the end of him.

and with that printed out all seven teams will be racing to draw liverpool in the next round.