[quote author=scoobydo link=topic=12338.msg149766#msg149766 date=1233238254]
@nodge well said progress me arse,what we need new owners and a new manager to clear out the likes of lucas babel benyoun dossena,and the list goes on!!
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Unfortunately thats what Liverpool has needed since Graeme Souness
..someone to clear out his abysmal collection of under-talented players, someone to clear out Evans overpaid, under-committed Spice boys, someone to clear out Houlliers French-speaking bad buys and now somebody to clear out Benitezs Spanish-speaking bad buys. (Apologies in advance to Lucas who probably hates people saying he speaks Spanish because of course he is Brazilian, but as Mark Lawrenson said, If hes Brazilian, Im Chinese!
Theres a guy called Steven Kelly that a lot of Liverpool supporters will know, former editor of the fanzine TTWAR and writes a column in the Examiner still I think. He has been flagging since mid 2006 that Benitez is in fact Houllier all over again, and hes received a lot of flak for that opinion
..but you know what hes dead fucking right!!
Benitezs football is slightly better (nothing could be as bad as Houllier 03/04), but he has a negative streak that completely undermines the potential of this team
..All very well if youre trying to win a European Cup with Houlliers leftovers in 2005 but it backfires if youre trying to beat Stoke or Fulham at home!
His signings dont suggest that he is necessarily better than Houllier either, they are so contaminated with total flops that they drag the good ones down. What Benitez had in his favour early on was that his expensive signings didnt do too badly, but when he bought cheaply he bought rubbish. He moved the rubbish on and it didnt cause too many problems. More recently we have bought expensive and not got value for money (Babel 10M+, Keane 20M possibly the Diao and Diouf of the new era???) Throw in his outbursts and strange assertions in the press along with him being in hospital (only messing with that one) and hey presto! Gerard Rafa Houllier Benitez!!!!
Sorry for rambling
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