Your not having a go at him your a disrespecting the clubs history which he is a very very important part of. Playing around with nonsensical facts. And to remind people he was sacked by the club he didn't leave to go to another club.
There was no playing around with nonsensical facts, nor am I disrespecting our history. He was brought here to put that league title back in the cabinet, and he failed at the task over and over again. That's not nonsensical, that's a fact of his time here. He left here by mutual consent i.e. the club wanted him out and he agreed to get out of here. Less than a week later, he set up camp at Inter, about to show us Rafasceptics how great he really is, in a ready made job he couldn't possibly screw up. He immediately set about wrecking the shop, and his punishment was 2 years on the scrapheap.
Rafa isn't a bad person but I do think he is maybe a very cold fish, a footballing nerd for lack of a better term. He is very reliant on having a good assistant who can communicate well with the players, but that is a role for the manager, the assistant should be more the tactician. I personally think that's why things started to fall apart for Rafa after Pako left us.
Maybe?
It was clear at the time that Dudek's saves in extra time and penalties would be pretty much his last act here. He wasn't terrible in the handful of first team league games he got the following year, but by the Arsenal games in 2007, he was past his best. However, when you're basically informed that the most you'll get in a season is League Cup games, it's understandable that you may be a bit rusty when the time comes.
That debate is however, well off the point. It's another clash, another fallout, another bust up, and there were plenty more to come, some rather more serious. With one common denominator in them all.
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