When you analyze that performance, there is not much you can say about it other than awful with a capital A. I know Rafa was shocked by what he witnessed, you could see it written on his face after the game. Now he must pick the team up from the floor and get us going again. I would like him to play our best team in every game we play, how else we going to get the confidence back. By best team I would like to see Gerrard to play in center midfield regular, with maybe Aquilani playing just behind Nando, lets see if it works. Benayoun given a regular start, Reira given a few games. I know Rafa is the one who knows the players inside out, but he has to stop making daft moves like playing Dosena in midfield over Benayoun.
I would like to see Pacheco to be put on the bench as an option, the kids special, so use him. Kelly is another who played really well when he played, and right now I'd give him a chance over Johnson, his confidence is shattered, another poor display against Portsmouth, another goal given away by Glen. If Rafa plays Dosena it should be in his position, maybe play him instead of Insua, personally I would drop Insua for Aurelio. I would like to see Babel have some games and not 20 mins here and there, it doesn't do him any good nor us.
I have been expecting the anti Rafa guys to be out in force, I haven't been disappointed, I still think the guys who want him out are wrong, and if you get your way what happens then, a regular top 10 place will be ours, we shall be fighting teams like Fulham and Everton for a Europer league spot. I recon you can forget anyone like Hiddink or Mourinho coming here, there is no way they would come unless they had a real chance of winning the league, they will not take this job, I think they are astute enough to realize a top 8 finish is the most they could hope for, unless funds were forthcoming.
The reason we are there now is because the funds Rafa has are about par for where we are, the amount year on year that Rafa is given for players equals clubs like Sunderland and even Everton must be up with us in the spending stakes, there must be more clubs in the prem who get that sort of funding to spend and the only difference between us and them is we spend more on wages, and yet we are well of the pace when it comes down to paying players, we are well behind MU, Chelsea, Arsenal, MC, even Spurs are paying big nowadays. I think at the end of the day you get what you pay for.
So when you look at Rafa consider what a new guy would do with riches like 15 mill a season, if he could do better his name would be Jesus.
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