Thats a pretty myopic view to take though don't you think whilst he was achieving our 3rd ever highest win% as manager and winning some silverware and making us the number 1 ranked team in europe, leading us to our 3rd ever highest points tally etc etc you only care about honours ?
So you expected Rafa to win the league on the limited funds he was given, whilst Chelsea were throwing hundreds of millions around ?
You should have appreciated what we had and beared with him, its obvious as I've stated give Rafa steady conservative transfer fee's and you'll progress, can you imagine what he'd have achieved with £40m net spend per summer ?
You get people like that though, people that think just the name Liverpool FC means we should be winning, when it takes far more than that.
was Rafa a people person - NO. Was he a football man - YES.
In recent interviews I've seen, Alonso has said he never had a problem with Rafa as well, and he was supposedly a big detractor.
The biggest detractor of Rafa, player wise, was Pennant and let us be honest, Jermanine was no great shakes, was he?
Winning has gotten a lot harder than it used to be, I want us to be challenging, but can see several factors that have gone against us. Rafa made us feared in Europe again, a team that no one really wanted to face. The lack of respect afforded to him, by some Liverpool fans (let alone general football fans) is staggering.
He didn't win us the one he wanted, but I don't think anyone can truthfully say that Roy is the one to lead us to number 19 - not on what we've seen so far.
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