yesss, rafa does have his faults.
However, many people in the world do, even with mourinho, the style of football is boring, however with rafas expansive style, we dominated most games, and since when did you not see a successful liverpool team dominating most if not all games throughout the season. The man clicks with our style, and yes he did make some strange decisions, like taking gerrard off at reading a few years ago, when we needed a win, but then we could only rely on gerrard/torres to score for us, because the owners were here...suffocating our clubs development, therefore rafa had to settle for jermaine pennant instead of dani alves, there were numerous more transfers that didnt have rafas backing, ROBBIE KEANE!? The problem there was, he played in the either position of our 2 best players...so we couldnt fit him in...as we were using 4-2-3-1 brilliantly then, but again it comes to a lack of depth in the squad...take last season...say we had a first eleven of reina, johnson, Carra, agger, aurelio, masch, lucas, kuyt, gerrard, maxi, torres
If any of them they got injured, we'd have no decent coever other than at cb...out of...
Cavalieri
Darby/kelly (both have potential...but inexperienced, so unwise choice against teams like chelsea)
Sotos - first class
Skrtel - a bit dodgy at times
Insua - same as darby/kelly
Aquilani - injured and needs time to adjust to england
Spearing - inexperienced...again with potential
Plessis - think we were starting to relize he wasnt good enough
Kuyt - ok he tries hard but hes NOT a right winger, should be cover for nando, but never was used there...ok this was rafas fault
Sorry who? Can't find anyone in the squad able to replace gerrard?
Riera/Babel - Riera...had been out of order and was inconsistent at best, babel you feel like he could explode but until he does would you feel comfortable putting him out against rafael? Bosingwa? Sagna? All would have it easy unless babel suddenly went bang and became amazing
N'gog - potential...but nowhere near yet, however he is developping at quite a rate i.m.o.
So there we are, the only ones that are rafas fault i.m.o. Are kuyt, babel and n'gog...and thats being very critical, kuyt because of him being played not completely in his natural position, babel and n'gog were bought for the future, and thrown in early because rafa wasnt allowed money to by other replacements, leaving us most of the time trying to fit a square peg in a round hole...say we needed a target man...crouch style...wed have noone to win balls in the air...torres isnt bad, but hes not andy carroll, and so n'gog or babel...pacy strikers...would have to win aerial balls...and that was never going to be easy, however with a fully fit starting lineup, i honestly believe that last years team was good enough to beat anyone, like the 2008-09 season...now what more did rafa supposedly do wrong?
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