Re: Liverpool Thread
So when he said.....
....that wasn't what you wanted to hear? Despite slating him for not warning us off Torres, even though both rumours are clearly bullshit.
Very good, you have found one comment after a few weeks of crap.
I know we are being harsh on him, some more then others, but really can you say anything good about a guy that;
- shows a lack of respect for a region (the scandinavia comment),
- shows a clear lack of respect for another manager (who by all accounts has said nothing about the job he was supposed to be getting) or
- who took a week to defend his player from ridiculous comments by an opposition manager (probably because he wants to continue to be mates)
- or in media speak says: Sure offer us some money and you can have our best player,
- or has publicly said most of the team are overpaid wasters (which quite a few are but not a good comment for team morale),
- or has said that if our main striker would actually perform we would be better off (offcourse ignoring the fact that his relegation battler tactics means he is being wasted or that one of the most important players comes out a couple of days later to say that is nonsense),
- or saying that the club needs to be rebuilt and he is to man to do it (although ignoring the fact that with the same squad Benitez made Liverpool one of the best European and English teams yet he can barely get them out of a relegation battle and although being rumours it was said the players had a word with him to change tactics which enabled the team to have the best performance of the season,
- or saying that a decent performance against a shoddy Blackburn is the best that they can perform
- or the fact he has used his huge succes' in some nohoper leagues as proof that he is as good as Ferguson
- or the fact he discribes the "performance" against Everton as great and that the score was ridiculous....Everton deserved to spank Liverpool!
- or...
And that's what I can remember from the past few weeks...
We may be overreacting, but in my case (and I think quite a few on here) the reaction is in direct relation to how much crap he has been saying in the media and how crap the team has been playing. Which is even worse then last season! The only "positive" aspects he has said mostly is how good he is yet the rest of the time he is blaming other people for the results.
I tend to think I am reasonably balanced, and I had my doubts about him from the start, but we have now played nearly a quarter of the season and he has had no "new manager" boost which usually lasts this long, he has shown nothing with regards to tactical insight to change a game, he has contradicted himself by saying he will give everybody a chance but has publicly said the youngsters can forget about this season seeing as we are in a relegation battle (thanks for that!), he has said he will continue to do exactly the same as he has always done as that has brought succes (define succes; not getting relegated is his "succes" which he is doing a good job of repeating this season!) so imo the sooner he pisses off the better.
Also it says enough when the majority of Hodgson defenders are Manu fans, the same group who were constantly attacking Benitez....I wonder what subconscience effect has impacted that?
He has also come out today, or yesterday, saying how he is learning from Carra and Gerrard to not take notice of all the media stuff. Now that's realistic and fine (wouldn't have expected anything else from a midtable manager) but if you are in a high pressure industry and the guy who is supposed to be leading you needs to learn from you that wouldn't give me any confidence in his job.
There is a lot of media crap, but what get's me is that from nearly every comment coming out he is talking like a mid table manager and the team are playing like relegation canditates. Does anyone on here believe the squad we have should be down there playing like that?! Tbh if the team were doing well (and by that I consider top 7 to be enough) then I couldn't care less about a lot of the media stuff. Although it needs to be respectful, the stuff about Rijkaard is out of order imo, a CL winning manager and the guy says; "Oh where is he? Oh yeah in Turkey..says enough". I don't care who he is or where the team is in the league, that's just poor. However the team is playing shit and so far I have seen nothing whatsoever that has given me the impression that he is good enough or suited to the job...and he continues with his crap media comments.
