An OPEN letter to all Liverpool fans
To all Liverpool fans,
To say this season has been a frustrating one for yourselves is something of an understatement, but the last thing the football club needs is to buy into the terrible media reports who from an outsider looking in is doing its level best to drive a wedge between the club and supporters whilst looking to drive Rafa Benitez to the verge of breaking point. It seems relentless, but the last thing supporters must do is put more pressure on what is a fragile situation.
This year has been poor for Liverpool and you have failed to see your team live up to the pre-season hype, where many considered it to be your year. Obviously there are reasons for it, with injury and key players losing form at the centre of it, but Alonso’s sale aside that is the same squad that pushed United so close and it is the same group that can ensure that you make the top four again this season. Results have picked up in the Premier League of late and let’s be honest that should have been three PL wins on the spin today.
You may ask why a Gooner like myself should take an interest in Liverpool’s plight, but it is because I see a lot of parallels with you and what we suffered last season. We like you through away a great chance to land a title back in 2008 and while expectation was we would take the title last year we flopped miserably and threw away so many points and lost a lot of games to poor opposition. The media were heaping pressure on us and Arsene Wenger and at one point they were winning and a lot of supporters did start to turn and question the manager. We were told, like you are now, that we had fallen out of the top four and on the decline (even though months before we were being touted as future champions); it wasn’t until the start of March that we relinquished our place back in the top four, a feat that I fully expect Liverpool to follow as well.
I am personally amazed at the amount of people suggesting this week that it is time for Rafa Benitez to quit. That would be a total knee-jerk reaction, the easy option, however a lot has to be said, as we are showing this season, in retaining faith in a manager and realising that a few bad results and a poor season doesn’t disguise what they have already achieved at the football club in the past, and what they will do again in the future. You don’t hear many pundits writing us off this season in the race for the title; it just shows how quickly the pendulum can swing the other way.
My message to all of you really is to stay strong, back your manager and remember that Rafa was one that took you to the brink of a title last season and not to mention two Champions League finals. As we found with Arsene a few bad results shouldn’t cloud your judgment of a man and what he has brought a lot to your football club and who has already proved his worth. It may not feel like it at the moment, but you will benefit in the long run from this season’s setback and believe me, you, as well as Benitez will return the stronger for it.
Keep the faith
Written By James Marsh
Football News 24/7
All you stupid lemmings can you not see the path Benitez is leading us ?
This is Rafas team his stupid man management skills and horrendous team selections have gotten us to where we are – out of everything apart from Europa cup.No top flight manager would make his stupid decisions – need I remind you Lemmings that it was 2- 2 against Hull last season at half time and we needed a win so what does he do ? Leave our record signing Keane on the bench when we need goals.Against Stoke he took off Torres and Gerrard and lo and behold we drew again.Against Reading the other day he took Degan off when it was 1- 1 and replaced him with our most attacking threat Skirtel ! Please tell me what kind of stupid decisions these are ? The only manager who takes attacking threat off and replaces with defenders.Hes only been doing it for the past 5 or so years so he got lucky in two cup finals and has screwed everything up since.He is a total comntrol freak and falls out with players on a weekly basis.Every team he puts out is defense defense defense absolute diabolical ! And Babel has not started 2 games on the bounce how pathetic is that ? Rafa is one of the worst managers in the prem and that is a fact !
So enough of this lets support Rafa and Rafalution palava it is him and him only who have gotten us into this state.I have been patient with him for years now but the buck stops with him !
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Picture this your team is in the champions league final yes FINAL !
You are 2 goals down on the 88th minute your team scores so its 2-1 with 2 minutes of normal time left and added time knocking on minimum 4 minutes so anything can happen.What would your reaction be if your manager took off your right back and replaced him with another right back and left one of your top strikers on the bench ?
Does he not want to score to take it to extra time ?
Oh wait you dont need to imagine it it actually happened because our pathetic excuse of a manager did just that by replacing Finnan with Arbeloa in the Champions League final.
This just about sums the man up and he must have made these diabolical decisions 100 times at least.Do you see Ferguson leaving out Rooney or Berbatov or take them off when a goal behind or drawing.Did he ever take Ronaldo off unless they was coasting to a victory.
Joke of a manager !
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Blimey – a gooner who doesnt wax lyrical about ‘the kids’, ‘the professor’ or ‘playing the best football on the planet’. Credit where credits due, good lad James
And thanks for the encouragement, and I do now remember the amount of pressure Wenger was under last season….interesting point
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Bubuyagu -Stop living in denial, Since 2004 Benitez has spent 112Million, thats just short of 25 Million a year, are you telling me we could not have bought a world class player every?????
We did and he was called Torres, what about the other 5 we could have got? instead he has bought crap which has MEANT him having to wheel and deal his way out of it…
Sorry mate but if you think this guy can take us forward you are very wrong.
YNWA Benitez all your crap buys will be right behind you once new owners come in and hiddink!
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