When you play week in, week out with rubbish like Insua, Lucas Leiva, Aquilani, Ngog and El Zhar then it’s no wonder we are where we are.

Rafa needs to head for the door along with the yanks so that we can rebuild.

I find it amazing that he has remained as long as he has!!!!

simply put, alex and jose HAD/HAVE funds to have two quality players for each position. we all know rafa’s net spend for each season is roughly 15-20m. we all know that alonso was sold for 30m, johnson was bought for close to 20m, and aquilani was bought in 5x4m installments. now you tell me where the board gave rafa anywhere close to 20m cash on hand to spend? if he had 20m cash sitting on his desk, im sure he wouldve bought a 20m player. and thats where you get the quality in two positions from. we dont have the ability to put berbatov on the bench when rooney and ronaldo are available (last season).

yes granted hes made a couple of transfer mistakes, and theyre only highlighted because people have this delusion that liverpool have buckets of cash on hand for transfers.

also, must remember that after alonso left, the team had to adopt a different style of play, and this is one of the only situations where i would outrightly blame rafa. because the team hasnt been able to get any sort of flow or rhythm or style of play going. with alonso it was him dicating the pace and the flow. whereas now without a player like him, we need to adopt a more arsenal like approach, whereby players make small quick passes. because lucas and mascherano dont have the abilty to do what alonso did.

so dont just jump on the mans back because you can choose to omit historic events regarding transfers of players (eg keane…crouch wasnt going to get a start ahead of torres and didnt want to stay, so thats fair..same with bellamy), and the logic behind net spend and cash on hand.

there are so many non liverpool supporters already on rafas back for no reason whatsoever other than because the rest of englands tabloid have decided its open season for the man. its unfair, the victimisation of him.

the very least we as supporters can do is to either be LOGICAL in our understanding of the scenario. and once you do that, its very easy to see rafa exactly isnt all at fault here.

not to mention nobody ever blames the players for playing badly? they were terrible at wigan, and it was their fault. a loss of confidence from losses early in the season have burdened the team throughout the rest.

The loss of Alonso has been absolutely terrible to the rhythm of our team and play. Rafa made a terrible miss judgement to think that Lucas and Masch had the playmaking ability to semi compensate for Aquilani on his return to fitness. The biggest factor to hit us this season is Rafas ignorance regarding the centre forwards we should of had a solid back up to Torres for the last 12 months fortunately we got away with it last season but the back up strikers this season have proven they are not up to the job because Torres has been out for so long. Despite the initial success of Rafas reign I think its time Rafa moved on. A lot of Liverpool fans forget that Rafas poor judgement last season and decision to play it safe cost us last seasons title. I do also think we have to consider CFC were very poor last season because they had a manager who didn’t have the ability to cope with the premiership. If Gus or Carlo had been in charge I think Liverpool would have finished third.
A lot of fans argue that Rafa has had less funds to build a team but I think that he made some very bad recent mistakes with his transfer fund. I also even go as far to say that he should of bought a cheaper right back and should of either spent more to buy a fit and ready to go replacement for Alonso. His failure to create a back up forward line had been disastrous and I and a lot of pundits have been crying out for this for a long time.
Its often been sited by Alex and Jose that you need to have two quality players fighting for each position Rafa has failed to create this situation and competition up front.

Rafa has done a solid job creating a solid first 11 and has a good record in Europe and despite this season has moved the club forward slightly in the league but I feel he is lacking the creativity and vision to take us forward the final step.