Liverpool at the centre of a conspiracy theory: Can this possibly be true?

Shaun - August 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Hilarious

consp - August 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 pm

this is one of the stupidest commentaries i have ever come across. did rafa ask lucas? only a world class moron would risk making such a suggestion and only a bigger moron would listen to the first moron. whilst i think rafa is a moron (moron = person who never learns his lessons; see rotation policy, relationship with bosses, poor tactical approach to games, lack of preparedness etc), i doubt lucas is one. but i know for a fact that the person who wrote this conspiracy editorial is certifiably one.

sonny - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm

As is the person who wrote ‘lack of preparedness’.

paul - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm

what a load of shit

Kyle - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm

consp – you obivously know nothing about football to say that rafa is a moron and poor tactical approach to games, lack of preparedness is the most stupidest thing ive ever seen anyone wrote about rafa. His tactical approch to games is secound to none proberly the best in the business. And lack of preparedness?? cant belive you wrote that he spends all week preparing for each game in training he gets the players ready for the next game (tactics etc) he goes through with each indivigual player telling him there job for the next game. Why do you even bother talknig about football and making yourself look liek a right idiot you have no football knowledge what so ever so just give it up now why dont you. People like you make me sick

Kanadian Kopite - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Okay, so I do my best never to click on CaughtOffside links because they are a complete load of rubbish, but sometimes you can’t resist because of the headlines. I got caught again, but at least this time, I got a good laugh

And by the way, Rafa is a master tactician, but he doesn’t really understand the human side (motivation, mental states) – I’m hoping Sammy can pick up where Paco left off.

red4life - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm

I love a good conspiracy theory but this one has a huge flaw in it. Why would Rafa have Lucas tackle Mascherano instead of someone else.

The Red Horseman - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm

What are you on?

Voronins father - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

probably and so wat if he did?

Craig - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm

BOLLOCKS TRASH GOBSHITE…..

chatShit - August 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Actually I heard that Lucas was trying to break Mascherano’s so they could both share the same plane back and Lucas would have a better chance of regular 1st team football

rafael benitez - August 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

i did tell them this.for sure,it makes sense for the team(liverpool)to have our squad together

reds manager 2 be {lol} - August 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

chatshit i think your right! he is trying to take mascheranos place!!!

dan - August 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm

kyle. rafa is a wolly and a moron. every season he cries for more money after just spending millions on top of doing it every year then moans that his bosses are tight. he sounds like someone trying to cripple a business or an immature weed smoking teenager with a hoodie (just like the locals). only stupid liverpool fans would think that he is class. after spending more millions this season already he must win the league. but here is the clever bit. when he does not, because he is clueless he has an excuse . they wont let me spend 60 million or be like chelsea.
his only tactic is to play defensive in first leg which back fired recently.
wake up ya buncha livers

Khan - August 22nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm

That’s the least of all the instructions Rafa gave to those two players…
Number one was score own goals so that both Brazil and Argentina would lose in the first round so that Liverpool will have both players home in time for tea before kickoff.
Number two was eat some mysterious chinese food and get food poisoning before their first games.
Number three was run as fast as possible towards the goalpost, head first and get stunned and sent back home to their personal doctors at LFC.
Number four was slip out of camp and go partying in Beijing until the wee hours and get sacked from their national team.
Number five was show the middle finger gestures at the chinese spectators right after kickoff in the first game. Then get sacked from team and start tarining with the others at LFC.
Number six was read some conspiracy theory online and get horribly sick. Then demand the LFC doctors takes care of them.
Number seven was….

BS - August 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm

its just bullshit. lucas had to sit and watch the bronze game today anyways so he wont be available for tomorrow.

Tom - August 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Dan, if you knew anything at all, you would know that season after season, Rafa has had to sell half of what he spends. This is one of the reasons that he didn’t get Barry. Another thing is Man Utd spent £60m last season and didn’t sell anyone who was worth anything of value. Same applies to Chelsea (they are now linked to Kaka for the rediculous amount of money thet Ronaldo was valued at).

The conspiracy theory BS is ridiculous and Mr Comfort obviously obviously has nothing better to do.

Finally, Consp, I’ve never heard of the word ‘preparedness’. If you were talking about ‘preperation’, then I have to say that Benitez is a perfectionist and, if anything, this is his downfall. He looks at the minutest of details and plays to every little weakness of the opposition. As a Liverpool fan I, along with others, believe that sometimes we should be allowed to play our own game but it is that kind of preperation that won us the Champions League and FA cup. People ignorantly put these success down to luck, but it is mentallity, character and a never say die attitude that won both trophies.

dave in ireland - August 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm

You are scraping the bottom of the barrell now , can you not think of some better piece of gossip . You must be a Manc .

Mitch - August 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm

Who gives a rats ass!

The sooner we get our players back from that olympics shite the better!

Carl - August 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm

oh dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As if!

Donavan Ried - August 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 am

Someone out there said that Rafa was among the top five managers in the world (Queue the Twilight zone music)

Rafa’s in the top five in the world for buying players only to sell them two seasons later.

Jan Kromkamp, Gabriel Paletta, Mark Gonzalez, Daniele Padelli, Antonio Nunez, Fernando Morientes, Mauricio Pellegrino, Alou Diarra, Luis Garcia, Momo Sissoko, Josemi, Peter Crouch, Bellamy, Just a few of the players brought only to be resold by Rafa because they did not fit in to his plan. Then why buy them?…If you have a plan you must know what type of player you’re looking for…. And for those for you who will say he resells them at a profit; if you buy a player for £1m pay him wages for £2m a year then sell him for £4m two years later you have loss£1m not gained £3m

Rafa is in the top five in the world when it comes to wasting the clubs money.

Is it just Rafa to blame, or does some of the blame lie with our scouts?…..We need to get this right. If the rumours are correct and Chelsea is going to get Kaka They will have taken a huge step up from us.
Now is the time to be buying quality players. That’s world class quality players and Downing and Barry do not fit the description. I ask you again why not just pay the £5m extra and buy Dimitar Berbatov instead of Robbie Keane? It is of little wonder Hicks does not trust Rafa

Rafa is in the top five in the world when it comes to not understanding Midfielders from Wingers.

Remember Steve Highway, and Ryan Giggs and Andrei Kanchelskis for Man Utd, Marc Overmars for Arsenal, more recently Duff and Robben, for Chelsea, (and the dream player for us) Messi of Barca. This is what we need.

Rafa is in the top five in the world when it comes to talk himself out of a job.

I truly believe that Rafa will be gone by the start of the next season, whether it is by getting the sack by Hick and Gillette, or DIC, but he will be gone. The reason. His constant airing of the clubs business in public. DIC will not stand of that

I also believe Hicks is also right when he asks why Parry has not taken Liverpool on a tour of China, South East Asia and India. We are talking a market of ten Billion + people there. All those shirts and bit we could be selling and instead Man Utd goes on tour there and now Chelsea. Man Utd has even started to play friendly in Africa.

Hick may not know F**k all about football but what he does not know about raising money and sponsorship could be written on a pin head.

jabrone - August 23rd, 2008 at 3:58 am

spastic mr comfort

stu - August 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am

DONT BE FECKIN STUPID….. WTF!

Ticky - August 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm

Don’t know why everyone thinks it’s a stupid conspiracy because the thought occurred to me the moment I heard that Lucas had been sent off. Didn’t one of Standard Liege’s players do a similar thing so he could play against the Reds last week. Only a fool would remain in China to play in meaningless match when their club was due to play such an important game back home. The only down side was that it it Lucas coming home early and not Mascherano.

bos - August 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

for the last three every player liverpool bought has come from the sale of another player. we might of spent 30 million this summer but we recouped 20million in sales which means we spent the same as most of the mid table teams and if you know your football like you think you do youll know that it was the exact same last season.

james94 - August 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

absolutly rediculouse

Ken Barlow - August 25th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

Enjoy ur lil stint @ the top of the prem u gobshites cos it wont last to long……..oh hold on it didnt ahahahaha