How can Rafa make Liverpool play like title contenders - in SIX WORDS!
by Mr Comfort on August 31st, 2008
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Long-winded people are boring, and writing full sentences is for chumps. So instead you have just SIX words. Sound easy? Good for you.
After a thoroughly uninspiring display at Villa Park, many Liverpool fans must be wondering what Rafa Benitez needs in order to get his side performing to their potential. Do they need a fully fit Gerrard? Do they need some more new signings? Should they change their tactics on the pitch?
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You could probably write an essay about this. Well tough, you only have SIX WORDS! Concise and creative, or just plain hilarious, it’s up to you now so leave your masterpiece in the comments.
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Frank - August 31st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Don’t play Lucas, Mascherano, Alonso together!
Louis Haha - August 31st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
NO.CHANCE.YOU.BIN.DIPPING.PIKEYS.
Ben - August 31st, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Play players in correct positions
Ben - August 31st, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Play players in correct positions!!!
Fernando - August 31st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
get some width in the team
Stu - August 31st, 2008 at 6:40 pm
He can by some good players
john - August 31st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
by getting so width
John - August 31st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Play Players In Their Proper Positions
Irish Scouser - August 31st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
So, who was played out of position then (I hope you don’t mean Keane)? And who should he have played instead of Lucas?
We weren’t phenomenal, but it was a tough match and we were without Gerrard and Torres! And did anyone notice that we are joined top of the table? Chelsea and United have already dropped points at home - away to Villa will be tough for everyone. Mascherano is probably the most important player when it comes to the team playing well and he came back with a bang. Dossena was great too.
My six words: (we will play like title contenders) WHEN WE HAVE A FULL TEAM.
IN RAFA WE TRUST
Ryan - August 31st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Buy a good quality left winger; Babel on the right, not kuyt; Torres to play as lone striker
poor pikey scoucers - August 31st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
robbie keane 20 mill pound flop !
redeye - September 1st, 2008 at 12:22 am
FALL ON YOUR FUCKEN SWORD NOW
trent - September 1st, 2008 at 1:01 am
buy a good winger!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slicky4 - September 1st, 2008 at 1:09 am
QUARESMA AND DRENTHE natural wingers
sonny - September 1st, 2008 at 2:13 am
babel right wing, riera (unfortunatly) left
sonny - September 1st, 2008 at 2:14 am
buy a great not good winger
Anonymous - September 1st, 2008 at 2:21 am
play wingers in the team
Sanz - September 1st, 2008 at 2:23 am
get kuyt out of here,play babel and play keane upfront
Jack Sin - September 1st, 2008 at 2:31 am
When we actually win the league?
Robby C - September 1st, 2008 at 2:32 am
to sum it up in 6 words for Rafa “I have no cahones (i have no balls)” Benitez, this is the ethos he and they need to take up
LIVERPOOL - PLAY TO WIN , NOT DRAW!!!!
His formation fot me today told me evrything I have been saying about him for over a season and a half now.
Man .U , The Arse, Chelski, And Soon Spurs will play to win whereas The Scouse play not to be defeated. totally different mental attitude.
Benitez -”a draw is a point gained”
Wenger , Ferguson, Scolari - “a draw is 2 points lost”
Robby C - September 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am
p.s another 6
THE NEW MARTIN JOL IN DISGUISE!!!!!!
punisher - September 1st, 2008 at 2:44 am
kops era is gone ,dead ,buried forever….4get BPL…concentrate on CL.Carling.more realistic…
BPL is now Cheski, MU & GONNERS 2 compete…
RAfaluation just ain’t workin in Merseyside…
shaan - September 1st, 2008 at 2:49 am
rafa shud play right players in the right positions. whch he wont do bcoz he’s a nut. he simultaneously drained his brains along with his hair. epl is stil a big question under rafa.
Srorr4ever - September 1st, 2008 at 3:21 am
????? ?????…????? ?????
QuackMan - September 1st, 2008 at 3:25 am
worst performance for a liverpool team ive seen in a decade. Lucas shouldnt have played alongside Mascherano. liverpool needs to get more crosses in and less playing the ball from defence. I sure hope albert riera would sign soon so we could get right on being real title contenders
Kev - September 1st, 2008 at 3:31 am
NO square pegs in round hole!
david - September 1st, 2008 at 3:35 am
Stop trying, it will not happen
Rafa's Mum - September 1st, 2008 at 3:43 am
Resign and let someone else try!
Davenelli - September 1st, 2008 at 3:58 am
resign, resign, resign, resign, resign & resign.
RSW - September 1st, 2008 at 4:04 am
Hey Rafa go back to Spain
Rafa's Grandma - September 1st, 2008 at 4:05 am
Surrender and save the boss money
Srorr4ever - September 1st, 2008 at 4:06 am
Don`t be coward….Don`t be stubborn
jamie - September 1st, 2008 at 4:20 am
Keanes a flop and Pavelychenkos top!
Irish Scouser - September 1st, 2008 at 4:35 am
If any of you who say Rafa should quit claim to be Liverpool fans, own up now! That is scumbag Manc and Chelsea talk. Seriously, own up and defend your comment.
Liverpool’s best 11 have not played together yet and we’re top of the league and safely qualified in the CL.
For all of you crying for width and blaming Rafa, didn’t you know that Dossena is a wing back and the reason Rafa wanted Gareth Barry so badly is so he could cover at left back Dossena and give him licence to bomb up the wing (plus Alonso being quite poor). Parry, Hicks and Gillett prevented this.
IN RAFA WE TRUST. YNWA.
apandi dan - September 1st, 2008 at 4:50 am
Close caughtOffside.com. GOD HATE YOU
hahaha.leso - September 1st, 2008 at 4:52 am
Bazil’s not a Rat!! He Hampster!!
mapu - September 1st, 2008 at 4:57 am
liverpool need a great manager…forget about rafalution…from great manager..we can see the quality of player…the manager will create the player…if we have a world class player also…it doesnt mean we have better squad..it is up 2 the manager starategy…plez resign rafa…
janse - September 1st, 2008 at 5:04 am
Rafa:
stop being coward…
stop being stubborn…
play every player in his previous team’s position …if you have hard time finding
the reason you bought him for….
don’t miss treat player if you decide to sell him or punish him on a long bench
staying…Team moral>>> Dr,,!!
speaking of which…is pennant still liverpoolian? oh yeah..crouchie isn’t..!
or else…resign
punisher - September 1st, 2008 at 5:06 am
keano’ golden years …finito//case of deja vu…slow & ineffective….
many of the plyers rafa signed r good only 4 coca cola footie not BPL…virtual unknown plyers…
c’mmon..Uncle sam..yield d stick..sack Rafa..d nut…c his potatoes face on tv..also want 2 vomit…no a bit handsome…
leiva shite behind - September 1st, 2008 at 5:35 am
Lucas Leiva-most overated brazillian ever
JUNO - September 1st, 2008 at 5:46 am
FLAIR,WIDTH,UNDERSTANDING,AGGRESSION,RISKS,DECISIVENESS.
Ryan - September 1st, 2008 at 5:51 am
It is not going to happen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EASY AS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Martin - September 1st, 2008 at 6:12 am
We’re not good enough simple as
Robby - September 1st, 2008 at 6:22 am
Rafa need to understand strikers are meant to be strikers
toxteth man - September 1st, 2008 at 6:24 am
3 words. Gerrard, Positions, Yanks.
but in six, to mr George and mr Gilett, “back the manager or fire him”
1st Word–GERRARD is an inconsistant footballer, benitez sees this which is one of the many, many reasons he was trying to sign gareth barry. This is liverpools predicament. We need consistancy but Gerrard, (who will be, and should be played consistanty game in and game out when he is fit) seems to struggle with form throughout the season. On his day he will be among the top three best midfielders in the world, and will desimate even the best sides. Xabi Alonso has compounded this problem as he has proved himself inconsitant over the last 18 months. This is too long for a top club which deserves top players, I don’t care what you say about his passing ability. If any player no matter how good doesn’t perform at liverpool for 18 months he should be sold to the highest bidder. Every true liverpool fan out there would trade two champions league cups for the premiership title again and for the consistancy that came in the eighties. Barry=MR CONSISTANT and Benitez=CLEVER MANAGER
2nd word-POSITONS. THere have been some questions raised further up this stupid forum (I Don’t know why I write on CAUGHT OFFSIDE) about players being played out of positions. I think to a large degree this problem would be resolved if RAFA had the backing that Fergie has to buy who he wants when he wants. I think that you would see a different liverpool in a few positions if Rafa had absolute backing buy the owners. Rafa has been juggling stuff around because he cannot buy out and out world class players in certain positions all at once he is buying versatile players until he can afford the world class 1st eleven players like torres, babel etc. The biggest lack that I see is quality out wide. there is a huge need for out and out wingers but not just any like gonzales, leto, even to some degree penant but world class wingers like David Bently. I would like to see Babel played in a 4-3-3 as if we don’t have the wingers why not?? or in 4-2-3-1 as one of the three. He is not a natural winger but what a weapon he can be and I believe will become. To me there will always be questions with some of the places benitez plays people but I would so much like to know who he would play and where if he had the players he really wanted. 4-2-3-1 with gareth Barry in the two with Masch plus possibly better full backs would be a title contesting team.
3rd Word-YANKS this one is a little bit tricky as it is hard to know a lot of what goes on behind the scenes. For me the job of the owner of the club is to back the manager or fire him. This middle ground meddling is absolutely ludicrous. Some ignorant fans out there are saying rubbish about how silva WOULD BE A BETTER BUY THAN BARRY and shite like this, and the owners as well as the board have started to withdraw their support for Rafa Benitez’s clear transfer favourite, this shouldn’t happen, not with Rafa Benitez’s pedigree of clever signings (given his financial limits). The other reason why the YANKS stand in the way of Liverpool success is the whole stadium fiasco. They are failing to deliver on their promises and this has been evident time and time again. The stadium is absolutely core to the success of the club as it will not only bring in valuable income but will definately help increase the going forward mentality of everyone involved in the club. and the longer this whole thing drags on the more negative and poor our performances will be. Steve G said himself that it was affecting players last season. Rafa has done a fantastic job at getting on with stuff and making do with the finances he’s got. Reira is yet another example of the second best that Benitez had to content himself with (not that I think he is a bad player-i hope he does well but you know what I mean). Yanks out, someone who actually cares about the history and tradition of the club, and not making money in.
Josif Dzolev - September 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
In eleven words:
Torres NGog
Babel Gerrard Penant
Alonso Mascherano
Agger Skrtel Carrager
Reina
and there is no Yossi, no Kuyt, no Dossena, no Lucas, no Degen or Arbeloa, no Aurelio…. and ofcourse no Rafa, … with this formation lets say Arsen Wenger will never play 0:0
redfanred - September 1st, 2008 at 7:00 am
kudos toxteth man!! Excellent.
K1 - September 1st, 2008 at 7:20 am
toxteth man, i wish everyone would post thoughtful comments like the one above. excellent analysis of the depressing situation on and off the pitch - although i am sure rafa will turn it round yet again. IN RAFA WE TRUST!
Mostafa - September 1st, 2008 at 7:20 am
attack , desire win , courage , torres & Gerrard
matL - September 1st, 2008 at 7:48 am
Don’t play boring strategy
dede - September 1st, 2008 at 7:49 am
keane is useless and poor play!!!!!!!!!!!
Lvpol9 - September 1st, 2008 at 7:51 am
HATE RAFA MOSTLY, USING POOR STRATEGY
Garry - September 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
what a waste of money to sign keane!!!!!!! lame!! very2 poor play!!!….every games he plays POOR!!!!! i hate you!!!!!!
Gagz - September 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am
Don’t play too defensive!!! Rafa asshole
Lvpol9 - September 1st, 2008 at 7:56 am
Play Nabil el zhar oftenly on the field
Hack - September 1st, 2008 at 7:58 am
PUT AN ATTACKING STRATEGY,IMPROVE FORWARD!
bENz - September 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am
TELL KEANE TO IMPROVE HIS SKILL
Karim - September 1st, 2008 at 8:01 am
Yesterday was a lame played
gErralD - September 1st, 2008 at 8:03 am
Don’t only hope in torres and gerrard to help the team..believed in yourselves..Be a dangerous players who hunger to score a GOAL!!!!!!!!!!
Razz - September 1st, 2008 at 8:04 am
often use one-touch play
TevZ - September 1st, 2008 at 8:06 am
Hope Rafa learns from his mistake in putting a lame strategy and technic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yin - September 1st, 2008 at 8:08 am
Improve Ngog,yesterday he played very poor and lame..hate it..and he’s lazy!!!!!!!….We liverpool fans don’t like a lazy player in liverpool team!!!!….
Eldon - September 1st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Me girlfriend who doesn’t even watch football summed it up the problems at Liverpool:
Why is it that Liverpool who are a great team buying average quality names. I dont understand why you are not buying the best?
I thought Liverpool were one of the best teams in the world?
Why is it that you loose two players and you don’t have the quality to plug the gaps?
Your team is average compared to Chelsea and Manu who seem to have loads’ good players.
The words of a woman giving my team this kind analysis hit me like a bolt.
Lets get out of dreamland for a moment. Rafa has done ok this season by default.
The balance of the team is wrong and it proved yesterday that we are still a 3rd or 4th place team. We don’t have the quality in the 2nd and 3rd starter of players to make an impact on the league later on. We should not be looking to draw against teams like Villa we need to beat these teams and also start getting superior results against the top 3.
I am very worried as the position we are in is a smoke screen we are playing very poorly and unless the remaining 9 start performing I see us flying back down the table once we start to play better quality teams
RobB - September 1st, 2008 at 8:11 am
Very dissapointed on RAFA..huh!
RobB - September 1st, 2008 at 8:13 am
Don’t buy Riera,buy Drenthe
zizo - September 1st, 2008 at 8:15 am
poor play yesterday..BUUUuuuuuuuuuuu~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPROVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
zizo - September 1st, 2008 at 8:15 am
PLAY ONE-TOUCH OR ONE-TWO OFTENLY
tHRE3 - September 1st, 2008 at 8:17 am
ALWAYS PLAY AUERLIO AND NABIL EL ZHAR
dARKZ - September 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
Motivate Liverpool players to think for the title..keep this in your mine,Rafa….
quen - September 1st, 2008 at 8:20 am
IMPROVE KEANE,DON’T BE CORWARD….
mArIK - September 1st, 2008 at 8:23 am
iMPROVE your strategy,Rafael benitezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..
criticalmind - September 1st, 2008 at 8:27 am
Kuyt & Keane out of the team!!
Rafa - September 1st, 2008 at 8:28 am
ONE-TOUCH AND ONE-TWO~~~ ONE-TOUCH AND ONE-TWO~~~ ONE-TOUCH AND ONE-TWO~~~ ONE-TOUCH AND ONE-TWO~~~..-this is important in every game!! keep it in your mine RAFA!!!!!!!!!
L.F.C - September 1st, 2008 at 9:08 am
Have any of you arse or manc supporters bothered to look at the table:
1. Chelsea 7points
2. Liverpool 7 points
3. Manchester City 6 points
4. Arsenal 6 points!!!!
5. West Ham 6 points
6. Middlesboruogh 6 points
7. Aston Villa 4 points
8. Bolton 4 points
9. Manchester United 4 points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. Blackburn 4 points
P.S Took me ages to do that cuz Manu are so far down the table!!! LOL
L.F.C - September 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am
You cant regain the title in 9th place!!!
sparky - September 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
My god what a load of whingers! Anyone one this message board who can read (that automatically excludes the Mancs) should read Paul Tomkins latest article on Liverpoolfc.tv. Instead of listening to those dickheads in the commentary box. Paul writes decent articles. Kind of puts things in perspective for what is only the 3rd game of the season.
Reds ranger - September 1st, 2008 at 9:54 am
not trying .
players in right position .
wings. (not kuyt and Benayoun )
Rafa don’t be coward and stubborn
play Pride of Merseyside,we are Liverpool .
win and the win .
Caucasianliver - September 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
Benayon & Arbeloa out of the team
Caucasianliver - September 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Reserve stars must play to improve
Donavan Ried - September 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Irish Scouser - September 1st, 2008 at 4:35 am:…
“If any of you who say Rafa should quit claim to be Liverpool fans, own up now!”
I AM A LIVERPOOL FAN…..and yes Rafa should quit or be sacked, and anyone of you who can’t see this know that I have many bottles of Snake Oil for sale only £9.99 a pop.
I will use the money form the sale to buy Liverpool Fc, pay all the clubs debts, build a 100,000 capacity Stanley Park stadium with free beer pumps, and lap dancers for all our fans and give the new manager £500m war chest so he can buy or clone all the best players in the world, Pele, Madonna, Kaka, Van Bastan, another Gerrard or two
Yes I live in fantasy land but so does and anyone else who can’t see by now that with approaching £200m Rafa had to spend on players we should be fighting out the top 3 spot with Chelsea and Man Utd ever year ( With 6 points or less between us), Instead of trying to cling on to fourth place ever year.
Can you imagine if David Moyes and Everton had that sought of money???
I am not one of those people who you will hear say things like ” Let’s not talk about what’s wrong with England Lets talk about what’s right with England” …what’s right with something speaks for it’s self…
And there is something very wrong at Liverpool Fc.
We have an above Average squad with some great players,. We need to improve in some positions. What we don’t have is an above average manager.
We have a manager who is a bad tactician, a manager who plays players out of position, and a manger with little or no ambition. What Manager buys an injury prone player(Degen) when there are better out there without the problems Degen carries??
We need only run into financial difficulties,(We might be there already) lose a few key players to injury,(Gerrard,Torres etc) and have a bad string of results and we could find our self becoming the next Leeds Utd
I always get excited at the start of the season, with all the transfer talks and all.
For the first time ever it was not the case this season, and it saddens me.
Let’s hope that Rafa will be the one walking alone at the end of this season
Ynwa
jd - September 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
EMBRACE MEDIOCRITY TILL YANKS LOSE INTEREST
Donavan Ried - September 1st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
toxteth man - September 1st, 2008 at 6:24 am……2nd word-POSITONS “.Rafa has been juggling stuff around because he cannot buy out and out world class”
Can’t understand that comment and don’t agree with it… Three reason why:
(1) He has had the money over 4 years appox’ £200m to buy players, but with few exceptions has time and time spent it on squad players
(2) Has a right winger in Babel and a attacker in Kuyt. Only needed a left winger but wasted £20 on Keane instead. But instead choose to play these players out of postion. you saw what happend when Kuyt was switch back to a strikers role. within seconds a chance at goal (offside only just) a winning goal shortly after.
(3) Rafa buying four & five players a year in stead of one or two quality players for the same money. £40m plus this year could have brought Drenthe for £20-£25m
James - September 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
sack rafa, get rid of yanks
toxteth man - September 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 am
donavein reid,
you raise some good questions about some of Rafa’s signings. There will not be a manager in the world who doesn’t have his signings questioned. Some managers buy the “best” players in the world only to find that they turn out to be a failure at a new club-Morientes, Shevchenko, and tons of others. I do sometimes wish that Rafa would do what seems obvious, eg. Buy some quality wingers! But you have to also give him credit for trying to sign Gareth Barry. As far as I can see there couldn’t be a better buy for Liverpool at this point in time than him. All I am saying is that the problem at LFC goes deeper than Rafa. Fergie took I think seven years before he won the EPL, so give Rafa more time, and more backing, then judge him.
toxteth man - September 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 am
and yes Drenthe would be a fantastic signing
gaz1349 - September 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
play wide men. give gerrard freedom.
nick reddyoff - September 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Sack Rafa - get a new manager
Bill Vector - September 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 am
Join the catering team - serve pies
Donavan Ried - September 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 am
toxteth man - September 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 am……”Fergie took I think seven years before he won the EPL, so give Rafa more time, and more backing, then judge him.”…….You make a very good counter agrument Toxtehth Man, I just don,t have the faith in Rafa anymore.sorry
lolipop - September 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
it will be fucking near impossible