Rafael Benitez made a bed for himself with his recent press conference where he repeatedly claimed he was talking ‘facts’. Not much work had to go in to disproving Rafa’s facts but that didn’t stop the FSW going on and on.
Benitez couldn’t resist making further comments about Manchester United though, in which he inaccurately painted a picture of United spending a fortune on players whilst he’d spent within his means at Liverpool. Again, not much work had to go in to again disproving the mental Spaniard.
I’m not alone though with other sources also exposing the false statements Benitez can’t seem to help himself from making these days. For a man who had usually been so quiet and composed, the frequency of his comments at the moment, coupled with the totally inaccurate subject matter, makes our “he’s crackin up!” chant truer with every passing week!
Setanta have addressed Benitez’s claims.
Seemingly not content with producing conspiracy fact sheets on Sir Alex Ferguson, and mysterious ramblings about ‘craziness’ occurring at the JJB, Rafa Benitez has now come out with yet another eyebrow raising ‘fact’ when quizzed about his persistent cracking open of the Anfield transfer piggy bank.
Admittedly, Rafa may have miscalculated a few pounds here and there due to the ever increasing complexity and frequent use of football’s ‘undisclosed’ transfer fees, but according to our maths Rafa’s net dealing at Liverpool has been quite a long way off a profit – £81,791,000 down in fact.
Approximately £189,866,000 has been squandered on numerous players of similar price and quality to Jermaine Pennant (£6.8m), Andrea Dossena (£7m) and Lucas Leiva (£8m), while only £108,075,000 has been recouped on players such as England international Michael Owen (£8m) and Craig Bellamy (£7.5m – who has notably left that club for £15m).
Martin Samuel isn’t too fussed about the inaccuracies of Rafa’s ramblings though, instead he’s focussing on the real fact: Ferguson has built a better team than Benitez and therefore will probably win the league. His conclusion says it best.
Were Manchester United to blow it, we would all be looking behind the story for clues. It is easier to work out what has gone wrong at Liverpool, though: the answer is right there, on the teamsheet.
Queue – the bin dipping twats coming on mouthing off about us being obsessed….
If they’re manager and players werent so obsessed, it wouldnt give us a reason to even acknowledge they’re existence
so before you start, fuck off back to you’re slums
YAWNNNNNNN
Lets face it the waiter is as funny as fuck, if he did stand up he’d earn a fortune!
Tee hee, super duper ‘champions of the world’ and they’re still obssessing over little ole LFC.
Inferiority complex alert.
Ps. Why do you sing about hating scousers and then in the next breath sing ‘Rooneh’ Rooneh’?
were sitting pretty boys,by the time we come to old trafford we’ll be ready to leap you.never mind what martin samuel says now,wait to see what he’s saying in may.Something like[ benitez does it again by breaking the stranglehold of the rich clubs,just like spain benitez conquers england] say what you like about our fat spanish waiter we’re heading in the right direction under him.just look at the league table,who’s scored more?while you have been lucky so far with late goals to scrape 1-0 results and there have been lots of them,we;ve not been so lucky but the odd occasion it does happen we’re lucky were you ars showing title winning form?give us a break.truth be told your first 11 isnt superior to ours we showed that at anfield where we played the better by far but according to sky you were just having a bad day.yeah yeah the press suck up to fergie and its sickening talkj about benitez cracking up, he hasnt thrown any tea cups or refused to talk to bbc because they told the truth about his son being a dodgy agent or put any players in a+e with head injuries.fergie’s just nuts full stop it’s just that he’s treated with kid gloves by the press.so from a supporter of the most successful english club ,good bye for now and be annoyed in the knowledge that your never going to take over our record.
YNWA
fuck off back to you’re slums you bin dipping twats
IRWA
As a Liverpool fan (born and raised in the city before you start) I have to say that even I found the comments of Rafa a bit questionable. Can’t really see that he has made more than he ahs spent – after all, this is relatively unheard of in football.
I can understand his frustrations, particularly given all the recent goings on within the club’s heirarchy, but I can’t say it’s doing him any favours coming out with this sort of stuff.
One thing which I think your “http://therepublikofmancunia.com/stats-to-prove-liverpool-boss-wrong/” fails to take into account though is the state of the two teams when Rafa took over. I would like to meet a Man U fan who honestly thinks that we were on a level footing when Rafa came the club. Admittedly, some of the signings he has made have not been the greatest, but the cost of doing a complete overhaul should far outweigh the cost of maintaining an already title winning side (but it didn’t).
Last, but most certainly not least, I would just like to say what a fabulous advert for your football club the poster ‘debrabs’ is. His/her basic grasp of the English language is more than I’ve come to expect in my years of experience with the lower classes.
Yes we hate Loserpool. With a passion!
But yes, I also love that little scal’.
He was a blue, don’t you get it. The enemy of our enemy n all that.
Regardless, I wouldnt be found dead near a Liverpool blog (for fear of infections), what the hell are you doin here? Your club not good enough huh, grass greener on the other side?
I know everyone’s knocking Raf but I think he is a genius. Sign him for another 5yrs. Please!
ROOOONEY!
Slums, dole, etc.
We’ve got a live one here. Still living in 1985, when, it has to be said, Salford was an even bigger dump than Liverpool. Nothing much has changed either.
Bless.
tommy seems to forget.
Loserpool and Chelski had us by the balls. We were gone!
You two fucked it up already, you’r chance has gone!
And on a platter, you hand us the league. Tossers!
Don’t flatter yourself, manc (global fan) this blog shows up on our newsnow link.
A blue or not, he’s from one one of the toughest areas in the city and scouse through and through.
Hehe, your best player is a scouser…build a bonfire, etc.
Loserpool?
LolZ!!!
Half term in Aisa?
erm… 1985 was all slums and dole etc fair enough, but nothing much has changed in 2009 in Liverpool…
It looks like Baghdad around Anfeild… hence, fuck off back to you’re slums you bin dipping twat… Mind you, like most dippers you’ve probably not been to Anfield for19 years
Anfield.
You’re.
For future reference.
Not that you’d know what my fine city is like since you never leave your bedroom.
Tommy, I like how you say: “Benitez does it AGAIN”… That’s where I’ve stopped reading. Has he done it before? In England? With Liverpool? Ever?
Dipper…
wherever, whatever.. it’s a SHIT HOLE, like the whole city.
you wanna pay a visit to Manchester 08/09…. European captial of trophies.
Capital.
Shouldn’t that be Salford/Trafford 08/09?
i live in southport ya cock. ya know, the place stevie me and all his scalfuck mates come an hang out, cos everybodys tired of him in Loserpool.
I HATE YOU SO MUCH AAAAAGH!
*i wish we could filter these scums, bless ‘em.
not really no, like the banner says `Manchester` you might have seen it on the television, from the comfort of the armchair most of you bin dipping twats use.. for going to the game
Haha, Southport, a plazzy manc/scouser.
Bless, I feel your pain. You’ve got bigger issues than being a sad, clueless gloryhunter.
Well, technically you’re not from Manchester, so the banner is deemed null and void.
We use an armchair to go the game? Are all fake mancs this intelligent?
Remind me of the percentage of local fans inside Old Trafford again?
Tee hee.
You use an armchair to go the game, you use the big screen in the pub to go the game… you just dont `go` to the actual game.
Everyone knows that Liverpool is a blue city, you take your fans from the Wirral, Wales, Down south and Norway.
You’re obviously a bit thick, so I’ll go slower.
Remind…me…of…the..percentage of local fans inside Old Trafford when you’re ready.
Ok cally fair enough. But my families history is rooted in Manchester so much so I am related to my username. I have supported the devils long before the glory. So pls, try and knock me off my pedestal. Try and mock me. But I walk around a workplace full of redsh1te, they are embarrassed by there club and manager and if it werent for the protection of this thread, you would be as quiet as them.
Good luck against City, ya fucks!
Oooh, are in the Red Armeh?
No matter what is said from Anfield, Man Utd have gotta stay focused on our goals. its all fair and well if those from Anfield wanna have a go at us, but we’ve gotta remember that they feel that just because they’ve been top of the table at some points this season that they are going to win the title. Truth is, they have no idea what it is like being in a title race beyond December and have done excellently to be in the race at all. HOWEVER, we are MAN UTD and what any of our rivals do, should not bother us! we are on course to do something rendered almost impossible; win 5 trophies in one season. Anfield wish they could be in this position and thats why we hear the frustration in the press. i think the game on the 14th March will determain a hell of alot and we’ll see who saying what at the end of that game. they can’t win the title, espcially not this season anyway.
Remind me… how many of your fans come from the Wirral, Wales, Down South and Norway? what you need to do then is take that total from the shite capacity of Anfield.
You should be left with about 1000 dippers max, then you need to go to school to learn maths, do one of those courses the unemployed get.
Then times 1000 dippers by 50 Mancs and you’ll get you’re rough answer. Of course there could be more Mancs as I have not counted personally but I’d say it was an accurate guess.
now fuck off back to your slums you soft bin dipping cunt
IRWA
Cant we block other fans,please go away
and take your jealously with you.
Lol Cally sounds like a disgruntled Pool fan who’s just frustrated that they won Fuck for 2 decades. Lol Cally you have no place in this discussion between title holders. First go win yourself a league then you will be qualified enough to speak amongst us. So for now, Im sorry, its Red and White Kop for you…LOL
Yea, we have fans from all over the world here, thats proof that we are a massive club. try telling your club to ban all fans not from Liverpool, lets see you fill you stadium. This is a United blog, so if you do not like what u read, please just leave, unless of course you feel so disgraced to post you ur own blogs. next we hear from any dipper, we can safely say they love us too much to leave us
Rafa you buy shit! FACT !!
On Rooney: Have you’s not learned by now?
Oh he’d rather be a Devil than a Scouse
So no more shaggin’ your gran or even robbin’ your house,
Oh he’d rather be a Devil and play ‘longside Gary Nevillllllle
Oh, he’d rather be a Devil than a Scouse.
Poor deluded Tommy. Hilarious analysis, but IRWA, ta very much.
Ed The Red: another user on here made an excellent point regarding the whole ‘Rafa needed to re-shape the team’ argument. Dazjoe said “In 2002 Liverpool finished runners up with a team containing the likes of Owen, Hamann, Carragher, Hyppia, Gerrard, Dudek, and Riise. The basis of a title team was there, Benitez just had to tinker slightly, instead he made massive changes and bought a load of shite in.” That’s why we don’t buy the re-shaping argument.
Cally:
It’s “Asia”. You know, for future reference and all.
You claim your city is “fine”. Why the fuck is it, then, that seemingly half the Scouse female population descends on Manchester every weekend to do their shopping? Security too good in Liverpool these days or what?
Stow123: Why would you want to deprive yourself of these side-splitting posts? Cheers us up no end reading the drivel they come out with.
Enjoy your records while they last, dippers. We’re coming to get them – it’s just a matter of time.
Re Cally
“Remind me of the percentage of local fans inside Old Trafford again”
We admit we draw fans from near and far, but don’t think for one minute all you followers are from Liverpool.
Here is a list of Liverpool supporters clubs in England that run trips to your matches.
AMBLESIDE
BARNSTAPLE
BARROW IN FURNESS
BERWICK UPON TWEED
BRIGHTON
BRISTOL
CALDICOT
CARLISLE
CHESTERFIELD
CORBY
COVENTRY
DARLINGTON
DONCASTER
EAST ANGLIA
ESSEX
EXMOUTH
GRANTHAM
GRIMSBY
GUERNSEY
HARROGATE
HARTLEPOOL
HASTINGS
HEREFORD
HERT’SHIRE
HULL
HUMBERSIDE
ISLE OF MAN
JERSEY
KENT
LEEDS
LEICESTER
MILTON KEYNES
NEWCASTLE
NOTTINGHAM
PLYMOUTH
PRESTON
SCARBOROUGH
SCUNTHORPE
SHROPSHIRE
SHROPSHIRE / SHREWSBURY
SHROPSHIRE/IRONBRIDGE
STAFFORD & DISTRICT
STOKE
SWINDON
THAMES VALLEY
TIVERTON
TRENT VALLEY
WEST MIDLANDS
And of special interest to you, have a look at:
http://www.lfclondon.co.uk
Now i’ll ask you the same question you asked. At the Anfield matches what percentage of the crowd comes from Liverpool?
Oh Scott, if I were you I just would not bother putting anything about the dippers as we get the deluded cunts on here talking shite. Quality quote from Samuel though.
Re king Eric.
I agree; i’m not going to reply to them anymore. I know we’re the best, they know we’re the best, and that’s all that matters!
last year it was arsenal fans, now its liverpool. just wait for them to go quiet again. it was better than why.
Liverpool’s stadium should be called ANALFIELD,
because it’s the biggest outdoor shithouse in the country
Cally-
Hilarious. Grammar Nazi on an online football blog that’s run by a rival team. Get real, you write like a bitter kindergarten English teacher with sand in your vagina.
Yes, let’s all spend an hour pouncing on grammar and spelling errors like a frustrated menopausal in an ONLINE FORUM. We all know it’s because the club you support is too shite to be defended with facts, unless they’re Manuel Facts.
Get back to your penmanship classes already and leave the football talk to real men.
How ironic, sCALLYwag the Liverpool fan saying we’re obsessed, tell that to your fat Spanish buffoon. Fergie only mentioned him once saying he wasn’t sure Liverpool could cope with the pressure, then Benitez complains about Fergie talking about Liverpool “too much” and yet he has talked about Man United thrice since then. A bit like your diving captain who think diving is despicable but is guilty of it on numerous ocassions, hypocrisy runs in the club it seems.