KaKa
-
Posts
51,852 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by KaKa
-
-
You could just not give your scout the decision to choose your manager like
Carr was really more of the head of recruitment, so it was closer to a DOF role. I don't think it was a bad call asking him to choose his manager.
Choose the man you think can best manage the types of players you are bringing in. I think that's fair enough.
Instead the joker went and brought in his friend, which is just criminal. Ideally someone more senior at the club should have had him justifying that choice, which clearly wasn't the case.
-
Yeah that was really fucked up, though I'm thinking it was more nepotism than bad judgement as SM was his friend wasn't he? Still a big fuck up though.
Yes, it clearly was, and in a way that makes it even worse.
He would have had a good knowledge of all the French managers or those that had done well in that league with French players. it was unacceptable for him to then go and bring in McLaren. It has killed us.
You only have to look at someone like Puel, who didn't even come in from a top team in France, to see what could have been. It was an incredibly unfortunate decision.
-
Away form is fine, we consistently pick up points and can sit deep and play on the counter.
We need to change something at home though. We need to beat the shite at home to stay up, and playing like this isn't going to cut it.
How would you set this team up to take the initiative to teams? Please enlighten us all if you don't mind.
We look to invite teams onto us and then capitalise on the counter all the time, because that is how we are most effective.
At home teams aren't looking to attack us as much and so it doesn't work the same way.
At this point I am desperately hoping Rafa leaves or gets fired, and we get in someone that sets this team up to play on the "front foot", which is the answer to all our ills apparently.
Then we'll see how things turn out. Maybe that will show people some sense.
We really do deserve the wretched managers we have been cursed with in recent years.
-
Well that makes it his style of play you daft wallop.
No it doesn't. That is the simplest way of looking at things, with absolutely no depth of reasoning at all.
-
Its a better approach to what we’re doing now tbf. If Carr was still here we’d probably have at least one good attacking player
Not Rafa’s fault obviously as he’s not given enough money to get the players he actually wants
agree. Carr got way to much stick, his hit rate for transfers was actually really good, and he was working under massive constraints. You can see how hard it is for Rafa, and then see what Carr managed to do with fuck all money,
Carr identified some really good players, but we didn't sign his prime targets, some of whom have gone on to be world class players ( assuming our interest was genuine). Ashley has lost the club a fortune by refusing to sanction £20m signings like Plea, Aubemyang and Lacazette.
Carr is severely underrated on here, we really miss him on the recruitment side imho, needed someone to REALLY back him.
Carr was really good and was working well with the connections we had made with agents in France.
However, when he was finally given the chance and choice to bring in a manager to work with the players he was bringing in, what did he do?
He went and brought in Steve McLaren ... and that was the end of any chance we had of making the system work.
When it really came down to it he messed up his biggest recruitment decision, which was picking his own manager.
If he had got that remotely right, we would have been in a much better situation right now.
-
I don't understand how people can watch our current team and deem this to be Rafa's style of play.
It is not his style of play. It is the players at his disposal. In order to stay in this league we have to be a more pragmatic side due to the the players we have.
It shouldn't be so hard to understand this at all.
-
Rafa worked with this "shite" last season and we stayed up comfortably!
-
Just ask them to play on the front foot and everything will be okay huh?
An incredibly shortsighted view on things.
Please tell me which player in the team is going to be initiating this front foot football please.
And then tell me which wide players are going to be taking on defenders and creating chances.
I mean ... are you guys actually serious?!
-
Awful from players and manager.
How was it awful from the manager? He can't risk the two or three players who are absolutely vital to us surviving, and we started the game on the front foot. The players were absolutely appalling today.
It's his job to win football matches....fucks sake he can be blamed you know it's not illegal
The shite tactics and way we play and approach games is down to him
The whole setup stinks from top to bottom (a fish rots from the head, as they say) Get rid of Rafa and who you gonna get to come in? Rafa 'might' keep us up - Pardew/Allardyce, etc won't.
Can you honestly say big Sam would get any worse from this group of players???
Sam is used to getting a tune from shite....Rafa isnt
My goodness. We would have been relegated last season with the same team under Allardyce. Please stop it.
-
Joselu, Kenedy, Murphy and Ritchie is far more than enough against a Championship side.
I'm not sure Rafa should bother throwing anyone on. Leave it as it is. Maybe it will let fans filling the stadium understand the dire situation this club is in.
-
My goodness ... we're actually losing at home to Blackburn?!
Actually have a pretty strong team playing too. This is crazy.
The club just needs to implode at this point it's all so pointless.
-
Timo Werner linked with a move to England, please sell Ashley as this is one player I’d love here.
Liverpool were strongly linked a few months ago. They need another goal scorer outside of Salah so it makes sense.
Do they? doesn't seem like they struggle to score at all. If you can point to anything that they need ( it's minor because they are great team) better CB depth and probably need to bleed Fabinho and Keita into the team more as eventually you probably need to move on from Milner and Henderson as there's probably a ceiling there.
But goalscoring? doesn't seem like an issue to me.
I think Mane and Firmino are very inconsistent goal scorers. If Salah for any reason has to miss a number of games, I think it would be really evident.
-
Its a better approach to what we’re doing now tbf. If Carr was still here we’d probably have at least one good attacking player
Not Rafa’s fault obviously as he’s not given enough money to get the players he actually wants
Yes, I agree it is a better approach, as we would have a much better first team and squad I would imagine, with better and more exciting talent.
However, because the club could never be bothered to identify the right manager for this approach it has continued to be a mess. Even Rafa being a top manager was not the right man for that approach to buying players.
You only bring Rafa in if you are going to let him get the types of players he wants, and you are willing to support him in that. Otherwise get in a good manager from abroad that is happy to work in a head coaching type role, and is familiar with young players from France.
It's so frustrating that the club continuously put the wrong type of managers in place if they were so married to that method of recruitment.
-
Never seen him play, not that it matters it'll be bs
The only transfer rumours I ever believe are with young French players coming in from France.
We established relationships with all of those French agents previously, and since then Ashley has only been interested in getting cheap, young prospects from France. I think he sees it as good value that can be sold on for much more. Our success selling on the likes of Cabaye and Sissoko would have been a factor I presume.
Perhaps they have finally bullied Rafa into accepting this approach or doing without. Would not be surprised.
-
Timo Werner linked with a move to England, please sell Ashley as this is one player I’d love here.
Liverpool were strongly linked a few months ago. They need another goal scorer outside of Salah so it makes sense.
-
Incredible that we can't compete financially with Bournemouth.
Honestly, we're so far behind now it really is quite unbelievable.
Bournemouth just spent £19 million on a player that will start off as more of a backup for them initially.
-
Wow. Solanke hasn't looked that convincing when he's played. He's been okay, but hasn't really scored goals.
Liverpool and Bournemouth seem to have some kind of thing going.
Bournemouth have done this with Jordan Ibe already and it didn't really work out at all, and he seemed to show a lot more than Solanke did as a player in general, albeit they do play in different positions.
Strange stuff. Pretty astonishing that £19 million gets you that nowadays. I guess it's because he's young and English and has looked good for England under 21s, and so maybe they can bring him along, but man it's a risk.
I guess they want young players who are brought up in a certain style of play, who have potential.
Yeah, it's fair enough. I admire the approach. Would like to see it work out for them.
I think more clubs would do the same if the prices were more reasonable. Liverpool asking that amount for him is astonishing.
It's why so many of the good young English players that have come up at the better clubs, and have not quite got the chance to play then get stuck.
With Jadon Sancho's success though maybe more English clubs will start looking to take a chance on these types of players. Dortmund got him for around £8 million, and you'd have to pay 10 times that to buy him now.
-
Wow. Solanke hasn't looked that convincing when he's played. He's been okay, but hasn't really scored goals.
Liverpool and Bournemouth seem to have some kind of thing going.
Bournemouth have done this with Jordan Ibe already and it didn't really work out at all, and he seemed to show a lot more than Solanke did as a player in general, albeit they do play in different positions.
Strange stuff. Pretty astonishing that £19 million gets you that nowadays. I guess it's because he's young and English and has looked good for England under 21s, and so maybe they can bring him along, but man it's a risk.
-
Lovren with the worst punt into the box. Terrible.
-
Lovren is so mistake prone.
-
Pep freaking out. Not sure that was even a foul on Fernandinho.
Was a clear foul on aguero.
Oh right, I looked away for a bit. Missed that.
-
Guarantee Walker will come on for 1 point leaving me with Wan Bissaka stranded on my bench
Sorry man.
-
Pep freaking out. Not sure that was even a foul on Fernandinho.
-
Incredible goalkeeping. Just fantastic.
Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)
in Football
Posted
That all sounds great, and I am pretty certain the manager we have is professional enough and knowledgeable enough to know that.
He is working with these players everyday on the training pitch, and so there has to be a reason he is not going with that approach.
Personally, I have not seen anything from the players we have to make me feel as though they can play the way you have described.
Now if we had the team we had with Cisse, Ba, Ben Arfa, Cabaye and Tiote and we were playing the way we are under Rafa, then I'd be perplexed, and would agree with you wholeheartedly.
For me I just don't see it with our current players. I think they'd be a disaster setup like that.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that if you feel differently.
Fulham came into the season playing that way and were getting blasted. Conceding a ton of goals and sitting at the bottom of the league. I'm pretty confident they have a better squad than ours.
People will say we have much better defenders, but I wouldn't even be so sure. I think it appears that way because we have been so well organised to defend first.