English League Football ** spoilers ** [16th - 19th October 2010]

Re: Aquilani. Good job we got him fit then, and over his injury problems at the end of last season where he strung a fair few games together, got a hell chunk of assists and a goal to his name. Just like he is doing this season.
Fact is, our medical team said it wouldn't be a problem. Rafa is no medic, he trusted them and they got it wrong in terms of time scale.
But they did fix him though, he couldn't string a set of 3 games together before he came to us.

And who knows, maybe Rafa would have got someone else if the funds he deserved had been available to him. And by that i dont mean the owners injecting cash, i mean allowing 100% of player sales to be re-invested. Because there was a huge gulf in terms of money in to money out over the last 2 seasons. Rafa only got about 45% it seems. It still bugs me to this day where the Keane money went?

And besides, why loan him out, and give the new team an option to buy, and then use a lame excuse like "he needs game time, we did this so he can be an important player for us next year".
Additionally, why bother loaning him out when we didnt even reach our foreign quota?
 
Alpherah said:
Re: Aquilani. Good job we got him fit then, and over his injury problems at the end of last season where he strung a fair few games together, got a hell chunk of assists and a goal to his name. Just like he is doing this season.
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I'm not really sure how this is relevant to my point. We needed him fit for as much of last season as possible. Benitez bought him when he wasn't fit. Therefore it was a bad signing.

Fact is, our medical team said it wouldn't be a problem. Rafa is no medic, he trusted them and they got it wrong in terms of time scale.
But they did fix him though, he couldn't string a set of 3 games together before he came to us.
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I knew that he had a long term injury before he came to us as, I imagine, did most Liverpool fans and anyone who watches Romaa. To claim that Benitez didn't know that Aquilani would be out for at least a couple of months at the start of last season is ridiculous.

And who knows, maybe Rafa would have got someone else if the funds he deserved had been available to him. And by that i dont mean the owners injecting cash, i mean allowing 100% of player sales to be re-invested. Because there was a huge gulf in terms of money in to money out over the last 2 seasons. Rafa only got about 45% it seems. It still bugs me to this day where the Keane money went?
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That's not really the point. Benitez would have known how much he had to spend, and should therefore have prioritised better. Had he had £40mil to spend, then fine - he could have gone and got a fit midfielder, which the squad desperately needed, and could then have brought in Aquilani if he saw it as necessary. He would have known that he only had £20mil to spend, so why bring in an unfit player? He had £20mil to spend, and spent it poorly. End of story.

And besides, why loan him out, and give the new team an option to buy, and then use a lame excuse like "he needs game time, we did this so he can be an important player for us next year".
Additionally, why bother loaning him out when we didnt even reach our foreign quota?
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That's nothing to do with whether or not Benitez should have been fired. That's to do with Hodgson managing poorly, something which I am in agreement with you on.
 
Azza said:
Yessssssssss!!!!! Brilliant result. :D. COYB!! Hope we can carry this forward now!!

Bye bye Liverpool!! :p
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Hopefully we have a bit of momentum now to get a few more wins in a row!

Was made up today with the result, probably the loudest support I've heard in Goodison since the Fiorentina game a few years back! The red support was unusually quiet though.. :D
 
Roy after the match, "It's a tough place to go to, we played well, they scored two good goals, our season doesn't depend on this one result..."

Is there an echo? i swear to god i hear this after every single week at the moment.
He'l still be harping on with this line with 3 games left to play.
 
Arghhhh offside lol...come on Blackpool...stick it up City:p

Blackpool are playing mighty well, definitely better than City...
 
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