In our 11th week up in St John’s Beacon, Neil, Gibbo, Gutmann and Girling pick the bones out of yet another quiet week for Liverpool Football Club.
This week’s tunes from The Fall Of Kings and Mervin Gersh.
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Any chance of a discussion as to how the new manager is to go about revitalising the team? Who stays, who goes, what to do with the likes of Cole, Aquilani, the youngsters, the old farts? I have no doubt, we are in for a wait once Martinez refuses to be manipulated. You are going to need a topic to fill in.
In discussion re: Rafa, one of the counter-argument raised was that we may rather want to opt for a “complete clean slate”, but it’s never going to be a clean slate if we’re sticking with Borrell and Segura.
As long as we are sticking with our academy/reserves’s philosophy, then the new manager *must* be the first-team equivalent of those two men.
If Rafa fits that, then there’s no basis in this argument to rule him out.
(That said, he could of course be ruled for other cited reasons i.e. wanting large control, relationship with management etc.)
I’m quite surprised that the name of Luis Enrique is nowhere to be seen in English media (or this podcast). Is there I a reason why he is out of the question that I am unaware of?
1. He was sacked by Roma this season, so is available.
2. He played under Cruyff’s Barcelona team, philosophy-wise.
3. He succeeded Guardiola as coach of Barcelona B, when Guardiola was promoted to the first team, and coached them for three seasons, so basically has a very similar if not better CV than Guardiola at the point when Pep took over Barcelona’s first team.
4. He’s still only 42, so fits the young manager criteria. (Although if Maxi is considered old…)
5. He played a 4-3-3 at Roma, which suits us.
6. May be irrelevant but Liverpool has a connection with Roma via FSG on the ownership front. (Even less relevant, Doni.)
7. He can operate under a director of football (Sabatini in Roma).
Seems to make sense on so many facets, regardless of what will actually happen, it’s astounding how Villas-Boas is getting a lot of press speculation and he gets none.
Anyway, why does every media outlet know as a certainty that Rafa has not been contacted by FSG? Has Rafa or FSG spoken out about it, or does someone have Rafa’s phone tapped?
I know this may seem trivial under the current circumstances… But I’d love to hear TAW’s views on the new kit!
Rafa installed as manager now, Agent Torres back from Stamford Bridge, one or two undiscovered gems from Spain, new season happy days.