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Originally Posted by Dasani
I think you're being far too easy on Rafa here. Every team has injuries.
Whose fault is it that Alonso got offended over the Gareth Barry saga? Whose fault is it that Robbie Keane was offloaded to Spurs, leaving us with only one truly first-rate striker? Whose fault is it that Jamie Carragher is still playing when he's clearly Championship-level at best now? Who wasted two hundred millions pounds on the likes of N'gog, Babel, and others pieces of rcap?
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List me this 200 million pounds on "N'gog, Babel, and others pieces of rcap"...
Nobody knows who's fault it is that Alonso got offended. We don't have much inside into the goings on in there, and who knows if Alonso simply carried that Barry saga over into the next year, where Rafa clearly didn't wanna sell him. Oh, and by the way, he wanted 35 million, Real wanted to pay 20. Rafa definitely won that, as he got right around 30 million.
Robbie Keane played great in Tottenham before and after....but frankly, he was garbage here. I don't know why, but if you even imply that he made anywhere near the best of his chances here, you're being blind. He had 2 good consecutive games at one point, but other than that, he'd miss setups as mint as the one N'Gog got against United.
Definitely with you on the Jamie bit though. Not a very healthy squad, but when they are, it really should be Agger and Skrtel in the middle, with Johnson and one of Aurelio or Insua on the other side. Kyrgiakos is ahead of Carragher on my depth chart at this point in time. Hopefully the team does really well over the duration of his ban.
Your list of Rafa's bench is absurd though. You have to look at a players value AT THE TIME of him being acquired. In 2003, the Flames should've drafted
Parise
Weber (better value than getting Phaneuf in round 1)
Hejda
Stempniak
Dawes
Pavelski
Enstrom
Byfuglien
Tarnasky
But it just doesn't happen like that.
Torres wasn't in the conversation for the best striker on earth when Rafa got him, but he's one of maybe 3 guys on there now.