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Originally Posted by Dasani
No man, you don't have to look at the player's value when he bought them. You need to look at what happened to the player's value AFTER he bought them. Rafa has very rarely made money on any of his purchases. Look at Martin O'Neill, he's made great buys like Ashley Young and Richard Dunne, both of whom would waltz into Liverpoo's starting XI.
Robbie was never given a chance under Rafa because Rafa didn't want to buy him, the board bought him for him.
If we lose to Birmingham tomorrow, turn the lights out on our season. Rafa must go in this case, I don't think the Kop will allow him to stay on regardless of how cheap our American owners are. Look at what happened to Gareth Southgate.
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For starters, Torres would cost a team well over 20 million right now.
Alonso netted a 20 million pound profit
Benayoun cost reportedly around 5 million. He'd certainly be worth more right now.
Skrtel for 6.5 million was also a good deal
I realize that you have to look at a player's rising value as well, and getting good deals. If you ask me about this summer, I think Kyrgiakos has done well so far, and we have yet to see much of Aquilani, so the jury's out.
As I previously said about Keane....he didn't get the best opportunities in the world to show what he can do, but he did get fairly good opportunity. He had chances to be up with Torres, and he did nothing with it. He got a chance to be a lone backup striker, and he did nothing with that as well. He wasn't just a little off. He was bad.
So clearly you don't like Rafa. Who should Liverpool hire instead then?