yes like i said great in Europe but PREMIER LEAGUE WISE failed , so what is it forget about the league altogether because of 2005 , no benitez was brought to the club top break the monoploy of Manchester United like he did in Spain spiltting real and barca up but up to now he has failed to do that , and ultimately that's why Roy souey , houllier all got the sack .
Winning this league now is harder than it has ever been.
You've got a billionaire Russian who's throwing money at it like confetti on top of an already strong squad whilst Man Utd have just got stronger and stronger under fairly consistent management and sensible financial growth over the past 20 years.
Whatever we spend (NET) this year you can bet it won't be more than either of them. All that is forgetting a strong Arsenal who've had 11 years of a shrewd manager before you talk about anybody else.
It's nothing to do with Rafa that the club is in turmoil indeed his exploits in Europe have raised circa 75m plus from his 3 successful campaigns (out of 4) (I say successful in a financial not necessarily a winning context).
Nobody could have done better or got us a better squad of young players than he has. Reina, Agger, Skertel, Alonso, Mascheran, Babel and Torres are all great buys. There'sbeen plenty of other good ones on whom he has or will make cash to allow us to improve further. The imporvement in Gerrard and Carra has also been marked.
Rafa does have his faults and some are highlighted above as he fucks about worrying what Birmingham are going to play like against us etc but generally he has got things right. No manager ever has got everything right but in the modern game I don't think anybodt could have achieved the growth he has in his 4 years.
I'm not even sure he's failed in the League. He's kept us in the position to keep building a squad capable of winning a League in the future and will continue to do so.
Benitez in my opinion (and at times he drives me up the wall) has saved Liverpool Football Club from 10 years or more of mediocrity. We are now ranked No 1 in Europe again and feared throughout it which I would have said was impossible when he took over with some of the shite he had in that squad.
He will get us there and keep us improving BUT if Utd and Chelsea keep getting better it makes life even more difficult and he needs some of his big players to deliver v Utd next year and the break of a ball.
It can happen next year and he can win us the Title. I'm not seeing he will but he can and 4 years ago we were only saying that out of desperation not reality or fact.