Don’t mind your post one bit mate. This forum is a place to express opinions with other supporters and I don’t mind one bit if you don’t agree with me.
You can follow Inter simply put .Sorry harsh comment from me and nothing personal but sick of hearing that.Rafa has left so we need to give the current manager some support (not you personally but all of us).. Rafa is gone part of history like other managers. The club stays the same. 
That was a bit harsh
. It was the first thing that came into my mind when I sat down to make what was supposed to be a short comment. I haven’t really expressed how I felt about Rafa leaving; I was a massive fan and believe that it was done more for personal reasons then football reasons. Not to say that last season was not a bad season for Rafa, more to say that I think that he was the correct man for the job. Apart from top managers at other top clubs, I could not see who was going to come in that could do a better job than Rafa. No one would leave a decent club to come manage us, they’d be stupid to. No one who was out of work could do better and a season was approaching in which we are supposedly going to be sold and a change to the management made anyway. If the clubs best interests were at heart surly he would have stayed. And don’t even start that crap about new owners not wanting Rafa at the helm. The biggest problem with the club was, and still is, the owners not wanting to sell, not a manager who could have been payed off. Instead we got a manager who is not as good, who has never excelled at a large club in a good league and is entering the twilight of his career so would be unwilling to change his ways and adapt.
You say the club stays the same. But it is not the same club we started supporting. It’s not even the same club that it was in 2005. We have the world’s worst owners and have replaced and manager which tried to uphold the attitudes of past Liverpool greats by a manager who is saying all the wrong things from a supporters perspective. Roy has been brought in to manage the playing squad and not worry about what is happening with the club. Don’t ask questions, say the correct things and keep everyone happy. Not the Liverpool way. No top manager would accept those terms and we already had a top manager in Rafa who was fighting for the club.
Any manager who came in would be compeered to Rafa, he done a lot for us both on the pitch and off it and you would be ignorant to think otherwise. We have the same players, same god damn owners, hence still the same era but different manager. We lost league positions because the club stood still, our squad was not strong enough last season and the team lost confidence. The club has not changed, but the manager has. It was the club that needed to change not the manager. The squad has remained more or less the same. The confidence is OK at the moment because we have a new manager and everyone wants to excel. But what happens IF we go on a winless run and confidence drops. We are back where we were last season.
Roy has been brought to be a short term fix. If new owners come in he will most probably be off if he doesn’t get us into the CL, maybe even if he does. It will be harder than last season to get that CL place. I want him to do well, I want the team to do well and the club to do well. But let’s not beat around the bush. Under the current ownership he will not be given the money to make the team his own, this current team is now his team. He has to stop pleasing everyone and start managing the team like it is his own. ATM it is Rafa’s team with Roy in charge.
So you want to clone Roy to be Rafa. I personally didnt like the whole I am too cool attitude and never show any emotions approach. I like my manager to display human touch ! I like him to be angry , emotional and caring about the result. We all have different opinions of course.
I don’t mind emotion. If anything I was quite looking forward to man manager Roy. But I can’t stand it when a player misses an OK chance and the manager sitting on the bench turns to the assistant and says ‘I could have f*****g scored that’. You’re the manager, not a supporter. Think it, don’t say it. Or we are one goal down and the manager is sweating a bucket load, swearing and rubbing himself red. As the manager you are the fist port of call for the supporters and the players. Like Rafa said, the manager has to be the first to believe, or no one will.
So what did Roy do differently? If you saw the game Mr Alex Ferguson was going up and down the lines abusing the officials. Did you see that? Class right?
Wasn’t class, but at least he was doing something constructive for his team. He only does it because it works. It beats sitting on the bench looking like we have already lost the match after going one goal down from a corner.
Did you realise that Meireles was a bit tired and Konchesky did have a small injury last week? So he didnt take our Maxi and brought in Ngo?! So he replaced an midfielder for a striker?!
Like I said, can understand the Konchesky sub. Don’t buy that tired stuff though. If Meireles can play 80 minutes then they can play the full 90, especially when he is playing well. Maxi sub was different, we were losing 2-0 at the time if remember correctly.
If the game has finished 2 - 2 would you feel much much better?
That’s a big IF. Much like Gerrard I thought we played quite well at times, but only after the second half started and we were chasing the game. Makes no different really, this is more about Roy and his time in charge so far, not about what happened on the pitch. Yesterday just combined all my concerns so it was easier to make a point. Not so upset about the substitutions, any manager can make those types of mistake in a match. More concerned about his general demeanour and how he talks about us to the press.
