the man arrives when we are at arguably the lowest point this club had been in since shankly took over, we had a squad full of overpriced flops with little or no sell on value (biscan, le tallec, cheyrou, diao, diouf etc).
the first thing rafa did after taking over was to rush over to the england team hotel during the euro`s to try and convince our two best players to stay......one left.
our style of footy was awful, it was a running joke throughout the league with shouts of `hoof` and even cryuff called us an enemy of footy, saying if every team played like liverpool the game would be dead within a year.
the team was so devoid of confidence that if we went a goal down it was game over, we hadnt overturned a one goal defecit in 2 years and just before rafa arrived we went on the worst run since our second division days over 50 years ago.
on top of that the people who owned the club and recruited rafa said they would have to sell the club because they were skint.
despite all that rafa has changed the dioufs and diao`s and replaced them with the likes of reina, agger, mascherano, alonso and torres, he won the champions league, got to another final, got us to 3 semi finals in four years and has never failed to get out of the group stages (which was regarded as a big feat under houllier), won the f.a cup in a classic final that will go down in history alongside the matthews final and the white horse final beating united and chelsea along the way, got us to a league cup final and he has also amassed our highest ever points total in the premiership.
this season we`ve enjoyed our best start in years and are at worst 3 points behind united and it`s near february!
i know we`ve had a few dissapointing results lately but lets look at the bigger picture, wether we win the title this year or not, we have certainly made massive strides under benitez.