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He has a buyout clause of 7m and Arsenal are looking to get him in the January transfer window . We need to get this guy before them . 100X better DM than Mikel

West ham were 2-1 , then Diamee got injured and sub off .

Liverpool 3-2 Didnt see that coming

They play in the same national team

Gerrard in his book: My Autobiography Henry Winter Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has hailed Rafa Benitez as an "outstanding" manager, lauding the Spaniard's "clever" handling of Jose Mourinho's mind games and his "tactical masterstrokes" against Chelsea and Barcelona in Europe. One of the performances of last season came at the Nou Camp on Feb 21, 2007, when Liverpool tore into the then European champions. "Rafa's game plan was to shock Barcelona," Gerrard writes in the paperback update of his autobiography out next week. "Barcelona felt Liverpool would be really negative. Rafa did the opposite." Benitez's command to his players was simple: "Go for the jugular." The Liverpool manager ordered his team to attack Barcelona down the flanks, and use Bellamy's pace to embarrass the hosts' centre-backs, Carles Puyol and Rafael Marquez. Bellamy and Riise both scored in a famous victory. Gerrard claims that the media fuss over Bellamy's spat with Riise "fuelled our motivation" to excel in the Nou Camp. Barcelona were greeted with "another tactical masterstroke from Rafa" as Liverpool sat deep, stifling Ronaldinho and company. Eidur Gudjohnsen scored late on, but little was seen of Barcelona's vaunted attacking strength. Liverpool's semi-final with Chelsea was preceded by a rare outburst from Benitez, attacking Mourinho's presumption that he was the 'Special One'. "Straight in. Bang. Take that, Jose. He went to town on Jose. By stating that Liverpool's fans were the real Special Ones, Rafa was being really clever." The Kop was at its fervent best when Mourinho's men visited. "Chelsea walked into a wall of noise," Gerrard adds. "And a classic sting." Benitez had worked his players on a special free-kick routine, and when Gerrard cut a free-kick back to Daniel Agger, Chelsea were caught out. "Rafa had really done his homework on Chelsea," Gerrard writes. "While watching tapes of them, we noticed that when defending set-pieces in wide areas, they backed off. If you piled a lot of bodies into the box, distracting John Terry, Ricardo Carvalho and Michael Essien, the pull-back was on. The manager drills us on dead-ball situations, day in, day out." Agger's goal, and subsequent penalties, took Liverpool to the European Cup final against AC Milan. "Rafa came up with the right game-plan in Athens," recalls Gerrard, citing the manager's decision to swamp Milan's midfield with a 4-5-1 formation.

I agree his attitude was really poor in some games , but how do you expect him to score without any legiitimate service ? Rafa has pointed this out a couple of times now , and I think the players have listened him , they are playing a bit more direct now , and it's benefiting Torres "We are playing a bit differently now. We do not pass the ball as much as we did in the final third and we play a bit more direct. It was a long time not to score." Fernando Torres

We will win by 10 goals or maybe more :blue scalf: . Would love to see Piazon making an appearance in the 2nd half and Marin should get his first start now

That pretty much sums up his whole Barca career

He has scored 11 goals in the League so far , 5 of which are penalties IMO , Higuain would be a better buy than him

That's the point , any manager would had done the same .

He made that system around Messi , if you dont have Messi , the system won't work . and if you dont have Xavi and Iniesta behind Messi , he wont get the chances to score . Plain and simple =P

I agree we had but Barca team at that time still had a slight edge over us . They had the best team in the world. And for the Record Mancini had managed Fio and Lazio before Inter. What i'm saying is Mourinho and Mancini constructed their teams whereas Pep got the best players in the plate

That makes him the Best in the world

Oh well i said that because you guys get too extreme when it comes to criticize Torres , I love CFC as much as you do , but you just cant lay all our miseries on one player . And I don't want to start all of this again but if Benitez can get Torres firing , than the Failure of Torres to adapt and perform at Chelsea should be on the previous four or five managers Chelsea had , not just him

Oh well , would love to see your reaction when he'll win the golden ball at the CWC

Oh well , he's trying to make up . Still a lot of games left to play though and i'm sure he'll win the fans again

Mourinho had won the leagues with Inter , Porto and Chelsea before , Mancini had won it with Inter before. And Barca Literally had the best players in his reign , Zlatan , Eto , Ronaldinho lol too many stars to mention

Worldclass ? If he had won the same accolades managing Atleti with Aguero , Forlan etc than surely he'd be. I dont know why people rates him so much for managing Barca and winning the league and UEFA ? Even Mark Hughes would have won the same accolades with Barca I'm not saying he's doesn't deserve any acknowledgment but the fact remain he won all the accolades with the best team in the world Imo , Klopp would be a lesser risk than him

What are the Guarantees that he would make us invincible like Barca ? He's highly overrated imo , had the best players in his squad , and any other guy would have won the same titles .

MIKEL OUT

Another great victory , just need City to win against United , we'd be than 7 points behind them i guess. Still need alot of work to do though . VIVA LA RAFALUTION :blue scalf:

Nyeee squidward , this proves all yo Criticism was wrong ...

NO SANE Manager would play him as their striker with Suarez already available to play that role and they already have Borini so he will be their 3rd choice =P

that very well may be but it's too soon to predict anything eh