Home
Luis wrote:To suggest that the squad Rafa left behind is worse than the squad he inherited when he came here is ludicrous and there's absolutely no justification for it.
Indeed, it is bullshit. But the germ of truth in that statement is that Benitez spent a lot of money and still left a team whose main players are either ageing or crocked, with no proper backup striker when your main striker is injury prone, with no wingers worth mentioning despite several big(ish) money signings, and with a second rate central midfield at best.
I wont go in to it again but all I'll say is when Houllier left, if we had opted then for Hodgson or someone like him instead of Benitez we would be lightyears behind where are now in terms of quality players.
Really? Quality players like Babel? Robbie Keane? Peter Crouch? Mark Gonzalez? Glen Johnson? Skrtel? Josemi?
Aside from Torres, who cost a bundle and is an inconsistent crock, who is it that Benitez signed who you couldn't have got otherwise? Alonso and Mascherano, OK, but they were both gone as soon as a big Spanish club showed an interest.
We're still lacking as a squad and we need 2 or three big money signings to see us challenge for the top 4 properly but with the right management we shouldn't be too far behind who ever will finish 4th this season be it Spurs or City and that's down to Rafa changing us from a team about to slip into mid-table medriocrity into a European force with quality in all departments.
When Benitez took over you'd just finished a reasonably comfortable fourth. The following season you finished 5th, with less points and less goals scored. Last season you finished 7th. This season you're in mid-table mediocrity.
Believe what you like about Rafa, but what you are saying simply isn't true.
