Lyle whats going on with your so called mighty reds??

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I don't think it's Benitez's fault; by the past with a limited effective, he's been able to carry them far. They just lack deepness and funds at the moment to replace Alonso decently.

Have to disagree totally there, Benitez has spent more than any other manger in past 4 years bar Man City, has brought no youngsters through. Last home grown talent was Steven Gerrard in 1998. He has been riding that CL win in 2005 far to long and bought some shit players, and curretnly has a shit sqaud, he drove Alonso out so whose fault is it hes gone Benitez's he tried off loading him last year so he could buy Barry, do you blame Alonso ? he wasnt wanted.

Not from what I've read;, the thing with Alonso is that he wanted to Join Madrid and didn't want to stay in Liverpool for quite some time now (i.e Madrid made him charm for a long time now, too); The move with Barry was because he wanted to go so that was a good timing to switch things... We know the rest, Barry went to City and Alonso always wanted to go to Madrid, we've have had a couple of articles about that situation here.
For the rest, Liverpool has always a competitive team for the past 5 years, won the CL in 2005, almost won the England premiereship last year (one damn victory away), that is not bad indeed for a team who,s in a very thin bottleneck with the ownership problem, money problem and the rest. Sure, I wish it was better, but to me, Benitez is not the real problem over here.

You read wrong mate and you are wrong, the damage was done in 2008 when Benitez tried to off load Alonso to Juventus to raise funds for Gareth Barry. Alonso didnt want to go anywhere he was settles at Liverpool until Bentiez did this, he wasnt intrested in Madrid and Madrid were not intrested until after this read this what Alonso said about why he moved. Again proves what a dick Benitez is as Alonso was there best player last year only 12 months earlier he didnt want him.


Money problem you say?? Go look at how much they have spent sorry how much Benitez has wasted now there struggling but over Bentiez's reign they have spent more than United, Chelsea and Arsenal. Id expect more than a cl and fa cup, he even came 5th the season he won the cl and was very lucky to have them in the cl. He needs to go imo.

Anyway this is why Alonso went not like you said cos he had his heart set on Madrid because like I sadi Benitez didnt want him and tried to offload him without his say so.

Benitez had wanted to off-load Alonso to Juventus in July 2008 to raise money to sign Gareth Barry from Aston Villa.
Alonso was disappointed to hear that Benitez was willing to let him go and resolved to leave when the right opportunity arose.

That finally happened when he joined Real for £30 million in August after revealing to Benitez that he wanted to leave the Premier League club.


"It was a very difficult decision for me to make," he told Sky Sports News. "After five years I have experienced wonderful nights at Anfield, to have experienced the support of probably the best fans in the world.
"That's why I have always been very grateful and I will always have them in my mind and it has been a pleasure.
"Last year the club proposed me that I might have to be sold to find funds for new players.
"It was a difficult decision or difficult moment to accept that. I accepted that as a professional and that moment probably changed my mind and I thought that maybe from that moment that maybe it was time for a change."
Alonso has since admitted that his relationship with Benitez deteriorated when he demanded to leave but the Spanish international reveals that their relationship was always a professional one.
"There has been a lot of rumours but I have always said that it has been simply a professional relationship," he said.
"I have always tried to do what he asked to do. What he asked of me on the pitch to do the talking on the pitch and that's that as far as that."