What a Mess !

Gerrard Houllier recently claimed his reign at liverpool was better than the reign of rafa benitez... Well what can one say.... one thin houllier did is to consistently finish in the top 4 of EPL ! By liverpool standards thts definetly not enough........ Rafa was brought in to change tht....... but in the end i mus say he messed up big time !

Rafa Benitez would be placed alongside mourinho as one of the best tacticians in football... but in his time at liverpool the area he failed big time is transfers ! inspite of spening over 200 million pounds all he did every season was crib that he did not have enough funds..... though he made a few out of the world signings like Torres n xabi alonso, i mus say he failed to use them properly... rafa had one of the best visionaries of the game in xabi but all rafa did is to make xabi warm the bench for most part... no one can deny the quality of alonso.... but some time lucas leiva was preferred to alonso... would you believe it ?

what rafa failed to do is to find a decent strike pairing for torres..... not that he did not try, but vorobin n Ngog simply did not fit the bill.... torres being the leadin marks man  needed a support striker and the work rate and bent of mind of durk kuyt would perfectly fit the bill ! i honestly do not understand why rafa played him on the right wing instead of his natural strikin position.... another blunder by benitez is his handling of wingers... he bought and completely demoralized Ryan babel who was once regarded as one of the most talented youngsters in europe... given a chance he did show his brillance by scoring winning goals against the likes of macnhester united... and yet again for some reason no one can comprehend why babel could only find himself on the bench ! then came riera to fill the gap on the left flank only to get fed up and leave liverpool in one season ....

And rafa some how did not manage to do in 5 years what roy hodgson did in 2 weeks... buying paul konchesky.... the former fulham left back is solid in defence and deadly with his crosses.... if you remember konchesky scored a belter against liverpool in the FA cup inal of 2006..... i jus cant understand why dossena n string of other left backs were tried by benitez only to leave the liverpool defence vulnerable....

inspite of havin torres, gerrard, alonso and reina in his side how rafa benitezs mistakes caused liverpool to go only back ward... and we all would end up thinkin Mr. Houllier is right !