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Rafael Benitez gets the blame for Liverpool failure as co-owner George Gillett insists: We have given you enough money
By John Drayton Last updated at 9:21 AM on 06th October 2009
Chelsea.
Gillett is reported to have told fans' group Spirit of Shankly that the club is in 'extraordinarily' good financial shape compared with the other big-four clubs.
'We have invested more money than our competitors, in keeping with the history of the club,' Gillett told a meeting at the club's Kirkby academy nearly two weeks ago.
'In the last 18 months we have invested £128million on top of what has come in. That means it should be getting better.
'Now if it's not getting better, it's not Gillett and (co-owner Tom) Hicks, it's the manager, it's the scouting. There was plenty of money so if you have any complaints take a look at the ins and outs.'
Gillett's comments will make Benitez all the more keen that his one big signing of this summer, Alberto Aquilani, will be fit for Liverpool's next Premier League game at Sunderland after the international break.
The 25-year-old believes the quality of Liverpool's medical staff has helped him recover from an ankle injury.
He said: 'From the outset they told me not to rush. Now I want to put all my worries behind me.'


HAHAHAHAH GET TOLD!
 
kenada_blue said:
You'll love this Davek -
From the Mail

Rafael Benitez gets the blame for Liverpool failure as co-owner George Gillett insists: We have given you enough money
By John Drayton Last updated at 9:21 AM on 06th October 2009
Chelsea.
Gillett is reported to have told fans' group Spirit of Shankly that the club is in 'extraordinarily' good financial shape compared with the other big-four clubs.
'We have invested more money than our competitors, in keeping with the history of the club,' Gillett told a meeting at the club's Kirkby academy nearly two weeks ago.
'In the last 18 months we have invested £128million on top of what has come in. That means it should be getting better.
'Now if it's not getting better, it's not Gillett and (co-owner Tom) Hicks, it's the manager, it's the scouting. There was plenty of money so if you have any complaints take a look at the ins and outs.'
Gillett's comments will make Benitez all the more keen that his one big signing of this summer, Alberto Aquilani, will be fit for Liverpool's next Premier League game at Sunderland after the international break.
The 25-year-old believes the quality of Liverpool's medical staff has helped him recover from an ankle injury.
He said: 'From the outset they told me not to rush. Now I want to put all my worries behind me.'


HAHAHAHAH GET TOLD!
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Poll: Is Rafael Benítez to blame for Liverpool's poor start? | Football | guardian.co.uk

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I know we should want him at Liverpool forever, but I'd love to see him sacked. Ingloriously kicked out on his fat arse.
 
"Blame Rafael Benitez for Liverpool slump" says owner George Gillett
Published 11:01 06/10/09 By MirrorFootball
George Gillett has launched an astonishing broadside on Rafael Benitez, saying the Spaniard is to blame for Liverpool’s disappointing start to the season on the pitch and not the owners.
The American co-owner insists the Reds are in "extraordinarily" good financial shape compared with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United and that Benitez should therefore carry the can for his side's failings on the pitch.
Gillett claims that he and partner Tom Hicks have invested more money than any of their competitors in recent years, saying: "In the last 18 months, we have invested £128 million on top of what has come in. That means it should be getting better."
"Now if it’s not getting better, it’s not Gillett and Hicks, it’s the manager, it’s the scouting. You have to make sure you balance out your analysis. There was plenty of money, so if you have any complaints, take a look at the ins and outs."
Gillett, who made the comments in an interview with a representative of the fans’ union Spirit of Shankly at Liverpool’s Kirkby academy prior to the Premier League match with Hull last week, also accused co-owner Tom Hicks of misleading supporters with false promises.
During the conversation, the Colorado-based businessman, who was showing the Saudi prince Faisal al-Fahad bin Abdullah bin Saud around the facility, denied declaring in the aftermath of his takeover of the club that work would begin on a new stadium in Stanley Park "in 60 days," suggesting Hicks was responsible for the statement.
"I have never talked about that," he claimed. "Hicks was the one who said 60 days. In that period of time, the world’s credit market collapsed and he ended up with big egg on his face. I do not talk about absolute dates when we are talking about credit markets."
However, the egg will most likely appear on Gillett's face after footage of the press conference, held after the Americans’ 2007 takeover of the club, shows Gillett insisting "the shovel needs to be in the ground in the next 60 days or so, and we expect to follow that".
Of greater concern to the club’s supporters, though, is Gillett’s claim that "the £30m [from the sale of Xabi Alonso] went straight back in" to Benítez’s coffers, as well as "£22-23m as part of our budgets".
Gillett’s statement that Benítez is to blame is a startling revelation of the unease that lies at the heart of the club and the strained relationship between Beitez and the club's hierarchy - particularly on the subject of transfer budgets.
Gillett insists the £20m average spend predicated in investment documents leaked last month is "an estimate, not a cap", insists "we spent more than the £20m in the off season," and denies that he and Hicks "took any money out to pay down debt".
Yet Benítez, who made a late £12m offer for Gareth Barry in early June as he opened negotiations for the £18m purchase of Glen Johnson and privately examined the possibility of signing David Silva, the Valencia midfielder, two months later failed to find the funds to sign Michael Turner, then with Hull, for £12m.
Such turmoil was said to be the result of Hicks and Gillett’s refinancing of the £350 million loan with RBS and Wachovia used to buy the club, although the latter insists "the club has the lowest debt to each dollar of earnings of any major club in the sport".
"The club is in extraordinarily good financial condition. Far better than Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal.
We have invested massively, we have put more money in than anyone other than Manchester City, with the craziness they have got," Gillett said.
Gillett insisted the "debt on Liverpool is very sound" and denied suggestions the club would struggle to meet interest payments without Champions League football. "The budgets are done very conservatively," he said.
"They are based on a very limited success in the Champions League. Even without that, we have enough cash flow to pay the minimum interest and give Rafael what he needs to make us competitive."
Plot thickens.....
 

being Franco's illegitimate offspring he is being employed as a football assasin by real madrid, they have failed previously to supress the catalans so have sent agent morewine over to render the r/s useless and no longer be a threat in europe. apparently the rotation system was developed by sporting professors at the Universidad de Puskas, as the most ineffective form of football ever.
the yanks wont sack him and pay him off and he will run down his contract to plunge them deeper in the mire out of pure spite.

5 more years !!! 5 more years !!!
 
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
being Franco's illegitimate offspring he is being employed as a football assasin by real madrid, they have failed previously to supress the catalans so have sent agent morewine over to render the r/s useless and no longer be a threat in europe. apparently the rotation system was developed by sporting professors at the Universidad de Puskas, as the most ineffective form of football ever.
the yanks wont sack him and pay him off and he will run down his contract to plunge them deeper in the mire out of pure spite.

5 more years !!! 5 more years !!!
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On the march -

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01356/Rafael-benitez-pa_1356726c.jpg

http://www.offthepost.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/Rafael-benitez-siempre-es-posible.jpg
 
i was gonna edit to say that there will no doubt be a portrait carried very soon.

thats nothing though, we'll be erecting a staue of him when he's finished destroying that lot.









carved out of lard.
 
I don't think a manager exists who could win the title with that squad. One bad tackle on Torres? Season over Liverpool. They'd probably drop out of the CL places. Where would the goals come from. They have one of Kuyt, Voronin, Babel or Ngog leading the line. Title-winning class, that :)
 

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