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For those of you who moan about Sammy's signings this makes intresting reading.

I just came a cross this Rafa's transfer history at Liverpool not sure how accurate.

96 players in

A lot seem to be academy lads but surley that will cost a few quid in wages, signing on fees etc

I am actually suprised the net spend is only £70 million I thought it would have been £150+ the £30mil for Alonso would have helped.

http://www.liverweb.org.uk/benitez.asp

Jermaine Pennant signed for 6.7 million left for a grand total of £0.00

I found this an interesting website...

Click on a team to see all their transfer activity, year on year since the Premier League started

http://transferleague.co.uk/

Rafa's transfer policy sometimes leaves me in utter disbelief, the only 'Big name' signings he's made are Torres and Johnson but other than that he's bought average unknown players of which a few were sucessful i.e Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia but the majority were complete flops and have moved on to other clubs. He tryed splashing the cash a bit last year with the signing of Robbie Keane which seemed a good deal on paper, however on the green stuff it was anything but! this year he signed Glen Johnson and Alberto Aquilani, Johnson has been solid so far and still waiting to see Aquilani (He played for the reserves today and may feature against united).
Rafa has always seemed to sign players that are only really good enough to be squad players and has very rarely signed anyone who would get into the teams of other top three (four- Man City?) teams, this could very well be his last season with the reds unless he pulls something magical out of the hat and wins some silverware, but first he has to start winning games as he is under some serious pressure!

In the same year Man Utd let Twiss go they paid £19m for Nistelrooy! They could have saved themselves a fortune

http://transferleague.co.uk/

Manchester Utd
Season 01/02

In
Luke Steele £500,000
Diego Forlan £7,500,000
Laurent Blanc Free
Roy Carroll £2,500,000
Juan Veron £28,100,000
Ruud Van Nistelrooy £19,000,000

Out
Rai Van Der Gouw Free
Jesper Blomqvist Free
Michael Twiss Signed
Andy Cole £7,500,000
Michael Clegg Free
Paul Rachubka £200,000
Jaap Stam £15,250,000
George Clegg Free
Jonathan Greening £2,000,000
Mark Wilson £1,500,000
Stephen Cosgrove Free
Michael Rose Free
Josh Walker Free
Marc Whiteman Free

At least they got rid of Andy Cole that year.

eggchaser wrote:Rafa's transfer policy sometimes leaves me in utter disbelief, the only 'Big name' signings he's made are Torres and Johnson but other than that he's bought average unknown players of which a few were sucessful i.e Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia but the majority were complete flops and have moved on to other clubs. He tryed splashing the cash a bit last year with the signing of Robbie Keane which seemed a good deal on paper, however on the green stuff it was anything but! this year he signed Glen Johnson and Alberto Aquilani, Johnson has been solid so far and still waiting to see Aquilani (He played for the reserves today and may feature against united).
Rafa has always seemed to sign players that are only really good enough to be squad players and has very rarely signed anyone who would get into the teams of other top three (four- Man City?) teams, this could very well be his last season with the reds unless he pulls something magical out of the hat and wins some silverware, but first he has to start winning games as he is under some serious pressure!

Reina
Agger
Skrtle
Mascherano
Kuyt

Then there are others players he's bought and sold for a profit, including Crouch, Bellamy Sissoko. Seems pretty good to me, Alonso leaving was a huge blow a player that ran mre than any other and played passes noone else could. Missing him more than we could ever imagine.

Rafa's problem is team selection. As in, he can't pick a decent one. He moans about money but if you spend 5 years at a club like Liverpool and you haven't built a team capable of handling an injury crisis then you haven't done your job properly. Zonal marking aside, tactically, he's one of the best in the business but on tuesday night I was in disbelief. After some appauling defending (Zonal marking again) from a corner, Lyon equalised and Liverpool were chasing the game again. After two injuries, he had one sub left to make. He took off all the creativity in the 11 in Benayoun, and replaced him with a fat ukrainian porn star that he paid nothing for. All the while there is a young, quick goalscorer by the name of Ryan Babel who cost 11 million pounds sat there twidling his testicles. If I was Babel i'd have walked out of the stadium.

Bare Ben wrote:All the while there is a young, quick goalscorer by the name of Ryan Babel

That's debatable.

ezz wrote:

Reina
Agger
Skrtle
Mascherano
Kuyt

Then there are others players he's bought and sold for a profit, including Crouch, Bellamy Sissoko. Seems pretty good to me, Alonso leaving was a huge blow a player that ran mre than any other and played passes noone else could. Missing him more than we could ever imagine.

Reina and Mascherano are probably the only two players that could get into the other top teams Reina IMO is the best and most consistent goalkeeper in the league and mascherano is captain of the argie bargies so 'nuff said there really. Agger and Skrtel are good players but I dont think they would make it into any of the other teams and in some cases not even on the bench and Kuyt is a striker playing on wing no doubting his effort he's one of the hardest working players in the prem but technically he's not fantastic.

Bare Ben wrote:All the while there is a young, quick goalscorer by the name of Ryan Babel

If he could dribble with the ball for more than 10 metres without tripping over himself he might actually be a half decent player.

Kuyt is the Wayne Curtis of Liverpool.

I like Yossi benayoun (sp) but he doesn't play him enough he seems to be sub a lot he causes defenders problems and adds a bit offlair to the team.

Bare Ben wrote:Rafa's problem is team selection. As in, he can't pick a decent one. He moans about money but if you spend 5 years at a club like Liverpool and you haven't built a team capable of handling an injury crisis then you haven't done your job properly. Zonal marking aside, tactically, he's one of the best in the business but on tuesday night I was in disbelief. After some appauling defending (Zonal marking again) from a corner, Lyon equalised and Liverpool were chasing the game again. After two injuries, he had one sub left to make. He took off all the creativity in the 11 in Benayoun, and replaced him with a fat ukrainian porn star that he paid nothing for. All the while there is a young, quick goalscorer by the name of Ryan Babel who cost 11 million pounds sat there twidling his testicles. If I was Babel i'd have walked out of the stadium.

Go on liveroolfc.tv find tomkins article about spending the day with Rafa and you'll find out why he subbed bennayoun. It's actually a very good article.