Liverpool

[tench]

Nanananananana......

Ne vem, kje je človek dobil posnetek brez komentarja....Ambienca je zakon

Rafa speaks his mind about journalists....

[The_Milkman]

Super intervju v As-u z našim Benitezom..

Tomás Guasch | 15/02/2009

How's the kidney?

- Hush, hush! First they found a stone and then they said I had a perforation/hole in the kidney. I had to go through three general anesthetic procedures for the first time in my life. I missed our game at Arsenal's pitch, first I've missed in 22 years. I had a very high fever on the eve of that game.


The first in 22 years…

- The manager plays every match eh? I'm going all the way back to my days coaching Madrid's youth teams. I started out very young. At 26 I was already managing.

You had to quit playing because of a knee injury.

- It happened at the 'Universada' in Mexico, 1979. I was part of the Spanish quad that took part in that tournament. We beat Cuba 4-0 and then Canada showed up, I was hit from behind and goodbye it was. It was on the same day that Pietro Mennea, the great Italian sprinter, beat the 200 meter World Record with a mark of 19.72.

It stood for 17 years, until Michael Johnson beat it in 1996. And how good a player were you?

- I could've played in Primera. Horacio de Leiva, our manager in Mexico and later the President of the School of Referees, proposed me to sign for Oviedo. I was playing for Real Madrid's lower-division teams when Butragueno arrived. Chendo and Michel were also around. They were the good ones but every time they played for us we would lose. I played as a holding midfielder but I felt more comfortable playing as a 'libero'. I had a better perspective of the game from that position.

You were already thinking like a manager.

- At 13 years old I was already doing the team-sheets, I would rate the other lads. I liked to organize things even if it was just for my own enjoyment. At the INEF I was a player-manager. I would sit on the stands and manage the team and when I thought I needed to take part on the match I would go on the pitch. I was balancing that with managing Real Madrid's youth team. You know what? My classes would end at 5 pm, which was the same time our training session started. I would rush through the halls and get there at about half-past with the stretching and warm-ups all done. Those of us who were not stars had to fight very hard to make a name for ourselves.

Yet, perhaps those were truly the happy days.

- At that time you're less aware of certain things. You're so involved in everything that you don't think…I remember that after the first month training Real Madrid's youth team I was 4 kilos under my normal weight. I would eat in a hurry, a plate with lentils and off you go!, to train the team. And besides all that I was enrolled in the School of Medicine at Alcala de Henares.

You had to quit of course.

- Yes, I couldn't keep up. When I received the Honorary Degree at the University of Miguel Hernandez in Elche I was ecstatic because I always wanted to get my Doctorate at the INEF and I was never able to do so because of work. Sometimes I reflect back on those things and it all seems surreal. At Madrid I went months at a time working seven days a week, already as a manager. One day at Castilla ,the next day working alongside Garcia Remon with the first team, then coach the reserves in the lower divisions under the orders of Del Bosque, who was responsible for the whole setup… And I also taught at a school! And of course the games, I would watch as many as possible on the weekends, between 10 and 12.

And all of this with a girlfriend?

- Impossible! That came afterward, when I was a bit more calm, ha, ha!

Who are you most grateful to?

- Ramon Martinez (current General Manager at Celta) he promoted me every season. I will always be grateful to him and also I'll always remember when Del Bosque told me: "There are no football managers, Rafa. There are people who manage football and you will manage for many years."

He was right. If you got the chance at Liverpool it is because you proved your worth in Spain.

- There were some moments, not every situation was the same. I arrived at Valencia after Cuper had done a terrific job there. The team was very strong and we just were able to raise the bar. At Tenerife and Extremadura it was different, both in Second Division and both times we won promotion. At Tenerife, competing with teams like Atletico, Sevilla and Betis.


What's the problem now with the Liverpool owners?

- England is different to Spain. Here, if you have a one year contract you have nothing…and I only have 18 months left. If people realize this, that the manager only has that time left, he's dead. I have between ten and twelve collaborators whose contracts run out in June. What project can a manager develop if he doesn't have his work-team secured for two or three years? Ah! And let's clear up one thing: I never asked for absolute power; capacity to make decisions and to maneuver, yes. It's not the same thing.

United and Chelsea have a lot more money than Liverpool. Even City now.

- United get a revenue of 65 mil euros more than us every year and they have the capability of buying three 20 million players every season. Chelsea will have spent £500 million over the past five years. We have built an entire team but economically we're inferior and yet we are able to compete with them. There are plenty of stats to bore you with: United, only on Berbatov, spent 32 million pounds; every year they spend as they need to: 20 mil on Hargreaves, another 20 on Nani, 18 for Anderson. Seven years ago they spent 45 for Ferdinand! I, on the five years I've been here, spent less than 40 on Torres and Keane. There's no discussion!

And what about Arsenal Rafa?

- It's a different philosophy. They sign a lot of young players but if they must spend 7 mil on one, like Ramsey for example, they do it. Or 18 for Arshavin…

And Alex Ferguson?

- He controls everything here, it's a fact, it is what it is. And since he felt the need to talk about Liverpool I had to respond.

In your peculiar English.

- I made the mistake of not taking up classes when I arrived. I lack the vocabulary and the grammar. My daughters speak with the purest Liverpool lingo and quite often I don't understand what they're saying. I end up asking them to speak to me in Spanish. Claudia, the oldest, was 6 when we arrived in Liverpool. At first she was lost but after six months she came home with a teacher's note that read: "Congratulations, your daughter has recovered her voice". She never stopped talking. Agata, the youngest, is six now. Her English is better than her Spanish.

And the food?

- No problems there. I'm a meat-lover and Scottish meat is very good. And at home we never lack the Spanish dishes like paella, omelets or lentils.


And the public relations?

- My wife does a better job than me. She belongs to a NGO that fights against cancer, she often visits a hospital and when I come along I do my bit. Most weeks we play 3 matches; I live in my own world, but it's your family's life that changes the most. I arrive at the club at 9 am and leave between 6 and 7 pm…I haven't done much holiday traveling. I know Liverpool, Chester, the lakes area, to the north.

The big match against Madrid is only 10 days away. What are your expectations?

- I have the experience of our games against Barça, who were the favourites then and we knocked them out. We were unlucky on the draw but so were Real. The outlook is different on each case: Madrid's whole season rests on the Champions, we're still fighting for the League. We'll have to see in what condition some of the players arrive. Torres is still looking for his best form yet, for example.

When Everton knocked you out of the FA Cup you received it almost like a liberation. Is that so?

- We have to find the positive side and that is that we'll play less games and we can concentrate on the Premier and the Champions League. The Premier is very competitive, more so than La Liga. You have to be on top of your game or any team can make things difficult for you with their direct approach, they fight until the end. We've never lost control of the games but we're lacking on finishing off teams. Our problem is that we have great expectations surrounding us. The Premier, the Premier, we haven't won it in 19 years! And when the Champions League time comes, then lets win it…In these years we've won four titles, played in seven finals, another CL semifinal. We are where we need to be, the problem now is the anxiety, we have to manage it and it's not always easy.

Gerrard is like Liverpool's Raul? How's he doing?

- Recovering. Injuries happen and you need to treat them properly. And yes, you can compare him to Raul in many ways. He's a charismatic footballer, with an enormous heart; his personality touches others. He always assumes responsibility and his effort never dwindles. Raul meets all these virtues and perhaps even more because of his longer experience. I've known him since he was 14 years old and he was at Atletico's youth team. He's always shined because of his character. I'm not surprised he's still first-choice, he's been a winner since he was a young lad.

Hows your relationship with Florentino?

- Good.

Madrid would be the icing on the cake, the climax on your career?

- If I say yes, some people will interpret it as me saying I want to go; if I say no it will seem like a snub to Madrid…The proper thing and the reality is to answer that I'm not thinking about leaving and I hope I can stay here for a long time. Would Madrid be the icing on the cake in the career of any manager? No doubt about it! Although that sounds like the final stages of someone's profession and that isn't my case.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 703041.ece

Ena stvar, ki mi ni/nebo nikoli jasna...zakaj Evans ne piše bolj pogosto...100% LFC
Zame je še boljši kot Oliver Kay....Kay se dobro pozna z Moorsom pa mu (je) zgobcal kako off the record, ampak vseeno.....

16 Phil Thompson


1971-1985 477 appearances

One of the first of a new generation of centre backs who could do more than lump the ball to the back of the stands. Shankly saw that this skinny kid could play and made him a vital component in his assault on Europe - the one brought to fulfilment by Paisley. Thompson's reward was to lead Liverpool to a third European Cup in Paris - and take the trophy back to his local pub, the Falcon in Kirkby, where it sat on the bar overnight after the drunken Liverpool captain forgot it. Kirkby, by the way, is where Everton are planning to build their new stadium. There goes the neighbourhood...

[tench]

Če bi se naš razvajeni Babel zgledoval po temu....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzGouuyt2Cc

....in ne samo po temu....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnUh5Llr ... re=related

...bi bil svet mnogo lepši....



P.S. Kje ste Brasileiroti...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCyXGiJ ... re=related

[The_Milkman]

Če bi se naš razvajeni Babel zgledoval po temu....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzGouuyt2Cc

....in ne samo po temu....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnUh5Llr ... re=related

...bi bil svet mnogo lepši....

Kaj bi bilo?

Odgovor je preprost

Namesto tegale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxSlpAHNrU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQS38fjqSXI

tole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcy3gwwxat4

he gives us stick about the north-south divide
cause they got the jobs
but we got the side

[tench]

Rezime gornjega intervjuja....sodeč po pretekli praksi, nas v soboto čaka vzpodbuden rezultat - remi, po možnosti brez golov....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... -contracts

[The_Milkman]

prvo pa muško...

še en tak v napadalni vrsti nebi bil odveč

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... break.html

[scouse proud]

Rezime gornjega intervjuja....sodeč po pretekli praksi, nas v soboto čaka vzpodbuden rezultat - remi

Sicer ni bla v soboto tekma, a nima veze...
Titula

Sredina danes kreativna, predvsem Lucas in Mascherano Čeprav Mascherano v defenzivnih vlogah zelo dober, ampak v 4-4-2 sistemu si na sredini enostavno ne moreš privoščit dveh defenzivcev. Lucas delal samo tisto, kar (izgleda da) zna, podajal levo, desno in nazaj proti svojemu golu. Babel ko je dobil žogo samo dribljal in skoraj vse zaj.... Bennyju tudi ni šlo preveč od nog, pa čeprav je podal za gol. O Dosseni se ne splača govorit. Arbeloa neviden. Kuyt je odigral dobro partijo, Torres ni deloval najbolje, mislim da bi moral kaj več poskušati streljati na gol, tako pa je večinoma podajal. Kaj čem rečt, igra zelo vzpodbudna za Real
Sicer se vrne v sredo Alonso (mogoče Gerrard), a ta glavno je šlo mimo. Za 8 pik zasrat bo moral ManU krepko (ne)delat, + obvezna zmaga v gosteh na OT (da ne omenim da je treba zmagat še vse preostale tekme). Tako da realno ostane še CL, ker v prvenstvu bo en velik spektakel, če nam rata konkurirat do konca ManUju.
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Suma sumarum: ************************

[The_Milkman]

Najjači smo najjači.......

[tench]

Smoke on the water and fire in the sky.....

[Matevž]

Če pa Rafa igra že celo prvenstvo na neodločen rezultat. Hvala ti, Rafa.

[The_Milkman]

Če uporabim svojo zmagovalno frazo z včerajšnjega bilijarda... gotovo je gotovo..... V znak našega naslova pa bodo na Bledu dobili kandidaturo za zimsko olimpijado....nepopisno veselje...o taktičnah zablodah pa enkrat proti večeru...

[tench]

Evo, glasbena želja za Rafo, povsem primerna včerajšnjemu "zabluzu"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqH-RoDXKLU

[Matevž]

Konec še sicer ni, bo pa zelo težka. Nuja je zmagati na Manchester doma, potem pa nič več kiksov z remiji, kar pa je v Rafejevi domeni že skoraj misija nemogoče. Enostavno ga ne razumem, če bi včeraj Lpool začel tako igrati kot je npr. igral zadnjih 15 minut bi po moje bila ob polčasu 2-3:0. Enostavno ded očitno nima "jajc", se mi zdi da bo počasi več njegovih podpornikov za odhod kot pa za podaljšanje pogodbe, če bo nadaljeval v tem stilu. Čaka ga še sila neugoden tekmec v Ligi prvakov, Real je trenutno v odlični formi, če drugi teden nebo Stivija...

[tench]

Ah, jaz sem prepričan, da bo še pestro. Pri Liverpoolu pač ni nikoli dolgčas. Časi so se drastično spremenili....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... doubt.html

[The_Milkman]

Ha tale Real je ponovitev LFC-Barca le v obratni vlogi....takrat so vsi govorili v kaki formi je barca in da nebodo imeli težav...potem je prišel padec v formi, poškodbe in off field težavice...LFC je bil v formi..pa sedaj ni, pa so poškodbe (ali 1..ok) in kapetan za zapahi....

Meanwhile, there are still a number of issues to be resolved before Benitez puts pen to paper on his new contract.

The wording of a recently inserted clause continues to cause concern and another sticking point is that the Spaniard is seeking a get out clause of his own should the club be sold in the coming months.

Benitez is concerned that a potential new owner could see the club’s future differently to him and does not want to be contractually bound to remain at Anfield should this happen.

But with owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett actively trading on the presence of a Champions League winning manager at the helm as they seek investment in the club it is unlikely that they will accede to Benitez’s wishes.”