PeP Guardiola or Benitez?

[Euler]

Read somewhere this weekend that Guardiola came out this weekend and said he didn't want to work with RA.

[Euler]

Well you have to say it looks like he is turning it around at the moment! Stunning result today.

[Consty1]

It amazes me that it's took until Benitez to finally start playing Luiz in a holding midfield role.

[hgodden]

Guardiola to take over at Munich in the summer

[Marshy10]

The orignal poster of this thread has got it totally wrong about Benitez. It certainly wasn't him that nearly bankrupted Liverpool, get your 'facts' right before making ridiculous statements. Inter supporter are you?

[Iron]

The orignal poster of this thread has got it totally wrong about Benitez.

No he didn't.

He merely said it would make no sense for Chelsea to sign Benitez...

get your 'facts' right before making ridiculous statements. Inter supporter are you?

There are places where talking to people like they're dirt is accepted. This isn't one of them...

Jeff

[Marshy10]

Good editing there, do you work for the BBC? He got it wrong with the bankruptcy statement, anything else he said is opinion.

[giulio2010]

The orignal poster of this thread has got it totally wrong about Benitez. It certainly wasn't him that nearly bankrupted Liverpool, get your 'facts' right before making ridiculous statements. Inter supporter are you?

Is there a personal matter that makes you criticize me in such dull way? If you have better information about Benitez or Guardiola, there is no need to criticize, but you can simply share to correct any errors.
A few days after this post, Sir Alex fergusson has criticized, openly, the decision to sack Di Matteo and stated Benitez very lucky to sign for Chelsea. The Chelsea supporters has amply demonstrated at stamford bridge their disagreement in the choice of Benitez and this after this thread. Guardiola as expected had not become the coach of Chelsea, was written with large advantage in this thread before He signed for Bayer Munich. Many points posted here by me and others were correct and some of the opinions became facts. (hgodden stated: I wouldnt be surprised Guardiola didn't end up in Munich next year. Chelsea would be a strange move for him given that it is the complete antithesis of Barcelona) Well spotted hgodden, that's what those threads are about.

I do not support InterMilan, I have a fairly objective view of football in general.
Mr. Benitez was driven out Inter Milan cause he requested a little too far out of the scope of Moratti and would have, dangerously exposed financially the club. No to mention the hate for the players whom had good relation with Jose Mourinho at Inter-Milan.
Immediately after the summer I read a letter from Mr. John Henry where he explained to fans why liverpool could no longer pay some expensive transfers and salaries, now I'm not English and I could interpreted his words wrongly but, in his words I realized he was referring to the irresponsible management of Benitez and others, Mr John Henry, of course, has never mentioned his name and so I assume he was referring also to the near-bankruptcy of the club and Benitez playing (6 years out 20) a big part of it.
I have not the presumption to be always right, but when I write something I have probably red some news that led me to that conclusion which indeed could be corrected by better informed users..
P.S. Below the letter of Mr John Henry
I am as disappointed as anyone connected with Liverpool Football Club that we were unable to add further to our strike force in this summer transfer window, but that was not through any lack of desire or effort on the part of all of those involved. They pushed hard in the final days of the transfer window on a number of forward targets and it is unfortunate that on this occasion we were unable to conclude acceptable deals to bring those targets in.
But a summer window which brought in three young, but significantly talented starters in Joe Allen, Nuri Sahin and Fabio Borini as well as two exciting young potential stars of the future - Samed Yesil and Oussama Assaidi - could hardly be deemed a failure as we build for the future.
Nor should anyone minimise the importance of keeping our best players during this window. We successfully retained Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel and Luis Suarez. We greatly appreciate their faith and belief in the club. And we successfully negotiated new, long-term contracts with Luis and with Martin.
No one should doubt our commitment to the club. In Brendan Rodgers we have a talented young manager and we have valued highly his judgement about the make-up of the squad. This is a work in progress. It will take time for Brendan to instill his philosophy into the squad and build exactly what he needs for the long term.
The transfer policy was not about cutting costs. It was - and will be in the future - about getting maximum value for what is spent so that we can build quality and depth. We are avowed proponents of UEFA's Financial Fair Play agenda that was this week reiterated by Mr Platini - something we heartily applaud. We must comply with Financial Fair Play guidelines that ensure spending is tied to income. We have been successful in improving the commercial side of the club and the monies generated going forward will give us greater spending power in the coming years.
We are still in the process of reversing the errors of previous regimes. It will not happen overnight. It has been compounded by our own mistakes in a difficult first two years of ownership. It has been a harsh education, but make no mistake, the club is healthier today than when we took over.
Spending is not merely about buying talent. Our ambitions do not lie in cementing a mid-table place with expensive, short-term quick fixes that will only contribute for a couple of years. Our emphasis will be on developing our own players using the skills of an increasingly impressive coaching team. Much thought and investment already have gone into developing a self-sustaining pool of youngsters imbued in the club's traditions.
That ethos is to win. We will invest to succeed. But we will not mortgage the future with risky spending.
After almost two years at Anfield, we are close to having the system we need in place. The transfer window may not have been perfect but we are not just looking at the next 16 weeks until we can buy again: we are looking at the next 16 years and beyond. These are the first steps in restoring one of the world's great clubs to its proper status.
It will not be easy, it will not be perfect, but there is a clear vision at work.
We will build and grow from within, buy prudently and cleverly and never again waste resources on inflated transfer fees and unrealistic wages. We have no fear of spending and competing with the very best but we will not overpay for players.
We will never place this club in the precarious position that we found it in when we took over at Anfield. This club should never again run up debts that threaten its existence.
Most of all, we want to win. That ambition drives every decision. It is the Liverpool way. We can and will generate the revenues to achieve that aim. There will be short-term setbacks from time to time, but we believe we have the right people in place to bring more glory to Anfield.
Finally, I can say with authority that our ownership is not about profit. Contrary to popular opinion, owners rarely get involved in sports in order to generate cash. They generally get involved with a club in order to compete and work for the benefit of their club. It's often difficult. In our case we work every day in order to generate revenues to improve the club. We have only one driving ambition at Liverpool and that is the quest to win the Premier League playing the kind of football our supporters want to see. That will only occur if we do absolutely the right things to build the club in a way that makes sense for supporters, for us and for those who will follow us. We will deliver what every long-term supporter of Liverpool Football Club aches for.

[Marshy10]

I find it astounding you havent mentioned the previous owners, who put massive leveraged debt on the club. This meant crippling interest payment. This is what nearly bankrupted LFC.

[giulio2010]

I did not write the letter John Henry did and he actually mentioned the whole group with the elegance not to name anyone....(Hicks, Gillet, Benitez and Dalglish).. It's obvious you decided a personal matter against me rather then enlighten us of what was the real causes of that poor financial situation with liverpool. As far as I know benitez tryed to replicate the same scenario at Inter Milan and have been asked to leave ASAP. In this thread the question was Benitez YES or Benitez NO and for what I know Benitez have clearly contribuited the decline of the financial power of Liverpool...As I mentioned before we are talking about 20-21 years of bad management which 6 of them have been the worse and when benitez was on the job. The previous owners have the major responsabilities on their shoulder but that for me seem far too obvious to mention..
To wash the donkey head you waste water, time and soap and so I did here but only with you...good luck...

I find it astounding you havent mentioned the previous owners, who put massive leveraged debt on the club. This meant crippling interest payment. This is what nearly bankrupted LFC.

[Euler]

That's a really interesting graphic, thanks for posting it.

Rafael Benitez: Chelsea interim manager angrily confirms exit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21611064

[giulio2010]

You are welcome!
If I find more graphs I will post it here!

[Euler]

Benitez interview : -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21610058