Rafa's revolving door... Your view
January will be the most important shopping spree of Rafael Benitez's Liverpool career. Get it wrong and his American bosses will surely run out of patience.
We've given the Spaniard a helping hand by telling him five of his squad to get rid of and a handful of new men to sign - read our views here.
Who do you think Rafa should sign? And which of his stuttering squad should he consign to Anfield history? Enter your thoughts below.
Gota say,season so far has been a bit of a let down,i think the trouble is raffa has wasted so much money on average quality players.i would rather see 1 world class player come in than 2 or 3 so-so players.and to be honest we have a huge squad of average players.i think we should hold on to babel and give him a chance and i like crouchie.think momo,veronin,kewell,and kuyt should all go .would rather see 1 world class player come in than keep all these
Posted by: GARY | 08 January 2008 at 16:45
As an avid liverpool fan for many a year I would like to think I have a fairly unbiased opinion. Generally Benitez is doing a fair to good job of staying with the other title hopefulls. At this stage it can go any way no one is completely running away with it. Liverpool,s squad is large enough although the quality of some of it is debateable . The biggest mystery is Dirk Kuyt, works hard tries hard achieves very little reminds me of aargh, Luis Garcia another duck head who played to many games for liverpool. On the other hand, I think Peter Crouch's link up play is world class and I cannot understand why he does not partner Tores more often. The bottom line here is we are defensively sound, only 12 conceded, its the goals scored thats a problem Kuyt Voronin and possibly Babel are not good enough to wear the red shirt. If I were in charge I would sell them three and buy David Villa or even tempt Defoe then I would start bringing through 1 or 2 youth team strikers when games were safe. Sometimes real supporters love to see the lad next door end up making it good. More youth policy please this is how liverpool will overtake the other three by blending youth and quality imports.
Posted by: dean | 30 December 2007 at 18:40
I thinkit timeto have a major re think about Rafa's signings policy.
Too many strange signings, Bellamy, Fowler. plus all these 10 million signings that we never seem to see in a red shirt!
The lad Guthery at Bolton. What a player he is! what is he doing with the trotters? get him back to us and lets play him!
With all the money spent, we are no nearer the top two!
We are on the verge of conceding the title race and its not even Christmas!!
Posted by: Gill | 21 December 2007 at 01:09
rafa needs to get a quality striker with pace to play along side torres the other teams they keeping torres out and they niked a goal we need either kaka yakubu d vila perpetov we need strikers who can ran inteligently or very handfull like yakubu
Posted by: ismail | 20 December 2007 at 22:12
he cart be that gd because hes on the verge of losing his job and as for last night where was torres?????????????
I f***** love liverpool dey are ma life. rafa needs to pick up his game.
Posted by: phil | 20 December 2007 at 16:09
hw fickle are sum called fans ere, rafa is god and shud def stay 2 champs final a fa cup and were still gonna b there bouts at the end of the season. need 2 keep hold of mascherano (hes awesome) and mayb bring in a spare centre half 4 cover 4 hyp car and dan ag! rafa is god!!!!!
Posted by: robet keen | 20 December 2007 at 15:14
i think that we should keep rafa we should get rid of hypia and bring in a good defender we r lacking in defence
Posted by: lamby | 19 December 2007 at 20:00
i think rafa should offload voronin and bring in defoe or berbatov from spurs, you could trade in crouchy aswell in that deal.then just keep a regular team and just swap around the wingers,(as long as they are wingers) ie not like he did against reading. gotta keep rafa though really is the best we've had for a long time.
COME ON THE POOL!!!
Posted by: bill | 19 December 2007 at 19:26
Mascherano has been our player of the season, he always puts a solid performance in and constitantly. Whereas Sissoko has to pick up his form or he'll find himself out of the Kop.
Expect to see Voronin && possibly Kuyt sold and A youngish striker brought in, with Babel moving up front and crouch getting more of a chance.
Posted by: Gus | 19 December 2007 at 19:25
rafa has to bring in daniel alves, david villa and kinladze but look to move on the likes of sissoko, babel, kuyt, crouch, voronin. I wouldnt sell harry kewell as he is a top quality player
Posted by: Joe | 19 December 2007 at 19:25
rafa rotates the squad a little too often although it does work and brings liverpool good results. We have a top class striker in torres but need another one to as we dominate games but dont finish enough times in front of goal. BUY DAVID VILLA!
Posted by: mark | 19 December 2007 at 19:05
i think rafa shud go, his rotation and lack of consistency to get the results is bringing down liverpool. He needs to pick up his game or leave the club.
COME ON LIVERPOOL FC
Posted by: phil | 19 December 2007 at 18:43
i think you should buy daniel alves and sell vorinon hes not to good but he dosnt get a game.i think you should give ryan babel a game and whoever we are playing in in the champion league last 16 2007/2008
Posted by: ryan munro | 19 December 2007 at 18:41
rafa should keep momo,get rid of mascharano hes a bit part player who seems to have 1 out of 5 good games momo is consistant.we need world class defenders and a midfeilder bring in david villa,kaka,robinho,eto come on rafa.
Posted by: jason | 19 December 2007 at 18:32
crouch needs to go somwhere like villa
Posted by: mike | 19 December 2007 at 17:20