Weekend Games

[Tash.]

I don't want Benitez to be sacked. Not at all. I just wish he was more prepared to change some things that continuously fail to work for us. For example, he seems to want to give Veronin every chance he can to prove himself. Yet Veronin never does because he is ****, end of. So why he doesn't just give up trying to play him and leave Torres and Benayoun on, I don't know.

We'd be better off selling Veronin, Babel and Lucas and buying someone to play with Torres.

I wish Alonso and Hyppia didn't leave and I wish we'd kept Riise.

Exactly. I completely agree. Voronin just needs to be shipped off ASAP and Babel too if he can help us gain some funds for some much needed backup. I actually think Lucas has earned his right to stay, I think he's improving with each game now. Totally wish we'd kept the 3 you named though, all were capable of changing our games.

Oh well, come on for the Lyon game!

[Black_Apalachi]

Yeah, Lucas is gradually improving, but very slowly.

Anyway, just watched MOTD and there was most definitely horrendous games had by a couple of referees. Carragher was only set off because the ref overlooked his earlier challenge. Zamora said himself that there was nothing wrong with the second one. Besides, we should have had a penalty at the other end. Degen's red card was a joke; the only part of him that made contact with the other player was his arse. On the bright side, Torres' goal was lovely, just shows what he can do even off a piss poor ball from Veronin :rolleyes:. Even if Rafa is resting him as much as possible, I don't like the idea of depending on pain killers and injections to play, it can't be good for him in the future?

[Browney]

EDIT: If he does get sacked then i'm 99% sure that he will get the Madrid job.

Which Madrid job? I'm guessing at Atletico?

Carragher is the best defender in England.

[CHA!NGANG]

No, Real Madrid. The manager there is on his way out and Benitez is one of four managers on the replacement list.

The Ref at Hull was shocking. Even the ref at our game wasn't good. Bentley should have been off within ten mins for two bad offences butgot nothing yet Vermaelen got the ball fully and got booked.

[Browney]

No, Real Madrid. The manager there is on his way out and Benitez is one of four managers on the replacement list.

That job's a poisoned chalice. Pellegrini hasn't even been that bad, Madrid are 1 point behind Barca.

[StefanWolves]

Madrid are a pathetic club IMO. They go against everything that successful clubs agree with, e.g. Arsenal and MU. They sack managers for loosing 3 games in a row - yet they're nearly top of La Liga. Surely they should realize they aren't winning anything just lately because they can't keep a manager for more then six months.

******* pathetic.

[leah]

won 4-0 against yeovil or something

[CHA!NGANG]

That job's a poisoned chalice. Pellegrini hasn't even been that bad, Madrid are 1 point behind Barca.

To be honest, Madrid have the support and players to do well but no manager has been good enough. Probably the only reason Madrid are doing well are because of the players. The manager is resting Kaka and Benzema a lot, playing other players out of position and that aren't as good and uses a rediculious formation. They need a better manager if they are going to do well this season.

[Browney]

To be honest, Madrid have the support and players to do well but no manager has been good enough. Probably the only reason Madrid are doing well are because of the players. The manager is resting Kaka and Benzema a lot, playing other players out of position and that aren't as good and uses a rediculious formation. They need a better manager if they are going to do well this season.

A better manager? They seem to be doing pretty sweet. And especially with "El Clasico" coming up, they have all the chances of going top.

[CHA!NGANG]

A better manager? They seem to be doing pretty sweet. And especially with "El Clasico" coming up, they have all the chances of going top.

Unless you watch there games and read about them then you won't know what I'm talking about. I said in my post above why he is a bad manager. They are almost out of the Spanish Cup and in the League they are conceeding left right and centre. The only big game they've had so far they lost. The can beat big teams but only because of Kaka, Ronaldo, Higuain, Benzema and there natural attacking ability. They conceed like crazy and they also have a messed up formation which is down to the manager. So they aren't really doing sweet if you look at them at depth and they have big underlying problems

Oh and with 'El Clasico', chances are they will get destroyed if Messi is in form. Madrid have no LB and Marcelo and Drenthe are there only Left sided players, both of which mess up a lot. Messi is a RW. Therefore they have no-one to cover for him naturally and he will run riot. As I said above, they lost there only big game this season, actually both of them with Milan and Sevilla. Barca won't be any different. They have a great attack which is down to the players brought in (not even the manager brought him in), but there defence is like I say terrible and Henry, Ibra, Messi, Pedro, Bojan are all capable of putting a few past them. Barca's defence is also a lot better than most they've met so they might be able to put 1 or 2 past them at most, but they would conceed 3-4 so will loose in my opinion.