http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6248514.stm

Real Madrid sack coach Fabio Capello after he guides them to their first trophy since 2003.

Absurd.

Begs the question as to what some people want?

Entertaining football???

This is why Real would NEVER swoop for Rafa.

I hope barca win it next year because of this. it beggers belief reals attitude to managers..

Entertaining football???

This is why Real would NEVER swoop for Rafa.
Again you comment just to wind people up, you must do as you are well aware Madrid DID swoop for Rafa (3 times infact). If you chose to ignore these facts, here is just one reminder, with quotes!

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/europe/2007-04-17-benitez-real-madrid_N.htm

I would rather die than support a team managed by Rafa.

Wenger - certainly. Even Jose.

But not Rafa. I would need two cans of Red Bull for matches, one for each half.

I would rather die than support a team managed by Rafa.

Wenger - certainly. Even Jose.

But not Rafa. I would need two cans of Red Bull for matches, one for each half.

Bull****.

If Man Utd won a trophy ugly, like in the recent seasons when they were brushed aside by Chelsea, you would have been ecstatic.

Rafa Benitez is a fantastic coach. His record speaks for itself.

Entertaining football???

This is why Real would NEVER swoop for Rafa.

And Mourinho is safe at Chelsea.:hihi:

Believe what you like.

I wouldnt know. I have known nothing but attractive, attacking football. I admit it.
Maybe I would accept a trophy won by dour football. I have no experience of that.

I suppose you dont get much flair down at the Lane....
Hey, there is always Robbo.

I wouldnt know. I have known nothing but attractive, attacking football. I admit it..
You must only be a wee young runt then fella because the first 5 years of Fergies reign was far from attractive! Hence why he came within 1 game of getting the sack!

Maybe I would accept a trophy won by dour football. I have no experience of that..
Again, you must have only started supporting Man Utd after they had begun winning things and consequently see them spend millions upon millions on players when at that time nobody could compete!

I suppose you dont get much flair down at the Lane.
Flair costs money, something Sheff Utd don't have alot of! Unlike Man Utd who were falking out 20 - 30 million on players (Ferdinand, Rooney etc) when at that time nobody else could! There's no wonder you began to win league after league, it was expected and was no suprise to anyone!

I will just add to your comments on Raffa:

In 3 years, Rafa has a better european record than Fergie has in his whole managerial career! In his first season at Valencia he broke the strangllehold of Real Madrid and Barcalona to win the Spanish title (Valencia's first in many many years). In 3 seasons at Liverpool he has transformed the team, getting rid of all the deadwood whilst still trying to keep up (on limited funds) with the already established top 3, winning the Champions League and reaching a second final along the way. Whilst at Valencia, there style of play was far from dour, infact many players quoting that they couldn't even get the ball never mind beat them. Whilst at Liverpool Rafa has never had the money to bring in the top class forward/strikers that he needed (£30M on one player he certainly didn't have - Rooney?) but now he has! I'm not saying we will now win the title but what i am saying is that the next few seasons is the time to judge Rafa, not now! His record wherever he has been is second to none and for you to call the man shows your inability to look beyond anything other than United and AF. Or maybe your not really that stupid, maybe you are again just trying to wind people up with your anti Liverpool comments, which is often the case!!

You fool.

Do you not recognise tongue in cheek when you see it!??

For your info, Fergies early reign wasn't characterised by success, but we DID play attractive football.
In Fergies first full season, we came runners up in the league, losing 5 games (which quite often would win you the league).
People tend to forget that. However it was an ageing team, so he had to reconstruct - which meant that for the next couple of years, things were in transition.

And what is all this "5 years business"?? He won the Cup, Cup Winners Cup in less time than that.

And that said, I wasn't questioning Rafas achievements.
Just saying I wouldnt like to watch his teams.

You fool..
Your right, you are!

Do you not recognise tongue in cheek when you see it!??.
You spout out so much twaddle, nothing you say is recognisable!

People tend to forget that. However it was an ageing team, so he had to reconstruct - which meant that for the next couple of years, things were in transition..
Hmmm which is what has been happening at Liverpool with Rafa!

And what is all this "5 years business"?? He won the Cup, Cup Winners Cup in less time than that.
Was or was Fergie not, extremely close to getting the bullit within the first phase of his time at Man U. This was made worse by the banners been held up at games at OT with the words 'Get Fergie Out' emblazed upon them.
I actually think that Fergie is an amazing manager who's achievements are even beyond debate! I am simply trying to get the point over that Rafa has had only 3 years here on limited funds, up against great, stabilised teams. Lets just see if the creative football now develops now that we can afford creative players instead of dogging Liverpool and Rafa at every available oppertunity!!! Am i wasting my breath... Probably yes!

And that said, I wasn't questioning Rafas achievements.
Just saying I wouldnt like to watch his teams.
You were claiming that Real Madrid would NEVER swoop for Rafa because of the style of his management!!! Again, you were wrong!

I would rather die than support a team managed by Rafa.

Wenger - certainly. Even Jose..
Again your posts hold nothing other than digs and a underlying hatred of Liverpool!
You claim you would like to have Jose as the manager of United but not Rafa:huh:
Mourinho has 300 million pounds worth of talent in his pool of players! Rafa doesn't have half that, yet some would say Chelsea play an even more negative type of game than that what Liverpool play!
You just don't make any sense fella!

Wenger could work wonders at Real Madrid, if they gave him time.

Sadly, I don't think Brian Robson is the man to turn Sheffield United into Brazil. Even though Michael Tonge would keep Ronaldinho out of the team if only he was Brazilian. Probably.

Last night's Fiver....

Every Winner Loses

Rob Smyth
Thursday June 28, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

REAL MUPPETS

If you bought Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain and the woodstain dried quickly, would you take it back? No. If you bought 17 pints of Temporary Happiness Facilitator and they temporarily facilitated happiness, would you squint at the small print of the Trade Descriptions Act until your eyes really hurt? No. If you went to a Kings Cross hosebag and she hosed your bag, would you give nice Nicky Campbell on Watchdog a ring? No. If you hired a manager famed for winning ugly and you won ugly, would you then fetch him a P45? No.

Unless you're Real Madrid, that is. Despite Fabio Capello doing exactly what it said on the tin, he was sacked today. Just like Vicente del Bosque in 2003, the last time Madrid won the league. Just like Jupp Heynckes when he brought home Big Cup with his bacon in 1998. Just like Capello when he won the league in his only other season at Madrid in 1997. "We've laid the foundations, but we need to find a more enthusiastic way of playing," said the club president Ramon Calderon, as a flunky put out feelers to find out if Kevin Keegan, Timmy Mallett, Graham Norton or a crate of happy pills would be interested in managing the new, enthusiastic Madrid.

There is nothing wrong with having principles about the way a club should play - it ensures Liverpool can never, ever bestride the moral high ground - but Madrid conveniently ignored those principles when they hired Capello to end a four-year drought. Not since Jim Levenstein's prom night in American Pie has someone been so blatantly used. As always with this morally bankrupt Oliver Twist of a club, they want more. But instead of punishing them with a ladle across the chops, the Fiver would like to twist their swingers until they turn olive. Didn't they learn the lesson of four years watching Zidane y Pavon y that useless clown who was on loan at Leeds y Figo win nothing? Let them reap what they sow: a huge steaming pile of galactican dung.

The man who will screwing his face up to produce said dung is almost certainly Barcelona and Atletico Madrid legend Bernd Schuster, who has done very well at Plucky Little Getafe but isn't fit to tally up Capello's collection of titles (nine in 15 years, if you include the Juventus ones). It takes one to know one, and the Fiver can thus say with absolute conviction that Capello is a serial winner. Not that Calderon cares, if today's quotes in AS are anything to go by. "All the people," he began, as Phil Daniels appeared in the background grinning gormlessly, "are requesting me to bring Schuster to Madrid. That means we have made the right decision!" Does it? Two words: 1933 German election.

It's ridiculous. Capello has won a league title with every club he has managed. Why on earth would you want to get rid of someone like that?

They could have at least let him see out the remaining year on his contract, and probably won another trophy or two along the way.

It's ridiculous. Capello has won a league title with every club he has managed. Why on earth would you want to get rid of someone like that?

They could have at least let him see out the remaining year on his contract, and probably won another trophy or two along the way.

Precisely - I don't think you could find another manager who has won 9 league titles in his last 15 years, with four(?) different roles...

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Precisely - I don't think you could find another manager who has won 9 league titles in his last 15 years, with four(?) different roles...
It's a record that stands alone. Probably the only manager who could give them the attacking, beautifull football they demand, and who would probably deliver them the title with it is Arsene Wenger!!

It's a record that stands alone. Probably the only manager who could give them the attacking, beautifull football they demand, and who would probably deliver them the title with it is Arsene Wenger!!

Wenger has more sense than to get involved with the Real Madrid circus. Barcelona on the other hand....

I had a feeling that Chelsea were going to be the new Real Madrid when Abramovich arrived, at least in terms of transfer and managerial policy. As it happens they seem to recognise they have one of the worlds best coaches.

Capello has done very bad things at the begining of the league, and at the end, he was very luky

Capello has done very bad things at the begining of the league, and at the end, he was very luky

Lucky or not, he still won the league. Something that Real hadn't managed in 4 years, and I have a feeling they may not win again next season.