Blame Liverpool owners not Benitez
Liverpool legend Tommy Smith says the club's American owners - not Rafa Benitez - are to blame for their Champions League failure.
Smith, who won two European Cups with Liverpool during a 16-year career at Anfield, is pointing the finger not at Benitez but George Gillett and Tom Hicks.
He said: "Europe’s upper echelons is where Liverpool Football Club belongs. So being dumped out of a Champions League group which any Liverpool side should ordinarily have been able to conquer, is not good enough.
"Liverpool supporters are magnificent and unique - and the reason why Rafael Benitez and everyone at Anfield knows they deserve far better than they’re suddenly getting this season.
"And the question is, will the owners, who hardly ever turn up to watch a game, either sell up or somehow give him the money he needs to ensure this stuttering and deeply frustrating season is not repeated?"
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Comments (23)
Benites lost it..... The Yanks never had it!!
Say what you like about the owners, Benitez.. I would like to go to a match again and roughly know who off the subs bench is coming onto the pitch, you cant tell me that 'we', the crowd, know nothing about football, we have followed the reds avidly an great quality football is something we have had at anfield. The man has us puzzled an I speak for many that he has misspent the money, knackered up transfers and looks like he has lost the dressing room. I hate to say that Liverpool Football Club is in decline and under Rafa now, the search for silverwear is further away that when we had houlier.
Yes, the owners arnt great at splashing the cash in big amouts but would you give 40-60m to a man with the record that he has had, would you nuts.
Benitez boasts about his 'scouting network' and I agree that we have some very very good lads not far off the first team but the only scouting I personally think Liverpool should be doing is for a new manager. I sincererly hope something is done sooner rather than later. YNWA
It is kinda funny thou lol
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