The Champions League is the ULTIMATE, although the concern is that credibility is waivered owing to not accomplish a win in the league as well. That is why it has NOW become important to win the league.

Chelsea, United and Arsenal would give up any one of their league titles to win the Champions League.

Benitez is the best manager in the world, after 3 years he has accomplished unbelievable results. Ferguson and Arsene Wenger required many more years to build their winning teams.

My concern and I would hope the rest of the Liverpool supporters, is the loss of Benitez. This will set Liverpool back at least 10 years. All great teams need great managers. Each manager has their own distinct style of play and to remove our manager, ultimately results in the break up of the team.

This rotation nonsense is exactly that, the stats have been looked at by Tomkins and he has disproved this. Read Tomkins’ post.
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/archivedirs/news/2007/aug/8/NG156624070808-1304.htm

As further proof; After the CL record victory the same team was kept, and we almost drew, that was until Benitez made his substitutions (tactical genius) to change the game once again.

VIVA Benitez

And From Wikipedia
“Benítez became only the third manager, after Bob Paisley and José Mourinho, to win the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League in successive seasons. He is also the first manager to achieve this with two different clubs.” And then a CL final the following season.
“Valencia CF won La Liga with three games to go … Despite this success, Benítez fell out with Jesus Garcia Pitarch, the club’s director of sport, over control of new signings and the club’s failure to reinforce the squad with the players he wanted.These differences of opinion saw Benítez resign as Valencia CF coach in June 2004.”

Problem is, Rafa has been buying far too many players in and having most of them loaned out while the better back-ups stay in reserve and training. Which is why I standby Gillette and Hicks (who knows apparently better than Benitez ) to get the results before splashing further in January.

He’s gone berserk with the buying and still under-performing in the FA cup, let alone the league.

But with Mourinho, he’s brought out the best in Terry and in the event he does take the helm at Liverpool, I’m certain he would do the same (if not better) with one or two of our very own.

It’s simple to hate the bloke (mourinho) all because he used to have endless buying power at his disposal.

Without a doubt he’ll be a force to reckon with and all the better a world class tactician in him. And like Charlie said and I couldn’t agree better, “But what if Mourinho leads Liverpool to silverware, will Kopites hate him then?”

Take us home Mourinho.

Currently the way Liverpool is not playing any attractive football.We can really see that they are struggling to win matches.

Also Liverpool’s new owners Gillette and Hicks should show more interest in taking their team to a level in which they can be challenge other European clubs, surely they have to spent some money in the near future. Liverpool FC all the very best.

There aren’t exactly a ton of world-class managers out there. Who would you want to replace Rafa? I’m not having a go at you here, the question is sincere.

While I believe Rafa will finish the season, I also think he’s gone-daddy-gone when it’s over. Too much stuff has gone down, as the cliche goes. I honestly don’t see Liverpool getting past Inter in the first UEFA KO round and that would ultimately seal Benitez’s fate.

I would agree that if Mourinho were to get the Liverpool gig, he’ll have some damage control work to do as a result of stuff that happened during his time at Chelsea. But what if Mourinho leads Liverpool to silverware, will Kopites hate him then? I somehow don’t think so. Like Sir Alex once said, “Winning is a fantastic elixer of life.”