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Apparently Rafa Benitez has been sacked but unconfirmed as of now.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...cle446441.html

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It's as good as........
I am sure there will be a few Liverpool fans that are quite happy at that news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ol/8719210.stm

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sky are saying he will be gone in 48 hours

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Mutterings of Dalglish and Rush to take over.... cuckoo!

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Avram Grant confirmed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/8717102.stm

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I would say so, you dont get this much coverage without it being true

"Sacked" (Daily Mirror), "Rafa Out" (The Sun), "Rafa's £3m Kop Off" (Daily Star), "Rafa is Out" (Daily Mail), "End of Road for Rafa" (Daily Express), "Benitez on the Brink" (Daily Telegraph), "Liverpool offer Benitex £3m to quit" (Guardian), "Benitez set to quit" (The Independent).

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didn't Rafa sign a 5 yr contract last year @ £20m? - therefore by my reckoning he's owed £16m to buy him out. Not sure £3m will do it!!

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The board will probably banking on him wanting to go where he's guaranteed transfer funds and a lucrative remuneration/signing-on wedge. Doubt he's going to get any at Liverpool for a while.

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In an ideal world he would be a man of principle and say "I failed to live to my promise of guaranteeing a top 4 finish. I don't deserve 16 million compensation", take the 3 million and go and manage Inter.

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He has now official left.

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http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/lates...fc-statement-1?

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That's what I've heard too.

Before this happened I had also heard that Gerrard was going to leave in the summer as his relationship with his missus (I forget her name) had broken down. (I wont go into details on here).

Don't know what will happen with that now.

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20 to 1 for Van Gaal to take the job! Not the likeliest i'ld admit but hell. I'll take a gamble on that.

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Thank you rafa for the good times you brought to anfield.

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... yes I've possibly heard about the details you are referring to, however: bearing in mind the current financial malaise and the fact that the lad isn't getting any younger perhaps time to cash in. I suspect that some key ins and outs (moreso outs) will be dealt with before the long term management issue is addressed.

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Alex curran was apparently sleeping with chris commons of derby county and gerrard has apparently got some 16 year old girl pregnant. All heresay as far as I'm concerned. We wait for confirmation either way....