CJ,
I'm only going to reply to a couple of your comments as I have no wish to get into a long debate.
That's easy. The title of your thread was abusive to Rafa. He certainly isn't a fool in my opinion. How can anyone who has risen to managing a Premiership club be considered a fool? It say's more about you than Rafa that you would use such a word. Quite honestly it's something I would expect a kid to use - not an adult.
Because there is no law that say's the more you spend the more you win. Look at Chelsea. How much have they spent and they still haven't won the CL and that is Abramovich's prime target. So using your rules, the past 4 managers at Chelsea are all fools sinc they've had as much money as they want and still haven't delivered the club's primary target.
That is a ludicrous comment but as it can't be measured objectively I would suggest that Reina and Torres have been our two best players this season.
10 players for each position? 
I don't remember there being 10 goalkeepers! Aren't many of those purchases for the reserves? I'm not saying he has a high percentage of successful buying but maybe he's had to cut his cloth according to his budget and that involves more risk. At least he gets rid when he realises they're not going to cut it as opposed to Ferguson who can afford to absorb dodgy purchases such as Nani and Carrick.
And isn't it funny that the press haven't commented at all on the dreadful form of Keane since he returned to Spurs. Harry Redknapp has even dropped him a few times he was that bad. Seems his form only worked with Berbatov and don't get me started on that waste of money!
So you judge the quality of the manager on how much he berates his team in public. Brilliant! What about Ferguson's judgement on picking that team in the first place? How about calling him a fool especially when he's sold so many good players after a fallout in the dressing room?
Ha, ok, lets see.
Your first point, not only is that covered in my last post by me saying 'The only one who will be offended is Rafa', dont be so daft. If forum users cannot put forward their views towards people who are paid a fortune each week, and are EMPLOYED by the club, then what is the point.
Second bit, you're right, spending money is no guarantee of success, but my point was and still is, how can one man be sacked and the other given a new contract, when the first has spent half as much and won twice as much. By the argument that Rafa deserves his money for FAILING to deliver a trophy for 3 and a half years, then surely GH should have been knighted for what he managed to achieve on half as much money? Of course not, GH was right to be sacked, RB has been given more than enough time and no its time for him to go, and give Gerrard a chance of playing in a succesful team before he retires!
Third, you dont think that Gerrard and Cara have been our best players in the past 5 years? Really? Oh dear. Yeah you're right Reina has been better than Gerrard!! Who may or may not have been our best players in the past 10 games is completely irrelevant. A lot of people are saying that Lucas has been one of the best this season, but does that make him more important than Cara? The two most important players when he took over were Cara and Gerrard, and now, the two most important players are Cara and Gerrard, not whos done well this month. So all he has done is shuffle around the rest, and as has been discussed earlier with varied results. Some better, some worse than what he had.
Fourth, as you seem unable to count, let me shed some light on so math for you. Before this window, Rafa had bought 76 players. There are 11 positions on the pitch. Now Gerrard and Cara were already there, so that makes 9 positions that he had to fill. As I have already mentioned at least 674 times before, I am talking about outfield positions, because he got Reina early on. So thats 8 positions he had to find. So 76 divded by 8 is just 9.5 players per position. And before you get your knickers in a twist about goalkeepers, remember, that until the summer, he had Hyypia, and until last year he had Riise and Finnan, so up until 18 months ago, he only had to fill 5 positions!!! Or if you take those into account, and take away the keepers bought, 15 per position!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As for the argument that they are in the reserves, what all 67 of them? Thats 76 minus 9 (11 excluding Gerrard and Cara). I cant wait for all these hot prospects to break into the team!!! If you ever watch the reserves, you will noticce that the two who stand out are Spearing and Darby who like Gerrard and Cara were already at the club!!!!!!!!!!!! Rafa is employed to deliver success on the pitch with the first team, not the reserves, (the reserves who nearly got relegated last year!) and if he is going to moan that he has no money, then why not stop buying reserves? Every player comes with wages, signing on fees and agents that need to be paid, money that is not counted as towards RBs total spend. Even if, and its a BIG IF, you average a signing on fee at £100k for each player, thats another £7.6m that has been spent, then IF the agents fees average at 5%, then you need to add on another £11.4m, so in total at ABSOLUTE BEST thats another £19m to add on to his total spend, or for the most part waste.
Fifth, you talk about the likes of Nani and Carrick being wastes of money, and that Fergie has wasted money. Since he came here, RB has spent more nett than Fergie, so if Fergie has wasted money yet won 3 PLs in that time, what would you descibe as RBs actions? And havent the above 2 players been part of those teams that won the PL, so maybe not so much of a waste after all!
Sixth, Robbie Keane, we paid over the odds, never played him, then got some money back. Ok a mistake. Every manager makes them and I dont blame RB for buying him, just for not playing him. He has been dropped by Spurs because of what happened at christmas, and the fact that Crouch (who we sold) and defoe are playing well. Thats tactics, and part of the joys of having a decent squad.
Seventh, I'm not saying that publically slating your players is right or wrong, but Fergie sends his teams out EVERYTIME to win. RB has admitted that he is often happy not to lose. Do you think that Fergie would say 'Reading played well cos they were on the tele, we showed character and I'm happy with a replay'? Of course not, he wants to win. Thats why he plays attacking football, and why he is successful.
Eighth, The good players that he has sold after a fallout, who? Beckham? Van Horse Face, Stam, Ince? He got top dollar for each one of these and replaced them overnight. What happened after they were sold? Where they ever as good as at United? No, he got the best out of them and then moved them on at the right price. He knew when to get rid, and who to replace them with.
As for you Dude, I refer you to the opening line to my thread to see how predictable and dense you really are. My god, I thought United fans were stupid.
