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Bye bye Babel then?

Liverpool's Ryan Babel launches attack on Benitez and team-mates

24 November 2009

Ryan Babel has launched an attack on his manager Rafa Benitez and his team-mates.

The Kop flop has failed to develop into the talent that was expected of him by the Liverpool boss and ourselves and believes the blame rests with others.

We have absolutely no time for the player who appears more interested in a career in music than fighting for his place in the Liverpool side and when it's claimed his words have been misinterpreted, we won't believe him.

"I have tried to talk to the manager but it isn't of any use," said Babel, who misses out tonight due to injury.

"I couldn't really do anything with the feedback Benitez gave me. His philosophy is simple – try your hardest in training and then your chance will come. But sometimes I wonder how long I can sustain it.

"Many players can play lots of bad matches and still keep their credits – I can't.

"Benitez is not a man who will give you his trust straightaway. Benitez is a manager who in certain situations can do exactly the opposite of what you expect several times.

"Every time me or my agent have a chat with him he stresses I can't leave and he believes in me.

"We have to trust he is telling the truth. Saying it is different to showing it. We have agreed to look at my situation during the winter break. If there's no improvement then, I have to be honest, I want to play somewhere else.

"I still want to stay at Liverpool. I just have the feeling, for many people, I still have to prove myself.

"I think that is unjustified and a pity. I have shown I can do it plenty of times. I know I could be further in my career but if nobody helps you, if they don't make it easier for you then it is difficult.

"In 2½ years with Liverpool I have never started three matches in a row.

"All the forwards, they always live for their own success. It is hard for someone who isn't selfish by nature to act selfish.

"I don't know if my team-mates were shocked by my new character but I do notice once in a while they get confused.

"Normally I would pass the ball – now I take the shot myself more often. I see how they look at me with a face that says; 'Hey I am free!'

"But I'm not going to explain it any further because they don't give me any explanation when I ask for the ball.

"We have a lot of different cultures and on the pitch we are a tight group. But outside the pitch everyone goes their own way.

"The Spanish-speaking guys are very close. The youths hang out together. And I get along with Benayoun and Lucas.

"Dirk Kuyt? I don't really hang out with him. Dirk got accepted in the group of the Spanish-speaking players. He is very friendly with them and it looks as if he understands their jokes."

As soon as a buyer is found, the boss will move him on and that has nothing to do with today's quotes, they just strengthen the importance of getting rid of his poxy attitude.

http://www.koptalk.co.uk/Liverpool-FC-News...team-mates.html

We had Eduardo going that way...how about Babel coming this way? Wenger clearly wanted him at the time and I think he has a fair bit more to come that he isn't showing at Liverpool. Not exactly a position we need cover for, but he came to Liverpool for £11m..he must have halved his price with the above.

I think he might be quite a neat buy.

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Lucky

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Babel could have been good if he came to Arsenal instead of going to Liverpool, can't see it happening now even at 5 or 6 mill that he'd probably go for. We don't need him anymore.

Isn't that what AW wanted to pay for him back then? Maybe he had a point and wasn't just being tight.

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Babel's got talent, but either in terms of the decisions he makes on the pitch, or just his general attitude, I just don't see that he's got what it takes mentally. You could say that he would have done better under Wenger, and obviously we'll never know, but he reminds me too much of Reyes in that regard: he shows flashes of brilliance, but at the same time never really convinces that he's got what it takes to really step up and truly be a top player. It's one of the gambles you take when you sign a young player from a foreign league that you never how they'll adjust and mature, but you can't blame a manager for taking that risk or for the individual player's own failings to make it at the top of their profession.

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Gibbs has done broken one of them there little toe bones in his foot.

That is shit, shit news. After we thought we lost him for a while we get him back only for him to break his fucking metatarsal.

No doubt Gibbs is defensively a load better than Traore, but Armand has serious pace and can both shoot and cross. Might well be able to take advantage of Chelsea's lack of natural width.

I've just got to keep saying that in my head and I'm sure I'll start to feel better come the weekend!

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Babel's got talent, but either in terms of the decisions he makes on the pitch, or just his general attitude, I just don't see that he's got what it takes mentally. You could say that he would have done better under Wenger, and obviously we'll never know, but he reminds me too much of Reyes in that regard: he shows flashes of brilliance, but at the same time never really convinces that he's got what it takes to really step up and truly be a top player. It's one of the gambles you take when you sign a young player from a foreign league that you never how they'll adjust and mature, but you can't blame a manager for taking that risk or for the individual player's own failings to make it at the top of their profession.

Rafa can't nuture talent.

Fact.

I'm pretty sure it was van Basten who said something like Babel was the most talented young forward he had ever worked with when he was at Ajax playing in the Netherlands U21s. Look at him now!

Anyway he dived to knock us out the champions league so he can go and drown in sick for all I care.

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Heh, I'll be doing the same.

I guess we're lucky we've got so much bloody cover at left back. Or we had. I hope Armand isn't made of balsa wood like the rest of the team.

This is Armand "I brought knuckles dusters with me to watch the North London derby and got rumbled by security" Traore here. He's made of grimy Parisian steel.

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Gibbs has done broken one of them there little toe bones in his foot.

That is shit, shit news. After we thought we lost him for a while we get him back only for him to break his fucking metatarsal.

I'm suprised AW played him yesterday. OK, he didn't know Gibbs was gonna get injured but we've already got Clichy out with a broken back or whatever, and, plus Gibbs was injured playing for the under 21's.

In a game like yesterdays, all but a formality, he could have played Traore or even Silvestre and saved Gibbs for Chelsea and the coming games until Clichy is back.

Very unlike AW.

Either Gibbs was totally 100% ok and we were just unlucky or AW really didn't fancy playing Traore or Silvestre even in a geme like yesterdays. If that's the case he's gonna be shitting himself playing one of these at LB against Chelsea.

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I'm suprised AW played him yesterday. OK, he didn't know Gibbs was gonna get injured but we've already got Clichy out with a broken back or whatever, and, plus Gibbs was injured playing for the under 21's.

In a game like yesterdays, all but a formality, he could have played Traore or even Silvestre and saved Gibbs for Chelsea and the coming games until Clichy is back.

Very unlike AW.

Either Gibbs was totally 100% ok and we were just unlucky or AW really didn't fancy playing Traore or Silvestre even in a geme like yesterdays. If that's the case he's gonna be shitting himself playing one of these at LB against Chelsea.

I imagine Wenger was using it as an opportunity to give Gibbs a bit more experience of playing with the first choice back four against real opposition outside the pressure of a league game

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I imagine Wenger was using it as an opportunity to give Gibbs a bit more experience of playing with the first choice back four against real opposition outside the pressure of a league game

Still a bit of a gamble though, especially as Clichy is unlikely to be back sometime soon.

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Still a bit of a gamble though, especially as Clichy is unlikely to be back sometime soon.

I'd rather lose both Clichy and Gibbs at the same time over either Gallas or Vermaelen at any point. Serious lack of depth to our central defensive options.

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Enjoy the game! Where are you sitting?

We came through gate C, and were about 8 or so rows back, pretty close to the pitch. Pity Arsenal didn't score any games in the second half as the players were quite close to us there.

Really enjoyed it, although not as noisy during the midweek games as it will be versus Chelsea on Sunday.

I wish they took their shots more often instead of dithering around the goal mouth. Liege never looked in it, hardly had a shot on goal, but the ones they did fire, hit the posts!

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