Well said 'Arry! Rafa should shoulder most of the blame as he clearly was not good enough for the job for the last few years....looks like he'll be in charge of another European Giant's demise very soon at Inter !!

Harry should shut his cockney cake hole, and concentrate on his own mistakes the corrupt know nothing idiot. Im sure there are loads of Pompey fans out there who would like 5 minutes with him!!!

you sure they paid for Dirk Kuyt, I don,t think so, check out when he signed and when the yanks took over, then maybe get your facts right!!

Hey Harry, shut your fuckin mouth when you have no fucking idea what you are talking about you fucking twat. Arrogant little fuck....

I think Arry should be concentrating on his own side rather than commenting on another in a rag like the scum. Also, Kuyt, ya need to at least get the facts if you are going to comment mate.

Just the usual eneducated babble from a common little man.

Hary writes for the Sun - says it all really

The man can't keep his mouth shut and I'm losing count of the daft statements he's been coming out with recently.Let's hope his lawyers can persuade him to shut up in the forthcoming trial for his part in Portsmouth's tax fraud or his next interviews could be from Pentonville

Harry, maybe Benitez made mistakes but so does every manager, and Aquilani was the cash generated from the Alonso sale, easy to have a go at a manager who left LFC. Hicks and gilette have offered no transfer cash for about 2 seasons now and have destabilised the club especially after a great 208 - 2009 season when profits were recorded. If Benitez is such a flop why are we poor these days with Cole Meireles on the pitch?

Arry give us a twitch!! your an idiot! have you forgotten that the yanks borrowed money to buy the club in the fist place. they were in debt from day one which ruined our club!

f∗∗k off redknap you bent bastard you should of been threw out of football years ago the yids will get on to you soon you cockney prick and take that usless c∗∗t of a son with you ypur both opinionated twats i hope the pompey fans get hold of you and show you their discust in you your nothing but a con man

What's he on about we ave had a net spend in the last 4 years on transfers because of G+H debt. By the way they didn't buy Kuyt he was already here David Moores leant money to buy him. So butt out Readknapp

Kuyt signed for Liverpool almost a year before H&G took over. 'Arry spouting his usual uninformed nonsense in the Sun. Enough said.

what did they do wrong Arry redcock !? basically they are liars ! they didn't put any money into the club.

They promised to build a new stadium and cover the debt that david moores left but instead they put in more debt into the club, so all profits we make goes to serve the debt instead of the team which has to sell before it buys players !! how the hell can we compete with Chelsea, City, Utd and Arsenal this way ? we can't.

Sure Rafa didnt make some bad signing such as Keane and Aquilani. But Man U and Chelsea have also done in the past. The fact remains that Rafa had spent a net amount of £88 over 6 yrs. With this Rafa won the CL got to another CL final and won the FA cup. It is easier fo the likes of Harry to talk. Well you are in a big club now, Lets see what you are capable of winning. The owners undermined Rafa several times. Rafa ll have gotten Vidic, Alves, Villa, Simao just to name a few names, Rafa has gotten to deal with 2nd and 3rd choices as Liverpool were NEVER able to buy first choices, I think people like harry just talk without thinking deep. Well it has always been said that the most difficult sense to have is common sense. Harry just proved that point.

Having Harry 'back hand' Redknapp stick up for you says it all, only a crook would stick up for fellow crooks!!!!

Harry you have gone down in my estimation, plus the fact you are writing for the rag that they call the Sun means that you have sold yourself to the devil, no wonder you support Hicks and Gillett as they come from the same kazams of hell

What a fresh breath of air to hear Harry say what every kopite does not like to hear...Benitez bought flops and Hogson has bought flops...the team is crap and the only excuse given is the ownership battles that and will not change the way carragher plays...

Whats's it got to do with you anyway Redknapp ! Kep your opinions to yourself !!

Harry is right people which is funny because liverpool fans don't seem to realize how much money Benitez wasted on guys like Babel, KEANE (LOL), Riera, Dossena, Aquilani, etc plus he spent a lot of money to get guys like Torres, Mascherano, and Johnson plus he ran out Alonso with that whole Barry thing. The funny part is how Rafa ditched you guys like it was nothing. Atleast Wenger has stayed committed to my gunners even when he has less transfer funds because of the new stadium.

arry it seems you have no idea what you are on about. Please keep your fat mouth and shut and concentrate on your own one season wonder team. Will be very satisfued to see you drop out of the champions league!

Well Harry let me tell you what these 2 leaches have done wrong.
1. Promised to build a new stadium.
2. Promised not to saddle the club with debt.
3. Decide to sell and have the nerve to ask for 6 to 8 hundred million.
4. Drag our clubs name through the gutter.
If you like them so much Harry why don't you fuck off and join them you cockney twat.

Oh. Just shut your gob and concentrate on your job - you snoopy dog!

Sorry H but you are wrong wrong wrong. Hope you don't get any L'pool fans on your jury!

Steve, not sure if your estimate is exactly right but I think you are missing the point.

Manchester and Chelsea have made some bad buys but they are in different finical situations that not many clubs are. Machester is as big commercially as you can be and chelsea has Abromovich. Plus not many owners could have signed off on those guys you named. They cost a fortune.

On raffa winning a couple trophies.... that does not mean you should get to blow money and leave a average squad behind that you bought.

Here is the real issue.....Hicks and Gillet do not know football so they were not able to tell who was worth 20 million and who was not. They just went with Rafa's choice and most of the time it was wrong.

Harry, Please dont say nother word on this subject that you obviously have no knowledge of.

For instance did you know he has already bankrupted two teams, another is on the brink, apart from LFC?

Would you yourself liked to be blamed for the Portsmouth debacle? Thought not.

Oh and the S∗n, dear lord.

Dirk kuyt was purchased BEFORE they owned the team you idiot. He is as dumb as his son!

haha ya wateva 'Arry

Arry. What a twat. You haven't got a clue what's going on. You become more laughable every day.
Your as bad as your son, who thinks Alonso played at OT when Liverpool won 4-1.

'Arry's such a peanut. The two leeches didn't even fund Kuyt's signing, he joined the year before they did, also, the money used to buy Torres was borrowed, and the money for Aquiliani came from Alonso's sale, which even with his purchase they managed to turn a profit of £10 million on.

Who lets these shit-for-brains people write for a living?

Don't forget who he's writing for!
Nuff said Arry!

When you see what Rafa bought with the funds he was given,who would have trusted him with more cash to go out and strengthen the squad. eg Babel, Aquilani, Johnson etc. etc( £ 48 million for those 3 ??? )

They signed Kuyt did they Harry? Get your fucking facts right. They have not put a single penny into LFC, even the players they did sign have still not been paid for, the money is still outstanding on the form of an RBS bank loan along with their acuisition fee. When the NESV deal goes through, it is they who will have bought Torres for LFC along with every other player who was signed during their ownership. Besides I don't know how making a profit 4 transfer windows in a row means they have pumped money in. Keep your dodgy-dealing nose out 'Arry. You are a fucking scumbag for writing for the s∗n along with anyone that reads it.

What a thick cockney cunt!! knows fuck all about the situation at Liverpool yet after a stroke of shear luck his team are wafted into the top four he thinks he knows about football management!!
Enjoy your breif stint in the UCL Harry it will be your only sniff of it for the rest of your career!!

'Arry, The Sun and Spurs, the 'classy' trio. They deserve each other.

HARRY, U ARE A DISGUSTING MAN IN THIS WORLD. NONE OF YOUR SOHAI BUSINESS! SHUT YOUR DAD MOUTH!

Everyone who watches football have seen liverpool turn into the biggest basket case in the premiership in the last 2 or 3 seasons!. No team has a god given right to be in the top 4 of this league. Liverpool fans should count their lucky stars their club hasn't been allowed to go the same way as leeds, portsmouth, palace, sheff wednesday etc. ... remember "yesterday is history" ... even with new investment can you really expect to challenge the likes of Chelski, City, Arsenal, Spurs and Man U with your current squad and without european footy will the big name players still want to sign?. I can see the new owners steadying this ship, patch a couple of holes and look to oflf-load to make a quick buck ... I wish the liverpool redsocks every success in the future, but you let the wolves through the door once (H & G) and have invited them in again.

i bet you think the krays were a couple of nice misunderstood young chaps as well

All that is going on here is teh normal 'self pity city' culture at Liverpool. This city should have become the ;European city of blame culture'. They look for someone else to blame and the cap fits the Yanks. Hopefully they will go into Administration and get relegated

As a Tottenham fan, I really wish Harry would keep his opinions to himself a bit more. Every week he gives the press a sound bite.
Hopefully when we play Liverpool Hodgson won't use Redknapp's comments for motivation. More worryingly, Redknapp's basically called Benitez a bad manager. We play Inter in a few weeks. Thanks for psyching up Benitez Harry. Smart move.

Just concentrate on Spurs. You wouldn't catch Wenger or Fwrguson writing columns for the bloody sun!

My first thought is that Harry should mind his own business (and I'm a Spurs supporter BTW). I find myself amazed that Harry has got the time to do all these kinds of things when he could be working with Aaron Lennon on his crossing, or Pav on his shooting ...or ... or... but I guess that's what comes from having a contract with the execrable Sun newspaper (sorry, chip-wrapper). I think that these two ill-judged idiots bought into Liverpool on the high point of foreign interest in easy money with the EPL. They did not look at Liverpool's resources and did not see how ancient their ground id, how small their squad is, and how crazy their manager WAS ...... they did NOT plough in loads of money and Benitez became increasingly crazy as money for players dried up. He bought cheap and gambled badly and still created this crazy situation where all the pressure and responsibility was thrust on Torres and Gerrard, and not shared around the TEAM. I take the view that this was crazy and it led to both of these 'stars' breaking down. I think that the writing was on the wall regarding Benitez a long time ago - he should have gone, or he should have been pushed. But there was no management structure above Benitez other than that twerp Parry - and HE created all the mess in the first place by choosing Hicks and Gillett. Now there are independent people muscling in, and a group of senior ex-players to offer useful advice, but all this has come too late. So my advice to Harry would be to keep your fat nose out of Liverpool and leave real supporters of football to sort it out. After all, they have NO truck with the Sun which, BTW, is rather unpopular on Merseyside .....

Bet there will be a protest against Redknapp now, losers

First off the inland revenue are chasiing Harry for £40k over 10 years so thats bollox for a start when they have spent £3-4m investigating it and have admitted he has paid over £10m in tax in that time. so bin dippers get your fcuking facts correct and stop being media beleivers.

on the subject of LFC Harry is plain wrong but not totally, Rafa did waste money on numerous players but LFC have to remember times have changed, you just cannot afford the top top players and havent been able to for years and years.

THE YANKS did leverage LFC with debt, but the banking crisis stopped them from burrowing at resonable costs, Moore is to blame for trying to keep Liverpool in the top 4 when they couldnt afford to be there anymore, Liverpool fans seem to want someone to spend hundreds of millions of there club(dont we all, lol) without getting any money back!

These new owners are buying the club for one reason, to flip it and make a profit because they are buying it at much reduced cost, thats the only reason, they know fcuk all about football and feed you guys shit in the media again.

Me as a Spurs fan am gutted another one of our crown jewels has gone to big finance yet again, banter aside Spurs fans know LFC is a great club as we are football fans, most who cant even afford to get in or get tickets when we want, when our new stadium gets built we will be ripe for some prick to come in and buy us and also borrow the money do it and then we be be in the mess LFC are in now.

Best a luck scousers, youll never walk alone
COYS

2004-2009 Rafa's Gross Spend 266.4 Recouped 194.8 Net Spend 71.6 Spurs managers same period Gross Spend 267.5 Recouped 113.7 Net Spend 153.8 Rafa spent 1% less recouped 41% more Spurs 53% higher net spend than Rafa. Spurs have a much higher net spend over 5 years than Liverpool,Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd. Accounts for the year 2009 -10 not available until 2011. So Arry keep your gob shut and I'm surprised your talking to the Sun.

what a bell end. what have they done wrong? made the club pay tens of millions of pounds a year for the dubious pleasure of being owned by them. they are snakes and you, mr redknapp, clearly know nothing about the situation.

oh and by the way they only money they have put into the club, including when they "bought" it (although the club ended up paying that debt. strange.) was money that they were forced to contribute so that the banks wouldn't pull the plug. Torres was bought with money from the Champions League win.

Shut your hole, you rubber-faced goon

wHAT A TIT YOU REALLY ARE ARRY.

IF LIKE THEM SO MUCH THEN I HOPE YOU GET SOME OWNERS LIKE THEM. SO THAT WOULD MEAN SPURS WOULD BE PAYING OUT £700.000 PER WEEK IN INTEREST AND YOU CAN ONLY BUY PLAYERS IF YOU SELL BEFORE YOU BUY. SO IF YOU WANT TO SPEND 20 MIL PLUS IN THE SUMMER AS YOU HAVE JUST DONE YOU WOULD HAVE TO SELL 20 MIL OF YOUR TEAM FIRST.

IN FACT NO WONDER YOU LIKE G⁄H ITS THE ONLY REASON YOU GOT INTO THE CL.

TIT

What a complete tool Redknapp is. The debt issue and broke promises is well documented. If he can't be bothered to get himself up to speed as to what's been going on at Anfield, he shouldn't be passing comment. But I suppose that crooks will always side with crooks.

Of course this has nothing to do with Arry meeting Rafa in Europe eh. Fucking simpleton thinks he can play mind games, he needs to remember where that got old purple nose.

Better tom and George to leave Liverpool. Redknap i know you want to maintain your top four seat but let me tell you this season Liverpool will win the trophy and go back to top four.we don't want your faking ideal

I always liked Harry but am hugely disappointed by these ill educated comments (along with some of the comments from people on here).....for those that require a little education in basic maths and finance I will try to give it to you in very simple language so most of you can keep up......the reason that the owners are so hated is becaues of the lies they have spouted from day 1....the key point being 'No Glazier style takeover' ie leveraged debt....what that means is they promised not to take out loans to but the club....which they subsequently did and all operating profits from the club were used to pay their interest payments rather than going back into the club.

And here's the key issue that a huge amount of people in the media, in football (see Harry) and on here seem to miss.....Rafa's NETT spend (ie amount spent minus amount gained from player sales) in his time as manager is less than Sunderland, less than Birmingham and most definitely less than Tottenhams

Hope that clears up any misconceptions many on here might have.....but I dont hold my breath

Knob end.

And some LFC fans actually wanted this utterly classless, mouthy prick to be our manager. I would bleed for LFC, but if that tw@t had been appointed I would have actually boycotted the club for the duration of his reign. He is nothing but a wheeler-dealing corrupt used car salesman, with a big f∗cking mouth.

NOT A LIVERPOOL FAN BUT JUST HATE REDKNAPP JUST THINK THIS NO MARK WHO RUNIED PORTSMOUTH TAKES ALL THE CREDIT FOR THEM WINNING THE FA CUP BUT GOES WHEN THE MONEY DRYS UP COULD BE THE NEXT ENGLAND MANAGER AFTER CAPELLO GOES WHAT A JOKE HE IS.

Redknapp you haven't got a clue

I thought the redknapp family had a soft spot for the reds, doesn't look like that now. Hicks and the midget riddled the club with debt. Yes there's no doubt that the manger previouse and present have made some poor buys but from what I know there has been a lot of meddling by the owners to get cheaper options. So Harry do your homework first, and do us a favour don't mention our great club in that scum bag rag that's no place for great club to be published. YNWA

what a load of rubbish open your eyes if they put so much money in to the club why why are we in debt to the bank i hope these pair of twat dont get a penny out of all this.

Harry sticks up for wheeler dealers who look to put none of their own money in but take a shed load out? Amazing!! Harry - how is the house on Sandbanks? The supporters of Pompey & Southamption are no doubt grateful.

Could it be that Harry is worried given its his club who has benefitted most from Liverpools troubles as we havent spent anything in the last 3 transfer windows while Harry has spent plenty. The owners havent spent anything they borrowed everything from the money to buy the club to the money spent on players there have been mistakes made in the transfer market yes and underperforming players. Serves them right if they lose a lot of money for trying to buy something with someone elses money.

Harry 'i must have my bug eyes noticed' Redknobb idiot.

Tsports finance expert Tom Cannon comment Hick and Gillet on the recent issue, i think he is right
'They are demeaning themselves now by essentially saying, ‘we want to make money’. They haven’t because they haven’t run the business properly or successfully since they bought it. There is no point moaning about it, we all lose money through bad investments, that’s the nature of the capitalist society that they love.

They have taken a risk and lost – and now they’re asking for a profit.

Cock!
Redknapp hasn't a clue, since 2008 the club has made a profit in every transfer window to pay off debt rather than improve the squad! Redknapp should stick to screwing chairmen over with brown bags of cash!

shut the fuck up harry, just cos your face got mashed and you look like youve got downs!

Calm down Calm down, you scousers should really learn to get over things.

Harry is right, Rafa fucked your club up but because of "the Liverpool way" you wouldn't blame a manager for failures would you.

Good Luck trying to come back from this, we are only just getting over our own disasters from the early 90's now and that WAS caused by the chairman

Sorry Harry but most of the money spent on players has been raised from selling players!!!!!!!!!

Well 'arry. First when they bought the club they said there would be no debt place on the clun. Guess what.. they lied.Most of Liverpools profit (the clubs profit) goes to paying off interest on loans for the parent company. kop holdings. Second. "A spade in the ground in sixty days". That was the promise they made about the new stadium build when they bought they club. That spade has been lying un-used for much, much longer than sixty days. Third and finally how about bringing board members onto the board that verbal abuse the fans a la tom hicks jnr.

Harry's full of crap.. yes LFC spent 20M on Aquilani.. that was from Alonso's sale..
The owner has been bleeding LFC with interests exceeding 30M which could have easily been used to partially fund the new stadium and new players..

liverpool the new leeds utd ...torres to tottenham for 15m

harry redknap should not be commenting on liverpool in that dirty rag no one wants to know his opinion after what he did to poor pompy nuf said

i hate people like HArry who completley ignore what the yanks have done to liverpool and try to blame rafa. they sold the club to the bank to get loans what have they done with money borrowed?? over 200 million.
the club is on its knees now cuz of the financial situation. they could not give rafa money to buy top class players so he had to do with players like dossena, lucas and the rest.

the fact is the American's never used any of their own money, instead leveraged it with various financial institutions.

As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle of Harry's inaccurate opinion and the angry comments in response to what he has said. Rafa invented this 'net spend' nonsense but that has nothing to do with how poorly he had the team playing last season, his poor man management and the fact that the club are well short in a few key areas. The Robbie Keane situation was a complete farce, you don't buy a player at an inflated price like that and sell him at a loss so soon after and then claim lack of money. The purchase of Aquilani was also criminal, when the team needed a player who could slot into the side immediately, not after four months. The use of some of the players, such as the much maligned Babel - the only player in the side, bar Torres, with any pace, has been poor. His negative tactics meant that certain players had no chance of thriving in that team. Messi would have struggled in Benitez's team and Hodgson is doing no better. The past is the past, whatever was won before counts for nothing when Reading come to town and play you off the park in the FA Cup. And blaming it on one or two signings, however bad, doesn't cut it either, the losses to Reading, and now Blackpool and Northampton are down to a lack of creativity and spark in the team which stems back to Rafa and has been clear for all to see for some time. Most of the usual scapegoats did not play against Blackpool, so the problems are deeper than people care to admit.
As for the owners, not sure why Moores sold to them instead of Sheikh Mohammed who has supported British sport for 40 years through his horse racing ownership. He would never have allowed the club to fall into such a state. But how many European clubs are owned by Americans outside of the UK? Not many. We've been far too greedy in selling our top clubs to people who have little interest in the history of the clubs. Whether it is an a billionaire's hobby or by crooks out to make a quick profit, our clubs should be owned by people who have knowledge of their history and an affinity with the clubs. Never in our lifetimes will we see Real Madrid, Inter or Barcelona sold off in this way. And those clubs still try to turn a profit. The sooner these guys are moved on, the better, let's hope the new owner sends the manager with them, and the club can be led by a motivator who wants to attack and wants to give everyone a fair crack, not just continue the job that wasn't working anymore with the previous manager. The team needs more than new owners, it needs a new mentality from the management as well. The lack of pace in the side means that they will stuggle in many more games this season.

Hes absolutely right.... Liverpool fans believe they have a god given right to be successful.... wake up to the real world scousers, you cant complain when theres no money, or most the clubs in the prem would be up in arms doing sad little protest marches

dumb-ass wheeler dealer..