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Desireandlove Posted 18 years ago
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Gagged....

Of course he is worth another contract - but to be 'gagged' is just another example of idiot owners knowing nothing. They obviously still think a manager should just be a coach and not be able to buy or name the players he wants.

These owners are NOT to be trusted. If they want to gag Rafa, it shows they know he will smoke them out a second time if need be.

The other thing is - Rafa has the bargaining power. Do you really think he would sign a contract like that? If he leaves (and I fear he will) we will be set back 5/6 years.

Can someone tell me what gag,..."they know he will smoke them out a second time if need be" mean?
  

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The context here is the sometimes uneasy relationship between Rafa, aka Rafael Benitez, the current team manager of Liverpool Football Club (an English Premiership club, currently in second place in the Premiership, for anyone not too familiar with the finer points of English football ), and Liverpool Football Club's American owners. Benitez has spoken out at times in the past about his unhappiness with some aspects of the running of Liverpool Football Club, and the 'gagging' being spoken of here is a reference to a possible clause being written into any extension of Rafa's current contract, that would effectively prevent him speaking openly of the internal management of the Club by its owners. As for 'smoking them out' this is an idiom once famously used by George W.

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  • The context here is the sometimes uneasy relationship between Rafa, aka Rafael Benitez, the current team manager of Liverpool Football Club (an English Premiership club, currently in second place in the Premiership, for anyone not too familiar with the finer points of English football ), and Liverpool Football Club's American owners.
  • Benitez has spoken out at times in the past about his unhappiness with some aspects of the running of Liverpool Football Club, and the 'gagging' being spoken of here is a reference to a possible clause being written into any extension of Rafa's current contract, that would effectively prevent him speaking openly of the internal management of the Club by its owners.
  • As for 'smoking them out' this is an idiom once famously used by George W.
  • Bush in the context of smoking Al Qaeda terrorists out of their caves in Afghanistan, but here I think it simply means effectively encouraging the owners to be more open about their management of the Club.
  • The 'smoke them out a second time' implies that Rafa has done something similar before.
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The context here is the sometimes uneasy relationship between Rafa, aka Rafael Benitez, the current team manager of Liverpool Football Club (an English Premiership club, currently in second place in the Premiership, for anyone not too familiar with the finer points of English football ), and Liverpool Football Club's American owners
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Of course he is worth another contract - but to be 'gagged' (=silenced) is just another example of idiot owners knowing nothing. They obviously still think a manager should just be a coach and not be able to buy or name the players he wants.

These owners are NOT to be trusted. If they want to gag Rafa, it shows they kn
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