Funny that, as a man I have massive respect for him, personality wise he was never my cup of tea. He is a bit of a school master but if he has the players that will take on board what he wants, taking Chelsea back to the top would be an easier task than it was when he nearly did it for us in 2009. Anything he said about Chelsea was for Liverpool fans benefit. It shouldn't be taken so personally in this day and age. At inter he did take over a team of primadonnas and faced a similar situation to AVB funnily enough with the same results. Yet at Valencia and Liverpool he had the players support and look what he achieved including giving Jose a run for his money a few times. I dare say that if Rafa had had an open chequebook at Liverpool we would have been looking at our first title in a long time and anther CL probably too.
The team seem to be playing for him at the moment and i think that all the rafa haters should take note. At the end of the day it is about Chelsea's results, not what rafa said. If he does the business for Chelsea i will more than forgive him for having a little pop at us when the rafa v jose battles were raging.
