The Boot Room

I think it must be, but he doesn’t half make up for it later on

David James seems to think so… It’s pretty impessive

Doncaster Rovers are struggling at the wrong end of the Championship, but on their day, they play the sort of football that would make Total Football legend Rinus Michels gush.

So Liverpool are out of the Champions League, and even Ryan Babel is kicking the boot into his Spanish gaffer.

The Dutchman, who has struggled to break into the first team at Anfield since signing from Ajax, has reportedly criticised his manager’s communication skills and said that if he doesn’t play more often he wants to be “somewhere else”. 

Despite their group exit from club football’s premier competition, Benitez’s job is safe according to the club’s chief executive Christian Purslow, but it’s the case of Babel that intrigues most of all. 

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