Liverpool FC fans letters: No fortress – just a hand-out shop

IT'S time to bring back Xabi Alonso, Peter Crouch and Robbie Keane. They are thriving somewhere else yet could not find a place with Liverpool Football Club - for reasons known only to Rafa Benitez.How sad to see Xabi sitting in the Main Stand watching that dreadful spectacle against Arsenal on Sunday.LFC pay £20m for Alberto Aquilani and so far he has played 15 minutes?!Sitting on the substitutes' bench looking sad and rejected, he reminded me of Robbie Keane. What's more, Lucas got the nod ahead of him - for reasons known only to Rafa.Incidentally, where is Neil Mellor these days?Sean FlemingIT is time to be brutally honest.We won at Istanbul and Cardiff because of two special Scousers who would not accept defeat - not because of the manager. After five-and-a-half years in charge he continues to play the only midfielder in our history who can't shoot, head a ball, beat a man or tackle.Souness, Hughes, Ray Kennedy, McDermott, McMahon, Molby, Gerrard - where would people place Lucas in this list I wonder?The only teams we will beat are the ones we can bore to death with our ineffective possession and tactics.Rafa's decision-making in signings and substitutions is abysmal.Yes Torres - special; yes Reina - special.But what about the other almost £170m?Anfield is no longer a fortress, more like a charity hand-out shop.Time for Rafa to go? It's well past time and too late because his legacy is mediocrity.It takes a lot for genuine Liverpool supporters to lose heart but that's the reality and the reason Rafa has to go soon.Len Dunning, Childwall

Source: Liverpool_Echo