How hard is it to see through his one half-average performance at Newcastle and one fluke (cheating) win in Istanbul and weigh it against his disasters in China, Real Madrid, Everton, Napoli and his deeply unpopular spell at Chelsea. And who could forget his moaning at The Pit about transfers and the owners?
Benitez is a fat whopper
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AndyC
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Are you still trying to defend the fat whopper ?
Give it a rest will ya, he’s a washed up, obese Iberian table server… and should never, ever have been employed by our club.
I don't want to get involved in your disagreement but, strange to relate, sat in the ground at 0-2, I didn't think we were out of it. Sometimes you don't deserve the scoreline and sometimes you do. If you reverse the match so that a comfortable 3-0 win ends up hanging on to an edgy 3-2 lead would you feel differently? Probably, you'd likely say how well we played and how, in the end, it was closer than it needed to be. So, it's all about perspective. Many think that, at 0-2, we must have been rubbish!! Whilst it's true we weren't great, neither were we terrible.
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? | Sneijder over Rafael Benítez: 'Hij is de allerslechtste trainer die ik ooit heb gehad' | Sportnieuws
In Veronica Offside is Wesley Sneijder duidelijk over de slechtste trainer met wie hij heeft samengewerkt tijdens zijn carrière. “Rafel Benítez is de allerslechtste”, lachte de oud-voetballer. Benítez was trainer van Inter terwijl Sneijder daar voetbalde, maar de coach werd na een half jaar al...
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In Veronica Offside, Wesley Sneijder is clear about the worst trainer he has worked with during his career. "Rafel Benítez is the worst," laughed the former footballer.
The ghost in the dressing room: inside Rafael Benítez’s short reign at Internazionale
Inheriting perhaps the most complete team on the planet, Rafael Benitez, haunted by the ghost of José Mourinho, got things all wrong at Inter
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How so few words can mean so much lol
Yarrgh
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I got strong He-Man raising his sword vibes. So yes.
Yarrgh
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Whilst not hearing about it at the time or since, I'd like to say yes.
Yarrgh
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Each piece is a deliveroo driver and the chess board is actually a map of Caldy.
The only other player of fast food chess is his long term sparring partner and fellow gourmand... Salami Rondon.
The ghost in the dressing room: inside Rafael Benítez’s short reign at Internazionale
Inheriting perhaps the most complete team on the planet, Rafael Benitez, haunted by the ghost of José Mourinho, got things all wrong at Inter
So, that one was the fans fault and the club lied to him about signings too lol
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This is coming from a poster, who`s claimed in the not so recent past, that there were posters on here, in the employ of third parties, to further their agendas lol
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The majority of his pots, and the more prestigious ones, were won during his golden period with Valencia and the RS. After that there's been cups but the Copa Italia isn't an overly prestigious trophy and his Europa League win with Chelsea could arguably be put in the same bracket as Di Matteo's CL win in similar circumstances which you have dismissed as a fluke.
That golden period was between 2001 - 2005 so is between 15 and 20 years ago. When he was winning them who was pointing at managers who'd won stuff in 1981 and claiming that CV still made them good managers?
Lampard is getting a good reception at the moment as he's clearly making progress with the side. Benitez got a largely positive reception from the Goodison crowd when he came into the job. Blankets outside a house do not define the reaction of the entire fanbase. Ultimately though he delivered some terrible football and was taking the club backwards and and into the Championship.
It was always going to get hostile when things went badly but that's nothing to do with social media or the modern age. If a different former RS such as Souness or Houlier had come into the job instead of Royle or Moyes they too would have had a hard time if things went badly. That's the nature of a local rivalry.
Not sure what the cheeky zany stuff is. I can't think of any manager at Everton over the past few years that I would apply that to. And nobody is saying Benitez's shortcomings are his lack of those attributes.
Yarrgh
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Oh those horrid fans lol
And yet he whinged about us getting a draw at Anfield once
We were never a smaller club than when he managed us and that was down to his management
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