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He's playing a game. He's a great manager but he's like this at every club he goes to; basically says he can't be expected to win unless he has the best players. He's giving it the old 'maybe it's me...' line knowing full well that nobody will expect him to resign or be sacked, but in the same interview saying that you can change the manager but if you don't change the players you'll get the same results. It's a power play.
We had the worst form in the league during a third of the fixture list and would have been relegated if it continued. He also sent our best creative player from the prior season away with no opportunity to fight for his place, sold our only left back for daring to question why we aren’t trying to play football and fired multiple staff members.
It's fine that you still want to keep your nose firmly ensconced in the warm embrace of Benitez's hoop, but can you do it elsewhere, since you're not an Evertonian and your hero no longer has anything to do with our club (save for the mess that he's left behind him).
That interview with Richy the other day said it all
How anyone can defend that man after his shockingly bad and extremely damaging tenure that has put us into a full blown relegation battle where many of us are scared to even look at the table, never mind watch an actual match is absolutely mind boggling to me tbh. He managed to make an already average team even worse and even beat Mike Walker for the poorest tenure.
Lampard thread fella, take your comments to the previous manager thread.
Why are you still here, defending his record?
Top half of the table is the new standard for this club unfortunately. Cant compete against the title challengers, cant compete against; west ham, wolves, leicester, and not crap enough to get relegated. Our main rivlas in this league are palace, leeds, villa, southampton and brighton. All of these look to be evolving into higher up the table clubs. Hopefully Frank Lampard can get a tune out of these players till the end of the season and finally transform the club into a european club.
Benitez is a fraud, he was incredibly lucky to win 2 trophies, lost 1 final when it was essentially a home game. He cost the rs the title by failing to beat teams like Hull, Stoke, West, Ham, Fulham and a average City side at Anfield, that isn't the mark of a great manager. Only qualified for the champions league in 07/08, cos of dodgy decisions against us. When you actually look at his results they weren't that great, he lived if Istanbul, he would of been sacked far earlier, without that win.
