I'm not a Benitez fan, but you're drawing an unfair equivalence there.
Benitez joined Newcastle 2 months before they were relegated. Howe had been at Bournemouth for 8 years. It was entirely Howe's team that failed.
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Benitez joined Newcastle 2 months before they were relegated. Howe had been at Bournemouth for 8 years. It was entirely Howe's team that failed.
El Gordo.
Theoneandonly
Player Valuation: £10m
Not strictly true. Many of their fans were asking for Rafael after Lampard left. I wouldn't say they like him,but they certainly respect the quiet work he did there.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
As I have said loads of times though the people who are not against the move are irrelevant in this. Not everybody wanted Martinez sacked (me for example) but the anger from some fans was so high that his position was untenable. Benitez would be in the exact same boat but would not even get a honeymoon period to impress. It will be toxic from the get go.
The lack of understanding that angry people make lots of noise and cause lots of havoc is weirdly being underestimated by some people. It is a thing whether you agree with it or not.
Your outlook whilst absolutely commendable is not based in reality at all.
Thetigerblue
Player Valuation: £5m
yep. He’s a Tory too.
Lord Buckethead
Player Valuation: £35m
and I ask again, on what basis do you know the scale of the vote against Benitez? What are you basing it on, a feeling?
hippopotamus
Player Valuation: £1.5m
It's all good and well Mrs Benitez, but we still can't stand your son.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
But a significant portion never accepted him. Also let's not forget Chelsea have top players we do not. They drop coaches in all the time and win things.
He has some huge clubs on the CV but after the RS he’s not done anything that wasn’t expected. Fair play steadying the ship at Chelsea but sacked in 7th with treble winning Inter? Despite cup wins at Napoli he couldn’t improve their league placing and got knocked out the group stage and the qualifying rounds in the CL. Look at their squad as well at the time... Hamsik, Higuain, Mertens, Jorginho to name a few. Dropped by Madrid after half a season. These are all world class teams with world class players. I don’t see what he brings to the table with our current bunch other than maybe having us more organised and difficult to beat.
@Theoneandonly what was your time in China like mate?? Are you happy to be back in Caldy??
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Well them usual suspects are going to pipe up when you start comparing Eddie Howe to Rafael.
Rafael took over Newcastle and had 3 full seasons and a net spend of 3mil in profit. Finished 10th and 13th, in the 2 season in the premier league. Both times above Howe’s Bournemouth.
Howe in his 5 years in the prem had a debt of something like 180mil and still couldn’t get them to defend properly.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Not a single Chelsea fan wanted Benitez back after his failed stint, where he finished them in the lowest league position they had had for a decade or so.
1) They're hanging the latch for somebody else?
Or
2) The tight arses aka, Bill, won't pay anybody for June if they can start him on the 1st July.
Or
3) Nobody has a scooby
I'm going with a mix of 2 and 3
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
Well you’ll have to try to learn to like him, because I wouldn’t bet against him coming here, what are the odds at the moment of him being appointed?
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