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Homepage Article Rafael Benitez Appointed Everton Manager

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HumbleWedbetters said:
How can you Build a winning culture with players who don't care about losing? The answer is you get rid of those players.

Unless I'm missing something Carlo had one active transfer window..... So if you expected him to transform the team in a short space of time then you must think our players are better than I do.
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Which is sort of the point I'm making.

Beneathus is not going to be able to turn it around with a "winning mentality" in a single summer, just as Ancelotti wasn't. If he cant get rid of the players, which he wont, then he will be unable to change the culture and have to adapt to the players he has.
 
catcherintherye said:
Well to a degree, one is a much bigger winner than the other, but didn't get that across.

In a roundabout way, I suppose I'm saying I don't see Benitez putting a winning mentality into the players. The good news is, with some quite marginal gains, we can make a fair bit of improvement.
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if we make a fair bit of improvement then that is enitrely to Benitez's credit, not something like low hanging fruit that any fool could procure. this is not an easy gig.
 


catcherintherye said:
I'm really not sure where this idea Benitez is going to structurally change the club is coming from. There are manager who do that. To a degree Moyes did that. Ralf Rangnick does this. He involves himself in every fibre of the club.

Benitez on the other hand is one of the most singular and tunnel visioned managers out there. He wants lots of money to spend, on whatever players he deems will help him over the next 12-18 months. There's very little thought beyond that, very little thought of what happens if a cub can't afford it, or is a club ends up bankrupt as nearly happened to Liverpool. The idea he is going to resolve the contradictions that exist just isn't the the case at all, he will widen them.

He has also not built a winning culture anywhere. At Valencia he inherited a team that had got to the CL final and won a league with 76 points. The culture was already there. At Liverpool he won 2 trophies, 1 fortunately on penalty kicks and one in extra time. Houllier had won more and put the winning culture in.At Chelsea he came into a side that had already won multiple leagues (which he failed to do). At Napoli he came into a side that came 2nd, he left them in 5th. At Inter and Madrid he came into elite teams, champions of their own countries and Europe and flopped in both jobs. The only club he managed who didn't previously have a winning culture was Newcastle, he took them down, rectified his mistake with promotion before getting the same points and position as Steve Bruce. So unless Steve Bruce has put in a winning culture, Benitez hasn't either.

None of the above means he can't be successful here, or move us forward. But notions that he is going to make the squad winners is completely fanciful.

I'll tell you 1 other thing, if he tries to read the riot act to players and "take no messing" he will get Ronald Koemaned by the players straight away. If that's his plan, the players are going to know pretty much everyone hates the fella as he's a pretty loathsome individual with very little going for him, and they will just smell that and throw him under the bus. So if that's his plan, he needs to get a new one quite quickly.
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There are certain players, mentioning no names, that will see the hatred from the fans toward benitez and will use it to justify their own poor performances.

When some players sense a manager is in a weak position they will strike.
 

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