2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[jinkyali]

Which wont happen though - soon as DCL and Doucoure are back we'll pick points up and finish anywhere from 9th-12th.

Same old Everton.

Keane. Holgate. Coleman. Kenny.
Rondon. Tosun. Iwobi. Gomes. Begovic.

No way a squad with them finish top half.

Were sleep walking into a relegation fight.

 

[toffee matt]

I honestly don’t think Moshiri’s arsed. If he cared about fan backlash, he wouldn’t have hired the fella in the first place.

Moshiri needs hounding out too

 

[sageyefc]

He can take rondon with him, we’ll throw him in as severance pay

 

[DanB90]

Whether you want it or not…
Do people really think he’s anywhere near being sacked??

Sadly, no.

 

[Connor]

Blaming injuries on Sky when we crap from set pieces with a full strength side

Just put him out of his misery

 

[BlueStevie35]

Whether you want it or not…
Do people really think he’s anywhere near being sacked??

Spurs done it with Nuno and they are a point above us

 

[MikeH72]

Moshiri needs hounding out too

Been saying this since the day he appointed Benitez. People just seem oblivious to it though because they like the drawings of a stadium.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Whether you want it or not…
Do people really think he’s anywhere near being sacked??

No chance - we are 10th, financially in the brown stuff and have DCL, Doucoure & Mina to come back.

A mid table finish for a mid table club.

The only person who needs legging out the club is Brands for wasting over £250 million on tat.

 

[Wat Tyler]

I am getting Aston Villa vibes from us, in the years before they went down. Used to be challenging top six, made bad signings, never replaced quality, went into managed decline, even got in a manager who managed their rivals until the inevitable happened when you keep slipping down the league.

 

[Marius57]

Minus Sigurdsson and James - our two most creative players. We also did not lose DCL for the bulk of last season, like we have this. The James loss is no excuse, though, as Benitez rid himself of him. We simply cannot do without DCL, Mina, and Doucoure out together for extended periods while also losing Richarlison and Digne for good measure. This crisis is far worse than anything last term. Put simply, the manager needs to do way better but he'll need better players if he really wants to progress because most of these have cost four managers their jobs now.

But James was a choice by benitez. That's on him. Most of the forum has wanted siggy gone for ages.

Our injury crisis was just as bad in second half of last season. Jesus, we played games with no strikers at all, with iwobi, Davies, digne and doucoure in midfield. We had a game with only 8 subs, 2 of which were under 18 keepers and the only senior player was iwobi.

 

[BlueToff]

The football is miles better. They look fitter.

Thats about it.

It's really, really, really, really not.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Nothing improves until he goes. How people cant see this is truly baffling.

The status quo is inept defending, slow lethargic football, diabolical zonal marking, division, disunity, fans squabbling amongst each other, an environment where success will never be achieved.

This is not Everton. This is humiliation. Gives us our club and a little bit of hope back. Thats all I'm asking - a little shred of hope of better days. I'm embarrassed to support this team.

No guarantee things improve even if he does go. Who do we bring in, hand this squad, facing the upcoming fixtures, and expect to do better? Things have been bad for years now.

 

[Carlito]

The midfield was too open when Doucoure was playing, so I've no idea what Benitez expects to happen with Allan + another slug.

Individually, the defenders aren't up to much, and now they're sitting ducks in this system.

 

[Drico]

Don't start that.

We were told by all the Benitez fan boys that James was the devil and nobody seemed to care that Sigurdsson wasn't in the squad.

Digne was our third-most creative player yet Benitez has insisted he be more defensive, exposing the weakest part of his game.

We were without Allan, DCL, Doucoure, Mina, Richarlison, Digne, James for large swathes of last season too.

In fact, in December, we had Allan, James, Digne all out at once and Richarlison and Dom picked up injuries and we were second at Christmas.

We never had as prolonged a crisis as we are having now. Our most important players are Mina, Doucoure, and the two up front - all of whom have been out for chunks of this season. This on top of losing Sigurdsson, and relying on Gbamin and COVID-flattened Godfrey. We simply do not have the squad to cope - and 1.7m is an embarrassment of a spend for a club with any notions of Europe. A farce.

 

[jinkyali]

It's really, really, really, really not.

Maybe not miles but anything is better than the dross served up last year.