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2021/22 Rafael Benitez

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Furey1878 said:
Whether your pro or anti-Benitez, try and not let that be your main focus at the club right now.

The board hired Benitez because he could act as an all too convenient lightning rod for criticism and frustration.

Even the biggest Benitez supporters know he is not a long term solution for this club. Please, please focus all your anger on the continuing problem of how poorly this club is ran from the top down, regardless of who the manager is.
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Amen yes.
 
Kev50 said:
I'm fairly sure you didn't. I realise that people campaigning for his dismissal will have a field day over the next couple of weeks, a host of injuries to our best players, unfit replacements, and starting to play the top teams. It is what it is. Nobody could do anything with the problems we've got at the moment. We have to play Godfrey, he's patently unfit. Ditto Richi, ditto Digne. We have to play Holgate and Keane, although they are stinking the place out. We have no adequate replacement for either of DCL or Doucoure. None of this is Benitez fault. In a rational club, the fans would be getting behind the manager, realising the hand he's been dealt through no fault of his own, and getting through it. But the multiple cry arses in our fanbase just might succeed in forcing him out, and if they do, the threat of relegation will be a reality. And we will have brought it on ourselves.
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Threat of relegation is a reality now with our current form already.

Tactics, game plan, subs is his fault. As is raising the players motivation and concentration. As is playing in a way that suits the players he has available.
 

Marius57 said:
Threat of relegation is a reality now with our current form already.

Tactics, game plan, subs is his fault. As is raising the players motivation and concentration. As is playing in a way that suits the players he has available.
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he's tacically very astute.
he hasn't got any subs. did you see the bench for Wolves. in a rational club there is no threat. Our injured players return, we move up the league. But this is not a rational club sadly
 
Kaiser Soysauce said:
Silva was allowed a transfer window though, in fact, it was in excess of 150m. Benny has been given a fiver and a bit of tin foil to wrap the change up in to give back to Moshiri. Bit of an unfair comparison tbf.
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Also had his best player sold underneath him.

Benitez has had a transfer window, he knew the restrictions, I think he spent the little money we had wisely. He was given licence to say yes and no to targets, including several right-backs, and go and given free rein to chase Rondon all summer.

I'm not saying he was 'backed' but he was given what we had, and when a bit of leeway came at the end of the window he was given that too but ultimately we ran out of time - that's not on Benitez.

He'll be backed in January, but things have to improve before then.

The footy, all season, has been utter tripe bar one or two games or moments in games. We're better than that. We're better than seeing less of the ball than any team in the Prem other than Burnley (who outplayed us for an hour btw) and Newcastle.
 

Kev50 said:
I'm fairly sure you didn't. I realise that people campaigning for his dismissal will have a field day over the next couple of weeks, a host of injuries to our best players, unfit replacements, and starting to play the top teams. It is what it is. Nobody could do anything with the problems we've got at the moment. We have to play Godfrey, he's patently unfit. Ditto Richi, ditto Digne. We have to play Holgate and Keane, although they are stinking the place out. We have no adequate replacement for either of DCL or Doucoure. None of this is Benitez fault. In a rational club, the fans would be getting behind the manager, realising the hand he's been dealt through no fault of his own, and getting through it. But the multiple cry arses in our fanbase just might succeed in forcing him out, and if they do, the threat of relegation will be a reality. And we will have brought it on ourselves.
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Vault me then.

We're sleepwalking to relegation with this fella in charge and all the beauts who keep licking his arsed will be going into hiding in a few weeks when it becomes apparent just how wrong you all got it.

Saying nobody else could do any better with this squad is utter bollocks. Carlo at least got to March before it all fell apart on him, he couldn't even make it to November.
 
Theoneandonly said:
Had Doucoure and Mina who were instrumental for Rafael before injuries.
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Give it a rest pal. That result shows clearly that Carlo knew how to get more out of this team than Benitez does.

No Dom, 4 CBs in the team, no Allan, No Wingers, No striker until Richarlison came on for the last 20 and Carlo still managed to pull it out of the bag.
 
Kev50 said:
he's tacically very astute.
he hasn't got any subs. did you see the bench for Wolves. in a rational club there is no threat. Our injured players return, we move up the league. But this is not a rational club sadly
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This is a point that is also forgotten also.

Noone to bring off the bench to change the game.

Maybe if we had players who could be brought on , the team wouldn't capulate so often in a period where subs are brought on? Kenny , rondon were two of the subs against wolves.
 

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