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2021/22 Rafael Benitez

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4737carlin said:
Can he realistically do that this season? no, not a chance, and nobody but a fool would expect him to do so with our squad and the 1.7m budget to spend. This season is a transitional season, its about Rafael setting himself up for the next 3 years, we need stability, the chopping and changing of managers for a mid table team can not work, its ok Chelsea doing it with a CL squad but not us.
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He has obviously been appointed in the belief he has enough nous and experience to grind out points and maintain our PL status on a very limited budget until the stadium is completed.
He is the footballing equivalent of the ‘cocky watchman’ enabling our current owner to withdraw from the disaster he has inadvertently created.
 
4737carlin said:
Can he realistically do that this season? no, not a chance, and nobody but a fool would expect him to do so with our squad and the 1.7m budget to spend. This season is a transitional season, its about Rafael setting himself up for the next 3 years, we need stability, the chopping and changing of managers for a mid table team can not work, its ok Chelsea doing it with a CL squad but not us.
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"8th place means nothing to me" - Rafael Benitez.

Judge him against the standards he identified for himself. 8th or lower this season equals failure according to the man himself.
 
Eggsyblueskin said:
He has obviously been appointed in the belief he has enough nous and experience to grind out points and maintain our PL status on a very limited budget until the stadium is completed.
He is the footballing equivalent of the ‘cocky watchman’ enabling our current owner to withdraw from the disaster he has inadvertently created.
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Agree the current owner is a total disaster but that is on him, not Rafael, Benitez is the right man for the club that Moshiri has turned us into
 

Bluestar said:
It is absolutely the reality.

Taking hardnose decisions on the back room staff is also the start of actually fixing our structural problems.
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Hope he continues the ruthlessness. I like having blues like Big Dunc, Unsworth and Baines at the club, but their coaching ability has to be up to scratch. I suspect those 3 all are, but are lads like Phil Jevons and Scott Phelan really the best we could get in their respective positions? I'm sure I heard that Baxter and Jeffers were working for us too. Bin off the jobs for the boys in favour of talented coaches.

On Rafael, he's shown that when he has a first strength XI to work with he can get us playing attacking, functional footy that brings results and is actually decent on the eye too. When his best players are out and he's left with dross like Iwobi, Holgate, Davies, and Rondon (OK this ones his fault) then we struggle. Those 4 wouldn't get into many other premier league teams as far as I can tell. Others have already eloquently pointed out the financial issues he's faced with too, and that he's paying for the mistakes of Walsh, Koeman, and Allardyce mainly. Brands isn't blameless either. He gets plenty of time from me. We need stability, almost nobody would come in and do any better at this stage.
 


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