2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[ToffeeTim]

Believe everyone at the club is on Work from Home so not too sure

Yeah that's a fair point. Still be shocked if he's gone.

I need more than just a pic of him outside the building to believe he is gone.

 

[JLW]

Believe everyone at the club is on Work from Home so not too sure

Just bleedin send Benitez a text saying "Koff lad" he's been in the city long enough he will know what it means.

 

[Raymond of Penyafort]

Believe everyone at the club is on Work from Home so not too sure

*enter to the sound of clop clop clop of pursuant hooves*

This will not save the big porker from the reach of the Inquisition, we can be in Caldy in four hours with a good steed

*braying of donkeys drowns out errant cries of pain from Iwobi in the dungeon, leaves at pace*

 

[Dixieslaces]

So he's just going into to take the remaining mince pies after the Christmas party.

I'm guessing Rondon beat him to it! Only just mind!

 

[JLW]

*enter to the sound of clop clop clop of pursuant hooves*

This will not save the big porker from the reach of the Inquisition, we can be in Caldy in four hours with a good steed

*braying of donkeys drowns out errant cries of pain from Iwobi in the dungeon, leaves at pace*

Is this @Tubey reincarnated? FFS lad

 

[Earwigjoe]

I see Fowlers free and looking a management job back home. Dont even think about it Moshiri.

 

[Connor]

Yeah that's a fair point. Still be shocked if he's gone.

I need more than just a pic of him outside the building to believe he is gone.

Yeah I don't think he'll be sacked but would enjoy it

 

[Ghost Rider]

We aren't sacking him today. Don't get your hopes up. Moshiri is currently in the frame of mind to give him control and there is nothing we can do until January. It would take losing every game in December to sack him , this really is a double down scenario .

But then who comes in? If we sack without knowing who is replacing him then we aren't better off , as history has proven. Imagine us going after a flavour of the month manager again?

Cycle won't be broken. We will sack the next one , waste what money we have and this time we haven't even got a director of football to fall back on.

Nobody at the club truely understands the issue here

 

[AndyKing58]

It's not far fr

Maybe his toxic managementstyle will offset the poisonous attitude of some of the players?
Might be worth a shot. He won't be cheap, but rather him than Lampard or Terry...

God, can you imagine the last two you mentioned?

 

[nsno-chris]

He’ll probably be there to finalise the sales of Digne and Richarlison in January

 

[matty1878]

your completely embarrassing us i’ve never ever so low

 

[Egil Olsen]

The small flaw is omitting to factor in that the appointment of Benitez and lurch in direction itself is the product of the owners ad hoc solution. There is no long term thought or plan behind it. It’s just the latest in a long line of short sighted decisions.

Look at the man’s style of play. Consider that he’s going to gut the football club and fill it with players and staff for this style. That’s the vision?

Nobody wants to watch this style of football and when he goes (regardless of whether it’s sooner or later) guarantee you we don’t appoint a similarly defensively minded manager. We’ll probably appoint a more possession based attacking manager and he’ll then have to change everything all over again.

That’s why Rafael’s appointment is so as hoc, so short sighted, so tedious, so difficult to support.

I suspect it was an ad hoc solution. So yes, agree. But unlike the owners, I think Benitez has a comprehensive and systematic plan, and he has convinced the owners (Mosh) that this is the best long-term plan. It is also a good reminder that Benitez's players, who were really only meant to fill up the squad, have accounted for 45 percent of our goals this season.

 

[Nyhus]

Yeah it's a tough one. With the Moshiri track record it will probably be Mourinho.

You might be right. I really dont want that guy, but id take him 10 out of 10 times if the alternative is Benny.

 

[ToffeeTim]

He's probably conducting interviews for his next DOF, let's be honest

 

[JLW]

He’ll probably be there to finalise the sales of Digne and Richarlison in January

Whilst mapping out his plan of getting Joelinton to replace Richarlison