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2021/22 Rafael Benitez

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billyblue80 said:
He claims we can't keep possession but we have spent millions upon millions if we can't keep possession it's also on you Benitez
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Benitez's tactics are too park the bus and hope to nick one on the break so to keep possession (we had 31% possession in that first half against Palace) you have to have the ball in the first place. It was embarrassing to watch us employ those tactics against the might of Crystal Palace.
 
I hope The Rafael Express is done
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I have never felt so disconnected from the club. The
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Benitez's tactics are too park the bus and hope to nick one on the break so to keep possession (we had 31% possession in that first half against Palace) you have to have the ball in the first place. It was embarrassing to watch us employ those tactics against the might of Crystal Palace.
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I don’t think even Moyes was that negative, maybe against the bigger teams.
 

Its just not good enough. Our squad might be un-balanced, and a bit of a hatchet job for several different managers, but we do have some quality too. To just sit back and invite pressure like we do does not work, how would it? That's down to the manager. We don't have a plan B, and at best we seem to start trying to win way too late in games. Why cant we just have a go from the start? Or at the very least, get into them and try to control the game higher up the pitch? When something isn't working, you try something else. It seems every game you can predict how its going to go, and its been the same for months now.
 
Benitez and his acolytes have finally overegged his importance once to often. Even most of the happy clappers are seeing through him now. You can't say that none of this is his fault, that he's basically just a helpless bystander who can't be held in any way accountable for all these horrible results, while in the same conversation also say that he's totally irreplaceable and that there's nobody out there available who's better. Its one or the other. He's either just as accountable for this totally unacceptable run of results as anyone else and deserves all the stick that he's taking and far more besides and deserves to have his position questioned at the very least. Or he's so inconsequential that he makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, in which case we could replace him with Jimmy the kit man and it wouldn't make any difference.
 
Ghost Rider said:
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
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Your last sentence may be true of the club but about 90% of supporters know and understand it completely.
 

Bottom line is a lot of people never even gave him a chance because of who he previously managed.

I believe in giving someone a fair opportunity and thought as a club the fanbase did too.

I've been sadly disappointed to find this isn't the case and if it has done nothing else it has opened my eyes to the actual moral standards people hold. I certainly won't hold up Evertonians as some example of great support in the future, i support Everton but a bond has certainly been broke with me in respect of if not the fanbase at least the majority of supporters on here.

That's not the fault of Benitez, it's about fairness and giving someone a chance. This his face doesn't fit and name calling has all the characteristics of bullying that has scarred so many lives that i find it abhorrent and sad that so many find such happiness in it.
 

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