2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[sageyefc]

I think that the act of him dropping one of the teams better players, Digne, who has been underperforming for a long time, is not necessarily a sign of arrogance or him asserting his dominance, as many managers use precisely this tactic.

It’s is when you try to ostracise one of the best and most respected players in the squad, it’s not like he’s dropped him to the bench, he’s dropped him out of the squad, an extremely poor and thin on the ground squad. He’s arrogant and cannot handle criticism

 

[Toffeepot]

Digne will come back in to the team and it will be interesting to see how he performs. If he plays well at Chelsea, then maybe the tactic worked and it will lift others in the team too.

He might play better, sure, but he'll never be the attacking fullback that is his game under this manager. Under RB he's a smaller Carragher at full back, so I doubt this conflict will improve anything. Digne will still hate playing for him and using his dinosaur tactics

 

[JimmyK]

Maybe you are right, in terms of those ideals, but obviously Rafael not the man for it.
Lets take Palace as an example, young manager, fresh ideas, leader and great former player with good interpersonal skills
overhaul the squad and exciting to watch by comparison to Palce that were 'solid' 'hard to beat' and 'fought'
The new Palace will finish higher and fans will have more fun watching it.
Should we get Lampard(young manager, fresh ideas, leader and great former player with good interpersonal skills) and
stop renewing contracts for players simply existing, then we could do something similar
Gotta be better than this misery surely

Yes you're right it annoys me when people say this squad couldn't play good football if we asked them to because if the likes of Palace and Brighton can do it with the players they have then theres no way we couldn't. If you can play good football with Shane Duffy and Dan Burn you can play it with Yerry Mina and Lucas Digne. Thats where coaching and management comes in but we insist on appointing Hollywood managers instead.

 

[ranxerox]

What agenda do you have against other Blues with a different opinion to yourself?

Dissapointing I must say - used to be one of the good guys was our Eggs.

Calls out someone for musing about agendas and then ends it by implying he's now a "bad guy".

 

[jazzy]

Digne will come back in to the team and it will be interesting to see how he performs. If he plays well at Chelsea, then maybe the tactic worked and it will lift others in the team too.

Digne now in a no win situation.

If he comes back in and plays well defensively Benitez takes the credit.

If he makes a mistake Benitez says look I was right all the time.

 

[Dykovski200]

Benitez sticks his schlong on the table and says "mines bigger, come fight me".

That's not man management, that's authoritarianism

He must have a massive schlong

 

[Rock Hard Casey]

What's people's opinion on the difference between a manager and a coach? Talking to a lad earlier and he said Benitez is neither. Are Klopp and Guardiola managers with coaches who compliment them or are they mainly good man managers who are decent at coaching too? Modern footy terms confuse me. If you wore a suit or flasher mac on the touchline in the old days you were a manager and the fella next to you in the trackie was the coach / spongeman is my memory ?

 

[windymiller]

Were like 5th bottom for nearly everything...

https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/Tournaments/2/Seasons/8618/Stages/19793/TeamStatistics/England-Premier-League-2021-2022

3rd worst in possession
4th worst pass completion
2nd worst tackles per game

We're winning the running, though, right? Please tell me we're winning the running!

 

[Joey66]

It's gonna happen - lol

 

[d34noj]

Benitez sticks his schlong on the table and says "mines bigger, come fight me".

That's not man management, that's authoritarianism

As if he can see his.

 

[Kev The Rat]

You say that, yet we could still finish in the top 10. Even get in to Europe.

Maybe I'm being an optimist, but I think in the new years if we have a good window, we can put a good run together.

Rafas teams always finish well.

theres no money to spend, thankfully, given his track record.

 

[Joey66]

Raffas next job lined up -

lol

 

[luuk_deventer]

theres no money to spend, thankfully, given his track record.

Hasn't done too badly with £2m here.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Hasn't done too badly with £2m here.

he has a strike rate of 1 in 5 - and in the process doled out long term contracts to average and in some cases borderline criminal players.

 

[jazzy]

theres no money to spend, thankfully, given his track record.

Unless he engineers a sale of 1 or 2 of our better players.

If Benitez is allowed to spend money it is madness