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2021/22 Rafael Benitez

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I think he has improved us. Looking at him realistically he he a good average Premier League player who won’t let you down but won’t win you anything, that makes him a step up on what we had. I also think that he contributes to the squad in that he has a professional attitude towards me game. By all accounts he trains hard, he carries out the manager’s instructions on the field and he puts in a shift every time he plays. Again we were lacking those qualities in many of our players.
We have to be honest with ourselves, Townsend and Gray are much better footballers, in terms of skill and application, than most of players in our first team squad.
If I was in charge of the hiring and firing of players Townsend would not be near the top of my list of players to move on. We have plenty of upgrades needed before we reach him.
 
Ufotone said:
Yes I do.

Not the greatest, we all know that, but without him we would have fewer points I think.

He seems to work hard up and down the flank, and I believe when/if DCL returns, Townsend will have many more assists
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Hodgson was a very negative manager. Townshend was basically a defensive wide player for Palace. Used more positvley for us. Was signed with Gray to provide crosses for DCL. Now there isn't anyone to connect with them. I thick DCL would of had 9 or 10 goals by now, if he'd not been injured.
 
Saint Domingo said:
I just think he doesn’t see club name, badge, history, he doesn’t see player name either. He’s just a completely emotionless robot who sees the team as a machine with 11 parts that all need to function in a certain way to get what he wants. If a player can’t play their role as a cog 9 times out of ten on a match day then he’ll just replace them with someone who can.

That’s probably why it didn’t work for him at Madrid or Inter. He just saw players on a pitch needing instruction whereas they were sides wanting to be built around Ramos and Ronaldo regardless of what the manager thought.

Fortunately at Everton we have no such issue as none of our players have any standing in the game to demand this sort of treatment, they all need to do what they’re told and that means it could therefore be an ideal environment for Benitez. He couldn’t care less if you’re James Rodriguez or Anthony Gordon, and he’s certainly not about to allow a load of structural lapses to accommodate a player who only contributes offensively.

It could also be a great chance to rid the club of its inferiority complex. He’s not going to be buying into any sentimental stories about little old Everton or the people’s club. In his cold view of the world he probably sees no logical reason why 11 men wearing blue and white can’t be better than 11 men wearing any other kit if he has the time and investment to get the quality players he wants.

It might not take many fans with him, and it probably won’t be very exciting, but a couple of seasons of Benitez clinically dismantling the amateur edifice at this club, and putting in place a functional fit professional squad that can challenge for Europe, rid of the ‘Everton that’ mentality, would be the best few years bit of work anyone has done at the club since Martinez’s first season.
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Your last paragraph sums up what is happening at Everton FC now and I hope that Mr. Benitez continues with his “ out with the old and in with the new” policy until we are in a position to challenge for the major honours. I believe if David Weir comes here that is another part of Mr. Benitez’s policy.
 
Cameron Manning said:
Your last paragraph sums up what is happening at Everton FC now and I hope that Mr. Benitez continues with his “ out with the old and in with the new” policy until we are in a position to challenge for the major honours. I believe if David Weir comes here that is another part of Mr. Benitez’s policy.
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What makes you think that?

Not saying I know you're wrong, but when I heard about the apparent u-turn on Weir I immediately felt it was an appointment foisted on Benitez (who has just got rid of an unwanted layer of bureacracy) by someone like Kenwright and Benitez lost no time in torpedoing it.

I stand to be corrected. But I cant imagine Benitez to want any ex-player in with connections to Moyes or that he'd have made such a cack handed attempt at bringing him in.

It sounds like the unprofessionalism of his internal enemies at the club.
 

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