2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[chippy1722]

Probably not. A lot of people seem to really loathe the guy, which is a bit of a shame. Did well for us over a very long period of underinvestment.

His dithering, intense scouting and medicals would have saved us about £300m over the last few years.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

His dithering, intense scouting and medicals would have saved us about £300m over the last few years.

Moshiri would have told Moyes he had 250M to spend if he was here during the Koemageddon and Moyes would have bargained him down to 100M

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

His dithering, intense scouting and medicals would have saved us about £300m over the last few years.

"Hurry up and dither you ******, we've wasted a bloody fortune!" lol lol

 

[Bedfordblue]

His dithering, intense scouting and medicals would have saved us about £300m over the last few years.

He was hardly infallible, Per Koldrup, Simon Davies, Richard Wright, Van Der Meyde, Ibrahim Said, Anderson Silva to name a handful, should even put James Beattie in there tbh.
That’s not to say he didn’t have his successes too, the ones that were good tended to be very good, but he didn’t half recruit some dross to go with it.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

He was hardly infallible, Per Koldrup, Simon Davies, Richard Wright, Van Der Meyde, Ibrahim Said, Anderson Silva to name a handful, should even put James Beattie in there tbh.
That’s not to say he didn’t have his successes too, the ones that were good tended to be very good, but he didn’t half recruit some dross to go with it.

The Chinese lads lol lol

 

[Bedfordblue]

The Chinese lads lol lol

Left them out as they can only have been part of the Chinese sponsorship deal!
Li Tie looked like he might have had something about him before his injury but Wei Feng must have just been sent over as company for him!

 

[buddy]

The Chinese lads lol lol

I thought the 2 Chinese players were a couple of crackers my self .

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

We are still in 15th place.

 

[Earwigjoe]

We are still in 15th place.

Retro-Raffa taking us back to the 90s.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

I thought the 2 Chinese players were a couple of crackers my self .

I dunno, only one was really good enough. Sweet and sour really.....

 

[Dixieslaces]

Well yeah, but that was all blown out of proportion. A stupid thing to say, but he hardly lambasted the club.

That said, didn’t he turn down offers from the likes of Celtic and Spurs when he was here? Pretty sure there were quite a few others.

I also don’t buy the LVG thing at all. I have always felt Ferguson deliberately set it up so Moyes would take over as they had quite a close relationship.

Personally think SAF and Utd had a really bizarre continuity plan, it seemed that Ferguson just thought that's it, I'm done Moyes is perfect, let's do it. I thought at the time it was a bit remiss of them bearing in mind the "empire" that had been built. Then Moyes went in and took away all sense of continuity by essentially stripping the backbone of the boot room and bring in his own team, which yes you would expect t but at least keep a semblance of what had gone before.

I was gutted when Moyes left, as we had stability if not much in the way of glory and it seemed like a "well where do we go from here" moment for me and sadly it has been like that since and I've lived through Kendall era so I know what glory feels like.

Having said that, he did "do us down" a bit with his behaviour afterwards which was uncalled for but perhaps indicative of being let loose in Harrods after scrimping in Lidl?

I dont recall the LVG being wanted but may have just missed that at the time, I thought SAF had earmarked Moyes at some point?

We need the stability and scouting Moyes had badly now.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Personally think SAF and Utd had a really bizarre continuity plan, it seemed that Ferguson just thought that's it, I'm done Moyes is perfect, let's do it. I thought at the time it was a bit remiss of them bearing in mind the "empire" that had been built. Then Moyes went in and took away all sense of continuity by essentially stripping the backbone of the boot room and bring in his own team, which yes you would expect t but at least keep a semblance of what had gone before.

I was gutted when Moyes left, as we had stability if not much in the way of glory and it seemed like a "well where do we go from here" moment for me and sadly it has been like that since and I've lived through Kendall era so I know what glory feels like.

Having said that, he did "do us down" a bit with his behaviour afterwards which was uncalled for but perhaps indicative of being let loose in Harrods after scrimping in Lidl?

I dont recall the LVG being wanted but may have just missed that at the time, I thought SAF had earmarked Moyes at some point?

We need the stability and scouting Moyes had badly now.

I have an image of Fergie meeting Moyes and Big Sam in the hospitality lounge at some horse race in 2007 and drunkenly telling Sam the sad news that Davey has been tapped for the Man Utd job when he retires, so he should take the Newcastle job after all.

Sam is sad at first, but soon forgets this after Alex buys him a pint of wine and a jumbo bag of pork scratchings.

(BTW did Utd really have a "boot room?" If I'm honest I think most of it was in Fergie's head. Can't see Whelan being some sort of coaching mastermind lol lol )

 

[David09]

Probably not. A lot of people seem to really loathe the guy, which is a bit of a shame. Did well for us over a very long period of underinvestment.

I don't loathe David Moyes at all. I just think the football went stale. Even during the relegation fights though I was still excited to go to the match.
His football was up and down. Two games I went to for example. They were both at Derby County. One we won 4-3. Then the other was a new years day game and we lost 2-0.

 

[blueblue]

We are still in 15th place.

We may need to play a game first before that changes.

 

[No8Bally]

What the Horsepunchers had made.. perhaps those who adore FSW could buy up the surplus stocks and use them here?