2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[Deco]

Hard to disguise our performance and our output.

We’re in a tough place and it’s time Moshiri and Usmanov took the board and footballing set up seriously.

 

[NathDogg]

Half a billion quid spent.

Now, it’s a huge game for the club for keeping the season alive..

If anyone can name me the starting 11 for the game I’d be amazed.

We have utter delusions of past times now that are bordering on cringey. ( I’ve seen it all btw )

Totally agree - we are irrelevant in footballing terms and have been for some time. Probably more so after flushing that half a billion quid down the toilet.

Couldn't tell you who Benitez will pick - prob depends on who hasn't fell out with him that week.

 

[BullensRoad]

 

[Toffeepot]

Totally agree - we are irrelevant in footballing terms and have been for some time. Probably more so after flushing that half a billion quid down the toilet.

Couldn't tell you who Benitez will pick - prob depends on who hasn't fell out with him that week.

Only way into the team these days

 

[J.t]

Rafael Benitez - 2021/22 Player Performance Thread

Thread Sponsor: @RomanReigns

Hello was at the game today . Traveled around 600 miles. Never seen the ground so quite and frustrated. Laced leadership and commitment. I Expext more . When u put that shirt on. Honor it with pride . Your footballer ancestors fort for that shirt . No u do the same

 

[degsy]

Benitez, like Ancelotti before him, stumbled on / was left no alternative, etc, on to a formation and 11 that sorta worked.
I asked will he...seen as it worked...stick with it, run with it, possible fine tune it etc - or revert to type.

We have our answer - Revert...this is the guy who my rs bro in law tells me, once played a very good, box to box goalscoring midfielder...Slippy...at R B.

The biggest problem(s?)...apart from him himself...wasn't the 2 RBs, Coleman was not much worse than the recent off form Digne...even if he did, at times, look a bit lost.

It was right down the middle;
DCL, will obvs need games in his legs...But he, like Richo and da do Rondon are Isolated

2 in MF will mostly get over run.

Godfrey looked lost..."He says, Why am I soft in the middle, now?
Why am I soft in the middle?"...am I in a 3 or a 5, am I left, right or centre?

Holgate?...
He says, "Why am I short of attention?
"Got a short little span of attention"

Keane?
"Who'll be my role model
Now that my role model is gone, gone?"
Call me Al
As for who will replace Benitez, we have 2 candidates - Betty and the little bat faced girl...anybody ffs.
FFP; "We hold no currancy"

And we deffo need "A shot of redemption"

 

[Zatara]

That was prime Mike Walker, perhaps worse.

This is the worst display of management ive seen since Mike Walker.

Not standing 3-4 yards off ALL game

Trying ?

Putting in tackles ?

Energy, heart, desire ?

Ive not seen anything like that since we downed tools under Mike Walker.

In fact that effort today was probably worse.

Called it October 24th

 

[Nyhus]

Its wild how a massive amount of us called how this would end early in Benny reign, yet still the owner doesnt seem to get it, even after the team breaking all the wrong kinds of records. Worst this, worst that, lost to teams at home we’ve never lost to before. Solution: keep the fraud in charge.

Yuck.

 

[JLW]

BOYCOTT THE GAME UNTIL HES GONE!

Its the only way that the board will know that this manager and his results wont be accepted.

 

[Toast]

BOYCOTT THE GAME UNTIL HES GONE!

Its the only way that the board will know that this manager and his results wont be accepted.

Most couldn’t even walk out for a couple of minutes the other week and booed those that did..

 

[JLW]

Most couldn’t even walk out for a couple of minutes the other week and booed those that did..

'Superblooos them lad' they're the best of the best, 'I wont miss a game for anything me lad' 'Been in this seat for 30 years lad'
'I was here during the Walter Smith and Mike Walker days'
'They need our support lad'

 

[BullensRoad]

'Superblooos them lad' they're the best of the best, 'I wont miss a game for anything me lad' 'Been in this seat for 30 years lad'
'I was here during the Walter Smith and Mike Walker days'
'They need our support lad'

wool.

 

[Zatara]

Positives for me are:

Signing Gray + Mykolenko and possibly Patterson.

If he can bring in a defensive midfielder in the same profile and move 5 or 6 players on this window then thats something positive on the recruitment side.

Formations, performances and results are mind blowing but if he can show he can bring in high potential quality and get players out the door...

...could be a decent DOF.

Just need the right manager to come in.

For me its Amorim or Gallardo...Potter 3rd choice but the list is huge.

 

[JLW]

wool.

Happy clapper

 

[Saint Domingo]

The thing is, Benitez is building the defence around him. I dont get it.

It’s a big black mark against him. I can’t fathom why any manager would look at him and think ‘yes, first team centreback there’. He’s a car crash.