2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[Egil Olsen]

Yup, that's what he went with.

This is just my best guess based on experience. I was asked, and I answered. In the last 11 games we have an average score of 0.45 per game, which is unusually bad. My experience, in a football context, is that this tends to turn around. In addition, we have brought in some new players, and at the same time we get players back from injury.

Then I have also worked enough with people that I know that change takes time. Furthermore, unlike many here, I do not think Benitez is incompetent, but on the contrary is a good manager. That's also pretty much what former players say. Most recently, he was fully praised by Isac Hayden, and I have some friends who follow Newcastle closely, who confirm this. But there is no guarantee.

 

[BigDuncTributeBand]

A press conference where we didn't find out who was available and how he was hoping to arrest the slide. Instead dominated by his ego and a spat with a player. The journalists are useless and he is a ego destroying us

I’ve never been so embarrassed of an Everton manager, ever, including when we appointed Big Sam. It’s all about him isn’t it.

Absolute embarrassment.

 

[davek]

Quite the survival plan that.

Well, the plan isn't just to take points off them....which is why reinforcements are being brought in.

 

[Furey1878]

He mentions other people working on transfers whilst he focuses on the games. We have no DoF, who the Hell is running that side of things if not him?

Contract Dave

 

[Colonel Getafe]

A press conference where we didn't find out who was available and how he was hoping to arrest the slide. Instead dominated by his ego and a spat with a player. The journalists are useless and he is a ego destroying us

They aren't journalists, they're akin to clickbait hacks, only after a soundbite that suits them.

 

[davek]

Authoritarian murderer...Digne would be dispatched to the gulag by that piece of crap.
Your hero is he?

I'd think it slightly harsh. Slightly.

 

[Littlesue]

Remember when relegation shouts were getting laughed off because we were 11th?

I was one of them, I was that confident of no relegation that I said I would run down Dudley High Street if it happened. Better start the diet just in case ?

 

[LinekersLegs]

How did that press conference improve the fee we want to get for selling Digne?

 

[Furey1878]

For me mate, it was win a cup.

Nothing less would make this appointment worth while. A final and I might let my personal opinion on a dinosaur of a manager subside for a while, this was always going to be an awful appointment.

The lineup tomorrow is going to be make or break.

BBC can smell it... I know they can.

Yeah man, for me when you look at the cup winners over the last few years, City have just been hoovering them up apart from last year. But yeah, anything less than our best available 11 tomorrow is asking for it.

While I hate managers doing it with the League Cup, I get it, early in the season, try something different be that fringe players or tactics... FA Cup 3rd round though, no excuse. One of the main dates in the English Football calendar and a competition still widely respected.

 

[Abertonian]

How did that press conference improve the fee we want to get for selling Digne?

I believe the correct answer is ask Peter Reid

 

[RomanReigns]

31 points is the magic mark this season

we are on 19 points

we only need 12 more points to avoid relegation from 20 games

how can i be so sure that 31 is the magic number?

because the teams that got relegated last season had 23. 26 and 28 points and the teams getting relegated this season are no better than them.

we need 12 points and we still have to play the following teams: -

Newcastle (H)
Newcastle (A)
Brentford (H)
Leeds (H)
Norwich (A)
Watford (A)
Crystal Palace (H)

easy dubs

 

[MACCA75]

This is just my best guess based on experience. I was asked, and I answered. In the last 11 games we have an average score of 0.45 per game, which is unusually bad. My experience, in a football context, is that this tends to turn around. In addition, we have brought in some new players, and at the same time we get players back from injury.

Then I have also worked enough with people that I know that change takes time. Furthermore, unlike many here, I do not think Benitez is incompetent, but on the contrary is a good manager. That's also pretty much what former players say. Most recently, he was fully praised by Isac Hayden, and I have some friends who follow Newcastle closely, who confirm this. But there is no guarantee.

Whenever I’m unsure about a manager, I seek out Isaac Hayden’s opinion.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

easy dubs

Are…. Are you new at this?

 

[Colonel Getafe]

31 points in the magic mark this season

we are on 19 points

we only need 12 more points to avoid relegation from 20 games

how can i be so sure that 31 is the magic number?

because the teams that got relegated last season had 23. 26 and 28 points and the teams getting relegated this season are no better than them.

we need 12 points and we still have to play the following teams: -

Newcastle (H)
Newcastle (A)
Brentford (H)
Leeds (H)
Norwich (A)
Watford (A)
Crystal Palace (H)

easy dubs

with number skillz like that, you should be a billionaire accountant ?

 

[RomanReigns]

Are…. Are you new at this?

but we got proper fullbacks now