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2021/22 Rafael Benitez

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Theoneandonly said:
Just caught up with this page. Absolutely pathetic. The agenda of some people on here is ridiculous. Crying when we win.
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They are people who have realised that their objective of unseating the manager has failed and they're acting like petulant kids who cant get what they want.

Imagine being pissed off we won an away cup tie to a Championship team...the very type of team we've come unstuck against in the past...and booked our place in Round 4?

They're fast becoming an outrage that all fair minded Evertonians will be repelled by.
 
There has been nothing about Rafael's leadership that has been good ( excluding Townsend and Grey's purchases which I am giving to Brands) Roldan has been a disgrace, defeat at QPR, crazy tactics and crazy substitutions, historic defeats against Watford and Brighton, Coleman at left back, 5 at the back against Brighton, Digne out the door.

He was supposed to be methodical and a manager of resources. Good defences, gradual improvement, a style of play, organization. None of that has happened. We got this bloke 10 years too late.

I also find him inauthentic. We all now that if he got sacked tomorrow, he would take the payoff, and be chuffed. How could he have wrangled 3 years? 2 years top for a dinosaur like him...
 

By the way, I'd like to know what middling club (because that's what we are now since Moshiri came in) would have been top half or near it if they'd had to do without their two top goalscorers for the vast majority of the season?

Imagine Leicester without Vardy and Maddison; WHU without Antonio and Benrahma; Villa without Watson and Ings.

We have been under the cosh with that loss all season practically.
 
davek said:
People still angry we won last night?

Oh dear.
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Very simplistic statement that.
I’m made up we won and and thoroughly enjoyed and celebrated our goals.
I am now looking forward to the cup draw.
But that doesn’t detract from the fact that the overall performance against a struggling championship team was very poor.
Without doubt the best passages of football came from Hull.
That just isn’t good enough for Everton and doesn’t bode well for our future hopes.
 
DL100 said:
Last night was always going to be a struggle away with our form but we won and maybe we should have won by more if we took our chances.

Personally if he is going to buy himself more time then he needs to adapt pretty quickly. He needs to play 4-3-3 and to our strengths. Pursuing with Rondon isn’t helping either. I’d have no issue with 5 at the back if we where keeping clean sheets and winning 1-0 until he has his preferred team but we aren’t. Leicester if it goes ahead is massive, Norwich even bigger. He needs 6 points. Then maybe we go into Feb in a better position with a full strength team.

At this point though I can’t see it happening.
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Personally, this is the primary concern I have, and why I have real doubts regarding his ability to turn this around at all, let alone make a success of it.

I fully appreciate that there are issue with the squad in terms of quality and recent injuries; I also appreciate that behind the scenes has been dysfunctional.

His signings of Gray and Townsend have been positive too. Nevertheless, that is all pretty irrelevant if he doesn't help facilitate performances on the pitch.

We've had our worst run since Walker, our defence is declining rather than improving, the midfield look crestfallen and being offensive is not a strong point of his.

With arguably a better squad available to him than last year, it doesn't paint a pretty picture because I struggle to see where we're going to pick up points from.

If you don't really have a style of football in the first place, which I think is the case with us, it's even harder to adapt. It's the same old solution that doesn't work.

I honestly think Benitez would get more sympathy if he was trying the best avenues to get the result, but Coleman at LB, Rondon and the two in the middle won't.

On a positive note, we're through to the 4th round of the cup and we've got a victory; on the flip side, the performance and attitude was far from pleasing.
 

Eggsyblueskin said:
Very simplistic statement that.
I’m made up we won and and thoroughly enjoyed and celebrated our goals.
I am now looking forward to the cup draw.
But that doesn’t detract from the fact that the overall performance against a struggling championship team was very poor.
Without doubt the best passages of football came from Hull.
That just isn’t good enough for Everton and doesn’t bode well for our future hopes.
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Dave just has very low standards. It’s not his fault, probably down to upbringing.
 
sageyefc said:
Blaming the fans that travel up and down the country to watch this crap now I see
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No, not the fans...just that lot in the corner with their banners that stained the club...the one's playing the BBC game of creating a crisis around our club.

They were 'kin embarrassing.
 
Theoneandonly said:
Just caught up with this page. Absolutely pathetic. The agenda of some people on here is ridiculous. Crying when we win.
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Your not wrong about the agenda of some people on here being ridiculous. Mainly you constantly defending a manager so far out of his depth, anyone defending him at this point is 100% on a wind up.

There is literally no reality where anyone can be looking at how we set up as a football team and say that the job he's doing is acceptable. If you or anyone else believes he's doing an acceptable job, pipe up right now and I'll stick anyone on ignore saying they believe that.

I'm all up for debate, but it's as clear as day anyone defending him, his tactics, set up, training, team selection DO NOT have the best interests of Everton Football Club at heart.
 

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