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2021/22 Rafael Benitez

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Dixieslaces said:
Thats been rigged!
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Like anyone off Facebook should be taken seriously.

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MACCA75 said:
I know English isn’t his first language but I find him such a poor communicator. Doesn’t seem able to answer a question without talking in circles about something irrelevant.

That’s not really a problem in a press conference, but we are expected to believe that he’s suddenly really clear and concise when he’s giving instructions to players?
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Intentional.

The art of answering a question without actually answering it. So he can then go back and day "I didn't say that"

Exhibit A - "Smullll clooob"
Years later - "I meant club's with less resources"
 
kenada_blue said:
Intentional.

The art of answering a question without actually answering it. So he can then go back and day "I didn't say that"

Exhibit A - "Smullll clooob"
Years later - "I meant club's with less resources"
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I thought his whole argument was that he wasn't saying we were a small club but rather that we were playing like a small club? (Which makes the tactics he used against Hull all the more hilarious if I'm honest. We've never been as "small" as we have with Benitez at the helm)
 

Noble Savage said:
If we lose tomorrow, I'm hoping the journalists start asking some proper questions .
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I'm not sure which is the more amusing/ridiculous bit: calling his media sycohpants 'journalists' or the idea they'd ever ask him probing questions.

Wouldn't surprise me if the most challenging thing those helmets ask is whether it'll be raspberry or chocolate sauce he's having on his three ice creams on the way home.

Cowards the lot of 'em, I tell ya!
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
I thought his whole argument was that he wasn't saying we were a small club but rather that we were playing like a small club? (Which makes the tactics he used against Hull all the more hilarious if I'm honest. We've never been as "small" as we have with Benitez at the helm)
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Whatever. The chunt meant we're a small club but later went back on it using the arle "English wasn't good".

The feller speaks Scouse to a point that only Jon Joe Kenny understands him in training
 

MACCA75 said:
Benitez has signed 7 players now - not including Lonergan. That’s more than Carlo did, so he’s running out of excuses.
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Carlo got about 65 mill didn’t he, with massive wages afforded to James Doucoure Allan Godfrey, and then the loan signing of King. He didn’t have to let anyone go for that.

Benitez has had 30 mill more or less (with the majority of that arriving in the last week), with Digne’s 25 mill having to go out the door. He’s also had to shift James, Kean, Bernard, Walcott, Digne, Olsen, Virginia off the wage bill for that to occur.

So yes, whilst on paper the number of signings now align. The context behind them is dramatically different isn’t it. I’m not using that as an excuse either. It’s time to start picking up wins, but some of the rhetoric on here is a bit tiring. The moment Benitez spent some money people couldn’t wait to then starts saying he’s spent 30 million, as though signings who haven’t even played for us yet and have been here a week or so suddenly should have impacted our form in the first half of the season.

Benitez does have more of his own players now, and will have to live or die by his Digne decision, but the context of Carlo’s spending and Benitez’s just are not the same.
 
kenada_blue said:
Whatever. The chunt meant we're a small club but later went back on it using the arle "English wasn't good".

The feller speaks Scouse to a point that only Jon Joe Kenny understands him in training
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The amount of Blues who fell over themselves to say "He was RIGHT to say we were a small club" when he came in here and that he didn't need to apologise

Never thought I'd ever see that

Well, we are a small club now with his tactics. He makes Moyes' team at Anfield look like they were Brazil in the 1982 World Cup
 
kenada_blue said:
People will say he spent less money though.
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Saint Domingo said:
Carlo got about 65 mill didn’t he, with massive wages afforded to James Doucoure Allan Godfrey, and then the loan signing of King. He didn’t have to let anyone go for that.

Benitez has had 30 mill more or less (with the majority of that arriving in the last week), with Digne’s 25 mill having to go out the door. He’s also had to shift James, Kean, Bernard, Walcott, Digne, Olsen, Virginia off the wage bill for that to occur.

So yes, whilst on paper the number of signings now align. The context behind them is dramatically different isn’t it. I’m not using that as an excuse either. It’s time to start picking up wins, but some of the rhetoric on here is a bit tiring. The moment Benitez spent some money people couldn’t wait to then starts saying he’s spent 30 million, as though signings who haven’t even played for us yet and have been here a week or so suddenly should have impacted our form in the first half of the season.

Benitez does have more of his own players now, and will have to live or die by his Digne decision, but the context of Carlo’s spending and Benitez’s just are not the same.
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@kenada_blue

and there it is, right on cue;)
 

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