2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[ForeverBlue92]

Yes, but, I don’t think you ever posted that you were waiting for King Carlo to take you to the promised land. That’s one of the many things you’ve said about your Rafatollah.

Because I support the EFC manager Roy.

Whats wrong with that?

 

[Armaghtoffee]

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.

The very club itself has to live or die by the decisions the FSW is making.

He is downgrading and I don’t fancy our chances in a dog fight.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Interesting

 

[riddick]

I take umbrage with that second sentence. Moshiri doesn't know injuries have derailed the good start. He doesn't know ANYTHING about football.

 

[Rob17896]

The very club itself has to live or die by the decisions the FSW is making.

He is downgrading and I don’t fancy our chances in a dog fight.

We will not be in a dogfight.

 

[4737carlin]

The very club itself has to live or die by the decisions the FSW is making.

He is downgrading and I don’t fancy our chances in a dog fight.

How is he downgrading? Our player of the season he got for buttons, Townsend is also one of our better players, he has added a few more, he is upgrading and get the wage bill down.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

We will not be in a dogfight.

I sincerely hope you are right.

 

[Marius57]

I thought you had me on egnore?

I do, but the page wasn't making sense so I showed ignored posts to make sense of it.

Then I realised you were talking more garbage and trying to pretend you never set up a shrine benitez.

 

[Kev The Rat]

We will not be in a dogfight.

No we are going down without a whimper

 

[Colonel Getafe]

He is downgrading and I don’t fancy our chances in a dog fight.

I dunno. Pity the fool who gets in the way of Benny during a hotdog fight.

oh wait, I may have mis-read some of that. My bad.

 

[Kev The Rat]

The crisis talks with Moshiri are good news for the club - bad news for the kopite.

 

[Rob17896]

No we are going down without a whimper

We will not. Have you seen our forward line? Here we go!

 

[Colonel Getafe]

No we are going down without a whimper

without a whimper and with a whopper.

(i should really write sports poetry.......) ?

 

[ToffeeTim]

The crisis talks with Moshiri are good news for the club - bad news for the kopite.

No one knows that. It could mean anything

 

[Colonel Getafe]

No one knows that. It could mean anything

our helmet of an owner has probably just been informed of something called the 'sideoff rule'?!? 'off-off rule'?! something like that, and wanted to make sure his man in the dugout has heard of it too, ahead of a crucial 7-pointer at Nowitch