Why was it? He showed at Newcastle that he could maintain mid table on a budget of nothing. He’s a mid table manager these days, that’s his skill set.
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Why was it? He showed at Newcastle that he could maintain mid table on a budget of nothing. He’s a mid table manager these days, that’s his skill set.
it looks like we would struggle to be honest :-(
Still angry at the players and the arrogant team selection by the manager.
The audacity to rest 5 or 6 more players when we had 5 or 6 out is crazy. He got it badly wrong, and is banking on a win in a game on saturday that should be a routine win for any manager. So what he wins on Saturday, it changes nothing. He didn't take a match seriously and we are out.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
The manager is slowly improving them with his teaching technique.
And luckily for us blues
Once we have all been educated we will understand what is happening. ?
MEGA COYB
Unfortunately Matty, we are a mess, regardless of who sits in the dugout, its a top down issue and permeates throughout the club presently.
it needs sorting mate and it isnt a quick fix.
We need hard work and quality. One on its own is not enough
Quality is irrelevant if you have a lazy gutless bunch of players. You earn your right to play in english football.
The centre halves and central midfielders were rested - all 4. And it cost us the match. I never want to see Holgate and Godfrey or Gomes and Davies together ever again. Why are we still watching them? We know they are not good enough as pairs.
CahillsCornerFlag
Player Valuation: £70m
Glad in a way that he got to see just how bad some of our “squad” players were last night. Kenny, Holgate, Gomes, Davies, and Iwobi covered themselves in no glory last night and can only really be trusted for cameo purposes within a fully fit XI. Benitez will have their numbers now.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Do you honestly think we had any chance of winning the League Cup? It's harder to win than the fa cup, and is almost entirely Premier League teams. Even if you can make the latter stages, Man City and Chelsea have such deep squads one of them wino doubt win it. It's not worth risking injuries for. We are 2 or 3 injuries away from fielding one of the worst teams in the league and getting ourselves into a relegation battle. We have to make sure we can stay mid-table and then hope for a couple of signings in January and good luck with injuries and then hopefully we could sneak a European place or an FA Cup run.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Don't even go there.
I know it's all hypothetical but defeatest talk spreads like fire.
Even myself, a definite glass half empty bloke, refuses to think that scenario.
But you're correct in that we'd get bullied every game as clubs would see us as a prize scalp every match
2 defeats on the trot
Bad team selections and tactics
Anything except a convincing win against Norwich and the atmosphere at Goodison will turn very very toxic very fast
The one thing the FSW does not have that previous managers had is credit in the goodwill bank
Bad team selections and tactics
Anything except a convincing win against Norwich and the atmosphere at Goodison will turn very very toxic very fast
The one thing the FSW does not have that previous managers had is credit in the goodwill bank
Oh the relegation battle rubbish. Of course we aren't going down. We are heading for nothing other than midtable irrelevance.
We are resting players to come 10th or 11th. It's just utter stupidity.
Stuartisitc1878
Player Valuation: £25m
other than starting his best squad available, and given the injuries we're picking up almost daily now i can understand not wanting to run the few key players we have left into the ground - I'm not sure what else Benitez could have done. For me this falls on the same group of players that have bottled it repeatedly under the last 3 managers. I mean, the great Carlo Ancelotti couldn't get a tune out of them.
I understand the dislike for Benitez and there will be plenty of games where he'll be to blame but for me i don't think last night was one of them.
I understand the dislike for Benitez and there will be plenty of games where he'll be to blame but for me i don't think last night was one of them.
Carloblues
Player Valuation: £30m
There's probably dozens of managers who can keep us in that position
If that's the remit why hire such an unwanted man?
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Our current team is worse than some of the teams who've been relegated in the past. However Norwich and Burnley look terrible this season so there's probably only 1 place up for grabs. We have Benitez who knows how to organise so we can scramble through, but make no mistake if we'd appointed a riskier manager we could quite easily be in relegation trouble if we got a few injuries. The squad is paper thin.
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