That doesn’t excuse the fact that he weakened the team ,available to him,by totally changing the centre of defence and midfield.
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I mean no, I dont, I expect from him the same as I expect from every manager.
He has the 4th highest wage bill in the league and a squad that cost 550m to build, so just escaping relegation wont wash it for me.
This myth that his spending should give him a pass is bolloxs im afraid.
Ancelotti was given no money compared to the managers, bar Moyes, that came before him, yet people expected him to compete, why on Earth are we giving free passes to highly paid managers with a squad built with massive money.
Not on my watch.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
I'd chase that fat jackal out again. Going for Silva at least was done in hope of improving the performance even if it failed.
Anyway. Benitez. Let's see how he goes on. As much as I am not in his fan club, he needs time to right the ship otherwise we just kick the transition season can down the road. Hopefully he turns it round against Norwich.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Every player starting on Saturday apart from Allan were on the pitch last night.
He threw the kitchen sink at it and we got done on pens.
It's that simple.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Had Brands not wasted so much dough we could have right now the likes of Diaz, Dumfries, another good CM in the squad this season.
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £60m
You can be safe ITK that Howe is sitting tight waiting for the Southampton job. Also there is a whole footballing world out there, good managers do exist outside of the PL and people need to remember this, most of the managers who have done well in recent years came into their clubs without PL experience.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
But the board wont risk an outside appointment so I would knock the dream of chasing Benitez out and bringing in some star manager from Bosnia on the head mate.
People need to deal with reality not fantasy. Benitez is the best we can get or would look at so give him a chance otherwise you reap what you sow.
But tbf Brands' team supposedly lined those deals up. In Diaz's case, certainly with Benitez's blessing.
Brands did have Dumfries lined up but we couldn't get the money. And, according to Joyce, Hughes, Athletic et al - Benitez wasn't convinced on Dumfries anyway.
Our CM would have been Longstaff had we shifted Delph, Gomes or Davies mate. Make no mistake.
Mina? Also my point was about the changes he made in the centre of the team,which did weaken that team.
To throw the kitchen sink would mean he put our best available team out.he didn’t.
Its that simple.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
We’ve been wasting money since our shambolic owner arrived and the cumulative effect of this is we’ve reached the limit of our allowance.
Fantastic accountant but a disastrous football club owner.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
So conjecture pal! lol
You dont like Benitez we get it mate but stop pretending like if Benitez had £100 million to spend he would have spent it all on Longstaff and Yedlin its obtuse.
Harryflashman
Player Valuation: £60m
just in the interests of clarity I’d like to clear up that it’s possible not to think the manager excelled last night , not to be delighted by being knocked out by QPR, not to think finishing 14th would be a huge achievement and even to think he’s a less than popular choice in the role and still not to be actively campaigning for him to be dismissed Before 3pm Saturday in fact to want him and his side to beat Norwich .
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Agreed. Considering what was available I wouldn't call it wholesale changes and like it or not our players can't play every game and their minutes have to be managed.
Oh ffs mate
How many times do I have to tell you - these journalists have info. The Athletic get all of their stuff from the club or agents. Joyce, Hughes have not had info on us for some time but have definitely come back into the fold this summer.
You can't shrug it off as conjecture yet you believe every word they then write about James being on £250k a week?
I'm indifferent to Benitez.
Obviously if we had £100m to spend on players he wouldn't do that, but that wasn't what I was suggesting.
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