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lol He's been missing for seasons.
Joking aside, he wasa senior figure in a thin squad by and large trusted by successive managers, agree with them or not.
Just wages tied up and what slim hope of resale presumably gone. That's not ideal card to be dealt.
Allan was out from November until January, Doucoure was out for the last 6 weeks if I remember correctly.
Rodriguez was out for over a third of the season, Mina missed a third of the season so of course he had injuries.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Sigurdsson is a first team player who'd have been involved during this injury-ridden period.
There's some on here who are completely undermining their own views on Benitez by not acknowledging the injury list and the fact that half of the present season has gone by without having either of our first choice attackers.
Most reasonable people see that and acknowledge it.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
They weren't ALL OUT TOGETHER. I think that's THE DIFFERENCE.
Hahahahahaha Gylfi is now being rolled out as an excuse, good grief new lows have been reached
Lads, lads….he hasn’t had Delph either, a premier league winner with a wealth of experience
‘koff
Lads, lads….he hasn’t had Delph either, a premier league winner with a wealth of experience
‘koff
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
It must be so lonely in purgatory...oh no, you have your refusenik mates with you.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Yeah because he went for the wrong managers, this time he had to go for a long term manager, we need 3 years out of him, we have wasted too much money on sackings, we need stability, we need progress, we need Rafael
ToffeeM4n
Player Valuation: £750k
Am I getting this right? Carlo failed with 59 points, but Benitez will be successful with 50?
And we shouldn't really care about the points and the reasons why someone is failed. A fail is a fail . Any finish outside the europian spots should be considered as a fail, under any manager.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Gylfi though
I’d say having him missing has been a boost that has sort of countered all the injury problems we’ve had.
Plus Holgate from the August to November
I don't think we've missed him at all. We've been far faster in transition without him. Genuinely would have been interesting if Benitez tried to accommodate him or booted him under more normal circumstances.
Either way it's someone unavailable he could have used, or yet another unproductive wage on the books in straightened times.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Watched the overlap with carragher & Neville.
interesting what he said about Rafael and how he was great for him and the defenders and made him a much better player, but the forwards didn’t enjoy the training, as it was a lot drills. Even though Torres did ok
He did say they had a lot of British forwards, Keane, crouch, who maybe just want to keep putting the ball in the net. I’m sure Rafael has changed his style a little over the years and maybe he has a coach that works with the strikers now( Duncan?)
interesting what he said about Rafael and how he was great for him and the defenders and made him a much better player, but the forwards didn’t enjoy the training, as it was a lot drills. Even though Torres did ok
He did say they had a lot of British forwards, Keane, crouch, who maybe just want to keep putting the ball in the net. I’m sure Rafael has changed his style a little over the years and maybe he has a coach that works with the strikers now( Duncan?)
Why would we be considered a shoe in for a European place? Why would being outside those spots be a failure - look at our recent history and be a little bit ‘real’
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