2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[tommytowne]

I’ve not worried about relegation for about 20 years but this is different. 2 points from 7 games with the fixtures we have coming up is properly worrying especially with a toxic goodison getting on their backs. The team is actually crap this time aswell, if you had to guess where a team with Townsend Gray Gordon Iwobi and Rondon playing regularly as attacking options was going to finish you’d say bottom 6 easy.

As a veteran of the Wimbledon and Coventry last game of season cliffhangers I'm hoping we don't end up in that situation again. You can't rule it out though. Well have to tough it out in our own mini league at the bottom and hope that January onwards we can start picking up the necessary points.

 

[Eggs]

12 mil is his buyout.

…surely we would continue to pay his salary as we have with other managers.

 

[jinkyali]

Feels inevitable now doesn't it.
In truth it was inevitable the moment he walked in.
Never going to get time. His poor decisions have only added to the pressure.

He's been dealt a poor hand but can't have Rondon, Iwobi playing 90 minutes regularly.

Where we go from here, who knows.

 

[random]

12 mil is his buyout.

I can believe that as he would want the confidence that Mosh would not pull the trigger easily

I can also believe that the trigger can be pulled without the £12M penalty depending on certain criteria (such as us losing constantly)

 

[Kev The Rat]

I have to admit, the divisive nature of the appointment may have actually got to the players, who now correctly perceive the manager has no actual support amongst the fan base - close to zero in fact - just a lot of people who are anti-Benitez and the rest who are fence sitters - and rapidly turning anti.

 

[Kev The Rat]

12 mil is his buyout.

Cheap considering the costs of relegation which is estimated to be in the 100's of millions.

 

[kenada_blue]

Much will depend on the reaction of the support to a potential heavy defeat against the RS.
It could turn destructively toxic in the aftermath of such a failure which is why appointing a man who lacked sufficient depth of goodwill to survive a poor run of form was madness.

He'll no doubt get a result (they've not won too many at GP to be fair), they'll also probably get stuck in and show "character". Then everything will simmer.

Or we'll get smashed

 

[tommye]

Your man has made you look a [Poor language removed]

Tbf he's done an excellent job of that all by himself.

 

[maccavennie]

12 mil is his buyout.

You don't know anything

Please refrain from pretending you do

 

[Azza]

We have 2 points from out last 7 games.


2!


Regardless of the opposition that's horrendous.

Our up coming fixtures, the next 7 games we'll do well to get 2 points from those!

 

[Dad watched Dixie]

Perhaps your right. What happens if he then gets injured again playing in a more physical setting.

then he shouldn't have been given a contract

 

[BrendanGOT]

Much will depend on the reaction of the support to a potential heavy defeat against the RS.
It could turn destructively toxic in the aftermath of such a failure which is why appointing a man who lacked sufficient depth of goodwill to survive a poor run of form was madness.

Especially when the board knew they weren't going to back him in the summer window

 

[Yarrgh]

I can believe that as he would want the confidence that Mosh would not pull the trigger easily

I can also believe that the trigger can be pulled without the £12M penalty depending on certain criteria (such as us losing constantly)

1 win in a 11 triggers the no pay out clause. Otherwise he'd surely be gone.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Especially when the board knew they weren't going to back him in the summer window

I called it in the summer - he was the fall guy brought in as a sitting duck - no one is going to target the lack of funds when the much easier target is sitting in the dugout.

 

[bigboy]

Worst appointment of the moshiri reign. Diabolical he was even considered