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Rafa. He's still not happy

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DWT said:
When was the last time your lot had a manager as good as Rafa? If ever.

I can actually taste the bitterness on here, actual name calling and all sorts, smacks of a small time lower league club desperately trying to convince themselves that hes not a good manager to make themselves feel better about their continuing plight.

You should worry about your championship safety, shite squad, pink seats and half empty stadium before worrying about whether a manager who's almost won it all is any good or not.

I look forward to the next 5 threads on the matter. And you wonder why so many mags come on here :lol:
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OK, allow me to explain.

You're judging him on what he did at other clubs, under different circumstances, with different budgets, ethos, etc.

He won trophies at other clubs, as Bobby Robson did ..... all he's done at Newcastle is take the club down, bring them back up and end up with a much worse squad.

Bob Stokoe is better than Benitez, as far as the club is concerned, because he won us a major trophy.
 

I think he's sold the shit or bust narrative that if he doesn't get the big spendz you're going back down potentially. If that's right then he's cataclysmically mismanaged the signings since he took over, but if it's wrong then what the fuck is he playing at creating the toxic atmosphere? Especially at a club as volatile as Newcastle.

Fact is many teams have come up and been competitive or even stayed up with their championship squads largely in tact, none of which cost (even with inflation and football transfer fee mentalness) anywhere near £80m to cobble together as Rafa has spent over the last 12 months. To want to spend another £20m-40m is f***ing ludicrous. He should have done far better at managing that squad with this point in mind.

Another element here is that AFAIK the cash is actually there, they just can't spend it. He's being a dick for no reason. Thats why he's frustrated, he's realised that Newcastle will not get the players he had at Liverpool/Chelsea/Inter/Real/Napoli even with the money.

Enjoy Manquillo :D
 
DWT said:
When was the last time your lot had a manager as good as Rafa? If ever.

I can actually taste the bitterness on here, actual name calling and all sorts, smacks of a small time lower league club desperately trying to convince themselves that hes not a good manager to make themselves feel better about their continuing plight.

You should worry about your championship safety, shite squad, pink seats and half empty stadium before worrying about whether a manager who's almost won it all is any good or not.

I look forward to the next 5 threads on the matter. And you wonder why so many mags come on here :lol:
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Dick Advocaat.

Won European trophies and managed to keep us up unlike Rafa.
 
robbied1 said:
i think he edges it overall, if allardyce had got a chance at one of the top 6 teams he would of done as good as benetiz, if not better. And well for keeping teams up, we know who the better manager is there
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There's a very good reason why Allardyce hasn't had a chance at a big club.
 
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