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Rafa. He's still not happy

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The Fish said:
Don't know, depends who stayed and who left. For him not to have the budget he did some of the better players would have had to stay. How would we have done with Townsend, or Janmaat, or Sissoko or Wijnaldum? I don't think we'd have won it, but we'd have been all right imo.

I understand there'll be a bias, but the stance on Benitez I read on here is baffling. He's not a world class manager, but he's a good one. Why else would rumours of his departure from Newcastle be greeted so gleefully on here?


True imo. This season (if he doesn't get cash) is a great opportunity to show 'just how good he is' if he sees the season out.
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The Fish said:
Ba left because of a transfer clause, as did Townsend, a clause that could have been avoided had we paid a little more in wages. Remy could have joined were he offered a commensurate wage to his value to the team.

Ben Arfa was chased out, but I was saying we didn't get value for any of them and haven't done for a while under Ashley. A criticism that is levelled at Benitez.

"About £100m" is a little harsh, but I don't care enough to nitpick. And fwiw we go over this every time, he totally overhauled a broken squad and made it fit for purpose. To do that and win the league will cost money, but it cost only some of the money we had available, so what exactly is the nature of your complaint?

Benitez has righted a sinking ship and returned to it the Premier League, Sunderland fans mithering about the cost of that is daft. We haven't broken any financial rules, we haven't blithely gambled on our club's financial future and we're near as damnit breaking even.

This gets juggled up as Benitez has wasted millions, only scraping to the title and will likely send us down again because, according to some on here, he's not a very good football manager. :lol: It's mental.


I don't think it's a binary state, there's a whole swathe of grey in between those options you describe.

I don't think spending the money we're to receive from the Premier League for this season, within this transfer window would put the club's long to medium term future at risk.

It appears Ashley & co are baulking at prices like £13m for Lucas Perez (regardless of whether the player would come or not), that's very very risky. Spending on quality to better deliver survive is a gamble, but hoping what you've already got is enough is a far, far more dicey prospect.[/QUOTE

Lucas Perez is a helluva player. More suited to Spain then here I suspect (not as much as Albert Lucque though). He scored almost a goal every other game for Depor iirc who tbh have been dogshit for 15yrs now. If I was Barca I'd spend some of my Naymar money on him and keep the rest for a rainy day.
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