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Rafa. He's still not happy

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flanny1 said:
It's ridiculous. Ashley has backed Rafa in 3 windows if they don't have a good enough squad that has nothing to do with Ashley that is Rafa's failure. Even by mag standards they are being particularly ignorant and deluded.
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Yeah but its Rafa man! It cant be his fault
 
Absolute hell on in the office this morning, I came in and just sat down and said nowt (work with 4 mag season ticket holders), took 10 minutes of silence before one of them had the bottle to bring the transfer window up and there still going off it now, One's not bothered though anymore as the NFL starts soon and he's fell out of love with football :lol::lol:
 
I don't blame them for kicking off. Unless you deliberately went out and bought a squad of Premier League players during the season you went up, it's common sense to strengthen the squad significantly during the summer. Not only have they not bothered, they've never looked remotely like wanting to. This place goes up in arms when something similar happens to us.

At least they can solve their full back crisis with Colback :lol:
 
sproates33 said:
Absolute hell on in the office this morning, I came in and just sat down and said nowt (work with 4 mag season ticket holders), took 10 minutes of silence before one of them had the bottle to bring the transfer window up and there still going off it now, One's not bothered though anymore as the NFL starts soon and he's fell out of love with football :lol::lol:
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The convenient fell out of love with football when it all goes tits up.

Just like when they all vanish from here, there was loads last month ignore list increased tenfold.
 
I can see where they are coming from mind in some ways- very like with allardyce having a strong 2nd half to the season and optimism and great atmosphere, if we had signed yedlin, m'vila early on to maintain what we had, a good target man and another winger even with a different manager (not moyes) in and the excitement/goodwill to the team would have been so helpful.

Instead the club seemed to be dicking allardyce about with transfers, then in came moyes with some woeful choices all round and a host of dire buys and loans and negativity and right from when he had to field o shea in midfield 1st game the ominous bad feeling set in.

Similarly with Newcastle- they didn't spend big when they finished 5th which was staggering, (like us 2 years under Reid) and only threw big money at the team when in bother until last seasons summer 50odd million spend (which they then ended up in profit on anyway), I was dreading a 100m spend on loads of class players and a season of gloating.

From a critical point of view , you can point out they have spent 80m, 50m, 40 m in the last 3 seasons, and this should have been enough to assemble a good team.

For me Benitez has made a pigs ear of the good feeling this summer with his powerplay with Ashley, with both obviously wanting to be in charge - id argue Ashley could have allowed 50-60 million or more for some established players that would have had the fans buzzing, but in his defence Benitez made some signings that didn't work out that probably were not needed and lumbered an already huge squad with more deadwood which he has surely alienated (Colback, Haidara, his obvious dislike of Mitrovic as a player) and so on, when they would probably have been ok as back-up for a handful of games.

Also think they would have been better off spending the 40m on two really good starting players than going down the get fillers in route like we always used to as well.
 
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