I have no issue giving Benitez credit for bringing in Kenedy on loan but he was into panic territory with his set up previous to bringing him in, with Perez being messed about and basically all players with any attacking mentality, asked to defend first and foremost.
The body language of the players stood out like a sore thumb and Rafa simply replaced them with those who were willing to simply defend first.
Once Kenedy was unleashed, Perez was allowed to play his game and so were many of those who were sacked off. It worked but would've worked earlier, as well.
We finished 13th from previous, 10th.
It's like you arguing that we finished 18th and relegated on more points than we finished 17th and stayed up, then telling me that's us going forward.
I wasn't unhappy with the finishes, even the 13th. What I was unhappy with was the way in which it all happened.
I expected better football from a superbly well paid manager that was taken to like some messiah by some fans and hyped to death by the media.
Better football was what I expected.
Take out his championship season and let's see how that works out for him.
One of those seasons we finished 5th.
Nope. Look at what I did say.
Not anywhere like Benitez did.
I'm not too fond of Benitez, now but I was ok with him earlier on, until he started his shenanigans and cryptically blaming anyone and everyone for his mistakes and using the fans as his buffer to gain control and have it all his own way in a bluff against Ashley, to which Ashley called and off the mercenary went, to China, with the silly excuse of finding hi8s perfect project at the right time.
What a load of nonsense that was.
12 million a seas worth of blagging nonsense.
Wants averages used at one point and then completely disregards them in the next part of the rebuttal
I think tragic sad bastard sums it up tbh
I didn’t have you down as the favourite but you were up there tbf.
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