Benitez confirmed

[Deleted User 18963]

His transfers at Liverpool some corkers there mind £7m for Dossena

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...s-during-his-six-year-reign-at-Liverpool.html

2009/10:
IN: £17.5m Johnson; £17.1m Aquilani; £2m Kyrgiakos;

 

[Northern Tiger]

I think he means the mags delusion with his comment


His cv looks good as an overview. When you actually look into it, it's nowhere near the reputation he has.

I think someone is rattled by this appointment.

 

[Black Cat Gypsy]

Could be their Martin O'Neill. Remember what a coup he was?

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Confidence. Tactical nous. Winning mentality

Man management is not one of his strengths.

 

[Gaz]

He won the Champions League with Djimi Troare and Steve Finnan, shouldn't be too much of a problem for him.

We'll see

 

[Mel Be Mine]

Confidence. Tactical nous. Winning mentality

How do you 'Bring' confidence? And his last bout of winning mentality was when?

 

[seedysafc]

Renewed hope and organisation. It should mean they only concede 1 or 2 in the first half against us

 

[zebediah]

While the obvious wish is for him to fail dramatically (and if he does no doubt hilariously).
This is going to be a very interesting appointment to follow over the next 10 games for the neutrals as much as us.
Even if it wasn't the mags it would be great to see how he did in the Championship, which is very very different to the Spanish second flight.

Could be their Martin O'Neill. Remember what a coup he was?

Hope not, he kept us up!

 

[j.w]

Confidence. Tactical nous. Winning mentality

Looks like you'll have us for a 'derby' next season

 

[Gav33]

The only thing I can remotely think of is renewed hope and those who had clearly given up on the previous manger might actually care about putting a shift in for his replacement.

This. I don't think he offers much else.

They tried this with Shearer - hopefully it goes the same way.

A bad start is what we need. If they get a good result against Leicester they could well get some momentum and stop up. Get hammered and a bad result against us and they'll not turn it around. The derby really is massive.

 

[The Sandance Kid]

It's his 50% or greater win ratio at every club he's been at that concerns me

 

[Horace Cope]

There must be more threads about the mags on here than all of their forums combined.

What will he bring them? Nice hefty invoice on FL72 headed notepaper

 

[Honess10]

He's a funny one. He's basically been really unsuited to his last two appointments. Everyone was like Real Madrid appoint Benitez? What the fcuk. And now it's Benitez agrees to join Newcastle Utd? What the fcuk

 

[conno2k4]

I honestly haven't got a clue how to take this news. It will be interesting to see what the players attitude is going to be like when they play on Monday night.

 

[Mark E Smith]

Plenty of posts on his appointment and how he will stave off relegation, but in reality, what will he do / bring, that will salvage a side that has underperformed all season. How exactly will he change that situation?

By not being McClaren. Still shite though.

 

[Maximus]

Has he managed a team in a relegation dog fight before like our Sam has?

Has Sam won any trophies like Rafa has? - oooh it's going to be great this run-in. Sky must be loving it.

 

[Mel Be Mine]

The only thing I can remotely think of is renewed hope and those who had clearly given up on the previous manger might actually care about putting a shift in for his replacement. It might mean a less poisonous home crowd than what might have been.

Is that this 'Bounce' thing? Could be right mate. We've certainly benefitted from some witchcraft previously so yeah, maybe so. It's all down to the players though surely?

By not being McClaren. Still shite though.

Can't argue with that!

 

[gatopreto]

A Boro fan on a Sunderland message board, trying to get bites by praising Newcastle?

Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Worse than any Newcastle fan on here.

 

[Northern Tiger]

We'll see

He is quite a defensive manager so if he does struggle it will be going forward.

 

[palm 1]

Just the sacking of Mcclaren has to be worth points to them. Tufty was killing the club and some of the pressure will have been lifted.
Whether this is enough for them , who knows.