You're not, you could only do that if people believed you.
On both of their recent relegations people were saying exactly what you've just said
Benitez will lose the ability to motivate the players as the season grinds on and it becomes obvious he's going.
We've all seen what happens when players know a manager is leaving at the end of the season.
Let's see and I hope you are right but one think about Rafa is the mags won't get hammered with him there. He sets up defensive as he did v city last season and it will be their goal difference which will save them
However these next 3 games, if they concede heavily and then it will be a long slog