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Rafa. He's still not happy

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c1ark73 said:
He's a moaning little twat (fat)


That's spot on, adding to the weight is that they now have players who signed on £50k per week in the championship and have moved up to £90k a week on promotion, baffler has fucked them up


Baffler = rafa
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Who are they paying £90k a week to?
 
DufraisFTM said:
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I know I'm replying to myself before anyone says anything :lol: but what the fuck is wrong with this lad man :lol:
I've not watched this whole video and I probably won't but fast forward to 5 mins. What a turnip.
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He has no top lip. Is he a love child of Pardew when he was up there?
 
What I cannot compute is that Rafa could have signed the contract blindly ignoring the dip in financial expectations and demands to previous clubs. Newcastle is possibly one of the smallest clubs he has managed. OK they are perhaps bigger than Osasuna and those giants...of the holiday industry..Tenerife. Which says a lot for the rest of his CV. The other clubs he has managed like Napoli, Liverpool, Chelsea and Inter Milan. The operating costs of the player recruitment side surely run at a much lower level to a lot of the other clubs he has managed. To expect Mike Ashley to willingly spend anything like he (Rafa) probably expected is stupid. It is very good but it is not great. It won't be bigger than say Real Madrids spending budget. I think Rafa may have even expected Mike to be the sort who can spend upwards of £40m on one player.

Given the other clubs who will be in and around Newcastle United I cannot fathom for the life of me why he would think they would be able to compete far stronger than the likes of Crystal Palace and Watford given they took a massive financial hit when they went down at the end of the season before the last one. Palace have only brought in some CB from Ajax called Jairo Riedwald and out of 9 signings I think only Tom Cleverly is the only signing that would excite me if I was a Watford fan. Some of the others is Sam Howes from West Ham and Harvey Bradbury from Portsmouth for free. Few if any of the clubs they will be around made a great deal of big money signings. I think a lot have made some very average signings. To think Newcastle United could compete with the clubs higher up the table having come straight back up with the likes of Everton on spending is daft.
 
Themig said:
He almost kept you up? He finished lower than he started
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If we hadn't had that storming finish under Allardyce he would've kept them up. It doesn't change the fact that he failed to beat us, Norwich or Villa mind, nor that he spent on fortune on players not good enough for the Premier League. He did better than Tufty but that's not saying a great deal!
 
janey said:
This dire position when he arrived thing us wearing thin now. He was a point behind us with a game in hand and the bottom 3 to play.
As for the £70m on French wannabees most of you were chuffed to bits with the signings of Winjaldum (Dutch by the way) Mbemba, Thauvin etc the previous summer.

He's sending the players out to do the defending now, Hayden stating it's because they are all young players.
Mind he also says the crowd are used to them being top ten the last few years

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<< “The fans are very understanding,” says Hayden. “They’ve been used to the club being in the top ten for the last ten years. >>

Err, only if they're counting the championship, and even then not really:

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<< In 2016 that part of the football club was so flimsy it felt a miracle (and the introduction of Rafa Benitez) that it went to four days before the end of the season before relegation was confirmed (when Sunderland won, there is reason for the feeling the footballing Gods enjoy a bit of downtime with Newcastle). >>

So true. So, so, true.
 
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