Hmm, let me see. They've recently already played 2 sides they're going to play next season in the Championship, Villa and the Canaries. How did they do against them this season? Seems a reasonable place to start forecasting what they're going to do next year.
He's not in the absolute elite, he's nowhere near Klopp or Mourinho or Guardiola etc. but he's a huge huge step up for us. We haven't even had a decent bottom half of the Premier League level manager and Rafa is, in my (obviously slightly biased but trying very hard to be reasonable) opinion, a Europa League standard manager*? The majority of his trophy wins have come at clubs where he's, at the very least, been there a full season including preseason, so they are to all intents and purposes, his iteration of that club.
A decent number of his expulsions have come at clubs renowned for being batshit; Real Madrid, Chelsea, Inter,
*this is in no way suggesting that he definitely will achieve that at Newcastle United, just an arbitrary marker I've used to pigeonhole managers.
Ah whey, may as well be given the Championship trophy now in that case.
I bet you're not putting a wager on them failing to be promoted.
Like Derby have just done? Oh, hang on a minute......
That avatar probably encapsulates their whole season and the current dominance we seem to have over them.
Reminds me of Ali standing above Liston.
Allardyce is a fair point actually. I know it'll never be admitted on here, but Pardew is a charlatan and will be found out by the wider world soon enough.Big Sam, Pardew? Fuck off man
It's complicated.
)that will attract players to join a club in the 2nd tier that may have not fancied a year out of the top flight. His cautious approach isn't so dissimilar from the style that Hughton used to stroll through the Championship last time."Newcastle arrived at a crossroads after relegation was confirmed on Wednesday and so far, it looksProbably gonna walk the reserve league next season anarl:
"At Liverpool, Benitez took a two-pronged approach and he would surely opt to do the same at Newcastle.
While he wanted to improve the first XI, he was also intent on improving the quality of the reserves, bringing in 16 to 20 years who could push the senior squad.
“We are building for the future here,” Macia said of Benitez’s early approach.
“We’ve brought in a lot of young players in the last few years. Guys who are 16, 17, 18 years old and they all have the mentality we want. That’s why they won the reserve league last season.”
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He's not in the absolute elite, he's nowhere near Klopp or Mourinho or Guardiola etc. but he's a huge huge step up for us. We haven't even had a decent bottom half of the Premier League level manager and Rafa is, in my (obviously slightly biased but trying very hard to be reasonable) opinion, a Europa League standard manager*? The majority of his trophy wins have come at clubs where he's, at the very least, been there a full season including preseason, so they are to all intents and purposes, his iteration of that club.
A decent number of his expulsions have come at clubs renowned for being batshit; Real Madrid, Chelsea, Inter,
*this is in no way suggesting that he definitely will achieve that at Newcastle United, just an arbitrary marker I've used to pigeonhole managers.
Allardyce is a fair point actually. I know it'll never be admitted on here, but Pardew is a charlatan and will be found out by the wider world soon enough.
It's complicated.
Benitez has no experience of the Championship and doesn't have a record of long term projects. He's suspect in the transfer market and favours a cautious approach which works in knock-out competitions and some foreign leagues but how will it fair in the knockabout 2nd tier of English football? Hard to say.
All that said, he's clearly a good manager, and definitely of a strata we'd not attract for quite some time. Nobody thought we'd get him to join in the first place, everyone thought he'd 100% go if we went down and many thought he'd go even if he had kept us up. He's proven that he can get teams promoted. He's got a reputation in the world (bar sunderland and Everton it seems
End of the day we'd be f***ing stupid not to try and convince a manager of his ability and standing to stay. Unfortunately, Lee Charnley is f***ing stupid, otherwise we'd have never appointed McClaren or at least brought Benitez is earlier.
I think Harvey Price should be able to get us up
No, I don't think there would. But that's because they're not of the same standard as Rafa. If it was de Boer or Koeman, for example, who'd been brought in as a last ditch attempt to keep us up and had the same impact on the atmosphere around the club as Rafa has, I think there would have been the same outpouring of warmth towards them.
