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Rafael Benítez

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Norwich are very good at getting promotion. Villa will crash and burn I think - Portsmouth style. That's the Mag's big bonus here - they've only got 1 relegated side to contend with + plus one or two decent championship sides.
 
The Fish said:
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.

I think if Warnock had come in and kept us up, we'd love him for it, but would want someone with a better record in the Premier League next season. That might seem deluded or whatever, but ask yourself, if shit had gone south under Sam and Warnock had been brought in to save you, would you necessarily trust him to take you out of the relegation worries as you do Allardyce?
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Myself, I wasn't worried if we went down with Sam as I think he'd be the right man to bring us back up.

Just for the record, had you brought Pearson in I believe he would have made more of an impact than Rafa.
 
Kauto Star said:
Basically they are asking a trophy manager to offload deadwood and then rebuild with limited funds. If it works, fair play to them. If it doesn't, they are fucked as Rafa will be on a fortune
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How do I know there are limited funds ?
The mags have had three (??) successive seasons of good profit, plus they'll have money from sales of 2/3 players, plus billionaire Ashley may have just decided to stop fking about and just let FSW have an open cheque book.
I find it strange that people try stating as fact things that they really have no knowledge of, and are really just speculating.
 
Is a manager who's got quite a good reputation, managed at several top clubs abroad, in big cities with big budgets and expectations, what the Mags want for a nitty gritty English promotion scrap in arguably the most competitive league in Europe?

Square pegs in round holes.
 
The Fish said:
I think Harvey Price should be able to get us up :lol:

If Rafa says no, I wouldn't have a problem appointing someone who would guarantee us promotion, like Warnock/Bruce/Whoever, as long as the club has plans to replace them once promotion is secured.
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Very politically incorrect that old boy, just not cricket
 
monty79 said:
Myself, I wasn't worried if we went down with Sam as I think he'd be the right man to bring us back up.

Just for the record, had you brought Pearson in I believe he would have made more of an impact than Rafa.
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I think that with any other team, he may well have, but with our shitshow we needed drilling not dressing down. The stories going round about McClaren's "training" are shocking, which goes a long way to explain why we were so poorly organised and so unfit. We needed someone to come in and have us running double sessions, who could basically talk them through games (you may not have seen but Benitez sent the majority of the 90 minutes directing traffic). Pearson might have bollocked us over the line, but you cannot pass up the opportunity to bring in someone of Benitez's caliber. Ultimately it was too late, but I think we had to chance our arm that he'd come good. As we did with Ben Arfa and earlier Patrick Kluivert :lol:
 
The Fish said:
I think that with any other team, he may well have, but with our shitshow we needed drilling not dressing down. The stories going round about McClaren's "training" are shocking, which goes a long way to explain why we were so poorly organised and so unfit. We needed someone to come in and have us running double sessions, who could basically talk them through games (you may not have seen but Benitez sent the majority of the 90 minutes directing traffic). Pearson might have bollocked us over the line, but you cannot pass up the opportunity to bring in someone of Benitez's caliber. Ultimately it was too late, but I think we had to chance our arm that he'd come good. As we did with Ben Arfa and earlier Patrick Kluivert :lol:
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Ben Arfa and Kluivert were both in poor shape at the mags.

Too many Greggs for both.
 
L1lyBrown said:
at about this time next year after scraping into the play offs and losing the semi final. It will be ever so hilarious.:)
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I'd be more worried if they appointed Nigel Pearson. Let's not forget that Rafa is the tactical genius who played two defensive midfielders in the must win shoo-in that was Villa away. Personally think the Geordie Nation is getting a bit carried away with the new Messiah......
 
Oh Bugger said:
Rafa holding out in the hope of high profile job so he doesn't have to destroy his reputation struggling in the championship source Rafa's mum
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Burton Albion away on a manky Tuesday night in January or the bright lights of La Liga. Tough one isn't it
 
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