The Fish
Winger
Getting cocky about being top of the championshippure small time.
You already had players like Mitrovic who cost you £12m or whatever it was, you've added another £50m worth of championship players. Any manager worth their salt could get you out of that league. Surely you don't think otherwise?!
He should have been able to get you out of that league without spending any money at all, let alone £50m![]()
I don't think that simply spending £50m is enough to get you out of the Championship. That is proven by Villa's travails. I think on top of assembling a good squad (however much you can afford to do that with), you need to be a flexible tactician to win consistently with a rotating squad against a variety of opposition, you must be a motivator to ensure complacency doesn't creep into the "expensively assembled squad", and you must be a good coach to ensure your strengths don't become misdirected and your weaknesses are mitigated. All of which would make a good manager. Like Rafael Benitez
In your question you admit that Rafa is worth his salt, ergo, not a fraud.
Your assessment of him has nothing to do with objective consideration and is instead, entirely partisan bias. It's not even subtle
My ban ran out.Why is this tedious @The Fish wanker back, too? Ahh, because they are now 'better' than us.
Left you thesaurus on the bus today, you weird twat?