Topic: Rafa Benítez leaves Dalian

[54]

I mean to quote rafa in that article

Some people criticize the fans and say, 'Oh they want too much'. No. They just want to be at a level they deserve.

On the other side:

'If you're a club like ours that expects to be in the bottom half of the Premier League, it's always tough,'

[ManDoon]

Half the people he’s sticking up for have been sticking the knife into him since he left. He’s a great bloke, there’s a lot I don’t understand about our fans but turning on Rafa is the number one.

[Paully]

It’s a brilliant but depressing read - absokute tragic that we let him walk away and paid £4 million for the current clown

[David Edgar]

Miss this man.

[gjohnson]

Help us Rafa Benitez....you're our only hope

[Paully]

 

[Abra Dubravka]

Only ever played defensive, negative football, with five at the back and one up front...

Today in 2018
Huddersfield Town 0 Newcastle United 1

Salomon Rondon 55’#NUFC pic.twitter.com/HQCFUvap86

— NUFCThreatLevel (@NUFCThreatLevel) December 15, 2020

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[GWN]

Help us Rafa Benitez....you're our only hope

 

[Collage]

Only ever played defensive, negative football, with five at the back and one up front...

Today in 2018
Huddersfield Town 0 Newcastle United 1

Salomon Rondon 55’#NUFC pic.twitter.com/HQCFUvap86

— NUFCThreatLevel (@NUFCThreatLevel) December 15, 2020

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Great goal that. Good times

[Ryan]

Bloody brilliant goal and some quality limbs in the away end too.

[Yorkie]

Only ever played defensive, negative football, with five at the back and one up front...

Today in 2018
Huddersfield Town 0 Newcastle United 1

Salomon Rondon 55’#NUFC pic.twitter.com/HQCFUvap86

— NUFCThreatLevel (@NUFCThreatLevel) December 15, 2020

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Great goal that. Good times

Feels like an eternity ago.

[tgarve]

Manquillo is our best rb- seems Bruce has finally decided Kraft is utter turd now

[Armchair Pundit]

The thing is several of our players looks so much better under Rafa, mainly because he had them drilled and playing tactics suited to their abilities. You could put a root vegetable in the dugout that'd be as effective as Bruce.

[Paully]

♥️ pic.twitter.com/OlZYqnIAVC

— samantha (@mumba88) January 13, 2021

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[KaKa]

Man ... we were so close to building the club up to something worthwhile again. So close.

[Paully]

Man ... we were so close to building the club up to something worthwhile again. So close.

It’s a travesty!

Coming back on the train after Fulham, everyone and everything seemed so positive - all the talk was Rafa was going to re-sign, Rondon permanent and go from there! I think Perez would have stayed and Rafa could have spent the other £50m which this clown spent on what he wanted.

But of course, Ashley, the stupid t***, knows best 

To think we let him walk away and paid £3m to hire this useless b****** 

It’s absolutely absurd

[Tiresias]

Worst thing is it was all because Ashley wanted to spunk £40m on Joelinton for no reason at all 

[Carlito]

Man ... we were so close to building the club up to something worthwhile again. So close.

It’s a travesty!

Coming back on the train after Fulham, everyone and everything seemed so positive - all the talk was Rafa was going to re-sign, Rondon permanent and go from there! I think Perez would have stayed and Rafa could have spent the other £50m which this clown spent on what he wanted.

But of course, Ashley, the stupid t***, knows best 

To think we let him walk away and paid £3m to hire this useless b****** 

It’s absolutely absurd

I was thinking about this myself last night.

During Ashley's time here he's adopted this policy of looking to sign unknown foreign players on the cheap, with minimal English signings (with PL experience) sprinkled in. Meanwhile we never look to the continent for hidden gems in terms of managerial appointments, and worse, we'll actually pay a compensation fee for an English manager that the game passed by in the 00's. Ashley's entire philosophy has been arse backwards.

[TRon]

Man ... we were so close to building the club up to something worthwhile again. So close.

We really weren't. The sort of infrastructure Rafa was talking about building requires investment, and Ashley was never interested in infrastructure as there's no obvious quick gains to be made. Rafa knew by the end that he was never going to be on the same wavelength as the owner and that was never going to change. In hindsight even fighting to sign Rondon was a ridiculous state of affairs for a manager of his pedigree. He wouldn't even be looking at those players if he was at Liverpool or Tottenham.

[andyc35i]

Imagine letting all those league goals just walk out the door and trying to replace them with a £40m Brazilian - it’s hard to comprehend this nonsense

[GWN]

What’s Rafa doing these days management wise?

[HaydnNUFC]

No idea if the season in China is playing atm but Dalian were teetering near the relegation places.

[KaKa]

Man ... we were so close to building the club up to something worthwhile again. So close.

We really weren't. The sort of infrastructure Rafa was talking about building requires investment, and Ashley was never interested in infrastructure as there's no obvious quick gains to be made. Rafa knew by the end that he was never going to be on the same wavelength as the owner and that was never going to change. In hindsight even fighting to sign Rondon was a ridiculous state of affairs for a manager of his pedigree. He wouldn't even be looking at those players if he was at Liverpool or Tottenham.

By the time Rafa left he was just asking to be allowed to spend any transfer money as he wished ... that was it and he was happy to stay on.

Now, when you consider that s since he left Bruce has spent £100 million then it all starts to look incredibly ridiculous.

Rafa could have used some of that on transfers and some to start small improvements on the infrastructure no problem.

[Disco]

No idea if the season in China is playing atm but Dalian were teetering near the relegation places.

Season finished a while back. 2021 doesn’t seem to have been announced when it’s going to start yet.

[astraguy]

Rafa Benitez: "Bruno Fernandes was a player we were following at Newcastle. At Sporting Lisbon he had an issue with his club. We were progressing but the problem was the matter would go to court and that would complicate it. The club didn’t want to do that
Apparently in the times