2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[Alan0401]

Give this fella the Utd squad he will still be garbage

They gave him a treble winning side once and he didn't even make the new year. He's a terrible manager and has been for over a decade.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Avoiding relegation is the first and foremost concern for every club. I accept your point that we should be doing more, but unfortunately we cannot afford to be more expansive in our thinking while staring relegation in the face, if thats what retaining Benitez brings us (which is what you are saying we should be doing)

The point I'm making is if you have a long term plan that keeps the club consistently in a good place you'll be avoiding relegation by default because you won't be bad enough for it to be a worry. You don't end up here if you are thinking long even sometimes. This position (we still aren't going down) is because we haven't had a plan for so long.

 

[Eggs]

Lets not be nasty to other blues because you dont agree with them now.

You're better than that Eggs or at least I thought you was...

….I find it absolutely amazing that a fan of our club isn’t bothered about us getting relegated. That’s not me disagreeing with another poster, that’s me being totally dismayed.

 

[ForeverEverton]

Alfonso Leocadio is the real deal ITK too

Not sure if you are serious or sarcastic!?!

I`ve never heard of him....

#BenitezOut

 

[davek]

Or maybe put in a second forward instead of Iwobi who contributes nothing .
It's really that simple . If you're losing with 15 minutes to go against a poor team you put on a body in attack .

No idea why he didn't do that, tbh. I wont defend that.

 

[nsno-chris]

Errrrr what happened here mert

Those opening 7 games where we played like Barcelona were the definition of a purple patch that was always going to end.

We are currently playing a style/system that can be maintained with hard work over a 38 game season.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Wouldn’t shock me to see him get the bullet if the derby defeat is bad enough

 

[Kev The Rat]

The point I'm making is if you have a long term plan that keeps the club consistently in a good place you'll be avoiding relegation by default because you won't be bad enough for it to be a worry. You don't end up here if you are thinking long even sometimes. This position (we still aren't going down) is because we haven't had a plan for so long.

You cant be certain we arent going down but are you saying when you think we are seriously in danger of going down (I accept I believe we are there now, and you dont think we are), then you would then get rid of him to bring whoever in just to see if we can survive?

 

[sc1878]

The club is an absolute mess from top to bottom. Benitez is far from the only problem at the club but after a promising start, he’s done nothing to cover himself in glory.

His team selections, in game management and tactics have been disgraceful during this run. Today was exactly the same. Crying out for attacking substitutions for the last 30 mins. Brentford were awful and there for the taking today but Benitez persisted with the garbage he’d picked from the start (again).

He’s been dealt a bad hand, there’s no questioning that. But his stubbornness not to change his own poor decisions/tactics is unacceptable. He’s showing nothing to suggest he can come back from this and turn the form around.

Get rid now and get Dunc in charge for Wednesday night. Persisting with this is going to be an absolute car crash for the derby.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Wasn’t that long ago that a lot of you wanted Ancelotti out as well. In fact I’m sure a few were mentioning Benitez as the ‘type’ of manager we should have got instead. Now he probably looks like a genius in comparison.

I’m sure there’s a manager out there though who will finally teach Coleman how to cross a ball, and Keane how to jump, Iwobi how to do anything. I’m sure he’s out there, let’s just spin the wheel again until we get him.

 

[mikel_88]

Getting fed up hearing all this now with injuries and what he had spent. This is not an excise anymore player board and benitez all have to tske the blame. It was brentford today we need to show more

On a £1.7m budget.

Almost like Man City win shiny things because they can sign players for more money than what League One clubs spend.

 

[T LEAFE]

We need Brucie or Ole

 

[TheBigIguana]

You cant be certain we arent going down but are you saying when you think we are seriously in danger of going down (I accept I believe we are there now, and you dont think we are), then you would then get rid of him to bring whoever in just to see if we can survive?

The last time we panicked and brought whoever in we set the club back years in a six month span. So no I would not do that again.

 

[Leylo]

To be fair to Dunc he played a big part in getting Lewin to be the player he is now.

Injured

 

[kenada_blue]

That's genuinely worrying levels of delusion. I get he's trying to keep the players onside, but that's just outright lying about things.

He's right in what he says but that doesn't win you games. Even the Dutch Moonhead threw Niasse on after binning him off the previous year to save his own job for a bit longer.

It's about doing what's needed to get points. He didn't. He left that out