Please take a minute on who you are responding to. He knows not what he says.
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Please take a minute on who you are responding to. He knows not what he says.
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
This manager kept the geordies in mid table, whilst operating under financial constraints. I would imagine this is what made this manager, an attractive proposition to Moshiri, who quite obviously now, wants to reduce spendings on player transfers. So the board as they have proven with this appointment, could not give one flying eff about what the fans think. They just wanted a nice safe boring managerial appointment. They were too scared to risk everything, on a more exciting/adventurous type of manager. Benitez is collecting a nice handy pay cheque, to keep us mid table until the stadium is built. It's all just a matter of joining the dots here.
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FrenchDarrenBent
Player Valuation: £15m
Benitez finished 10th the season after winning the championship. Bruce highest was 12th.
Also check the differences in goal difference. In his last season at Newcastle, they conceded less goals than Manchester United and Arsenal....
That's why the geordies would have him back.
The man is capable. Face it.
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
Capable of what keeping a team mid table? He might have been a top manager back in 2004/2005, but that's nearly 20 years ago now.?
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
5 years!
He'll be doing well to last 5 months here.lol
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
Yeah, you are right. It was points wise Bruce did better than benitez ever did. But 10th on 44 points shows how crap the league was. Needed 59 points this season.
The football is awful and the geordies all say that. He is capable of crap football and narrowly hitting the magic 40 point mark.
Lord Buckethead
Player Valuation: £35m
10th on 44 points shows how strong the league was, with everyone capable of taking points of everyone else.
10th on 59 points means that the teams down the bottom aren't capable of making a fight of it.
MartSlinger
Player Valuation: £40m
The more i think about it, the more i think that the way this Summer has went, is that it is exactly the reason why he was brought in. Get us through this horrible period were we need to balance the books and we're coming to the end of the contracts of a vast majority of the big earners that we wanna shift.
Think he showed at Newcastle that he can keep a team semi-competitive with f all to spend. This squad is not awful by any stretch, there's still a lot of good players for him to work with here.
Think he showed at Newcastle that he can keep a team semi-competitive with f all to spend. This squad is not awful by any stretch, there's still a lot of good players for him to work with here.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
Depends on how you view it. I'd say that it shows most teams weren't very good and couldn't get consistency.
I see now why you are so dead against this appointment. You actually believe he is worse than Allardyce. I can only imagine how happy you are going to be when reality dawns.
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
So, we should be grateful that we've got a manager who managed to finish 10th after we just lost our manager who many felt underperformed and finished 10th? Progress!
Harryflashman
Player Valuation: £60m
Remember when we chased Sam out of town for dour football and finishing 8th ? Halcyon days indeed .
This shower of players couldn't turn it on for one of the greatest club managers of the past 20 years, so what hope does Benitez have?
He might fail here, but he's hardly been given adequate tools to work with and the FFP restrictions mean he's going to have to scrimp and save to build as good a side as he can
He hasn't really done his part in establishing a good relationship with the fan base, but I think we need to just accept that now and back the team because otherwise this season could get ugly and fast
He might fail here, but he's hardly been given adequate tools to work with and the FFP restrictions mean he's going to have to scrimp and save to build as good a side as he can
He hasn't really done his part in establishing a good relationship with the fan base, but I think we need to just accept that now and back the team because otherwise this season could get ugly and fast
I have an overwhelming sense of dread thinking about the season.
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