2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[windymiller]

There's a potential crisis in the making here, there's no getting away from it.

If we keep getting suspensions and adding to the injury list we can go into free-fall.

1 win in 9 and you're predicting a loss against Brentford, what exactly constitutes free fall if not this?

 

[jinkyali]

There's a potential crisis in the making here, there's no getting away from it.

If we keep getting suspensions and adding to the injury list we can go into free-fall.

If it does happen, it's been years in the making. Anyone looking at the last 2 months of Everton results and saying we were ok before that has got rocks in their head.

This is spot on.

 

[MACCA75]

I'm a realist.

You cant make an edible meal with pig swill.

Especially if you’ve sent a steak sandwich and chips to Juventus and the Middle East and brought a big bucket of pig sick in instead.

 

[Number_25]

I will reiterate this - if he keeps us up, he'd have done a decent job.

 

[sageyefc]

wasn’t the right man for the job to begin with, everyone other than the dope Moshiri could see so. And since being in the job Benitez hasn’t shown a single thing that points to him being anything other than a disaster for us

 

[zukai12_]

I will reiterate this - if he keeps us up, he'd have done a decent job.

If he keeps a solidly midtable team, who havent had a real relegation fight for 20 years, in the division

He's done a decent job?

Why is it the people who rate him highest seem to have the lowest opinion of his capalities

 

[tommye]

I'm a realist.

You cant make an edible meal with pig swill.

Depends what your feeding

 

[nsno-chris]

Let’s admit it, some of the fanboys enjoyed the defeat today because it kept City above the RS

Everton doesn’t matter anymore, our success is now ensuring the RS don’t win anything

What a pitiful excuse of a club

 

[AsiaAsia82]

Howe already 1 point ahead of our rs manager in the head to head.

 

[MACCA75]

If he keeps a solidly midtable team, who havent had a real relegation fight for 20 years, in the division

He's done a decent job?

Why is it the people who rate him highest seem to have the lowest opinion of his capalities

Exactly. And if James and Bernard were worth 25 points then maybe don’t sell them..?

 

[Yarrgh]

If Leeds sack the failing Bielsa which is not improbable, how about him?

I think that his demands on players putting a shift in will result in another manager being needed as these feckless bozos dial in subpar performances.

 

[everton1953]

Put yourself in charge of EFC. You cannot beat about the bush. Before you sack Rafael, say before the derby game, you must have another stooge in mind. Who is it? Seriously if you insist on sacking Rafael, then go for Duncan on a temp basis. Surely he can shame/force effort out of our crap players? Obviously nobody can make our crap players into good ones, neither Rafael nor anyone else. It is a case of steady the ship until May 2020. Empty out 12 shoite players and sign a few decent ones, and replace Duncan with the flavour of the month.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

He needs at least one result in the next two to keep his job. If we lose to Brentford and the RS then I'll not be surprised if we have a new manager by the Arsenal game. Maybe he'll stagger on for a few more games beyond that if we nick a point or two but there's no way he'll still be here by the Leicester game if things haven't massively turned around by then. We're run by utter coward's who won't want to face the wrath of the nasty old fans if things get REALLY grim.

 

[Dad watched Dixie]

Exactly. And if James and Bernard were worth 25 points then maybe don’t sell them..?

Were they worth 25 points? Doubt it very much

 

[truebluejersey]

It's mad isn't it?

I kind of fall in the middle to be honest. He has been given an incredibly rubbish hand, poor squad, no money to spend, injuries to key players, all of that is harsh on him.

People can make perfectly valid excuses, can point to other managers failings, can point to the fact that we should ignore his past.

All of this is fair and reasonable.

But what those people do not seem to grasp is that none of that matters one jot.

In an ideal world fans would be reasonable and fair minded but we are not, it's a passionate, tribal game. We start to struggle for whatever reason and he transforms back into a dirty RS dinosaur. That is what we were always going to be dealing with. The people asking for fairness are missing the point as it will not happen.

Or you could say the people calling for the sacking of another manager are missing the point. It’s time now to be fair and reasonable and patient otherwise we are going further down the rabbit hole. Sacking Benitez will get us no where. We have to give someone time to sort this mess out.