And to give him a 2 year contract is just absolutely mental
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Suppose you could say the same with most managers.
Martinez.....Kone & Alcaraz
Joe Royle...Earl Barrett
Koeman....Cuco Martina
Bringing in Rondon says more about Benitez's judgement than the quality of the player.
Lee Smith
Player Valuation: £35m
You’ll see from my post on page 1 of this thread that I had a bit of a soft spot for Rondon, I was optimistic about him joining us, thought he could offer us something useful, and hoped he’d be an astute signing. So I was prepared to give him a chance, unlike others on here.
But by god, he has been absolutely awful for us hasn’t he. I have no idea how good Dobbin is, but if I was him I’d be absolutely raging at being consistently sidelined by this complete waste of a shirt number.
But by god, he has been absolutely awful for us hasn’t he. I have no idea how good Dobbin is, but if I was him I’d be absolutely raging at being consistently sidelined by this complete waste of a shirt number.
Looking at the Rondon posts from page 1, wonder if this person still agrees ?
2 years with an option for a third!!
they seemed happy that we'd be playing like Burnley
Tbh, Burnley played us off the park for an hour, so maybe that's what we should try to be
whiteshadow
Player Valuation: £20m
Burnley have to survive, they not got a bottomless pit of money, they adapted well to Premiership, you only have to look out how many promoted teams survive over the last few years, Norwich, Baggies,Fulham, Bournemouth, it's a big gap between Championship and Prem and unless you got Sugar Dadies like Wolves and Villa it's hard to stay up.
Young lads like Dobbin, sitting on the bench watching this galoot stumbling around like a drunk on the ale for 90 minutes must be thinking about a change of career.
Are you serious?
I am absolutely serious.
We did try and spend money at the end of the window, remember? A RB and winger (Diaz) were the targets.
Rondon was also the target for the striker position and had been since July. If we'd had a bit of money free'd up in July, we'd have signed him then, because we tried to but wouldn't match what Dalian wanted.
If we had unlimited resources to spend across the team, of course Rondon wouldn't have been the target. But the priority was elsewhere on the pitch with what resources we did have, even when we had a bit of potential to spend late in August.
So it's not true to say he was the only option. He was the only option because Benitez wanted him, and Benitez was given full control over who we went for this summer, including turning down RB targets that he didn't think were good enough (which is fine, but let's call a spade a spade, please).
I was under the impression the only way we had money to spend was if we sold Richarlison, ffp an all that. Back to Rondon, had every chance to get fit now, even Benitez must realise the man is finished, watching him stumbling around like a drunk yesterday was plain embarrassing for himself and everyone else, he's finished and he knows it, if he has any dignity he would just retire immediately.
whiteshadow
Player Valuation: £20m
Fair enough but surely if he had more money he would have considered some other options, although I guess as it's a back up striker hmmmm.
Benitez is probably suprised how bad he's been so far. I can't imagine he was half this bad when he was at Newcastle.
If there were standards at this club then he would have been hooked at half time. Surely he cant have so much of an ego that he won't sub his man. Grow up Benitez.
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