The Benitez Thread

[zolayes 14,489]

The replacement for Drogba is hopefully going to be Lukaku. The replacement for Lampard and Ballack is hopefully going to be Oscar and Mata. The replacement for Essien is Ramires. The replacement for Cole is going to be no-one because he's irreplaceable. Not sure you can replace the best left-back of the last decade, but Bertrand might be able to do a job.

Terry and Carvalho haven't been replaced in terms of quality but the club made some positive moves going for Luiz and Cahill.

But we aren't going to be doing what we did in 2004 anymore. We're looking to build our own stars and pick up young talent and in that regard I think the club are doing a pretty good job. The key ingredient is finding a coach who can bring them through and Roman never saw Robbie as being that guy.

who was the Guy ,, Carlo AVb ...???/ lets just play Russian roulette with our coaches ....who knows we might get lucky

[Reddish-Blue 2,491]

The replacement for Drogba is hopefully going to be Lukaku. The replacement for Lampard and Ballack is hopefully going to be Oscar and Mata. The replacement for Essien is Ramires. The replacement for Cole is going to be no-one because he's irreplaceable. Not sure you can replace the best left-back of the last decade, but Bertrand might be able to do a job.

Terry and Carvalho haven't been replaced in terms of quality but the club made some positive moves going for Luiz and Cahill.

But we aren't going to be doing what we did in 2004 anymore. We're looking to build our own stars and pick up young talent and in that regard I think the club are doing a pretty good job. The key ingredient is finding a coach who can bring them through and Roman never saw Robbie as being that guy.

Ramires will be a good player...but I don't think he'll be able to replace Essien. Essien at his peak was the complete midfielder, he could basically play anywhere in midfield.

As for Robbie not being the right guy...if you're under that much pressure as a manager, your first instinct will be to use the more experienced players rather than bring through youngsters from the academy/reserves.

If you want a successful youth system, you need to give your manager at least a 2-3 year period where you will back him 100% (unless of course your club starts seriously crumbling).

[Styles 9,790]

Not really Cech's call that though.. Manager should be entitled to bring in his own coaching staff.

Of course it's Cech call. Cech is a world class keeper and has his own way of doing things. He feels comfortable with his own coach who he has worked with for nearly 10 years. Why should some guy on a 6 month contract come here and tell him who is going to coach him?

Maybe Benitez should hire new chefs as well then. He looks like he knows his stuff in that department. Hope Benitez does something about Chelsea TV too, I hate that Gigi woman.

[DH1988 1,348]

Lol did some people here only start watching football recently?

Benitez never ever answers questions directly even at Liverpool he always sidestepped or gave a random answer, nothing new lol.

I am chuffed and can't wait till the end of Jan to see what he has accomplished as I think anything before then in terms of implementing his ideas and the players grasping them it'd be too early to judge. I.e. if we lose against city it's not a huge deal he's been here 5 minutes.

[Joker10 946]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDLRZbokrZI

Well that was boring absloutely nothing on tactics and formation . Dumb jurnos asking pointless questions.

[Shane 2,275]

The replacement for Drogba is hopefully going to be Lukaku. The replacement for Lampard and Ballack is hopefully going to be Oscar and Mata. The replacement for Essien is Ramires. The replacement for Cole is going to be no-one because he's irreplaceable. Not sure you can replace the best left-back of the last decade, but Bertrand might be able to do a job.

Terry and Carvalho haven't been replaced in terms of quality but the club made some positive moves going for Luiz and Cahill.

But we aren't going to be doing what we did in 2004 anymore. We're looking to build our own stars and pick up young talent and in that regard I think the club are doing a pretty good job. The key ingredient is finding a coach who can bring them through and Roman never saw Robbie as being that guy.

How can you replace all round midfielders with two attacking midfielders?

[Muzchap 8,966]

Of course it's Cech call. Cech is a world class keeper and has his own way of doing things. He feels comfortable with his own coach who he has worked with for nearly 10 years. Why should some guy on a 6 month contract come here and tell him who is going to coach him?

Maybe Benitez should hire new chefs as well then. He looks like he knows his stuff in that department. Hope Benitez does something about Chelsea TV too, I hate that Gigi woman.

Lol poor old Gigi

We should get that Hayley bird from SSN

Mmmmmmmmm

[Muzchap 8,966]

Actually Hayley was MUTV so fuck her

Millie cloude or whatever her name is

[Hutcho 8,443]

Actually Hayley was MUTV so fuck her

Millie cloude or whatever her name is

But she is fit so... :eyebrows:

[Ollie 4,400]

This could work. It seems like Roman has liked him for a while and his Liverpool side were similar to ours. Hard working, tough to beat, solid and causing problems to top sides. Rafa seems so happy to get this job, he's turned so many jobs down, he was never going to get an opportunity bigger in the premiership than this one which is the league he wants to be in. He's dreamed about a job like this. He knows he's only got 6 or 7 months to make an impact and put himself back in the shop window or try and cement a bigger contract with us. He knows what he has to do, even if it's only for his own ego, it will still be good for us, he'll put everything into this period. He wants to win trophies, just like us. He also hates Man Utd and especially SAF. Don't get me wrong, i'm against him being our boss but it adds a bit of spice to some of our games doesn't it. Anfield and Old Trafford will be interesting games. His English is good, he's not scared to voice his opinion, he's not boring and he has many players he can relate with, especially our hopeless striker and Juan the man. Mata certainly seems happy with the appointment. Just trying to sound a bit positive, i'm so intrigued to see what's gonna happen to us, just makes it exciting.

He is a pretty decent manager but can feel pressure too. FACT

[Bacika 188]

I see many of supporters dislike Benitez, but I have strange feeling that he will win something this season...Also I think we are going to see diferent fomrations, and I don't think he will play with trio oscar, mata and hazard together...

Also I am against firing Di Matteo, he just didn't have much time...but thats Chelsea and ROman...

[Hutcho 8,443]

A positive, we have an extremely busy schedule coming up and if rafa knows how to do one thing it is ROTATE.

[zolayes 14,489]

A positive, we have an extremely busy schedule coming up and if rafa knows how to do one thing it is ROTATE.

watching him rotate our strikers should be interesting

[Kojo 4,676]

We've never replace Drogba or Lampard or Terry or Carvalho or Ballack or Essien. Our starting XI in 2005-2006 was Cech, Gallas, Carvalho, Terry, Del Horno, Makalele, Essien, Lampard, Cole, Robben, and Drogba and almost all at their peaks. That's insane. (We also had players like Gudjonsson, Crespo, Duff, and Feirera who played regularly) We had top-5, top-10 players at their position in the world all over the pitch. We had players who were elite attackers and elite defenders. We had balance, physical presence, ability on the ground, in the air, speed, leadership everything. We are light years away from that right now.

I would say attacking wise with the wings and flair upfront now it's alot better, i mean come on Mata, Oscar, Hazard and De Bruyne in the prime is going to be very interesting. But when you look at everything else, our midfield is shocking, i mean really bad. We are supposed to be an elite team and our midfield is midtable standard. Then the defence part is horrible also.

You're spot on we haven't replaced Terry or Carvalho especially. Cahill will never reach that standard and Luiz certainly wont.

[Hutcho 8,443]

watching him rotate our strikers should be interesting

Torres will just do a 360 degree spin and then he will be rotated.