The Benitez Thread

[Corner 456]

Anyone else shocked he's not in the top paid 16 managers in the world: http://sulia.com/football__tweet/f/2be88927-9c7a-4069-b45b-9ae4be71f522/

I guess he wanted the job to return to managing more than the money.

Strange. It's possible that interim managers aren't included though.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Anyone else shocked he's not in the top paid 16 managers in the world: http://sulia.com/football__tweet/f/2be88927-9c7a-4069-b45b-9ae4be71f522/

I guess he wanted the job to return to managing more than the money.

Not at all, Roman took the man out of retirement, he is crazy but not stupid. He knew any amount of penuts would do.

Benitez needed us more than we needed him!

[bushman 2,043]

6 wins out of 10 matches, 4 clean sheets, 27 goals scored , not a bad start from your interim, amongst all the hostility and 4 weeks 3 days into the job.

Another victory on its way against Everton I am sure

rafa has 8 wins, ( 4 at goodison park.) 3 draws and 3 losses, ( 2 of them 1-0.with it being in the last minute of extra time in the FA Cup) out of 14 matches, so I think he knows how to play them and win.

Well said, the above stats are there for us all to see.

Even though some might not like what I am about to write here but Rafa is a better manager, more experienced that Di M ever was. Hostility is seen, heard in the stadium & he keeps plugging away. Now, what more one can ask ?

[Changingman_2000 876]

Wonder who will give more grief at the weekend? Everton or Chels fans? Hope we win that hands down. Not even a simple apology for what he said about our club. "I will never manage Chelsea Football Club".

And yet, after a few results, the shallowness of some is there for all to see. What's the new deal, Let someone royally cunt of OUR club as publicly as is possible...then give him a job? Really? Are some of you THAT shallow??

Remember ALL of this..........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2236795/Rafa-Benitez-Chelsea-manager-Id-Stamford-Bridge-job.html

[Changingman_2000 876]

Oh, and by the way, for the record, I fucking hate the Daily Mail. Tory rag, Thatcherite comic.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Wonder who will give more grief at the weekend? Everton or Chels fans? Hope we win that hands down. Not even a simple apology for what he said about our club. "I will never manage Chelsea Football Club".

And yet, after a few results, the shallowness of some is there for all to see. What's the new deal, Let someone royally cunt of OUR club as publicly as is possible...then give him a job? Really? Are some of you THAT shallow??

Remember ALL of this..........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2236795/Rafa-Benitez-Chelsea-manager-Id-Stamford-Bridge-job.html

http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/15113-leeds-united-1-5-chelsea/?p=566354

Don't respond to me because I don't really give a fuck what someone like you thinks about my club, but I do wonder where you get off commenting on other fans.

[robdog 2,084]

Wonder who will give more grief at the weekend? Everton or Chels fans? Hope we win that hands down. Not even a simple apology for what he said about our club. "I will never manage Chelsea Football Club".

And yet, after a few results, the shallowness of some is there for all to see. What's the new deal, Let someone royally cunt of OUR club as publicly as is possible...then give him a job? Really? Are some of you THAT shallow??

Remember ALL of this..........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2236795/Rafa-Benitez-Chelsea-manager-Id-Stamford-Bridge-job.html

People won't get upset until we see the L'puke reinforcements arrive. Reinforcements like Mascherano or Skirtal This is my last statement on the topic. CFC were never a bad football club under RDM. The Club had a bad spell. This was the same club that went into Emirates & stopped le arse. This was the club that went into 3 point Lane & put spuds to shame. No telly tubby doesn't have special tactics or magic. People that have been around the block knows life is like waves. You have high & lo tides. We were just at a low tide. I agree w/ Fox Soccer Commentator Warren Barton's assertion that CFC were a good club & telly tubby is just reaping the benefits of being the next in line. Fuck the Mayans were wrong. I am hating these rafa dayz @ CFC that I am living in.

[Changingman_2000 876]

As requested, I am not requesting to the wank stain directly above /\ I have a right to opinion on WHATEVER I see fit and will happily feel free to exercise that at my earliest convenience. Unless told to piss off by moderators, etc.

OOps, not you robdog, the nonce above

[robdog 2,084]

As requested, I am not requesting to the wank stain directly above /\ I have a right to opinion on WHATEVER I see fit and will happily feel free to exercise that at my earliest convenience. Unless told to piss off by moderators, etc.

OOps, not you robdog, the nonce above

Great Minds think alike, so no problems mate. I knew where you going

[Changingman_2000 876]

Great Minds think alike, so no problems mate. I knew where you going

Much appreciated

[didierforever 7,349]

Wonder who will give more grief at the weekend? Everton or Chels fans? Hope we win that hands down. Not even a simple apology for what he said about our club. "I will never manage Chelsea Football Club".

And yet, after a few results, the shallowness of some is there for all to see. What's the new deal, Let someone royally cunt of OUR club as publicly as is possible...then give him a job? Really? Are some of you THAT shallow??

Remember ALL of this..........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2236795/Rafa-Benitez-Chelsea-manager-Id-Stamford-Bridge-job.html

nope no one will remember that now. we "remember" the leeds rivalry, even though i can comfortably say that more than 90% of people on here were not even born during that period (well i was not and the last match we played against leeds was in the 2003-04 season if i remember correctly), and yet we are deemed "plastics" by idiots like @the only place to be. we are expected to show hate towards leeds but when it comes to the single most hated in the roman era (rafa benitez) people so easily forget everythin. i mean i dont remember any other person who was unanimously hated by evry chelsea fan all over the world and yet we have forgotten everything.

[Changingman_2000 876]

If you look at some of the posts of the person who has requested that I do not respond to, Its all MY club, blah, blah, blah. This, I imagine, is supposed to be a Chelsea community forum, for like minded people. With that in mind, its OUR club, universally. No matter how long you have been going for, where you live, etc, etc. We are all entitled to an opinion, we may not always agree, but its there for all to see and discuss...................unless its the person who has requested that I do not respond to.

Its all pony mate, he spat his dummy out over some post I made that he thought was aimed at him. He was royally upset about it......until it was blatantly pointed out to him by another member of the forum that my target was the football club board not him or any other member on here. Anyway, I digress

[didierforever 7,349]

If you look at some of the posts of the person who has requested that I do not respond to, Its all MY club, blah, blah, blah. This, I imagine, is supposed to be a Chelsea community forum, for like minded people. With that in mind, its OUR club, universally. No matter how long you have been going for, where you live, etc, etc. We are all entitled to an opinion, we may not always agree, but its there for all to see and discuss...................unless its the person who has requested that I do not respond to.

Its all pony mate, he spat his dummy out over some post I made that he thought was aimed at him. He was royally upset about it......until it was blatantly pointed out to him by another member of the forum that my target was the football club board not him or any other member on here. Anyway, I digress

could not agree more...

[Rupert 130]

There are still some yobos trying to justify their disgusting behaviour towards our manager by complaining that he has not apologized for saying he would never coach Chelsea. As Rafa told a Spanish radio station last week, he never said it. The yobos point to a statement he made years ago when he was manager of LFC when the press started rumours that he was about to go to Chelsea and several other clubs. When he was asked about the various rumours he said that LFC was the only team for him. Not only was this true but it is what you would expect from a dedicated manager. Maybe this is a bit surprising for those used to Mourinho who spends most of his time looking for his next employer.

[Henrique 9,133]

Yes, they need to be beaten, but it does not take a brilliant manager to do so.

I am not taking away the fact he is improving our team, making them fight for 90min and he is a much better coach than RDM (at least he knows what he is doing and knows how to give clear orders). However, you cant deny he has the biggest fault for what happened in Corinthians game. He did nothing when everyone saw we lost midfield in the second half, he was gorssly outclassed by Tite, not starting with a DM against a physical team is asking for trouble. Also, the way he couldnt react when West Ham entered the second half with full desire is at least questionable.

To tell me Rafa is doing a good job, I can agree. But to say he is a top2 manager and he is outstanding for our future because of some decent results are laughable. Benitez has still a lot to prove and people are wrongly jumping of his bandwagon just because we trashed pub teams...

This was the same thing they were saying about Santos when they were destroying the weaker sides like Guarani with 8-0 victories. How many teams in the world that destroy their opponents with such result?

[Rmpr 8,977]

This was the same thing they were saying about Santos when they were destroying the weaker sides like Guarani with 8-0 victories. How many teams in the world that destroy their opponents with such result?

OMG, I AM SO HAPPY!

I thought (after the CWC thing) that you would ignore me forever or only quote with offensive words...

Anyways, I didnt understand it. Are you backing my point that Benitez beating pub teams doesnt mean much or the other way around?

[Henrique 9,133]

Well, I dont believe Benitez is the best manager in the world, but when he was hired I really believe that he was better than RDM, and one of most stupid things people were saying was that RDM was the right man, not because he is a legend and gave Chelsea a UCL, but because he was really good, and Benitez was way worst than the italian.

Well, in few games we can see that the team is way more solid than in Robbie's days. People were complaining RDM was attacking minded (even if he "gave" Chelsea a UCL parking the bus in 3 games) while Benitez was a defensive coach, and then he came with a 8-0 win.

In RDM days there was a feelling that team lacked options, in fact he was always using the same formation: Mikel, Ramires (Lampard),Oscar, Hazard, Moses, Torres. Benitez introduced Moses as a really important player, he is not just a squad player that is starting games when the rest are tired, and now even Luiz is playing as mid, and sometimes we have players like Lampard, Ramires, Hazard and Oscar on the bench.

Torres used to get the blame for the lack of goals, but we scored 8 goals against Aston Villa and Torres got only one. While we still need more striker, now it seems that we dont need a huge new name like Falcao to "save" the rest of the season. During Mourinhos first 2 season, Lampard was the top scored, and Chelsea did not have a goal scorer like Nilsterooy or Henry, but we still managed to scored a lot o goals. Torres is not there to scored? OK, we still have Hazard, Mata, Moses, Luiz...

People will get angry, but I this is what I believe:

- If Benitez was hired when AVB was sacked, probably we would never get that UCL trophy. RDM was the right man for that moment.

- If Benietz was hired in the summer we probably would be in UCL knockout stage, and on pair with MU in PL race title, not with a 11 (8) pointss gap.

[Tomo 21,751]

nope no one will remember that now. we "remember" the leeds rivalry, even though i can comfortably say that more than 90% of people on here were not even born during that period (well i was not and the last match we played against leeds was in the 2003-04 season if i remember correctly), and yet we are deemed "plastics" by idiots like @the only place to be. we are expected to show hate towards leeds but when it comes to the single most hated in the roman era (rafa benitez) people so easily forget everythin. i mean i dont remember any other person who was unanimously hated by evry chelsea fan all over the world and yet we have forgotten everything.

Rafa slagged us off in the past, but atleast he did it when he was not on our payroll like some have done.

Mourinho and Ronaldo kept bitching about each other when they were at Chelsea and United, it's what you do when your rivals for trophy's, do whatever it takes to get the upper hand. Do you really think Ronaldo and Mourinho held what they said against each other when they were both at the same club? no they forgot about it and got on with delivering success for Real Madrid.

Rafa has bitched about us in the past, we gave it back to him and then some, but right now he is our manager, he wants success for this club like we do, we want the same thing so how about we pull in the same direction? He said what he said in 2007 to get under our skin and get the upper hand and it worked. If our clash at Old Trafford is a title decider he will do exactly the same back.

Jose has bitched about us since he has left, "he wants to kill us", "i have carried on winning big trophies, Chelsea have carried on winning something", then bleated afterwards (Inter's 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge) about how the Bridge is his fortress not Chelsea's. Rafa will do exactly the same with Liverpool if we ever end up in a title fight with them while Rafa is our manager.

[Rmpr 8,977]

@Henrique, I definetly agree.

I can't stand a Liverpool fan comming here and saying Benitez is the second best coach in the world and that he is showing how outstanding he is by beating Villa 8-0 and Leeds 5-1 though. I also think it is too early to give him a long contract (if we can find no one)...

Plus, I wouldnt want to imagine what the reaction would be if RDM didnt get the job!

Even with everything you said about Benitez, I still hate the guy. I know he is the best available option, but I still want him to fuck off!

[The only place to be 11,313]

nope no one will remember that now. we "remember" the leeds rivalry, even though i can comfortably say that more than 90% of people on here were not even born during that period (well i was not and the last match we played against leeds was in the 2003-04 season if i remember correctly), and yet we are deemed "plastics" by idiots like @the only place to be. we are expected to show hate towards leeds but when it comes to the single most hated in the roman era (rafa benitez) people so easily forget everythin. i mean i dont remember any other person who was unanimously hated by evry chelsea fan all over the world and yet we have forgotten everything.

And you would be the little chappy who said

@didierforever - come on leeds... 3-0 and benitez out... please... come on...

No wonder you're more comfortable with changingman - maybe you could both change allegiance to Leeds since supporting them against us comes so easily.