The Benitez Thread

[yuvala 2,167]

Dont really hate him but he is not a good manager whatsoever.

[The Rising Sun 711]

Never hated him, never had a liking towards him. Was irritating during his liverpool days, but did well there.

He has come here, and conducted himself well, with a certain amount of calmness and grace, with chaos all around him.

He seems to have got all the players on-side with his methods, rotation etc etc.

No fallouts, good discipline among the squad.

He is a good manager IMO.

Obviously we could have done with a few more points here and there, but overall well done.

So this farewell is not so much of hate, but thanks and do well wherever you go.

Bottomline is that he came here, did relatively well, undid some of his wrongs.

He used us, we used him. Win WIN.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Never really hated him. There are people I hate in football, some for personal reasons, but it's something I try to avoid because life's too short. The comments he made were when he was in charge of another club and they have a fanbase that needs constant reassuring because they're fragile souls.

As a manager, I've come to realise he's somewhat limited in his tactical approach to games. His unwillingness to tinker with his setup is something I've criticised a fair bit, but he has also had moments where he has got it spot on.

The team that Robbie put together this season was always going to struggle in my opinion. It relied too much on individual brilliance and lacked cohesion. Rafa didn't improve upon that much but there were games where we looked like a proper team (Fulham, Swansea, United and a few others). I'm just relieved that we're reaching the end of this sorry little chapter in our history in relatively good health. There are players who have grown in stature under his tenure and whilst that may not be down to him, the next manager will certainly benefit from their improvement.

[J.F. 1,484]

love him more and more every day,probably because he will be gone soon

[CHOULO19 24,332]

If Mourinho joined Barcelona and won them the Europa League and secured CL football for next season where they should be anyway I'm sure he'd get boo'd out the building, especially if he crashed out the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey to some team like Granada; our equivalent (of sorts) of crashing out of the League Cup this season, too.

Now I'm not saying my opinion on him is formed due to that strong possibility; it's just an example, but yes. Still hate him.

Congratulations! You've just won the award for the worst comparison in the history of TC!

[Goemaere 131]

Never understood the childish hate. The only thing we accomplished is look even more like a bunch of twats.

[DONI. 1,291]

He is not wanted here.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Merged with the Benitez thread.

[Liquidator 5,176]

http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarNota&id_nota=88&idioma=in

Yeah that's great mate now bugger off. Hardly brought a tear to my eye.

[kobematabryant 400]

I will thank Rafa Benitez for what he has done so far, securing us Top 4, beating Man Utd out of FA Cup and the League and finally the Europa League. I do think it was wrong booing him, he is only here for limited time. But I'd have Mourinho anyday over him. It's time for him to leave and let the Special One take over. I do still kinda hate what Rafa said about us in the past.

[SinineUltra 1,170]

Not really. Whats the use of living in the past when its the now that counts and the future that will anyways.

Usually people like that are full of anger and that shows. Certain threads show how fickle and unstable they really can be.

[Stingray 9,441]

Usually people like that are full of anger and that shows. Certain threads show how fickle and unstable they really can be.

indeed!!

Ps : Mind you. This is a general feature in society tough ....

[SinineUltra 1,170]

Let's just put it this way: he did what he was asked for after RdM left this place in a bad state. You can downgrade everything and everyone, but you will just make yourself look like spoilt brat not happy with anything. Fact is RdM dropped us out of Champions League ,but we got maximum out of it by winning this 'mere' consolation trophy. Some of you are very keen to forget we finished last season 6th - 5pts off 4th spot and behind ManCIty and ManU by 25pts. All you stats lovers can do your calculations now how BAD we actually were under him. We WERE lucky to win the UCL and get a bypass to the UCL group stages. Hatred is blind.

[Stingray 9,441]

Let's just put it this way: he did what he was asked for after RdM left this place in a bad state. You can downgrade everything and everyone, but you will just make yourself look like spoilt brat not happy with anything. Fact is RdM dropped us out of Champions League ,but we got maximum out of it by winning this 'mere' consolation trophy. Some of you are very keen to forget we finished last season 6th - 5pts off 4th spot and behind ManCIty and ManU by 25pts. We WERE lucky to win the UCL and get a bypass to the UCL group stages. Hatred is blind.

I got no more likes .... So hence this message!

One thing I disagree! Dimatteo did his best i gather it - i do believe he lacks experience on that top level . He made the team gel attacking wise ... The defense was shambles due to his free flowing attacking lines. Benitez stopped the 'flood' but could not fix the leak as well. We still have much structural work to do - starting with the tracking and build up speeds of the pivot.

Ps: 10 likes for your guts to address this!

[SinineUltra 1,170]

I got no more likes .... So hence this message!

One thing I disagree! Dimatteo did his best i gather it . He made the team gel attacking wise ... The defense was shambles due to his free flowing attacking lines. Benitez stoppex the 'flood' but could not fix the leak as well. We still have much structural work to do - starting with the tracking and buold up speeds of the pivot.

Ps: 10 likes for your guts to address this!

I know I was harsh about RdM, he did made us play enjoyable football, but it turned out to be a Brazilian style where the motto is 'We don't care how many we concede, we will outscore anyone'. I am grateful for his services as a player and as a manager, we won UCL under him, but I've said this before - he had as much got to do with us winning UCL as did Rafa with Europa League. I mean we can draw parallels - Matteo subbed off Kalou for Torres, who earned THE corner. Likewise all of us were screaming for Rafa to sub off Ramiers, but he didnt, in fact he didn't use any subs haha. Ramires won us the corner that clinched us the EL.