The Benitez Thread

[zolayes 14,489]

Yes. Widely quoted on various media.

the bigger malaise is the hierarchy and particularly the board. They are responsible for the fat waste of space and dozens of other fuck ups since Abramovich bought the club.

the Board only report back to The Russian then do what he tells them ....

remember one of Jose's saying .....If he was the owner the Club would go bust ...If Roman was the manager they would get relegated ....A joke ....BUT ......

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

There is. The financial aspect. Club would have to buy out his contract plus compensation. It doesn't make sense till end of season.

They already spent millions on those compensations, so a few more wouldnt be much of a problem indeed.

There is one and only one reason why I think he wont be sacked till summer and I've said it before, its because Roman is too stubborn to admit what a fucking joke of a decision he made.

[Fulham Broadway 17,305]

the Board only report back to The Russian then do what he tells them ....

remember one of Jose's saying .....If he was the owner the Club would go bust ...If Roman was the manager they would get relegated ....A joke ....BUT ......

We assume the russian makes the decisions from what the media says, but there seem to be too many. Some board fuck ups off the top off my head

Board members, their wife’s and tennis partners buying CPO shares to try and force a move from the Bridge

Sacking Carlo....

In the tunnel...straight after a game...

Avram Grant

Emenalo

Letting Steve Clarke go

Phil Scolari

AVB

Sacking Robbie

Lampard contract

Benayoun

Handling of Mikel incident

The Fat Cunt

Running a stadium tour with Ginola as guide.

Lineker presenting the Player of the Year awards.

Sacking Wilkins

Patronising statements warning fans about their 'behaviour'.

Kenyon leading the team up to collect the medals in Moscow.

...Cant all be Romans genius

Edit; Singha fucking beer !

[robdog 2,084]

hey what happened to that thread w/ Ferguson calling telly tubby lucky? I do recall some posters here typing how sir red nose would be scared now that telly tubby was in charge of The Chels. Boy were they wrong

[zolayes 14,489]

We assume the russian makes the decisions from what the media says, but there seem to be too many. Some board fuck ups off the top off my head

Board members, their wife’s and tennis partners buying CPO shares to try and force a move from the Bridge

Sacking Carlo....

In the tunnel...straight after a game...

Avram Grant

Emenalo

Letting Steve Clarke go

Phil Scolari

AVB

Sacking Robbie

Lampard contract

Benayoun

Handling of Mikel incident

The Fat Cunt

Running a stadium tour with Ginola as guide.

Lineker presenting the Player of the Year awards.

Sacking Wilkins

Patronising statements warning fans about their 'behaviour'.

Kenyon leading the team up to collect the medals in Moscow.

...Cant all be Romans genius

Edit; Singha fucking beer !

I would think the BIG decisions were all made by Roman

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Revealed: Chelsea chairman Buck's email which spells out Abramovich's frustration with Benitez's form

But the Chelsea chairman replied: 'Thank you for your email. Contrary to your expectation, I have read it.

'You will appreciate that I cannot respond to the specific points you raise but the Board and Roman are as frustrated as you are with some of the recent results. We are all working as hard as we can to change things around.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2271360/Roman-Abramovich-frustrated-Chelsea-Bruce-Buck-admission-email-angry-fan.html

[SinineUltra 1,170]

Revealed: Chelsea chairman Buck's email which spells out Abramovich's frustration with Benitez's form

But the Chelsea chairman replied: 'Thank you for your email. Contrary to your expectation, I have read it.

'You will appreciate that I cannot respond to the specific points you raise but the Board and Roman are as frustrated as you are with some of the recent results. We are all working as hard as we can to change things around.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2271360/Roman-Abramovich-frustrated-Chelsea-Bruce-Buck-admission-email-angry-fan.html

I'd take it with a pinch of salt, Daily Mail after all.

[didierforever 7,349]

The reason why I'm trying not to blast Benitez from every angle is because he alone is not to be blamed. That's something a lot of you are so biased about. You only see positive about RDM, Lampard etc and every negative goes on the shoulders of the manager. I agree that his tactics are monotonous and boring but many of the games we have blown are as much got to do with players not putting in a performance and being wasteful. Take for example the game against Reading, we didn't even concede shots on target for 87 minute, we dominated, we were leading 2-0. Last 8 minutes were absolutely horrible from our defenders, leaving opposition players unmarked. You can't be so blind to say that Rafa should have cleared the ball himself? Men not marking properly fucked it up, they lost concentration. I'm sure you'll reply saying Rafa should have motivated blablabla, but god - if they need guidance in every step they take, can't motivate THEMSELVES to put in a performance then I'm really doubting their desire to play for us.

Regarding substitutions: we had quite a defensive lineup already. This isn't paper rock scissors, where the only right sub would be to take off attacker and replace him with a defender (formation 4-2-3-1). That only sends out a message to our opponent to attack, attack, attack. Having no FW upfront will mean we will lose almost every long ball from our GK, we will need to start defending from our half and wouldn't have a striker in their side of the field to start closing down early. When Ba came on, we gained areal threat and he won a couple of air balls right away. Ba can be an attacker, but that shouldn't stop him from doing defensive work with fresh legs while also offering a counter attack option. When it comes to Mata, he picked up a knock and was subbed for Benayoun. That alone is a good reason to sub him but also Benayoun is all in all a better defensive player. Having Turnbull in goal and brainfart prone Ivanovic paired with Cahill doesn't make me feel that confident either. Ivan is one of my favourite players, because of his passion and desire to work for the team, but did he fuck up against Swansea, single-handedly lost the cup tie.

Sacking a manager can let you and many others sleep tighter at night but I'm not so sure it will do the club any good. We don't have the squad to have a proper run at 3 fronts - Europa League, EPL and FA Cup. Even then our players are young, this is a transition season. We have been unlucky with injuries to our older players, important squad players going on tournaments, bans etc. We don't have character in the dressing room. Our only true leader figure has been injured for long periods and has only featured for the club a bit over 1000 minutes this season. You can't replace a captain with passing the armband on, you either are a leader or you're not and only natural leader we have has only featured less than 1/3 of the playing-time. It's baffling how winning the Champions League and FA cup last season has covered the cracks we had even BACK then. We might have bought in Azpilicueta, Hazard, Moses, Oscar, Marin but they aren't ready yet to take over the role our old guard had played so far. Keep in mind, they all are still very young and we can't expect them to solve our problems just like that, especially with exploiting certain players week in week out without having much option to rotate it around due to reasons mentioned before.

To round it off, Rafael Benitez has no future in this club. He doesn't have the support of the fans and that's a big factor for being successful. For someone called a good tactician, his so called 'brilliance' hasn't shown through, but it is very daft to say that he is the solo culprit for our troubles. Players should and must also take some stick. Sacking Rafa won't somehow magically make our squad bigger and players more fresh. In no way does having 3 manager being in charge of Chelsea in only one season (with an option of a 4th in the summer) make us magically play better. Would mean that the players would have to re-adapt to a 3rd playing style in one season. It takes time to mold players into your tactics and it can't be done in a few months. Also keeping Rafa can send out a message to potential next managers that even in darker times he will be having a chance to redeem himself. I also think that we are firmly in the place to attain 3rd place and that's a positive sign, because our problems started to show same time last season, funny how recent success managed to cover it up, and we can't expect young players we brought in during summer transfer window to fix this problem in such a short period of time. Hopefully the new manager can address these issues and will be given time by our board and more recently - our fans. This is a more complex situation than we might think.

our players are playing week in and week out. they have dropped 5 trophies this season already. the mood in dressing room seems abysmall. do u think they can self motivate easily. no way. thats a manager's job and one of his cheif ones. and benitez has done a wonderful job of not doing anything regarding this.

i would have agreed with you about it being only the defenders mistake if this was the first time we had it happen to us. but is it? the same exact thing happened against southampton and swansea ( 2 shots and 2 goals). if u cant see a pattern here, then i cant help you. this goes way too deep than just defensive mistakes and poor concentrations. its been happening to arsenal for what 5-6 years now, and the person who is most accountable is the coach for trying to get another goal instead of seeing of the match. and benitez's comments about getting a 3rd totally supports this.

so reagarding the demba ba sub, tell me was the right one? 88 mins 2-1, the only thing in the manager's mind should be to shut off the match and this is no rock-paper-scissors. its basic common sense which FSW seems to be lacking. did reading need an invitation to attack attack attack... they were 2-1 and had just got a goal, what do u think they were supposed to do, be satisfied by getting a consolation and sit back and let the clock run. any team would have been on the attack, and any team leading 2-1 should have been on the defense. and with a sub like JT, i would not have thought about it even once. dont forget that this is the same FSW who in liverpool used to take off a winger or a forward to replace with a defensive player as soon as pool went 2-0 or 3-0 up. remember his defensive strats? he dint play rock-paper-scissors then and neither did he need to play it yesterday, but all he needed to do was use that thing on the top of every human, a brain.

this is a discussion about FSW. i dont know how your argument of having problems BACK then makes sense. for me the problem is simple, we dont have a playing style. under rdm we atleast tried playing one touch passing upfront thru mazacar and it was all thru the center until a sub like moses came in to provide width. but now down the left we play bert and cole who combined might have put a couple of crosses in the whole season. down the right he have oscar who is looking to cut in or just simply be central at every given oppurtunity. thru the center we just hope mata creates magic.

the young players are pretty much ready to take up the responsibility in my opinion, because to be honest they dont have very big shoes to fill. azpi for bosingwa (i think doing a way better job), hazard for kallou (are u kidding me), marin for malouda (what can u say when a manager continues to play a left back on the left wing when we have a winger), oscar and moses have done a pretty decent job compared to any of our forwards last season in pl (DD included). the only shoes to fill are DD's which the ladyboy cant even fathom to do in our wildest dreams so y persist with him when we probably have the best striker or one of the best strikers in PL at this moment.

also no one is saying that FSW is the only reason for our current predicament. a lot of blame goes on the board to sack rdm and make him the manager. players have to take their share of blames of playing the same game over and over again and not learning from their mistakes. the game i am refering to is the one in which we dominate all match long but dont take our chances and then end up dropping points (wba,swansea (carling cup and pl),liverpool,wba,reading,southampton,qpr) all these games have the same exact story. but all this aside FSW has to take the majority of the blame for the mess.

as for "Sacking a manager can let you and many others sleep tighter at night but I'm not so sure it will do the club any good". how will it not do the club any good? by getting a top 4 finish because in my opinion we cant with FSW. our last 6 fixtures are TOT(H),LIV(A),SWAN(H),MANU(A),VILLA(A) and EVERTON(H). 3 of the 6 teams will be fighting for the 3-4th spot, one of them will be fighting for the title and the other 2 are our Bogey teams. i can see us screwing up badly and ending out of top 4. and for me that is way higher on priority list than wondering if the players will be able to cope with a 3rd style of playing or "sending a message to potential next managers that even in darker times he will be having a chance to redeem himself".

(by the way what "style of playing" has FSW been endorsing here?)

[robdog 2,084]

our players are playing week in and week out. they have dropped 5

trophies this season already. the mood in dressing room seems abysmall.

do u think they can self motivate easily. no way. thats a manager's job and one of his chief ones. and benitez has done a wonderful job of not doing anything regarding this.

That is exactly what I am talking about. Motivation is to get people to do what you want them to do. Not seeing it from telly tubby one lil bit

[Spike 12,049]

We assume the russian makes the decisions from what the media says, but there seem to be too many. Some board fuck ups off the top off my head

Board members, their wife’s and tennis partners buying CPO shares to try and force a move from the Bridge

Running a stadium tour with Ginola as guide.

Lineker presenting the Player of the Year awards.

Patronising statements warning fans about their 'behaviour'.

Kenyon leading the team up to collect the medals in Moscow.

...Cant all be Romans genius

Edit; Singha fucking beer !

What in the actual fuck? Ginola? Lineker? What the balls are they doing at this club?

[robdog 2,084]

What in the actual fuck? Ginola? Lineker? What the balls are they doing at this club?

receiving a paycheck

[Fulham Broadway 17,305]

What in the actual fuck? Ginola? Lineker? What the balls are they doing at this club?

Quite a link with Sp*rs going on when you scrape beneath the surface. Not just Lineker and Ginola...

Our head of Communications was a Sp*rs season ticket holder -Simon Greenberg.

It seems they like winding the fans up because they know they can get away with it...until now

[Spike 12,049]

Quite a link with Sp*rs going on when you scrape beneath the surface. Not just Lineker and Ginola...

Our head of Communications was a Sp*rs season ticket holder -Simon Greenberg.

It seems they like winding the fans up because they know they can get away with it...until now

That's sickening. Ugh.

[SinineUltra 1,170]

our players are playing week in and week out. they have dropped 5 trophies this season already. the mood in dressing room seems abysmall. do u think they can self motivate easily. no way. thats a manager's job and one of his cheif ones. and benitez has done a wonderful job of not doing anything regarding this.

i would have agreed with you about it being only the defenders mistake if this was the first time we had it happen to us. but is it? the same exact thing happened against southampton and swansea ( 2 shots and 2 goals). if u cant see a pattern here, then i cant help you. this goes way too deep than just defensive mistakes and poor concentrations. its been happening to arsenal for what 5-6 years now, and the person who is most accountable is the coach for trying to get another goal instead of seeing of the match. and benitez's comments about getting a 3rd totally supports this.

so reagarding the demba ba sub, tell me was the right one? 88 mins 2-1, the only thing in the manager's mind should be to shut off the match and this is no rock-paper-scissors. its basic common sense which FSW seems to be lacking. did reading need an invitation to attack attack attack... they were 2-1 and had just got a goal, what do u think they were supposed to do, be satisfied by getting a consolation and sit back and let the clock run. any team would have been on the attack, and any team leading 2-1 should have been on the defense. and with a sub like JT, i would not have thought about it even once. dont forget that this is the same FSW who in liverpool used to take off a winger or a forward to replace with a defensive player as soon as pool went 2-0 or 3-0 up. remember his defensive strats? he dint play rock-paper-scissors then and neither did he need to play it yesterday, but all he needed to do was use that thing on the top of every human, a brain.

this is a discussion about FSW. i dont know how your argument of having problems BACK then makes sense. for me the problem is simple, we dont have a playing style. under rdm we atleast tried playing one touch passing upfront thru mazacar and it was all thru the center until a sub like moses came in to provide width. but now down the left we play bert and cole who combined might have put a couple of crosses in the whole season. down the right he have oscar who is looking to cut in or just simply be central at every given oppurtunity. thru the center we just hope mata creates magic.

the young players are pretty much ready to take up the responsibility in my opinion, because to be honest they dont have very big shoes to fill. azpi for bosingwa (i think doing a way better job), hazard for kallou (are u kidding me), marin for malouda (what can u say when a manager continues to play a left back on the left wing when we have a winger), oscar and moses have done a pretty decent job compared to any of our forwards last season in pl (DD included). the only shoes to fill are DD's which the ladyboy cant even fathom to do in our wildest dreams so y persist with him when we probably have the best striker or one of the best strikers in PL at this moment.

also no one is saying that FSW is the only reason for our current predicament. a lot of blame goes on the board to sack rdm and make him the manager. players have to take their share of blames of playing the same game over and over again and not learning from their mistakes. the game i am refering to is the one in which we dominate all match long but dont take our chances and then end up dropping points (wba,swansea (carling cup and pl),liverpool,wba,reading,southampton,qpr) all these games have the same exact story. but all this aside FSW has to take the majority of the blame for the mess.

as for "Sacking a manager can let you and many others sleep tighter at night but I'm not so sure it will do the club any good". how will it not do the club any good? by getting a top 4 finish because in my opinion we cant with FSW. our last 6 fixtures are TOT(H),LIV(A),SWAN(H),MANU(A),VILLA(A) and EVERTON(H). 3 of the 6 teams will be fighting for the 3-4th spot, one of them will be fighting for the title and the other 2 are our Bogey teams. i can see us screwing up badly and ending out of top 4. and for me that is way higher on priority list than wondering if the players will be able to cope with a 3rd style of playing or "sending a message to potential next managers that even in darker times he will be having a chance to redeem himself".

(by the way what "style of playing" has FSW been endorsing here?)

You might have forgotten that RDM played us out of 3 competitions so far - CL, Community Shield and Super Cup. Now the loss to Atletico Madrid has been one of the worsts this season, totally played off the park. You might say it's because players played week in week out, but he had noone to rotate the players with. When AFCON ends, players come back from injureis / suspensions I'll be a bit more confident in our abilities. Rafa has had a more rigid time with less players available to him compared to RdM and also less fresh.

We finished 6th last season in the EPL, how's that not a sign of danger? We had enormous luck in the CL, we didn't win it because we played anyone off the park. (exceptions to Napoli and Benfica, whom we played in early knockout stages) We are replacing players that have played for us for years and years with new YOUNG faces. Kalous, Maloudas, Bosingwas, Drogbas had been playing together for a long time, we can't replace that kind of partnership just like that. Also Meireles was a good squad player for us with loads of experience. This year it's possible that Lampard, Ferreira leave the club. End of next season A.Cole and our captain Terry. So do you really believe our problems started solely because Benitez took over?

A club who sacks interim managers is never a good place to come to. Moreover we don't have to chuck out his salary in full amount right away + 'loyalty' bonus. This is a transition period, we can't overlook this fact. Last seasons CL, FA cup have had cosmetic effect and fans believe that after losing so many long time players and getting in children, that we will magically start to play better. I think we share the same view - Benitez HAS to go, but main question is when? I don't think having 3-4 managers in a year will do the club any good, nor the players.

PS. Ironically enough, when he took over our defense looked way more solid. I remain to my word that last game was players fault. They aren't some programmable robots who need to code line every time to do something. They left the players unmarked, it's their fault. How did they manage to keep Reading having any chance at goal for the 87th minute then? Also - if i was a player- it wouldn't really inculcate confidence in me when the club's manager get booed in every step of his way. So in a sense, we fans are also to be blamed. It also adds up why team has been dire playing in Stamford Bridge.

[bushman 2,043]

Rafa´s facts tells me he collected just 22 points from 12 PL games, two fewer than DiM before he was sacked.

Now, I would like post here the following:

If Chelsea do not win the next 3-4 games, he just might be canned & he should be.

There is too much at stake here. The club can not afford to miss CL next year. Any other competition should be secondary as indicated by the board.

Even during the transfer window no player was bought apart from the obvious choice striker BA. It seems to me, Chelsea´s board can not wait for him to hit the road.