The Benitez Thread

[The only place to be 11,313]

No chance. The manager, especially in England, represents more than just a coach. Watching the City game yesterday Martin Tyler said "Rafa Benitez's Chelsea" and it made my skin crawl.

I will not support him and hope he is sacked before the summer.

You want me to support the wanker who said that? You are having a laugh.

Fuck off Benitez.

If he's sacked before Summer, that means something drastically wrong has happened. I don't want that to happen to Chelsea because I quite like the club.

Right now, he is Chelsea manager and I want the Chelsea manager to do a good job. I'm not going to sing his name and I've got a bottle of bubbly on ice for the moment his contract expires. Then I will thank him for the job he has done and bid him farewell.

But what I don't want is the next decade of Chelsea's existence to be ****** up (don't know if I can swear on here or not) because that is what will happen if we fail to qualify for next year's Champions League.

I want Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Josh, De Bruyne and Chalobah to come back after summer, one year older to work under a new manager who can take this club to the next stage. If I have to put up with Martin Tyler calling us 'Rafa Benitez's Chelsea' then I will do.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Disappointed to say the least.

[Styles 9,790]

If he's sacked before Summer, that means something drastically wrong has happened. I don't want that to happen to Chelsea because I quite like the club.

Right now, he is Chelsea manager and I want the Chelsea manager to do a good job. I'm not going to sing his name and I've got a bottle of bubbly on ice for the moment his contract expires. Then I will thank him for the job he has done and bid him farewell.

But what I don't want is the next decade of Chelsea's existence to be ****** up (don't know if I can swear on here or not) because that is what will happen if we fail to qualify for next year's Champions League.

I want Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Josh, De Bruyne and Chalobah to come back after summer, one year older to work under a new manager who can take this club to the next stage. If I have to put up with Martin Tyler calling us 'Rafa Benitez's Chelsea' then I will do.

I wish I could be as diplomatic as you but I can't. Usually I try to make sense of everything but this has just pissed me off too much. I don't want this man as our manager. The sooner he is out the better. If we have to take a hit for Roman to see some sense I am all for it. You don't treat a legend like Di Matteo like this and expect the fans to be happy. And then to rub salt into an open wound by appointing this prick just smacks of Roman and the board not giving a shit about what the fans think.

I dislike this man and want him to fail badly.

[The only place to be 11,313]

I wish I could be as diplomatic as you but I can't. Usually I try to make sense of everything but this has just pissed me off too much. I don't want this man as our manager. The sooner he is out the better. If we have to take a hit for Roman to see some sense I am all for it. You don't treat a legend like Di Matteo like this and expect the fans to be happy. And then to rub salt into an open wound by appointing this prick just smacks of Roman and the board not giving a shit about what the fans think.

I dislike this man and want him to fail badly.

Trust me, I know exactly where you're coming from. I would've taken Steve Kean over the fat waiter but I can't be bothered to spend the next 7 months hating the guy who will run the team.

I basically want this season over. I don't particularly want to win any trophies or pull up any trees. If we could not win another game all season and finish third, I'd take it. I don't want Rafa Benitez's name in Chelsea's history books anymore than it has to be.

But I do want us to look pretty for the next guy. I do want Hazard, Mata and Oscar to be around. I do want Josh, De bruyne and Chalobah to come back and learn from a great manager. I do want Islam Feruz and Nathan Ake to make their debuts against some shithouse European team in the group stages of the Champions League.

And if that means I've got to hope that a guy I despised 24 hours ago succeeds in his job, then I'm going to do that.

[gr123 167]

The guy said that we - fans of Chelsea Football Club - can't support the club properly when he was in charge of Liverpool and this is the first thing he does as a Chelsea manager?

I am quite sure that this is behavior of proper cunt.

Actually, the guy had a point. Stamford Bridge is fucking dead at times, only time you'll ever get a bit of noise is if we're winning.

Anyway, if your going to hold onto a 5 year old comment as a reason to boo him then it just shows how pathetic you are really. He's not anyones first choice of manager but the team needs us to get behind them no matter what.

[diskoviolente 425]

I wish I could be as diplomatic as you but I can't. Usually I try to make sense of everything but this has just pissed me off too much. I don't want this man as our manager. The sooner he is out the better. If we have to take a hit for Roman to see some sense I am all for it. You don't treat a legend like Di Matteo like this and expect the fans to be happy. And then to rub salt into an open wound by appointing this prick just smacks of Roman and the board not giving a shit about what the fans think.

I dislike this man and want him to fail badly.

i share your feelings, but we simply can´t afford that. we have to do well because otherwise this well be the situation we will look back to like Leeds fans do today.

for me personally it will be hard to get worked up about anything concerning him. he better stay out of the media, keeps his head down and let oscar do the magic. this season will all be about the team and not so much about the club for me.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Mata backing Rafa

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2236777/Chelsea-manager-Rafa-Benitez-handed-Juan-Mata-backing--EXCLUSIVE.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[The only place to be 11,313]

Mata backing Rafa

http://www.dailymail..._medium=twitter

Talking about 'faces of Chelsea', I don't think there are many better than Mata at the moment. The man is class personified.

He was the first to speak out after Di Matteo left and he's doing the same here. The fact that he's articulate is simply a bonus.

THIS is the person I'll be supporting on Sunday, not some temporary manager. I know when I think about Chelsea, he's who I think about and no tosser in the editing department at Sky is going to change that.

[diskoviolente 425]

I am reading Zendens name here somewhere.

Is he gonna be Rafas Nr. 2 ?

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

The way I see it, wanting Benitez to fail is wanting the team to fail. He's the manager until at least the summer, we as fans have to (reluctantly) accept it. He was hardly anyone's first choice of manager (and that's putting it lightly), but it's the way it is. Complaining and booing him won't get the team winning games.

[Superblue 6,372]

Mata backing Rafa

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2236777/Chelsea-manager-Rafa-Benitez-handed-Juan-Mata-backing--EXCLUSIVE.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Mata is such a class act. He regularly talks in the media and uses social media and its always incredibly intelligent and positive responses.

IMO he is definately future captain material and I'd like to hope he stays here throughout his career.

[Milan 17,955]

Mata backing Rafa

http://www.dailymail..._medium=twitter

I hope Juve and Shakhtar don't arrange to draw their game so we are knocked out. It wouldn't be professional.

Well, given the Shakhtar's goal in Danemark and Juve history...

Anyway, I still believe Juve will lose it.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

I read Zendens name as Zidane and got really excited.....then I realised

[cousin benson 76]

Mata is such a class act. He regularly talks in the media and uses social media and its always incredibly intelligent and positive responses.

IMO he is definately future captain material and I'd like to hope he stays here throughout his career.

I too think he's captain material.....i said it before, i don't think a goalkeeper can be captain [in JT and Lamps' absence].....someone Branna, Mikel [thinking of long term members] but Mata is someone to consider in the future

[meetdoscar 335]

I wish I could be as diplomatic as you but I can't. Usually I try to make sense of everything but this has just pissed me off too much. I don't want this man as our manager. The sooner he is out the better. If we have to take a hit for Roman to see some sense I am all for it. You don't treat a legend like Di Matteo like this and expect the fans to be happy. And then to rub salt into an open wound by appointing this prick just smacks of Roman and the board not giving a shit about what the fans think.

I dislike this man and want him to fail badly.

I pray you stop being a chelsea fan from now onwards because failure for benitez means failure for our club.