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You never know Lee Ryder might read the forum

He did not my fault Rafa is attacking when backed Biggest goalscoring Real Madrid win in 60 years by negative Rafa fancy that.

Reminds me of when Rafa Benitez won 10 v 2 with Real Madrid against Rayo Vallecano. Imagine what we’d have seen if Mike Ashley backed him...

George Caulkin. “In May, they finished 13th. Twelve months earlier, it was 10th. If that implies consistently, safety, the stodge of mid-table, it is an inaccurate impression.” The type of thing I’d expect Luke Edwards to write. What is it with all our local journalists disrespecting the job Rafa Benitez did? Edwards, Douglas, Waugh, Ryder and now Caulkin. Disappointing.

VAR Dive.

It was exactly what he was trying to do. He always tries to have dig at Rafa whenever it’s Newcastle related I mean surely he realises how much Rafa Benitez improved Perez had him firing which got him a big move last summer. Funny how Gary didn’t list the managers with the biggest Premier League wins in history. Or name the only manager to have as many as 7 different goal scorers in a match.

Yep! Hopefully, he’s sounding out some mega-rich chap in China about our potential! Every night

Reminds me of when Ronaldo scored 4 goals in just 19 minutes in a 8 v 0 win under negative Rafa Benitez in the Champions League.

This approach from Atalanta Very naive.

West Ham are far too open. Typical Pellegrini.

This real?

It would be funny if at the first opportunity to give Almiron, Saint-Maximin, Joelinton a run together Bruce drops Almiron That front 3 need a run together. He should be working on the training pitch to get those 3 working together like Rafa did with Almiron, Perez, Rondon. It’s called coaching Steve.

People on facebook/twitter responding to these quotes saying "mind your own business" and "wish he'd fuck off keep talking about us". These are the sort of people we're dealing with at our club ffs. Siding with Ashley man. How do you even reason with these idiots? It’s just a coping mechanism. How some people try to deal with losing a world class manager for a rubbish one.

Rafa Benitez has commented on Matty Longstaff’s debut in his latest blog. http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/in/blog/great-epl-day-and-work-progress/133/ ”I was really pleased to see him scoring the winning goal for Newcastle; he was great when he was training with us” "Surely it shouldn’t be difficult to see the benefits of investing in the Academy?” That’s my Rafa

José Mourinho turned down the chance to become Lyon's new manager yesterday; explained to President Aulas that he wants to ideally take up a job in England (RMC) Spurs?

The lack of coaching/instructions isn’t helping all we’re doing is living off the structure of last seasons formation shape. Steve Bruce hasn’t brought anything coaching wise to the table.

While that was another disgrace of a performance yesterday, we are missing Martial, Pogba, Lingard, Shaw, Lindelof, Bailly, Jones and Wan Bissaka. That's basically half the first team squad and two more players who would have played yesterday instead of Rojo or Tuanzebe given the injuries. Rashford is also carrying an injury and having to play due to how short we are. He's lost a lot of pace in recent weeks. The squad is in awful shape at the moment. There aren't many managers who could do better. The only thing grating me now is Ole's interviews. He'll flat out refuse to criticise the team. Everything is "we were unlucky" or "that was a good performance." It's a stark contrast to his press work when he was caretaker manager. I kinda struggle to see any manager in the PL who would do substantially worse than Solskjær at this point. Your squad isn't particularly good, but it isn't horrible either. It's becoming more and more obvious that he is out of his depth in the Premier League. I believe with all the current injuries, the squad is terrible. The likes of West Ham, Everton etc. can currently put together better 11's than we can. Eventually players are going to come back and everyone will be fit and healthy. If the performances remain like this then Solskjaer will have to go. As of now I'm behind him. Gary is that you

AC Milan have sacked Marco Giampaolo and are expected to replace him with former Fiorentina boss Stefano Pioli. Very underwhelming appointment. #PioliOut is the top trend in Italy