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We could be next season's Leicester.

This is amazing. How is this man our manager?

It's all nonsense anyway, you only have relegation experience if you are s**** to begin with. There is no reason at all why a top class manager who has won things at the very top and dealt with the pressure of winning every week would have any issue with dealing with the pressures at the bottom. It's one of the dumbest narratives I've ever seen get peddled this much. Completely asinine.

According to that interview with Balague, we've contacted him before including prior to him being appointed at Real Madrid.

As if I wasn't excited enough.

It's so tempting. The atmosphere is going to be incredible. It's my wife's birthday next weekend. Probably a terrible idea.

I'm trying to rationalise my sudden love for NUFC again with the other half that's basically never seen it. She won't let me tell her Rafa is. Just send her sly texts from across the room with "Random Rafa Rabble"... Useful stats on Rafa Benitez. It's what I've been doing with mine since Monday. Not a bad idea. I explained this to my wife the other day. Her response: "why do you do this? don't get your hopes up, it won't end well."

Only Mourinho, Ferguson, Ancelotti, Pellegrini, Mancini & Wenger with better win percentages in premier league history. For managers with at least 20 games, Carver had our worst winning percentage ever. McClaren third worst. And now we have the above.

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Part of me hopes we both go on runs and relegate Pardew.

Cathro must be over the moon.

From AS when they were hired at Real Madrid: Fabio Pecchia (1973) Ex-Juventus and Napoli player. He was Benítez’s second in command at Napoli. Antonio Gómez (1973) He was the training ground assistant and and analist under Benítez at Napoli. Paco de Miguel. Fitness trainer who worked with Quique Flores and Valencia and Getafe before joining the coaching staff under Benítez at Liverpool. They two also worked together at Napoli.

There was a separate release for McClaren.

Most important press release we've written in years and there's a typo in the first sentence. Typical. Maybe they are excited too.

Cathro and Smith staying. The rest are out.

Antonio Gomez,Paco De Miguel,Xavi Valero,Fabio Pecchia according to spanish paper Marca. So we're getting all of Real Madrid's coaching staff from the start of this season? What the f***.

Keep it easy, if we get relegated he's out. Let's hope he can keep us up. I just booked my hotel in Kiev for May 2018.

They should just start building a statue of him now. Right where he stepped out of the van.

This is all too unbelievable. From Pardew to Carver to McClaren to Rafa Benitez.

I wish we could hear Benitez's talk to the team. I'm imagining Pacino with an accent.

4 wins, a draw and a loss against Pardew.

yeah, no way I believe that. It's true. Although I'd say this is the worst sport to support a poorly run club. The others come with benefits for sucking.

In the PL era, eight teams have changed their manager in March or later. All eight have been relegated. None of them hired Rafa fucking Benitez.

Imagine if Ashley came in and said, "nah, we'll stick with McClaren."

This is torture.