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TRon

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Pool fan here. I come in peace. I am a bit of a Rafa fan and thought would share my views on positives and negatives of Rafa.

 

Style of Play: Functional. Hates loosing more than loves winning. Players will be drilled, day in day out. You will have the best defense seen at the club for ages. It can grate fans who like the attacking style of football but I can guarantee one thing - Newcastle United will never let the fans down in terms of effort. He will demand every player to cover every blade of grass 10 times over in each game. Once his tactics take shape, expect Newcastle to suffocate the opposition.

 

One of the reasons he is unpopular in the media is that he never bows down to others. His attitude towards Mourinho "F*** you", towards Ferguson  " F*** you", towards Allardyc " F*** F***  F*** you". You will go to Nou Camp, Madrid, San Siro and play with the "F** you we are Geordies, this is how we play attitude". His Valencia and Liverpool teams never bowed to anyone. Ayala used to say about how Rafa wanted him to kick players in the shower and create fights in the dressing room when someone was giving less than 100%. Expect the same at Newcastle.

 

Player management: He is not the best at managing egos. He views each player as a chess piece. If he believes the team performance improves after drinking tea which Alan Shearer makes, he will ask Alan Shearer to make tea. He is all about drills. Players come in repeat the drills over and over again till it becomes second nature. He is from the Sacchi school than Cryuff.

 

Attention to details: Obsessive. He will spend hours analyzing every bit of detail about the opposition. Stop him on the street and ask about next weeks game, he will be able to recite the height and weight of all opposition players from memory. He will give you 400%. When he got fired from Inter he started coaching the U 10 or U 8 football team his daughters played for, and apparently parents got bewildered when he stood at the sidelines and started shouting at 8 year old girls for not following his instruction.

 

Relationship with owners: Not the best at maintaining relationship with owners. Frequently gets into fights.

 

Relationship with fans: Dont listen to the media who portray him as a cold person. You will love him. He embraces the city, the culture and when you loose you can see the hurt in his eyes. He will give you his everything. Him and his wife Montse Benitez are wonderful human beings who will do a lot for charity. When he left he gave the HJC a check for $96000. I know he makes millions but having the presence of mind to pick that number shows everything about him. Other incidents:

Google for Montse Benitez charities. She and Rafa have done a lot.

 

Tranfers: A bit of a mixed bag. His transfers initially were brilliant. He loves choir boys than mavericks. But when he gets it right, he really gets it right - Alonso, Torres, Mascherano, Reina. The right type of players love him. "Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano has expressed his gratitude to Rafa Benitez and feels the Real Madrid coach saved his career. Mascherano has not forgotten about his former mentor and has stressed he will always be grateful to Benitez. He's a great man, and a diligent and excellent coach," Mascherano told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "Former Liverpool striker Fernando Torres has thanked Rafa Benitez for helping him to a reach a level he never expected to hit." Bellamy: "I have gone on record recently and I will say it again now that I have learnt more from Rafael Benitez than any other coach I have worked with. I am a much better player for the time I've spent working with him and if I do go on to manage at some point in the future he's the model I'll use in my career. I can't make my respect for him any clearer than that."

 

Football infrastructure: He builds the long term football infrastructure along with the first team. His coaching staff are serious technical people - not people who get jobs because of their playing career. He revamped the youth setup at LFC and Sterling, Ibe, Flanagan - not exactly class of 92 but still the best youth setup LFC had in ages. Expect some personnel from Sevilla, Barcelona, Madrid youth setup to join yu guys in the future.

 

Will Newcastle win the Premier League if Rafa is the boss for the next 10 years? Not sure. But you will definitely win cups and most likely nice shiny European ones. If my life depended on the outcome of a two legged European tie, there is no one on the planet I would pick to manage my club other than Rafa Benitez. Loose to Reading on Saturday and then go to Nou Camp and defeat reining European champion Barcelona on their home turf. Expect a lot of weeks like that.

 

Good luck. Wonderful manager, great person. You will love him

 

:lol:

 

 

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Spent the whole interview thinking 'This guy is our manager!!'. Unreal.

 

I know he's focussed on saving us but he didn't mention trophies :(

 

Doesn't bother me. It's such a massive cliché when it comes us, pointless even mentioning it.

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Spent the whole interview thinking 'This guy is our manager!!'. Unreal.

 

I know he's focussed on saving us but he didn't mention trophies :(

 

Doesn't bother me. It's such a massive cliché when it comes us, pointless even mentioning it.

 

But he's probably the first one since SBR who is capable of doing it!

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Spent the whole interview thinking 'This guy is our manager!!'. Unreal.

 

I know he's focussed on saving us but he didn't mention trophies :(

 

Doesn't bother me. It's such a massive cliché when it comes us, pointless even mentioning it.

 

But he's probably the first one since SBR who is capable of doing it!

 

#wait

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How much more inspiring is he than McClaren ffs? :lol:

 

Just because you know his calibre. As simple as that.

Totally.....still cannot believe he's our manager.  God bless this new TV deal or it never would have happened.

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For what it's worth, I can't see him legging it if we go down, I think that's just a safety net in case things were so bad that his position became untenable and I think it's a safety net which suits both him and the club.

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I've been smiling all day, telling people who haven't a clue what I'm talking about in my office about this. Texted my wife, my friends...I've posted on every fucking social media I have about this.  This has to go down as one of the best days supporting Newcastle United I've had in nearly 10 years. Insane. This club has put us through so fucking much, and yet, today, on the 11th of March - we fucking hired Rafa Benitez on a 3yr deal and he's on video talking about the project, us, the stature of this club...wow.

 

:indi: HTL, fucking hell bring it all on.

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How much more inspiring is he than McClaren ffs? :lol:

 

Just because you know his calibre. As simple as that.

Totally.....still cannot believe he's our manager.  God bless this new TV deal or it never would have happened.

 

Hah likely very true. Desperate times call for the actually best possible measures available I suppose.

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Spent the whole interview thinking 'This guy is our manager!!'. Unreal.

 

I know he's focussed on saving us but he didn't mention trophies :(

 

I'm pretty sure that if he manages to succeed at avoiding relegation, one of his main objectives next season will be winning either the league cup or the fa cup. He's solely focussing on the next 10 games, in fact only on the match at Leicester, as he should.

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From Rawk:

 

Rafa vs Fat Sam in a Tyne Wear derby. That'll be good. Plus a return to Anfield. Rafa Benitez vs Jurgen Klopp.

 

Newcastle are in a terrible place. Its a league of 3 where the winner stays up and the rest get relegated. I wouldn't call it 3 nil down at half time to AC milan but its up there :p

 

What they need right now is a footballing manager. This isn't a time for arm round the shoulder. This is a time for listening to the managers plan and executing it to the exact standards. There's no better at doing that than Rafa.

 

What their fans need to do now is get behind him and show him the respect he deserves and he'll keep them up

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My friends, family and colleagues have seemed genuinely surprised by how giddy I've been about all this news today. They're seemingly so used to how downbeat and negative I am about the club that they've been taken aback by my optimism and excitement. I'm sure the wife thinks I'm putting it on.

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The biggest endorsement of Rafa is that to this day Liverpool fans still love him even though he didn't win the title. Winning the CL probably helped, but more than that, they became a feared team again under his watch.

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My friends, family and colleagues have seemed genuinely surprised by how giddy I've been about all this news today. They're seemingly so used to how downbeat and negative I am about the club that they've been taken aback by my optimism and excitement. I'm sure the wife thinks I'm putting it on.

 

A few people at work noticed how happy I was talking about football today. :lol:

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Let's face it, even two days ago we all thought this was impossible. He didn't say, "Let's do our best or see what happens"...He said, "Let's win that game"...Referring to Leicester. If anyone can pull this off it is Rafa. The 3/4 quality players we have will respond immediately because he knows how to make small adjustments to get the extra 10% and with the others the drills will help them over time become more solid.

 

Rafa Benitez. Wow!

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