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nufcjb

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How many of our players are off for international duty? Glad that he has most of the squad with him for 2 weeks.

 

Just three isn't it?

Excluding Janmaat now so Gini, Sissoko and Mitro? Am I right? Hope he and the players can really prepare for the final run in now.

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Supposedly he did the same thing when Liverpool manager, not sure the reasoning behind it.

 

I think it's cos he does a lot of game-specific preparation (certainly he does for important games). Not a whole lot of benefit for the kids in preparing for games they ain't going to be playing in.

 

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How many of our players are off for international duty? Glad that he has most of the squad with him for 2 weeks.

 

Just three isn't it?

Excluding Janmaat now so Gini, Sissoko and Mitro? Am I right? Hope he and the players can really prepare for the final run in now.

Think Rob Elliott is in our squad too, not 100% on that though

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How many of our players are off for international duty? Glad that he has most of the squad with him for 2 weeks.

 

Just three isn't it?

Excluding Janmaat now so Gini, Sissoko and Mitro? Am I right? Hope he and the players can really prepare for the final run in now.

Think Rob Elliott is in our squad too, not 100% on that though

 

You're right.  Elliot is away with Ireland and Aarons is with England U21's.

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How many of our players are off for international duty? Glad that he has most of the squad with him for 2 weeks.

 

Just three isn't it?

Excluding Janmaat now so Gini, Sissoko and Mitro? Am I right? Hope he and the players can really prepare for the final run in now.

 

I doubt Mitrovic will be going away if he has to get his head checked this week?

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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

 

Just seen this after reading the Ace Posts thread. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

 

I don't think I've wanted anything more in my time supporting this club than for us to survive relegation this season. We're literally fighting for the future of the club. Years of Rafa Benitez and a serious shot at success, or relegation to the Championship and the cycle of employing yesteryear's dross as manager starts again, more years of pain and no hope. I hope this fight is drilled into the players before Norwich because we need it bad.

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Yeah, precisely how I feel. Three weeks ago I was moderately apathetic at the prospect of relegation, as I was last season. Now, having had such hope reignited, it would be the cruellest suckerpunch of all to get relegated now. It would feel like oblivion - knowing that we really did have a tangible chance of achieving something again. Hell, just feeling like I'm part of the club again has been fantastic. Being reminded that my grip on true supporterdom isn't quite as threadbare as I thought, after all the defeatism and apathy of the past two or three years, has been a huge relief to me.

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Man I love Benitez so much, the guy oozes class! So sad that it looks like he'll only be here until the end of the season.

 

It's like when you get a temp at work and she's perfect, I mean really nice looking and funny.. but you know she'll be gone soon and that fat tramp will be back from maternity leave. You try not to get too close but when she's there you have fun, you start to like work again!! Then before you know it she's gone, you keep thinking about her but you are left with the nasty little tramp with the annoying cough who you hate so fucking much!!  :embarrassed:

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http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/in/news/rafa-benitez-visiting-the-academy/3535

http://i.imgur.com/dsDmh9C.jpg

 

Rafa Benitez visited the Newcastle United Academy this afternoon to see at first hand the training facilities, meet the staff, including Academy Manager. Joe Joyce, and to see the scholars working out on a typical afternoon at Little Benton.

 

Rafa and his back room team had a full tour of the Academy, viewing all the internal areas including the class rooms, where the all important education takes place, the fitness and treatment rooms and then the analysis and sports science department where player performance is closely monitored.

 

It was then outside to the pitches where Academy Coaches Neil Winskill and Liam Bramley were taking a training session with the Under 15s who were on day release programme from school.

 

Rafa met all the admin staff and also other coaching staff plus the recruitment and education/welfare officers who play such a key role behind the scenes at the Academy.

 

Joe Joyce commented that all his staff were delighted to meet Rafa and how appreciative they all were that he and his staff had taken the time to come and visit them.

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