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Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)


Would you have Rafa back?   

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  1. 1. Would you have Rafa back?

    • Yes, as manager, immediately
    • Yes, as manager, but at some point in the future (eg if relegated)
    • Yes, in an advisory or DoF role
    • No, not in any meaningful capacity

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@OptaDave -

737 - HTTs previous posts continue his form as poster with most lengthy replies in all threads since 2004-05. Concise.

 

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Seeing those drop after reading Caulkin’s bit was pure Seinfeld gif.

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Any manager would be daft to take the Arsenal job. It would be exactly like the Fergie hangover at Man Utd.

Except Arsenal have been under-performing for years.

And Rafa is good enough and experienced enough to handle it. Man Utd's problem was that Moyes is pretty shit.

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Man U in Fergie's last season looked on course for a record points total or league-winning margin, I can't remember which, but it was all on the back of last-gasp winners by players in decline, Van Persie, Rooney, etc. or randoms like Macheda. They hadn't been controlling games, which is the most sustainable way to get long-term success. I think it was a bit of a poisoned chalice, and not just with Fergie sitting up there in the stand.

 

Arsenal must have low expectations by now and look like a semi-randomly thrown together group of expensive players. You would think a new coach could improve them by better coaching and/or signing players to improve the most glaring weaknesses, which as Vidic said the other day are mostly at the back. They have conceded more goals this season than us.

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If Rafa doesnt get £ to spend in the summer then Arsenal is the perfect destination for him . I will bear him no ill will when he goes

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If Rafa doesnt get £ to spend in the summer then Arsenal is the perfect destination for him . I will bear him no ill will when he goes

 

Yeah, would be an honour to see him in the Arsenal dugout.

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Arsenal isn't the perfect destination for him at all. For one, he'd get no leeway whatsoever with the fans if he were to start badly. Arsenal need a younger man with an extended vision of where he wants to take the club, preferably for them, one who will get the leeway. Vieira , for me, stands out a mile.

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He couldn't have spelled it out more clearly, he wants to stay and continue building the club, but he's a world class manager who needs to know he's managing a club with some ambition - and we aren't talking about a whole load of ambition either, it's not like he expects us to be challenging for CL places.

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Find it very interesting that, that's the official club twitter quoting those soundbites.

 

Exactly what i was thinking as well.

 

If Ashley doesn't back Rafa this summer and Rafa ends up leaving, it'll be the biggest fuck up of them all from him.

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