Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)

[Charlies]

 

“Our fans here know what is going on anyway at this club and have done for years.

 

“People outside will have an opinion but we aren’t really worried about that.”

 

 

He's class man.

[TRon]

Burn baby burn...

[Yorkie]

Fucking, fucking hell, Rafa. A God.

[ponsaelius]

slay queen

[Guest]

Oh Rafa, I love you.

[wormy]

Impregnate me now please Rafa.

[UncleBingo]

What a fucking bloke man.

[Robster]

Fucking, fucking hell, Rafa. A God.

I was trying to put into words what I felt about todays comments.

I think what you said sums it up for me

[Guest Howaythetoon]

Can he be more perfect 

[ToonArmy1892]

I love it when Rafa comes out fighting.

[ujpest doza]

Notice he also said 'support the team not the regime' anarl.

 

[UncleBingo]

Would love to see Ashley's face when he reads those comments.

[Tubestationatmidnight]

Notice he also said 'support the team not the regime' anarl.

 

Yeah I don't get all this fawning over him anymore. He has put up with 2 monumental shaftings last 2 summers. If he was that unhappy he would have left. He is just keeping fans content and any real pressure off Ashley in my oppinion

[Elliottman]

Notice he also said 'support the team not the regime' anarl.

 

Yeah I don't get all this fawning over him anymore. He has put up with 2 monumental shaftings last 2 summers. If he was that unhappy he would have left. He is just keeping fans content and any real pressure off Ashley in my oppinion

 

Would you pay your employer to leave your job?

[TRon]

Notice he also said 'support the team not the regime' anarl.

 

Yeah I don't get all this fawning over him anymore. He has put up with 2 monumental shaftings last 2 summers. If he was that unhappy he would have left. He is just keeping fans content and any real pressure off Ashley in my oppinion

 

I'm sure you would be happy if Rafa left, unfortunately I think Ashley would be as well. No doubt he'd give his right arm to have a Pardew or McClaren to lick his ring piece in public rather than have Rafa taking veiled digs.

[Tubestationatmidnight]

Notice he also said 'support the team not the regime' anarl.

 

Yeah I don't get all this fawning over him anymore. He has put up with 2 monumental shaftings last 2 summers. If he was that unhappy he would have left. He is just keeping fans content and any real pressure off Ashley in my oppinion

 

Would you pay your employer to leave your job?

 

Why would he sign a contract like that knowing what Ashley is like? He dosent seem too unhappy with what is going on to me. I used to love him but I just don't know why he has put up with all this and why he isn't coming out and saying more.

 

Like I've said him still been here keeps most our fans placated and stops any pressure on Ashley. He has nothing to achieve here and will know he's off in May, we all agree on here it's a dead season so why not leave now, dish all the dirt on Ashley to wake our zombies up and start war

[Tubestationatmidnight]

Notice he also said 'support the team not the regime' anarl.

 

Yeah I don't get all this fawning over him anymore. He has put up with 2 monumental shaftings last 2 summers. If he was that unhappy he would have left. He is just keeping fans content and any real pressure off Ashley in my oppinion

 

I'm sure you would be happy if Rafa left, unfortunately I think Ashley would be as well. No doubt he'd give his right arm to have a Pardew or McClaren to lick his ring piece in public rather than have Rafa taking veiled digs.

 

Veiled digs are nowt. Either come out and say it how it is and leave or he just puts up with it for some weird reason till may. I so wish it turned out different for him here and this is in no way his fault obviously but he dosent need this at all now and the only person benefitting from him staying is Ashley

[Geordie Ahmed]

Because leaving now means it will cost him and whilst he probably could have a case of constructive dismissal why should be have to go through all of that when he can just walk away next summer.

 

 

[Mattoon]

A) he doesn't want to give Ashley the satisfaction or his money

B) he doesn't want to let the supporters down

C) he's probably holding on in the faint hope that Ashley will sell up before he goes himself

 

I think that pretty much covers it.

[Tubestationatmidnight]

Because leaving now means it will cost him and whilst he probably could have a case of constructive dismissal why should be have to go through all of that when he can just walk away next summer.

 

More fool him signing a contract like that knowing full well what Ashley is like. So it's just a dead season till he slopes off then this all dies down next summer then repeat. I'm sorry I loved Rafa an that but this is about way more than him now. He won't be here much longer anyhow it's Ashley out at all costs for the sake of the club

[Tubestationatmidnight]

Yeah but him staying is giving Ashley a far far easier ride than he would get if Rafa walked. If he is staying till may he needs to come out an say more against Ashley fuck these little veil digs

[Twinport53]

Geet up Rafa son.

[Geordie Ahmed]

He signed this contract in 2016 just after we got relegated, he clearly thought Ashley wouldn't be as destructive as he's been in the past and he wasn't alone in thinking that.

 

Having a go at Rafa is not the right thing to do here, he's very much on our side.

 

 

[Greg]

Rafa Benítez has expressed his “sympathy” for the Newcastle United supporters who are ramping up their protests against Mike Ashley, the club’s contentious owner.

 

Newcastle fans are to demonstrate outside the city’s main Sports Direct outlet before their team’s meeting with Chelsea on Sunday in a bid to draw attention to Ashley’s running of the club and amid fears that Benítez will leave Tyneside when his contract expires next summer.

 

It will be the second successive Newcastle home game that supporters have targeted Ashley’s sportswear shop, with the first protest attracting several hundred attendees and national media coverage.

 

 

Fans have responded to Benítez’s concerns about the manner in which Newcastle do their transfer business. At the end of last season, Ashley said that the Spaniard would be given “every penny,” the club generates, but they made a profit of at least £18 million in the summer window.

 

That and similar previous disappointments has seen Benítez rebuff attempts by Newcastle to extend his present deal in spite of his affection for the club and its supporters and, asked directly about their protests, he spoke of his empathy for their position.

 

 

“I have been talking for two months about what we have to do and why we have to do this and which is the way to do it based on my experience as a manager for years and years,” he said.

 

“I said after we finished the transfer window finished, we have to concentrate on that.

 

“But I have a lot of sympathy for our fans because they are really good. They know the city, they know the club, they know the northeast and how well you can live here, they know all these things.

 

“They would like to see the club do things in one way. What I would say is just be sure that when you go to the stadium, you support the team because it’s the only way for us to be stronger. The other things, I have to respect them and I have to concentrate on my job.”

 

Benítez is not in any rush to resume talks about his contract. “We will talk in the future about that, my contract is not an issue now,” he said. “When we finished the window we said we have to improve, we did business late and we have improve on that and we have to concentrate on that. We have to do our best.”

[Dave]

A) he doesn't want to give Ashley the satisfaction or his money

B) he doesn't want to let the supporters down

C) he's probably holding on in the faint hope that Ashley will sell up before he goes himself

 

I think that pretty much covers it.