Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Didn’t look like they played too bad based on MOTD. Loads of errors. 

[The Prophet]

Everton's squad has no depth at all and they've been without Doucoure, Richarlison and DCL for long spells. It doesn't excuse them playing as badly as they are, but it certainly hasn't helped.

[Geogaddi]

5th highest spenders in the league over the last five years Everton apparently, they are absolutely terrible  though and have nothing at all to show for it , shows how easy it is to go wrong even if you spend a load of money .

[Heron]

16 minutes ago, Decky said:

Came to post this. I’d take it but would Howe be happy with that? It’s his call, Rafa has missed the boat with us now. 

Not sure. I'd quite like to see it. If Benitez was mapping out the project in terms of getting the facilities upto scratch, Scouting in place, academy feeding players through, etc. Getting players to buy into Newcastle, I think he'd be well poised for it.

[Kid Icarus]

17 minutes ago, Beth said:

Can I have a few pints of what you've been drinking please.

Calpol's canny dangerous once you're getting into the pints tbh

[The Prophet]

Rafa is on a hiding to nothing at Everton. I'm unsure why he took the gig.

 

Everton are in the shit. They've exceeded their FFP limit and have very little to show for it, bar perhaps 4-5 players. He took the gig not only knowing this but knowing the fans would be on him from the off.

 

They got off to a good start, but then suffered a couple of key injuries. Once their form went, the support went and the momentum has totally reversed. The wheels have come off and he doesn't look like he has an answer. Its only going to end one way and it was always a matter of when not if.

[nufcjb]

47 minutes ago, Paully said:

It was never going to work there - look at their fans’ banners when it was speculated.

 

if only he had of waited a few months…….he must be gutted about that 

 

We did want him after sacking off Bruce didn't we but he stayed loyal to them?

[LV]

36 minutes ago, nufcjb said:

We did want him after sacking off Bruce didn't we but he stayed loyal to them?

Yeah apparently we asked the question but he didn’t want to leave. 

[Thiago]

That squad is a total monstrosity mind.

[Jaqen]

Thought they were quite lucky at points in their early good spell to be honest. A lot of the time in large portions of those games they were fairly terrible and it seemed obvious they'd not be able to sustain those kind of results playing like that. 

 

Everton have much bigger problems than just Rafa but there's no doubt he's doing a poor job there too. 

 

 

[Danh1]

Proper toxic atmosphere at Everton like. I hope Rafa is still there and that they’re still struggling by the time we go there just after Christmas. Early goal, away end singing about Benitez would just about do it for us. 

[James]

A fan went up to their DOF and told him the players you signed aren’t good enough.

 

Brands replied: “is it just the players?”

 

he’s gone

[Guest neesy111]

Well he's apparently getting sacked as well according to reports.

[McCormick]

Ouch.

[Dandy Don]

Hasn't had any luck with injuries, players out including the man who gets their goals.

[Thiago]

They can sack everyone below the owner, but he's the problem.

[Danh1]

29 minutes ago, Dandy Don said:

Hasn't had any luck with injuries, players out including the man who gets their goals.

1.7 million transfer budget 

[Froggy]

Another man out of time. 

[samptime29]

Would be aroused if we can somehow stay up and Everton got relegated. Feel sorry for Rafa but their squad is poor and it wasn't the best decision to take the job on tbh. 

[jack j]

10 hours ago, kisearch said:

They're 6 points off 6th. It's absolutely possible. Not sure about the dressing room but hard to argue with him having lost (if he ever had) the fans. Stand by what I say if he gets the time and gets his players back, but that's a massive if.

We are 6 points from safety. Both an absolute million miles away for both clubs at the minute

[wormy]

So conflicted. Part of me still wants Rafa to survive and push on as the season goes on. But I've not watched a single match of theirs to know if he's lost the players or not; at least during our awful runs you could see the players hadn't downed tools.

 

So I'll take the club overall crashing and burning instead.

[jack j]

4 minutes ago, wormy said:

So conflicted. Part of me still wants Rafa to survive and push on as the season goes on. But I've not watched a single match of theirs to know if he's lost the players or not; at least during our awful runs you could see the players hadn't downed tools.

 

So I'll take the club overall crashing and burning instead.

Cant stand them me so they can get fucked

And as for his decision going to China and then there. Lost a canny bit respect from me so meh

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Didn’t look like they had downed tools last night. Just outplayed by a better team. 

[GWN]

3 minutes ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said:

Didn’t look like they had downed tools last night. Just outplayed by a better team. 

 

A much better team , Everton looked shite tbh, they were run ragged in the the first half . They reminded me of us .

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Everton’s recruitment reminds me of us under Shepherd.