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Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)


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Fuck off to all those cuntish Everton fans for all the shite they talk on Rafa. That was fucking classic. Gray smacks the winner in and during the madness he’s telling his guys instructions to finish the job. 

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He's a good manager obviously but management across the board has probably gotten a lot better since his Liverpool and even Napoli days. Managers are getting younger and more tech savvy and there's more going on behind the scenes with regards to fitness and coaching that narrows the gap even more.

 

Pretty much every club in the league now has a billionaire involved too.

 

You're just never going to get to the standard of football Liverpool are playing with Rafa.

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Once you lose the away fans the writing is usually on the wall for any manager. Don't think he's had a fair crack of the whip with a sizeable portion of Everton fans, they were never going to give him a chance. He's come in and had barely a penny to spend and inherited a very mixed bag of a squad, one that he's had no say in, he's dealing with the previous manager's offcasts and mistakes. 

 

It was never going to work out. 

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Yep.  Seriously though, what did he expect?

 

He knows Evetonians hate him.  He knows he has no money to spend (tbf, never one of Rafa’s strong points). He know he is inheriting an Everton which wasted its sugar daddy money on drek, and is now snookered financially.  Yet still he signs.  I’ve little sympathy.  

 

I know how many view him around these parts, and he’ll always have some affection from me for staying when we went down, but the truth was that he was only a remarkable appointment for us because of Ashley’s ownership.  A decade or so earlier and a similar appointment would’ve been par for the course.  He was in talks with West Ham a few months before us. 

 

It’s been a long, long time since he genuinely was a first-rank manager.   Taking the Everton job was a puzzle from a football point of view - made sense financially and in terms of location.  But then he went to China for the money - so not that much of a shock.

 

Move on, I reckon. 

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