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Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)


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Rafa's key skill is making groups of players stronger than the sum of their parts. There's enough quality at Forest for Rafa to work his magic - Lingard, Johnson, Boly, Aurier, Kouyate, Dennis, Lodi, Henderson. He'd keep them up with room to spare 

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I assume Rafa would start with his 5-2-3 style lineup at first with Williams and Lodi as wing backs and make them incredibly hard to beat and score on counters. There seems to be enough pace and athleticism in that team to bust a gut for Rafa 

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Just now, HaydnNUFC said:

Not on here, he isn't. A deek on social media shows the complete opposite amongst a few fanbases.


I wouldn’t take social media as an accurate barometer of anything apart from a measure of the worst of the human race 

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27 minutes ago, LV said:


I wouldn’t take social media as an accurate barometer of anything apart from a measure of the worst of the human race 

 

 

While this is true, I also wouldn't take this forum as an accurate barometer either. 

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44 minutes ago, LV said:


He really isn’t 

 

He is unfortunately. I don't think fans of any PL club would want him (which is mental when you think back to his reputation was like six years ago when we appointed him). 

 

 

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If he went to Forest, I’d give him a reasonable chance of keeping them up. They’ve signed some decent enough players. Would obviously take him a while to get his methods working, and might well be too late by then, but he could definitely make them hard to beat, and they’ve got some reasonable attacking players, so you never know.

 

Having said that, sacking Cooper already would be fairly shite given what he’s done for them, but that’s the way it seems to go now.

 

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I think he could keep Forest up if he took over now.

 

It might take him 6-8 to figure it out but he'll get there.

 

He'll weed out bad apples and have them training with the kids. 

 

I hope he takes it and succeeds. He's done in the PL at this point anyway imo. Too much negativity in the media around him.

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I can see him taking the Forest Job, because it's all he's likely to get offerered.

 

He was a legend here and did a great job, but since he walked away, his performance and reputation has gone off a cliff edge. And clubs know it.

 

Unfortunately, that Forest squad is toxic and thoroughly wank. If Benitez does take the job, it'd be a sad car crash and would likely finish him as a manager.

 

Absolute trap of a job for him IMO.

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