Jonas Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Bonded even more with the bloke over being the victim in a tight title race of dodgy refereeing decisions towards Manchester United (also against Spurs), Ferguson being a c*nt and unfavourable fixture arrangements. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 17 minutes ago, duo said: Does he talk about Newcastle at all? Not even eluded to, it's a bit strange. Carra seems to use it all as a bit of a therapy session tbh. Not sure he got anything out of it either, Rafa tends to not stick to one subject and doesn't answer much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuy_O Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 (edited) There wasn’t a chance he’d have been allowed to talk about us on the overlap. The whole thing is sky 6 propaganda. If Rafa mentions Newcastle he invariably waxes lyrical about the fans and the potential of the club - imagine Keane during such converse, or any of the others for that matter. Carragher says he likes us but he’s desperate for our revival to come to a halt. See his ludicrous comments regarding a ban on us signing a Tonali replacement. Edited August 21 by Stuy_O Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 1 hour ago, Rafalove said: Not a bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 1 hour ago, Kid Icarus said: Not even eluded to, it's a bit strange. Carra seems to use it all as a bit of a therapy session tbh. Not sure he got anything out of it either, Rafa tends to not stick to one subject and doesn't answer much. I was surprised with how all over the place his conversations went I just assumed he would be very methodical and structured in his answers but he's all over the shop Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 3 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said: I was surprised with how all over the place his conversations went I just assumed he would be very methodical and structured in his answers but he's all over the shop I thought the whole thing was all over the shop. People talking over each other, pouring cups of tea ffs. Woke bullsht. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 49 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said: I was surprised with how all over the place his conversations went I just assumed he would be very methodical and structured in his answers but he's all over the shop I think Rafa takes the long road round to answers, but because Neville and Carragher were so invested they kept taking him up on parts of the story that moved it further from the answer. Rafa with a more patient audience gets more of an answer because Rafa can get there in the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 9 hours ago, Kid Icarus said: I think Rafa takes the long road round to answers, but because Neville and Carragher were so invested they kept taking him up on parts of the story that moved it further from the answer. Rafa with a more patient audience gets more of an answer because Rafa can get there in the end. Just started watching it; infuriating how Carragher is interrupting him from the off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 (edited) Guy was in Norway last week, told the press that if he's still available when Solbakken leaves the manager hot seat after the WC 2026 qualifiers, he wants the job. If it became available before that, he wants the job. Said that the current crop of players in the Norwegian first team picture was a smorgasbord of talent that he'd love to work with. Of course the guy's not going to tell the press "fuck no I wouldn't touch the Norway job with a five foot pole" when pushed on the subject, but the straight up "yes, I want that job" answer instead of the usual "maybe, who knows? football is a funny old game!" politician answer to wave away those type of questions felt like him actually meaning it when he said it Especially as he followed it up immediately by listing a shitload of Norwegian players, some not even established first team members of the national team, U21-players, describing how he'd utilize them with Ødegaard and Haaland tl;dr - I think Rafa miss managing a team Edited December 13 by Kaizero Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GideonShandy Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Still love and respect Rafa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collage Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 7 hours ago, Kaizero said: Guy was in Norway last week, told the press that if he's still available when Solbakken leaves the manager hot seat after the WC 2026 qualifiers, he wants the job. If it became available before that, he wants the job. Said that the current crop of players in the Norwegian first team picture was a smorgasbord of talent that he'd love to work with. Of course the guy's not going to tell the press "fuck no I wouldn't touch the Norway job with a five foot pole" when pushed on the subject, but the straight up "yes, I want that job" answer instead of the usual "maybe, who knows? football is a funny old game!" politician answer to wave away those type of questions felt like him actually meaning it when he said it Especially as he followed it up immediately by listing a shitload of Norwegian players, some not even established first team members of the national team, U21-players, describing how he'd utilize them with Ødegaard and Haaland tl;dr - I think Rafa miss managing a team No chance mate, look at the man, he's freezing his balls off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Jinx Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Bring him home Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 He must be totally gutted about taking the Everton job on mind just before our takeover! Well, he must be totally gutted about taking the Everton job on full stop. Lunacy to do so after thew protests by them before the deal was sealed – it was never ever going to work! Love him and always will – no Rafa, no takeover! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 4 hours ago, Collage said: No chance mate, look at the man, he's freezing his balls off. I dunno, given Norway's current crop of players and our apparent vaccination against qualifying for major tournaments since EC Spain in the year 2000, 12 EC/WC's ago - making Norway, at the very least, live up to already low expectations - has to be one of the most intriguing challenges when it comes to International management. The fact Nagelsmann made a fucking point out of having to beat Italy in the Nations League QF's to avoid having Norway in their WC qualification group makes no sense to me, but I know that's just because I'm Norwegian and therefore familiar with the fact we're so opposed to qualifying for a major tournament that the time we got closest, we decided to throw it all away because the government refused Romania's national side entry to Norway during the Covid-19 lockdowns, giving them a 3-0 victory on walkover. Pretty much all other results than fucking exactly 3-0 would've seen Norway with utmost certainty having qualified for the 2020 EC On paper, I concede our national side looks exactly like a once in a generation talent pool offensively. We have a shit keeper and a shit defense, so naturally our current manager insists on making Norway "build from the back" and focus on defense, so you know... no matter if we get Germany or Italy in our group, they'll cruise to victory in it I'd love Rafa as manager for our current crop of players though. I think his style of play has gone out of fashion in club football, but would still be all the rage when it comes to international football. The fact he, unprovoked, said he was aware that the Norwegian FA didn't operate with a wage structure anywhere near what he'd usually ask for in club management, and that he'd work within their budget if it became a reality one day, stating; "I've made enough money for three lifetimes already, money's not important - I just want to focus on football." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Jinx Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Rafa deserves a budget, he could literally take half of what Howe might get for 2 players and furnish half a squad. Since he left us, he's had a few bad moves, that doesn't make him a bad manager. He did a cracking job here with far less than what Howe has been given. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Unbelievable football brain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myleftboot Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Bring him home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 If anything happened I’d love him back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Jinx Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 How does he work under the DoF setup? He tends to want to do all of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 7 minutes ago, Myleftboot said: Bring him home. Get him back in a hybrid Head Coach-DoF role. Alternate head coach yearly with Eddie and then be DoF on his 'off' season. Get Little Dan back at the centre of the wheel to alternate with Rafa when he's on his coaching season. Couldn't be simpler. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kaizero Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 So... the current manager of Norway, Ståle Solbakken, just gave the press some interesting quotes about the Rafa situation Apparently he confronted Rafa about it later the same day Rafa said the things he did as the Norwegian FA hosted a dinner both attended. He said Rafa told him "the press had repeated certain things without the surrounding original context they were said in". Solbakken goes on to say that he was well aware that Rafa just said the same thing as everyone else does when they get confronted about them "rocking the boat". So far everything Solbakken said had been by the book and what you'd expect a currently employed manager to say about an unemployed manager making a public play for their job. Butthen ... and this is where things start to get wicked... Solbakken starts ranting about how he believes expressing public interest in a managerial position that's occupied and unavailable should be an automatic disqualifier when the time comes to actually hire a new manager, and that the Norwegian FA shouldn't even be thinking about Rafa because of how he had acted when he (Solbakken) was under contract. Then he went on to say disparaging things about how he believes Rafa is "too defensive" a manager and that Rafa couldn't "handle" the offensive nature of the current Norway squad, so Rafa would be a horrid choice as manager for Norway. In no way, under no circumstances, should the Norwegian FA even look at Rafa, or even think of Rafa... Could anyone BE any more rattled, Solbakken?! Him saying all that, to the press, without being asked directly about the matter – bringing it up as a topic on his own volition – tells me that the Norwegian FA probably is actually considering Rafa and maybe even probably have begun early talks with him about the job. Should Solbakken get off on the wrong foot in the upcoming WC Qualifiers, he'll probably end up sacked as we've underperformed (compared to our once in a lifetime available talent pool of world class footballers in all offensive positions on the pitch) his entire tenure as Norway manager. He has a worse record than Lagerback, Høgmo and Drillo - at the same time as having generational talent available to him during their peak years playing football. I hadn't taken this seriously, or even thought it even semi-realistic, at any point in time before Solbakken seemingly just lost it and thrashtalked Rafa in an obvious attempt to make the Norwegian FA stop considering him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Luque Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Solbakken is such a fucking whingy, thin-skinned bitch. Unbearable at times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Best thing since sliced bread, wor Rafa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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