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Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)


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Looking forward to listening to that. I will always hold Rafa in the highest esteem in the realm of football and perhaps beyond too. That he could revitalise my love and connection to the club in the midst of the mire, murkiness and apathy of the Ashley era was such an enormous feat, and one that is directly in proportion with the good and admirable qualities of the man.

Even with him managing the team I don't think I ever truly believed we were going to achieve any great success, but despite that what he represented as a manager and his conduct as a man were in and of themselves worthy enough of getting behind entirely.

 

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If he hadn't stayed on after the relegation and brought us straight back up, if he hadn't got Amanda Staveley interested in the club, if he hadn't kept us up for two more seasons on a tight budget under a malignant apathetic owner . . .  doesn't even bear thinking about.  Honorary Geordie for life.

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Would love him back at the club in some capacity. Glad he didn't end up getting the USMNT job. Would have been all kinds of inner turmoil lol.

 

Bringing him back to present to the crowd for the home game against Liverpool would be neat.

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