I hope he gets the job at Real when Jose leaves!
Benitez to Chelsea Discussion & Sack watch
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Looked a broken man during his interview, felt really sorry for him!
Started at Chelsea when they were 4 points behind-now they are 13 despite having an ok run of fixtures.
Lost the world club championship.
Is 2-0 after the home leg in the league cup semi to swansea.
Lost the world club championship.
Is 2-0 after the home leg in the league cup semi to swansea.
Hes a cnut. He's made about 10 million quid out of his last two jobs just by being too shit to be allowed to keep doing it.
Feel sorry for the people from Jessops or HMV, not that fecker.
how fecking shit is he? it's amazing that people like Guillem Balague think he's done a good job.Yea I'll feel sorry for a homeless man or someone who doesn't have money to feed his family. Certainly not FSW. Never.
Pissing my sides how |Chelsea fan blame 'acolytes' rather than the obvious culprit. He,He. You have won plenty so it's not like you are that badly done to.
It's not all about trophies or money. It's about a sense of pride and identification in the way that the club operates, one that is sorely missing at the moment from a supporter's perspective.
You won't find it in a bank account or in a trophy cabinet but it is the most important essence of being a football supporter.
The club is currently being run in a shambolic manner veering from one car crash to the next and it has to stop.
You're a Chelsea fan? Well, I'm certainly not going to defend Benitez. I just thought the suggestion that he ruined a CL winning side gave pre-FSW Chelsea a bit too much credit. I enjoyed seeing his discomfort during the interview today.
Previously a slow start to the season was a reason to get rid of Mourinho...
Another appalling decision.
Can someone post his interview when they get hold of it. Cheers.
"Ees ok, we try har' and need to must improve, jes? no?"
cheers. He looks distraught.Yes, I realize he's picked up some very hefty severance packages but I still feel pity for Rafa. So woebegotten, so helpless. Like a sheep being readied for the shearing, then the slaughter.
And he's just signed a player called Ba.
To extend this further:
1) 2008ish. Rafa gets so paranoid about SAF he feels compelled to make a long, painful, public meltdown speech about facts.
2) The paranoia then transmits to the fans and players, and Liverpool plummet, losing the title that season, enduring the Woy and KKK disasterous periods, and are now firmly wedged in mid-table mediocrity with no obvious route back for years
3) Rafa, meanwhile infiltrates the best team in Europe, the treble winners, and takes them down within a period of mere months. They haven't ever got anywhere near those heights either and don't look like doing so. Even Wesley Sneijder, the wet-dream of many muppets at the time has contracted the cancer and gone to shit
4) Rafa then comes to Chelsea, a team with a CL in the bag and recently invested hundreds of millions of talent and in a few short weeks, has the whole club in turmoil, with fans turning on the club, the players producing a string of farcical performances, their legends being booted out onto the street and general chaos.
It's obvious that this man is a marvel of nature with his destructive capabilities on football clubs and players careers - war scientists should investigate him further to see if they can draw from his essence to make weapons to destroy whole countries.
More importantly - how did all this start? Could it be that the tinfoliers on RAWK could be right and the Dark Lord SAF, with the mere power of the mind is able to influence the entire footballing world to cause misery for his opponents?
It's fecking hilarious seeing those cnuts struggle.
You propose he sacks himself?
I dont think Rafa will be there next season but who realistically is their options next season? I mean Pep is going to Bayern and they've sacked most decent managers in the game, so who is there left? Would Jose go back?
He's agreed to manage Chelsea knowing the fans hated him so I see no reason to feel sorry for him.Probably thought he could pick up another easy trophy to add to his CV
This is it though, there aren't many options left for the Chavs are there?
First of all they have to find a decent manager in the first place (meaning someone who can take them through the CL & win them the league) & they've already gone through most of them, then they have to find one of them who would want to go there.
Pep didn't & I can hardly blame him.
Hiddink?
Putin?
At least he would be unsackable and Chelsea would get some continuity.
At least he would be unsackable and Chelsea would get some continuity.
So how big is his severance package this time?
But why would he go there just to get sacked in 6 months?
I guess for the retirement package.
Mike Phelan
I think he's the only manager who didn't fall out with Roman, the fans will be pleased to see him back at Chelsea as well.
The Demolition Man
Only a matter of time though...
Yes. But as of now, he remains the only "good" manager "available" for the Chelsea job. Most of the other ones have come and gone, until unless Roman puts some $$$ in 'em German managers' sacks.
With Abramovich you have to take the rough with the smooth. He makes the club look like a joke with his decisions, but he is constantly investing in their playing squad.
If you gave most Chelsea fans the option of a circus that wins trophies and a respectable club that doesn't they'd go for the former. And with nights like they had on 19th May who the hell could blame them.
It doesn't have to be an either/or though.
I am grateful, incredibly grateful for what he has done for the club. We were in serious financial trouble after Bates' Chelsea Village nosedived and he not only bailed us out of that but gave us the investment required to win trophies beyond our wildest dreams.
But that doesn't insulate him from criticism of the shambolic way the club is run. A PR disaster swerving from one car crash to the other, accusing referees of racism, sacking double winning managers in the tunnel, sacking club legends at 4 in the morning, bundling players like Lampard and Cole out of the door unceremoniously, riding roughshod over the fan's wishes by sacking a legend for a mercenary who had stated he would never manage the club.
A bit of stability, sense, contuinity and class would not go amiss. You can't put a price on those.
The thing is Abramovich will never change. He certainly won't do it for the fans who are just a means to an end (get more of them to support the club and help pay for his investment).
The only way you'll get the stability you want is when he goes
The only way you'll get the stability you want is when he goes
He can go, then. We are now one of the top supported sides globally and sell more shirts than any other teams except Real Madrid, Barca and Manchester United. I think we would be an attractive proposition to another buyer if he did decide that he has had enough.
He is generally a good owner. He does a lot behind the scenes that we as fans appreciate. For example, Bates barely ever took the full away allocation in case we didn't sell out and the club had to pick up the tab for unsold tickets - now we almost always take the full allocation and the club even sometimes do subsidised travel to support the team. He changed the badge back to the proper badge. The club do speak to supporters groups more than under Bates where it really was an autocracy.
I would really like him to get rid of his cabal of overpaid advisors and get some people around him who actually know what they are talking about. I would just like us as a club to behave in a dignified manner and act with a bit of class.
Sacking Di Matteo after all he has done for the club for the ultimate football mercenary in Rafa Benitez just felt like such a statement of intent. What price your soul? And for what? Worse performances in every competition he has competed in?