Topic: Rafa Benitez - no longer at Celta Vigo

[Hazell]

Still can’t believe he managed Chelsea and Effin Everton

Didn't particularly like him going to Chelsea but the club did sack him, he didn't really owe them anything. If he had walked out, it'd be a different matter.

[9 kemlyn road]

Evans to Houllier to Benitez were steps that kept this club alive and with the soul that was almost lost (and has been lost by others)

They kept us alive alright.the90s were an awful period for the club but ged got us set up better professionally as club ,instilling better habits and methods for the 21st century to great effect, culminating in the glorious treble season .
Rafa took on the baton and gave us our greatest ever night but within a couple of years was at war with the cancers .his role in exposing and opening everyone’s eyes to them should never be underestimated.
He was an immensely important figure in this club’s history,not just for Istanbul but for ensuring that the club’s very existence continued.
He was constantly having to battle the owners ,the media who were egged on by Ferguson and his LMA acolytes to undermine him ,plus some of his players and ex players who to this day are still slating him ,( stand up warnock and Murphy ) .
They got their wish in the end and look who we ended up with in his place …a fucking owl .

[paulrazor]

Rafa was an elite manager in 00s ,his problems started with the arrival of the cancers .he was in a fight with them almost from the off.
After Athens he was planning for the next season and was fobbed off and quickly realised who and what  these two charlatans were about.Rafa began exposing them to everyone and the battle commenced.
He spent the rest of his time with us fighting them and was unable to concentrate doing the good job he’d started.
He called them out from the off unlike certain players who sided with them to rafas detriment.

Athens was where he saw how bad they were

He agreed prior kick off that win or lose they had to meet that night and sort what to do for the following season, he waited ages and was then told by a barman or something that hicks and gillett had long left and were gone. They never showed up, there was some mix up with his room too so he ended up walking the streets. It is really sad to picture that.

I know the next day he went public on them

[9 kemlyn road]

Athens was where he saw how bad they were

He agreed prior kick off that win or lose they had to meet that night and sort what to do for the following season, he waited ages and was then told by a barman or something that hicks and gillett had long left and were gone. They never showed up, there was some mix up with his room too so he ended up walking the streets. It is really sad to picture that.

I know the next day he went public on them

Yes all that is true .it’s astounding that he was just walking the streets hours after his side had played in a second final in 3 years instead of meeting the owners who couldn’t be arsed to meet him to kick on for the following season.
Rafa must’ve thought” oh shit what is going on “ .
He really did this this club a massive service by immediately alerting us to them .his role cannot be underestimated in helping us survive.

[paulrazor]

Yeah he saw through their bullshit

However it is also a bit of a chink in his armour, he gets involved with too much politics

Those cowboys were a fucking cancer