Rafa agrees for 3 years!!

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Bexinio said:
Maybe I'm reading Rafa wrong but I think he always has a history of creating a solid structure and defence, do you guys think this is possible with the current players because of the closed window or does he have to go with a more attacking style than normal?
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I honestly don't think his most important job is changing the style of play as much as it is having the reputation and respect to look these so called international superstars in the eye and tell them to stop ****ing about - and have them listen! He has won more than any of our players have. They wont get away with a shrug of the shoulders after yet another defeat.
 
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Darren Peacocks Ponytail said:
We only have 2 defenders, and one of those maybe still injured! So he a proper task on his hands!
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Yeah I think you have a fighting chance now as a Sunderland fan I'd rather you stuck with Super Mac but I'm trying to think how he will set up your team and I can't do that with the players you have compared to how he has set up with the style of players he had in the past.
 
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that periscope vid ends just as he's reading out the list of players who are no longer welcome at the club...
 
Bexinio said:
Yeah I think you have a fighting chance now as a Sunderland fan I'd rather you stuck with Super Mac but I'm trying to think how he will set up your team and I can't do that with the players you have compared to how he has set up with the style of players he had in the past.
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Did he ever play with 3 CB's? If so I would be playing Taylor (Mbemba if he is fit), Lascelles and Dummett. With Colback and Janmaat as wing backs. Shelvey, Gini and Tiote in CM and Doumbia and Perez up front!
 
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Can you believe this has happened!? The drama never stops coming at Newcastle Utd! We really needed to do something dramatic to snap the club out of the slow slumber towards the championship we have been in. I am expecting this to give the players the rocket they needed.
 
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InBiscanWeTrust said:
Why wouldn't you rely on Spanish footballers when at the time they were the best in the World and he had excellent contacts. Your saying it's a negative that he managed to use his contacts in home land to buy cracking players at cheap prices (Reina £6m, Aurelio £2m, Alonso £10m, Torres £20m)?

His success was getting the bet out of Gerrard and first turning him into a goal scoring RM to get the best out the team, then moving him inside to strike up the deadliest partnership in England at the time with Torres.

Not going into the money thing as it's been done to death on our board with rival fans a million times.

No disrespect to Newcastle, but the guy has won more trophies as manager in 15 odd years as Newcastle have as a club, and the ones he won with us and Valencia were at teams that were 3rd best in the league at best, not at teams dominating their league already with all the money to spend like Mourinho/Guardiola.

It's funny you say we should have won more under him... why should we? Were we winning titles before and he took over? Were we winning the CL and getting to the later stages on a regular basis just before he came? No...
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We are clearly polar opposites and not going to agree on this, especially rating Reina as a good goalie (just because the others have been a shambles! Bogdan, Dudek, ****ing Brad Jones. Mignolet is in the same bracket as Reina, though you'll never agree.

Like I say, I'll support anyone on the pitch or in the dugout, but this is not the best move for us at all. It's desperation on our part and his. I would have been much happier with a boss like Moyes who has proven he can build with little investment and plays practically. Someone needs to build for the future, not gamble on staying up.
 
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