Rafa's in the studio tonight. Now that the CSL has finished for the season he's obviously back in the UK for Christmas and punditry work.....or sussing out his next gig running the rule over both of tonight's teams. Just incase anybody's wondering, this is how our former manager and No9 have done over in Chinaland They were 9th in the table after round 11 when Rafa took over, they finished the season in 9th.
I wish we had Rondon and not Joelinton , however I'm not arsed about rafa.. I am grateful for the job he's done because he's left us one of the best defences in football and without him we would never have it, but he's gone and if the next man doesn't do anything daft at the back and gets the right attacking players to build on what rafas done it's hard for them to wrong. the hardest and longest part of building anything is laying the foundations and rafa has built excellent foundations over the period he was here . This is why this comparison rubbish is very short sighted.
Great tactical mind. But too socially awkward to manage people in the modern game, top top managers are fantastic man managers first and tacticians second. Just to make it clear, j mean managing the top sides. Not teams like us and West Ham.
But our training ground still needs painting and the bogs at SJP are in the worst state ever.....it's forced 10,000 fans away based on yesterday's attendance !
He inferred that no Premier League club could better his current pay and that he'd be back for a pension top up in two years time.
Then he put on a sombrero whilst dancing around a pot of gold, kissed a picture of Lee Charney and said all Toon fans are morons.
