Extremadura Segunda División promotion (1): 1997–98 Tenerife Segunda División promotion (1): 2000–0 Liverpool FA Community Shield (1): 2006 You can keep those 'trophies'. I wonder they will keep him in a job at Real! Now remind me what he won at Tenerife and Extremadura again!!
Ironically I can't remember you saying Chelsea fluked the EL when you won it, but now that it's time to slate Rafa it was "a fluke" You've def gone HIAG on us EC His record speaks far more than your illogical rants mate. He's a proven winner which is why he is getting the Real job. Granted you Chelsea fans have your reason for not liking him, but that should not detract from his record. He "ruined" napoli? WTF do you know about Napoli.? Cavani was gone before Rafa arrived, and if you look up Napoli for that season there was about 15 outgoing players that summer, but why let reality get in the way of a good story. "Fatso took us from three points off the top" < just shows how much of an idiot you can be. Hyperbole. He arrived into the club when you were out of the CL, demoralised and the players and fans didn't want him and there was resistance. You make it sound like he had a summer to prepare and had signings, he arrived months into a season to take over someone elses team. You had NO CHANCE of winning the PL under RDM, and so can't blame Rafa for that at all. It's just so funny like, Rafa turned up to take over a ****ing mess and did well, saying he was "3 points off the top" ergo he ruined chelsea is ****ing ridiculous nonsense. Just admit you hate the guy and be done with it, and just admit that hate is warping your view of the man
So, Rafa is a ****e manager. 1 x CL 3 x EL 2 x la liga various cups and trophies, getting teams promoted ect 3 world manager of the year awards, or European MOTY, not quite sure which. A manager who wins stuff where ever he goes is ****e. OK yeah. He's won more than Klopp yet you all think Klopp is brilliant
Enjoy your Scousification of history and falling for Rafa's PR. All he did at Chelsea was talk up how good he was, but he could not deliver a title challenge (as per usual). He was hired to get our title campaign back on track! We were very lucky v Benfica in final, who as you know are cursed in major finals. I said it at the time and saying it now
He's just a mediocre manager, who albeit is also a safe set of hands. That's why they put him in. Because he won't **** up while they look for the man they do want. He's a madrista, he knows the structure of the club and some of the big wigs. He'll collect his money and shoot off to Liverpool in 12 months mark my words. Btw. Rafa is a charlatan. He did the bare minimum at cfc and I wouldn't have him back for ANYTHING
I don't think rafa will last 12 months those at madrid want atractive footbal and rafa won't give it to them. They kind of allowed Jose to play his way but rafa is not Jose
Rafa really divides opinion. Mine is that he is mediocre at best. He did well at Liverpool, and bugger all since. He is one of those who won't get you a top place, but won't get you relegated. Like his waistline, everything is around the middle. As for Real ?? They don't deserve to win anything and have now replaced Chelsea as the Team with the worst record of losing managers. Fancy firing a manager like Ancellotti who finished 2 points off top place against maybe the best Barca team for 10 years !! Then they compound the stupidity by lining up Fatso . The bog mindels..
Hes ****. Get over it Lizard boy Real clearly fancy the Europa this season. Its what he does. Wins second rate trophies rarely and makes teams go backwards. Nothing for me, I've already eaten.
Jury out on Klopp for me atm. Rafa leaves clubs in a desperate state: Liverpool, Chelsea, Inter. He completely failed to carry on the rebuilding process that RDM had started at Chelsea. So Jose had to rebuild 2013/14 before we domianted British football again. He managed to leave Liverpool in a mess for Roy and destroy Inter
Stop harping on mate, just admit he is a good coach, not in Fergie or Jose's bracket but Rafa's record in management is a good one. You hate him, I get that but that should not lead you to part with reality. Sadly, he did a decent job at Chelsea, gave you the opportunity to brag about winning back to back European trophies yet you pull out the knives now after he leaves because of his Liverpool time, let it go ffs. Rafa was the 8th manager what? 4 years?
My god man. It was the europa league. We had oscar hazard torres etc....we had just won the champions league. If we didn't win that trophy then he would really have been a ****e manager. Its nothing to brag about. Im happy that we won it, but considering our resources that competition is beneatb us. So stop trying to sell us on gratitude for someone performing the bare minimum he had to while getting paid. The league form slumped because of him All other trophies went out the window. The football was **** just like it was at Liverpool. Just leave it we are not buying it lol!!!
I think so too. I seriously doubt the madrid board think he's a better long term option than carlo ...if they do, dios mio!
Liverpool fans will always defend him because he was the manager during the time when the owners were H&G, who were knob jockeys, and Rafa was seen as kinda like the "fans voice" during that chaotic period. Plus it takes like one wave and one tin pot and scousers will take you into their hearts, and nothing will ever tarnish you, they are weird that way, equally, one perceived slight and you are a total c**t forever, without any hope of redemption. Weird, Weird lot....but fun!
No he didn't. He was useless and player power got us back into the top 4. We don't care about Europey, we left before Iva scored amd were back in the coffee shops in AmDam, merely relieved that it was Rafa's last game. That was the only reason to celebrate. Not being arrogant but since Roman we have higher expectations than Europa League. You guys however have a open top bus parade for winning the most throw-ins
Very strange decision. Can only assume they are targeting the CL again as Benitez does have an OK reputation as a cup manager - he has a good record in Spain too, maybe that was part of the decision making. All that said, given that he failed at two big clubs (Chelsea, Inter), a medium-sized club (Napoli) and a small club (Liverpool), it's hard to see what on earth the board of arguably the biggest club in the world are thinking with this one. The fact that West Ham were also after him says it all!
You have to remember he managed Valencia to 2 league titles in La Liga. Benitez had dynamism then. I remember his Valencia side was well organised but exciting to watch. Benitez himself was a better manager at the start of his career. He's not the same character now. The last 5-7 years - the in-fighting and decline at liverpool, his rejection at Inter and Chelsea and the 2 year period without a club has taken that dynamism out of him. He's turned into a journey man unfortunately. He'll steady the ship at Real Madrid. He knows the club. He'll make sure all the jigsaw pieces fit together. But he'll lack the spark to drive them on. I do believe had he come into Real after Queiroz, he would have been untarnished, still fresh and more excited about driving Real on and imo been very successful. As it is though, I think he could be scrapping for 2nd or 3rd with Atletico now.
In the league he failed hard. We were second I believe, 3 points behind United, when he joined, and finished 3rd, 18 points behind United by seasons end. But he won a trophy, so that is kinda glossed over. I wasn't too bummed as I didn't really expect us to win the league at the start of that season anyway, even on the back of the CL win, not with RDM in charge.
He presided over the worst four months of football at our club since Porterfield. He threw away two very easy titles: Carling Cup against Swansea/Bradford Weakest ever World Club Championship: Al Ahy, Monterrey and weak Corinthians side. Could not beat Brentford in Cup: lucky 2-2 draw Took us from title challengers to 18 points off top in three months after we gave away leads v West Ham, Reading, Saints, Newcastle and lost at home v QPR. We reserved our most embarassing football for Europe though. Losing to Steaua and Rubin Kazan. And could not beat Sparta at home. If you think we robbed Bayern and Barca, you should have watched us v Benfica in AmDam.
