The Rafa Benitez Appreciation Thread

[El Jefecito]

Nice man. Great manager in Europe. Yet to prove he has what it takes to challenge in the PL.

Never been backed to get decent wingers. You can't play the way we do w/o decent wingers. He's still two years away from having a compotent squad, and the constraints have all been financial. Not much he can do about that.

[Red_Al_77]

Never been backed to get decent wingers. You can't play the way we do w/o decent wingers. He's still two years away from having a compotent squad, and the constraints have all been financial. Not much he can do about that.

Then we should be playing to a system which does befit the players we have. Competent squad? And there's me thinking Rafa said we have a strong enough squad to win the PL. His constraints are not all financial. A fair percentage are but his over reliance on tactics and worrying about the other team in the PL is costing us in games we should be going out and dictating to the opposition. Every game is not a game of Chess but it damn well feels like it. Against the likes of Wigan we should send out our best 11 in our best formation and force the opposition to deal with it.