It won't be long before he comes out with the 'we have no money to sign players' line.

Benitez at his best. Two DMs even against the shitty sides. That's him.

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Added on September 20, 2010, 7:46 pmFixed. Just need the red ones inside the tags.
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This post has been edited by Wan: Sep 20 2010, 07:47 PM

Drew last night? Feel sorry for Inter.

He should walk the league with Inter's squad facing off against the weak Serie A.
Still, it can be turn around in just 3 games.

Rafa - Back me or sack me


http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6598734,00.html

The man is a joke of a manager. The team that just won the treble is not good enough? Who the heck manage the European champ and clearly the best side in the league to get them to sit on 7th place in the league? He's bringing his excuses early this time. Well done to the man.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/9302348.stm



FAHCT style press conference again from Benitez. This won't end well.

Reports says he's sacked already. But reading Moratti's interview, he said Rafa is still the manager for now. Who knows.

Hope don't be like this sudah. 7th..




This post has been edited by Wan: Dec 22 2010, 07:45 PM

Allegedly when he was on holiday a few days ago at Liverpool, he was busy doing some decorations..

If he didn't get the support from Moratti, he wouldn't be there in the first place. He should feel really lucky to be given the job. After all the glory Mourinho brought last season, and with the same team, he managed to fcuk that up. As for not having the players support, I wonder why that is. He's just a shit manager. A good coach he may be, but man management, transfer dealings, it's just beyond his capabilities. A fluke cup run, and a fluke league finish in his 2nd last season at Liverpool masked that.

Just see the mess he left Liverpool in. And now that he's gone, Inter is getting results again.

Rafa was clever. He knows he's done badly. So he gave this ultimatum. Give me a whole new squad, or sack me. That man is seriously deluded. Always thinks about the players he could buy. Thank god for you guys he wasn't allowed to do it his way.

It's a bit like Hodgson's situation at Liverpool. Only differences is one inherited a European champion, and the other one inherited a club that's on a downward spiral no thanks to the previous manager and regime in place and was losing their good players once he got there. Apparently to them it's all Hodgson's fault, and when it came to Inter, it's because the owners and players don't support Rafa during his time there.

He achieved those with players already at those club. It was with Cuper's(they got to the CL finals twice in a row before Rafa took over) and Houllier's side which got him success. And if we remembered, he did badly in his first season there(finished 5th, and got to the CL next season through the back door) and got lucky Milan already went into celebration mode in Istanbul at HT. And the powers that be at Liverpool gave him the reins to do whatever he wants. Robbie Keane behind Torres, and Barry left wing and sell of Alonso to make that happen.. brilliant plan. But Alonso stayed, they can't afford Barry, and Keane lasted 6 months before moving back to Tottenham for a 5m less than what they got 6 months before. Don't get me started on the number of players, never mind the dozen or so fullbacks he brought in including throwing the money a way down the drain for Dossena and Glen Johnson(18m?).

04/05 = 5th, 37 points behind the champion
05/06 = 3rd, 9 points behind the champion
06/07 = tied 3rd, Arsenal 4th due to GD. 21 points behind the champions
07/08 = 4th, 11 points behind
08/09 = 2nd, 4 points behind.
09/10 = 7th, 63 points, 23 points behind.
72 points average which would got him 4th on each season.

Fluke a cup run in his first season, and he managed to do good the next season, but then resume normal pace until he got lucky in his 2nd last season to stumble upon a working formula. And then he lost Alonso who he tried to get rid previously to replace with Barry, and he ended up with bringing the club down to its knees. The same almost happen to Inter when he brought them down to 7th on the table before issuing that ultimatum. He's good, but not great, or very good. Don't think anybody apart from the Liverpool camp have anything nice to say about him. Still remember how that Leeds manager said after their game that all Rafa wanted to talk about was SAF..

Scared? Not really. His stats speaks for themselves. Just see what he did to Liverpool and Inter.

You have the right to think and say or write anything. Just get your facts right, you should be good to go. It's a free country, as the Americans like to say. This is a forum right? It is in Inter's thread, where Rafa fail spectacularly taking a treble winners into a laughing stock, just like he did at Liverpool and left them in ruins. So I continue it here. Don't get butt hurt over every single thing about Rafa. Truth hurts.

Feel free to list out SAF failings in the right thread if it would make you feel better.

Why do you feel the need to bring SAF/Glazers/ManUtd related matters into this discussion about Rafael Benitez? You can't find ways to defend Rafa yourself so you have to bring them into discussion and even ask me to debate over in Liverpool's thread when it's perfectly fine to discuss it here since he just got sacked a couple of weeks back Inter, and it is a discussion over Inter related matters. And unfortunately for them, they had to be associated with Rafa in their history. Their loss, Serie A's gain.

The fact that you care to post here shows that you do. It's perfectly fine for you to care. He was your saviour after all. Feel free to defend him with whatever you think is right. But don't come here and type in angry tones that might break your keyboard to defend Rafa with stuff totally not related to him/Inter/whatever. Might as well bring Datuk Seri Anwar failings into the discussion if that's the case if you get what I mean.

Rafa, won the CL with Houllier's squad and went on to destroy it. It can be felt till today even.

Mourinho won everything with Inter, on Rafa came and ask for more signings. I
Suffice to say, it didn't end well.. and till now even can't undo what he did. Pity Inter fans. After being in the shadows of the other Italian teams for so long they were the top dogs for a long stretch until Rafa came.

He came, he saw, he destroyed.

His own team that is.

This post has been edited by Wan: Sep 21 2011, 09:43 PM