http://blogs.thescore.com/counterattack/2013/05/24/broken-news-rafa-benitez-to-take-over-at-napoli/


http://www.fanatix.com/news/former-chelsea-and-liverpool-rafa-benitez-handed-serie-a-job/120466/

Napoli

benitez , the one who can demolish clubs in no Time , i cant believe their stupidity , don't they remember Inter?

#PrayforNapoli #RafaFuori

Epoto wrote: benitez , the one who can demolish clubs in no Time , i cant believe their stupidity , don't they remember Inter?

Rafa didn't demolish Inter, Inter demolished Inter.

I like him but I don't think he'd do well at Napoli :S

Epoto wrote: benitez , the one who can demolish clubs in no Time , i cant believe their stupidity , don't they remember Inter?

Although Benitez did fail at Inter he was not given the time and the players he needed so he can be judged by that experience. If Napoli sells Cavani for the reported 60m he will have enough cash to make that team his.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Epoto wrote: benitez , the one who can demolish clubs in no Time , i cant believe their stupidity , don't they remember Inter?

Rafa didn't demolish Inter, Inter demolished Inter.

That is why you are the leader

I am sure Rafa will do well at Napoli.

c'mon guys, Rafa aint that bad of a manager.

Napoli get Rafa and we get Mazzarri jesus christ

How did we end up with the short end of this stick?

well deserved

Rafa will be sacked by Jan . He is hands down horrible

Good luck RAFA Gives me another excuse to adore Napoli. Hopefully they hold on to Cavani for at least one more season. Would be very interesting to see what he'll do with this team. I think it's safe to say that he'll play 4-2-3-1.


Campagnaro is leaving to Inter and Cannavaro is old so defense needs to be sorted out. Maybe improvements over Pandev and Behrami in the starting line up.

Exciting project Although this could turn into a nightmare. If they sell Cavani this season and don't use the funds right, could be a very short stint for Rafa.

Epoto wrote: Rafa will be sacked by Jan . He is hands down horrible

Rafa can see those Euro notes right now as we speak

Unbelievable.

Good luck in relegation zone.

#PrayForNapoli

Benitez showed ignorance at Inter when it came to adapting tactics to the team he had and opposition.
he has no chance against extremely well tactical prepared teams in Serie A.
i'm sorry for Napoli.
if Milan doesn't get better Juve will have no match next year.(maybe Lazio if they keep Petkovic and improve squad)
Conte will own Benitez so bad he will get an allergy to anything italian.

such a bad move.

I had no idea the hate for Rafa was this bad outside of EPL

A fine number of people will be eating their words in a year.

Wow so much rafa hate.


Yeah he destroyed Inter , not their ancient squad and joke transfer policy... OK then.
Solid manager, will probably improve Napoli if he gets a couple of players he actually wants, and they keep Cav

2 la ligas, 1 CL, 2 Uefa cups, 1 FA Cup .... What a truly shit manager

Rafa was the first person to warn Moratti of inters future. Moratti instead fired him. I'm sure now we know who was right

Remember some people blaming inters injury crisis during Rafa on Benitez himself?? I didn't know he left his medical staff at Inter 2.5 years after his sacking :sarcasm:

Harry Redknapp wrote:Remember some people blaming inters injury crisis during Rafa on Benitez himself?? I didn't know he left his medical staff at Inter 2.5 years after his sacking :sarcasm:

I remember this. People were blaming Rafa's training methods for the injury crisis at Inter.

Why do people blindly hate Rafa? I must be missing something.


I swear if he walked past a bakery that went out of business a year later he'd be the prime scapegoat for some people on here.

McAgger wrote:

Harry Redknapp wrote:Remember some people blaming inters injury crisis during Rafa on Benitez himself?? I didn't know he left his medical staff at Inter 2.5 years after his sacking :sarcasm:

I remember this. People were blaming Rafa's training methods for the injury crisis at Inter.

Uhh actually I think the medical staff IS the same as it was under Rafa...

Mou had Rui Faria as his fitness coach and we never had any large-scale injury problems...When they left injury problems started popping up everywhere

When Rafa came in he put the players under a strenuous weightlifting regime and it is theorized that the increased weightlifting combined with the rigor of the previous treble season (I think we had like 12 players with 40+ apps), and the average age of the squad is to blame for our injury problems that year

Haven't heard of any such program this season, I think its more about age now


On another note:

Balague says Rafa has NOT agreed a contract with Napoli:

"Rafa: he's in USA. Nothing signed with Napoli (yet). Still waiting on PSG or Madrid 2 sort out Ancelotti's future, but he wont wait for long"

"Fascinating move by de Laurentiis. Rafa has signed nothing yet but by announcing he has, he forces Real and PSG (and Rafa) into a decision"

Take that as you will, I suppose

Balague vs. Gil . Who to believe