Re: Official: Rafa Benítez to newcastle

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:46 pm

Club was dead before now it's been cremated.

by Kaladin Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:33 pm

Pippo.

by Robespierre Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:38 pm

Pardiola II .

by CBarca Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:45 pm

Is it possible for Mike Ashley to be a worse owner?

by Glory Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:06 pm

Condolences Mole. Absolute travesty. Horrible horrible owners.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:10 pm

Don't worry about me, i stopped caring a long time ago.

During the Pardew era was when i stopped giving a shit and never really recovered.

I have many other interests over this so this news doesn't effect me much, i can't say the same for some Newcastle fans Laughing

Some of them seem suicidal.

by Robespierre Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:11 pm

Or perhaps is Benitez to want leaving for China money ? I read same Chinese club of Hamsik wants to sign him

by iftikhar Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:41 pm

Feel really, really sorry for Mole/NUFC Fans. If the ownership change doesn't happen, they do look to be doomed.

by Doc Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:32 pm

Mole is a Pelican fan, he clearly loves the suffering so he'll be fine. No need for sympathy.

by Arquitecto Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:18 pm

Known Mole long enough to know he hides his love for Newcastle with apathy but for he is merely numb and there is no doubt the departure of Benitez hurts him and rightfully so.

Like Hicks and Gillet I felt the same to Liverpool around the year before their fortuitous departure and that is what is needed for him to rediscover his desire to watch them.

Avram Grant, a shambolic manager who also happens to be Darth Sidious, is about the most depressing news there is as speculation.

by Art Morte Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:40 pm

Where's he going?

by Firenze Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:59 pm

somewhere with more ambición

like sporting gijon

spain job?

by Kick Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:08 pm

Firenze wrote:somewhere with more ambición

like sporting gijon

spain job?

Spain job with Mourinho taking Portugal job Thumbs up

by Firenze Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:08 pm

Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has been accused of being motivated by money and engineering his exit from Newcastle United by Magpies owner Mike Ashley.

And while Ashley is full of praise for the job Benitez did at Newcastle, admitting he didn't want the former Liverpool boss to leave, he did not hold back when slamming the manner of the Spaniard's exit.

"If you come out and say the things he did you would think it was football club first, Rafa second, money third," Ashley tried to explain to the Daily Mail. "I'd say it was money first, Rafa, then the club last.

"He took the totally soft option, took the money and went to China. That disappoints me. If he'd gone back to Real Madrid, or a top six club in the Premier League, I get it. But it was about money and all he had to do was say that from the beginning.

"My view always was we had to keep Rafa. For my own personal safety we had to keep Rafa. I thought he had us offside, he had us cornered, it wasn't fair, it wasn't right, I've been totally out-manoeuvred, I probably shouldn't own a football club, it's ridiculous, but I'm a big boy."

He continued: "Every time with Rafa it was impossible – there was always another thing, and the next thing, and the next thing. He asked for a 50 per cent pay increase and I think he did that because he knew it couldn't work. And if we had agreed to that, I think it would have been something else. And everyone thinks we lost him because we wouldn't pay a couple of quid more. He had the microphone and we didn't.

good guy Mike Ashley, the victim.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:24 pm

Ah yes Mike Ashley, known for lieing and backstabbing for over a decade should be believed.

Hell he's likely lieing here, bloke a pathological liar.

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