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Debate: Comments on: ‘Rafa Benitez interviewed by Guillem Balague…’

6 years ago
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The latest article to be highlighted in our debate feature is: ‘Rafa Benitez interviewed by Guillem Balague and explains his situation at Newcastle United.’

Every article we publish on The Mag, fans are invited to comment at the end of it (it only takes a minute to register and then you can comment on anything you read on here).

There are some great conversations between supporters commenting on what has been written, not always agreeing with the author…or each other.

We are now regularly/irregularly picking out an article that has produced interesting debate afterwards.

Sometimes the comments can be more interesting that the initial article…but not everybody reads the comments, so we thought some of the conversations deserved a bigger audience.

The article highlighted today has already had 74 comments and the basis of the article, is an interview by Guillem Balague with Rafa Benitez, discussing management and Newcastle United.

(If you want to read the original article and/or leave your own comment (or you can do it at the bottom of this one…) go HERE):

Some of the comments after ‘Rafa Benitez interviewed by Guillem Balague and explains his situation at Newcastle United’:

Tweed Mag:

‘Rafa spells it out yet again.

Invest in the team and encourage those who can take the club forward and the owner will be even richer. Ignore what he says and lose millions.’

Molend:

‘For goodness’ sake, how difficult is it?

We’re immensely fortunate to have a world class coach who’s interested in improving the club as a whole. We’ve got money. We’ve got players we can sell to generate more money.

If you own the club, why aren’t you over the moon with this scenario?’

Weyhhadaway:

‘He talks about fighting for the club and then uses the wording “Then for professionals, they have this vision,…..” Maybe he thinks the owners aren’t being professional, reading between those lines.

The lack of investment in the youth system/facilities doesn’t follow the long held club creed that we get them young and bring them up to a standard to sell for profit. That ethos seems to go out of the window in favor of the other overriding creed, money.’

Pedrodelgardo:

‘Rafa sees things very clearly.’

Billmag:

‘An Honourable man Vs a Dishonourable man that’s the scenario at our club, a man that wants to build something special and a man that wants to remain static get the riches of the Premier League, get plenty of advertising for his business.

Rafa must be so frustrated dealing with these amateurs, I hope he doesn’t leave because he’s our only hope of ever winning anything, but I fear the worst.’

Mike:

‘100% right. Give the man the tools to do the job and its frightening what he could achieve.’

Paul Patterson:

‘He’s the best thing to happen to this club since SBR.’

JonMag:

‘Back Rafa and we`d be top 8 within 2 years, top 6 within 3, but it`s not going to happen under Mr greed. He`s more likely to sell good players than buy them. We need him out!’

Fireman Sam:

‘Top 5 within 12 months if he was given the money that should be there.’

Gold coast mag:

‘How much value does having Rafa as our manager add to the value of the club compared to the stooges that have been through the revolving door over the last 12 years?

Without him any chance the owner has of making a massive sale will fly out the window, and if he’s not happy with the club’s infrastructure and transfer policy will probably just see out his contract and leave-not even having his new club pay Ashley anything.

The politics of carefully released and non aggressive statements are the only way he can manipulate the owner into giving him the funds he needs to make us challenge for trophies- I hope.’

Monkseaton Magpies:

‘Rafa is on a great contract six million a year. The last accounts showed we lost ninety million and the true fact is we ended up eight million overdrawn even after Ashley putting in an extra fifteen million.

You call me a troll but what is hard to understand that Ashley has put in £279m and still we have no money. Cannot wait for some one other than Ashley to put money into the club as it has never happened before.;

‘Danimal:

‘I think you are a very stable genius and Llambias and Wise are very fine people.’

Angelswithdirtyfaces:

‘You ever heard of creative accounting?

You know.. the type that got Carillion a clean bill of health by their auditors…

Well Ashley goes in for something more like destructive accounting…. bigs himself up and the club down, its GIGO. And yes the consensus is that you are a troll.’

TheFatController:

‘Hi Mike, it’s your Mum, Mrs Ashley. Look out for me on the Mag, I’ve called myself Munskeaton Mugpie.

I am going to keep telling them you put the money in and no one else does. Mainly because you didn’t meet the Mansour people when in Dubai that time.

Anyhow, I’m sure they’ll believe me and not laugh and call me troll.

Mum.’

Shipcote Willy:

‘Most fans know what Rafa is and we know what Ashley is. The latter will never change no matter what is written or said by anyone. We are stuck with the odious owner.’

1957:

‘Unless some of the extra funding for the Academy goes towards paying off the present coaching staff and bringing in new competent ones anything spent would be wasted.

Based on games I’ve seen the coaching and management below first team level seems clueless, Watson, Beardsley, Dawson and the rest need to be moved on.’

Down Under Mag:

‘I’ve been saying that for a while now, the level of coaching is abysmal.

As great a player as Pedro was it doesn’t make him good at getting youngsters to improve and I think it’s safe to say he’s had plenty of time to prove himself and hasn’t.

The club needs to come first…this is what we keep saying of Ashley so we can’t get too sentimental about ex-players either.

I think there needs to be a clear out of the staff and a lot of the players, new injection of quality and enthusiasm as well as a clear plan of development from academy through to first team.

If things don’t change then I suspect we will start to see a lot more of our promising talent either go to waste or end up jumping ship like Lewis Gibson did.’

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