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Benitez 'leaving this summer'

Rafael Benitez has turned on Chelsea supporters and confirmed he will not be at the club beyond this season.

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footyfan52 (Liverpool) says...

Abramovic's strict policy of having high expectations every season leading to constant changing of managers is essentially like steroids, good quick results but the side effects will eventually kick in. They need a lot of plastic surgery to fix this mess, a new manager and loads of new additions to their squad this summer to sort em out. Note the pun in my last sentence ;)

Posted 1:31am 5th March 2013

cleggy (nufc) (Newcastle United) says...

I'm not a Chelsea or Liverpool fan, but I also cannot wait to see the back of him. He's a poor manager, tactician, motivator. He fluked the Champions League at Liverpool (By fluke - he happened to be in charge of a bunch of determined players, who when losing 3-0 grabbed it by the scruff of the neck, and turned it around - it was NOTHING to do with Rafa Benitez management skills!) and he fluked that CL win with Gerard Houlliers squad. He gets no credit for that one as he had nothing to do with it! He then continued to devolve Liverpool before being asked to leave. The only real good thing he did for 'Pool is sign Fernando Torres (and a couple of others, Alonso was some player) - a player who was already at the top of his game when he came - and somehow didn't ruin him! Then to Inter - the triple champions (CL, Serie A, Italian Cup) and within 6 weeks he had them languishing in mid-table when only months before they were a tight, well organised, solid team. He took just weeks to turn them into a bunch of no hopers! Now he comes to Chelsea and has made as "bad" a start as AVB. It's just the same dour stuff from him, just in a blue shirt this time. Chelseas positives this season have come either from R.D.M. or the will of the players - Benitez brings nothing to the table at all - we've seen that everywhere he's been apart from Valencia.... I'm pretty certain that there must be other factors involved in their success under him too, as he's got a track record of being useless. I shouldn't even care about what's going on at Chelsea - Newcastle are my team. I would never want that bloke near our kids, let alone our first team! I cannot stand the bloke, RDM was done out of a job he deserved. He's a rubbish manager, and his latest outburst has made me dislike the bloke even more. Good riddance!

Posted 12:58am 3rd March 2013

mikeh9995 (Chelsea) says...

ethan hunt (Liverpool) - Spot on. At last, a Liverpool fan who appreciates how poor a manager Rubbish Rafa really is! As a CFC fan for 43 years - actually going to watch and support the team home and away (NOTE: The TEAM, NOT any particular manager!) - I have seen some very poor football indeed. Including in the late 1970s under Geoff Hurst, Danny Blanchflower and Ken Shellito. A key difference between then and now is that the players then gave of their best, even though some of these managers (maybe all of them) were not really up to it. One reason many of us can't stand this incompetent interim buffoon is how he slagged of our club and fans when he was at Loserpool. And how he sneeringly denied that he would ever "want" to manage Chelsea. Had he even attempted to try and build bridges with CFC fans on his appointment he may not be quite so unpopular now. Add to this his incompetence as a manager, coach, tactician, motivator and you will find the answer as to why I can't stand the chap. As has already been pointed out by others, we win and it's down to him. We lose and it's someone else's fault! I will continue to support the team and vocally oppose Rubbish Rafa at every opportunity. The plastic "fans" of other clubs commenting on here clearly do not take note of THE FACT that almost all the songs sung (home and away) are in support of the team. A very small number are critical of Rafa - and rightly so, given his inability to properly manage the significant talent at his disposal. As a Baggie has already commented on this story .......... hopefully WBA can secure the hat-trick of Chelsea manager sackings this weekend. "All we care about .... is Chelsea FC"!!! Oh ......... and I don't care how overweight he is, which country he comes from or abuse him about what some people regard as his "occupation". I don't do racism!

Posted 7:36pm 1st March 2013

redgenesis (Manchester United) says...

@red cynic, i'm afraid it looks to be you missing many points. If you're going to call wins flukey, then Barca getting away with Puyol taking players out cynically when through on goal rather than going down to 10 men, teams getting away with clear offside goals, to pick just two, are far more lucky than a team fighting on until the bitter end and coming up trumps. You may (i really can't be bothered to look it up) have been top of coefficients, and got the highest total for a runner up (not winner), but after the truck loads he spent to get there, it's less than you'd expect. He won the FA cup too. But if our CL wins were lucky, do you want to apply the same logic to all your pals' successes? Why do you guys have such a man-crush on Rafa? I really really don't get it, and i've literally no axe to grind as he has not exactly damaged us!

Posted 2:25pm 1st March 2013

sanity1892 says...

Oh another "rant" is it. You guys are pathetic

Posted 11:23am 1st March 2013

redgenesis (Manchester United) says...

Rafa had brief success at Liverpool after spending more than United had over a longer period. After falling out with the owners, he stormed off to Inter where he took over a CL winning side and wrecked it, before being sacked. He's come to Chelsea, who were 6 points off with a game in hand and wrecked them too. He had grinding out league success at Valencia. Aside from that and he CL win for Liverpool he's been poor. At this point, i'm leaving this cesspool comment thread as I really don't care beyond being bemused that fans of a team that he brought a pretty crown but left in ruins still worship him.

Posted 11:14am 1st March 2013

redgenesis (Manchester United) says...

@Massey1963, you are giving it the large about all United fans being plastics, while the year in your name suggests you were at the age to start supporting a team just when Liverpool were being great... pure coincidence i'm sure.

Posted 11:10am 1st March 2013

fishcake (Manchester United) says...

@red cynic....every team needs luck to win a cup mate....but United PROVED they were the best by backing it up with a treble and a prem, CL double....meanwhile LFC could only finish 5th and then had to beg UEFA to let you back in it! Rafas win was clearly a fluke where as Fergie more than backed it up.

Posted 10:28am 1st March 2013

new1fowler_9 (Liverpool) says...

mhlgate13 - you did read correctly but its ok I was only judging Chelsea fans so it is a legit point. You booed and made banners from the get go when he joined and yet he is not entitled to tell you all to go f**k yourself? Wasnt given a second to try and manage, they really should give Terry the job now to see how good he does. You can give out about Abramovich and every manager all you like but the fact is if it wasnt for Roman you would actually be a team of nothing and spiraling around in mediocrity like you were all used to. Its a long way from success your club was brought up so maybe you should thank your lucky stars that Sugardaddy gave you a bit of success in recent years instead of moaning non stop, its such a sterile fake club. Hell we are not exactly flying high at the moment but I am getting over it. Plastic flags plastic fans.

Posted 8:34am 1st March 2013

new1fowler_9 (Liverpool) says...

Fine by me Petulant, cant say discussing things with you is a top priority of mine so its win win.

Posted 8:27am 1st March 2013

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