[Albion] Rafa Benitez

[hailshamseagull]

Should we be sounding out his agent...

I certainly would what with his unrest at Newcastle.
3 points in advance please to keep us in Prem then lead us next season!

 

[carlzeiss]

6 million pound annual Salary might be a stumbling block .

 

[Weststander]

Unfortunately, Ashley will at the last minute do enough to keep him. He might lie about this summer's transfer budget, then not come up with it all once Rafa's signed.

 

[Icy Gull]

Should we be sounding out his agent...

I certainly would what with his unrest at Newcastle.
3 points in advance please to keep us in Prem then lead us next season!

His ambition, as stated yesterday, was another tilt at the Champion’s League. We can file that one under “no chance” even if we could match his wage demands

 

[Hampster Gull]

Would be worth trying, even at 6m

 

[Stumpy Tim]

So he might leave Newcastle as he want to compete in the top ten, and we think he might be interested in managing Brighton. Genius

 

[BensGrandad]

.Hasnt Ashley offered him a transfer kitty in excess of £100m to spend in the summer if he signs another contract with them.

 

[Acker79]

Bloom keeps too tight a rein on the playing budget for us to appeal to someone like Benitez who always wants more.

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

.Hasnt Ashley offered him a transfer kitty in excess of £100m to spend in the summer if he signs another contract with them.

I read it was £50m each season before player sales. Surely we could top that?

 

[LamieRobertson]

I read it was £50m each season before player sales. Surely we could top that?

Surely its more a case of he says one thing and does another?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Should we be sounding out his agent...

I certainly would what with his unrest at Newcastle.
3 points in advance please to keep us in Prem then lead us next season!

I imagine we will pluck a young manager from the lower reaches of the Dutch league.

 

[Weststander]

I imagine we will pluck a young manager from the lower reaches of the Dutch league.

Roland Bergkamp.

 

[peterward]

Would be worth trying, even at 6m

NEVER going to happen, he’s an elite level manager, he’d never come to a club our size with our resources. Newcastle are a big club that’s badly run and underfunded, but they could be huge, he can see the potential for them to be a top six, it’s all there except cockface Ashley under investing, plus he’s adored on Tyneside, thus why he stayed when they went down.

We could offer 8 million a year, he wouldnt come.

 

[The Wizard]

These threads are an embarrassment. Totally unrealistic and a total insult towards an honourable man who has done a fantastic job for our club, disgusting.

 

[theonesmith]

These threads are an embarrassment. Totally unrealistic and a total insult towards an honourable man who has done a fantastic job for our club, disgusting.

And ironically another manager who sets up teams in the conservative style some are attacking Hughton for

 

[Commander]

These threads are an embarrassment. Totally unrealistic and a total insult towards an honourable man who has done a fantastic job for our club, disgusting.

Yeah, absolutely disgusting to want to better yourself and keep moving forward. Let’s keep Hughton in charge forever because he got us promoted.

The answer, of course, is yes we should all want Benitez, but it’s never going to happen because he is at a much bigger club than us who are still a level below the level he should be managing at.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

These threads are an embarrassment. Totally unrealistic and a total insult towards an honourable man who has done a fantastic job for our club, disgusting.

Is that Benitez or CH?

 

[Nixonator]

These threads are an embarrassment. Totally unrealistic and a total insult towards an honourable man who has done a fantastic job for our club, disgusting.

Out of curiosity how many games, home and away, have you been to this season?

 

[The Wizard]

Out of curiosity how many games, home and away, have you been to this season?

I’ve been a home season ticket holder since the early 2000’s and go to away games here and there that the budget stretches too... unlike what seems a majority of our idiotic fans, I’ve grown a sense of perspective. We are going through a shit phase right now, but it’s utterly disgraceful to Hughton and everything he’s achieved for us, to talk of tapping up another manager, especially one who himself is known for negativity and manages a bigger club than us, is downright stupid, let alone disrespectful.

People think Benitez would come into this group of players we have available and do anything different to the current manager? We have a limited squad and as such pretty much any manager that comes in when you get your wish, will set us up in the same manner or see us get relegated trying to play the ‘score more than you’ Fulham style tactic. Delusional idiots.

 

[Barham's tash]

No one gets it do they?

Clearly what’s going to happen is CH to slip away quietly into the night to be replaced by the Union St Galloise head coach who will arrive with our lord and saviour Percy Tau.