Behind Enemy Lines
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Benitez has left Newcastle
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- Thread starter Behind Enemy Lines
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Great news for us, he has had them punching well above their weight.
Dennis Wise or a stunning return for Pards please.
Dennis Wise or a stunning return for Pards please.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Mike Ashley and hiis cronies must be bloody mad. Take Benitez out of the equation and the Toon could be relegation candidates.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Cue the geordie meltdown. He was always far too good for them anyway, I'm amazed he lasted this long.
Denis Wise already on his way up the M1 ?
Denis Wise already on his way up the M1 ?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
CH returns to the PL
Thanks Mike, doing all other lower premier league sides a favour! [emoji106]
It's a nailed on job for Sami.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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This isn't funny at all, not one bi.......HAHAHAHAHA
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
I don't necessarily think that's fair. More a case of Ashley not good enough for them imo.
Paris
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The Guardian sport headline - 'Ashley to give Sparky war-chest to take on City and Liverpool'. Exciting times to be a Geordie. Well jell!
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
That will hurt them badly
oh dear, how sad, never mind
oh dear, how sad, never mind
Milano
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He’s walked he wasn’t sacked. Not sure how this is Ashley’s fault? Rumour he’s refused to sanction a massive transfer spend. If that were Bloom we would be praising him for common business sense. (I still think Ashley comes across as a **** of a person though!!).
Benitez acting like he’s still at Liverpool or Chelsea in terms expectations.
Benitez acting like he’s still at Liverpool or Chelsea in terms expectations.
I'd say somewhere inbetween. Historically big club but nowadays not really, Toon have good local support but are nothing globally.
Lower Prem/Upper Champ is probably their standard now (a la Leeds, Derby, Villa, Fulham), they were fortunate to have such a good manager IMO.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
True, but surely a manager the calibre of Benitez should be in charge of one of the big European clubs challenging for honours, not pissing about with a basket-case yo-yo club like Newcastle, where the best he was ever going to achieve there was exactly what he did - mid table. I don't really understand why he so readily accepted several years of utter mediocrity there. I'm sure he was well rewarded, but he'd have got that anyway, if he was managing a serious football club. Its like he's had his career on hold.
Bet he gets a proper job next.
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
It is a strange one for sure.
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
Would've been interesting to see what he could've achieved with a more supportive Chairman. We'll never know now......thankfully.