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Rafa Benitez


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Maradona had a slightly different spin on Rafa halfway through his tenure:

 

"Napoli should have stuck with Benitez. The fact he's at Real Madrid now proves how good he is."

 

Don't forget, this is the guy who also thought Jonas was Argentina's best player in 2010. So he's not always wrong :D 

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Brilliant stuff. As Happy Face alludes to, we are now ahead of our cumulative points total in 2009/10. 28 points from 13 vs. 27 points from 13.

 

Our form after the rocky start in all competitions is 11 wins from 13. 

 

I'd still look on those Hughton stats as very impressive though. Let's take a look at his CV since Ashley sacked him off. 

 

Gets Birmingham to the play-offs despite financial crisis and having their assets frozen. Takes them on an FA Cup run (5th round) and Europa League campaign (group stages).

 

Takes over at Norwich, who he keeps in the Premier League, guiding them to 11th in first season. Is sacked in April the next season with the club 17th and five points above the relegation zone. They are later relegated.

 

Takes charge at Brighton mid-season (December 2014), who he rescues from the threat of relegation. They finish 20th. Next season guides them to 3rd - as we know they missed out on winning the league, never mind automatic promotion, by a hair's breadth. Again this season they're keeping pace with ourselves and Norwich despite much lower budget.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Manager of the month for October as well. Class twitter thread on it...basically everyone is throwing their toys out of the pram because it's 'not fair'. ''Give it to Monk or Grayson''.

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