David Kelly 1245 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 If he was really waiting for better offers he didn't wait long did he? The play offs and the champions league final haven't happened yet. If he'd waited longer there would certainly have been other offers. Maybe they wouldn't have been in the premiership but they probably would have involved European football. But who gives a fuck. He's here and we're all behind him. How many managers have had the full support of us in our lives? There's only two others I can remember and they did pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausman 0 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Have to say, this is with out a doubt the best thing to happen since Sir Bobby came to the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17252 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 He's another pundit that does nowt to dispel the notion that footballers are fucking morons. Who fucking cares if Rafa 'stalled' he's here why try and piss on that other than simply being a thick scouse cunt? For what it's worth I don't think he did, I think he was just standing his ground and making sure he got exactly what he was asking for before he committed. It seems staying near his family was of massive importance to him which has suited NUFC, cracking news. Oh aye and as PL says he was fucking shite himself, our club wouldn't have touched him with a bargepole. According to this his family had more of a say in his decision than even we may have expected, which also reflects incredibly well on our support in general http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/rafa-benitez-how-a-champions-league-winning-manager-was-convinced-to-stay-with-newcastle-united-a7048451.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpirlo68 0 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Other #NUFC stuff - Carr set to remain but with diminished role, pre-season plans just about finalised, no exit clauses in new Benitez deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2978 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I want to be the first to say, I always believed this would happen. Great news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 According to this his family had more of a say in his decision than even we may have expected, which also reflects incredibly well on our support in general http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/rafa-benitez-how-a-champions-league-winning-manager-was-convinced-to-stay-with-newcastle-united-a7048451.html Aye honestly I think the bloke just wanted to be at a club where he was appreciated and near his family, it's cracking that the lads give him the full support I think it really did make a difference in his decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Other #NUFC stuff - Carr set to remain but with diminished role, pre-season plans just about finalised, no exit clauses in new Benitez deal. So he'll basically go back to being a scout then, which he should have been all along tbf. I'm glad that Rafa is bringing in his own scouting team as well, it's about time the football side of things was controlled by a bloke that knows football rather than Lee Charnley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie 0 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Danny Murphy: takes some doing to be a boring, bitter little twat after you've spent 15 years of your life playing football every day and ended up a millionaire in the process. Clueless fuckin glake. Howay Rafa you fucking beauty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpirlo68 0 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 So he'll basically go back to being a scout then, which he should have been all along tbf. I'm glad that Rafa is bringing in his own scouting team as well, it's about time the football side of things was controlled by a bloke that knows football rather than Lee Charnley. It's exciting that we finally have a manager being allowed to be a manager and bring in his own players, im looking forward to seeing Rafa's signing not just a group of players chucked at him Just a shame it's took nearly 10 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Christmas Tree 4725 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 http://www.thedugoutfootball.com/rafa-relegation-newcastle-united/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Not the first time Murphy has had a pop. He can't stand us for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1245 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I think him being a complete prick is the main reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 He's like a slightly more articulate Paul Merson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42418 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 He's like a slightly more articulate Paul Merson.Joey Deacon was more articulate than Merson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 4156 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Fuck right off! Just when I thought I'd have a nice couple of nufc free years, the bastards have us hooked again. Typical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 http://www.thedugoutfootball.com/rafa-relegation-newcastle-united/ More people stayed behind at St. James’ Park to support Rafa Benitez than the number of Manchester City fans who stayed behind at The Etihad to thank Manuel Pellegrini for delivering them a Premier League title before he left the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I truly am so happy, we can genuinely return to the club we should be with this man. This was the best moment of the Ashley era till yesterday. It can't fail to put a smile on the most dour mans face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7083 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Fuck right off! Just when I thought I'd have a nice couple of nufc free years, the bastards have us hooked again. Typical sigh Aye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) Another piece on this by @SebSB, who's a good football follow iyam Newcastle United: Sunshine, at last And suddenly, there was light. Shards of sunshine burst through the dark cloud and St James’ Park, lost long ago within the Mike Ashley fog, was lit up once again. George Caulkin, The Times’ peerless north-east correspondent, described it as a “day of revolution” on Tyneside: the moment when Newcastle United finally prised modernity’s icy fingers from its neck. He’s right. What would constitute business as normal at other clubs represents a cultural shift at Newcastle. Now, they are actually going to think, act, and behave like a football team. Rafael Benitez has reached an agreement for a new three-year contract and, significantly, will take control of all matters relating to the first-team. Whereas his recent predecessors have all had the unenviable task of crafting a side from a hodgepodge of stagnant assets, Benitez will fill a more traditional role. Not a lacky employed to veil the background cynicism, but an actual head-coach with old fashioned autonomy; the Spaniard is warm and affable, but he has evidently used his own worth to ruthlessly back his employers into a corner and, subsequently, into a very public abandonment of their hated ideology. Mike Ashley and Lee Charnley set Newcastle on this path to failure, and Benitez has cast himself as the driver to correct that course: it’s all really rather wonderful. Fun to see Ashley fail and his asset damaged, of course, but much more so for he and his supporting cast of over-promoted executives to be forced to acknowledge that, really, they’re just not as smart as they assumed they were. Even for neutrals, there’s been something detestable about the why Newcastle have behaved throughout this era. Their brazen attempt to squat in the Premier League and collect television revenue has opposed the spirit of the game and the ambitionless speculation associated with their recruitment strategy has clouded the purity of one of this country’s sporting jewels. Tacky billboards line the pitch and the club’s shirt is adorned with the insignia of a company who profit from the dark art of manipulating the vulnerable. When people talk of the evils of modern football, this is what they see in those nightmares: a club with no real desire to compete, and a group of supporters watching on in open-mouthed horror. It’s what we all fear and it’s the reality which the Newcastle public have had to live for far too long. Football has a wonderful sense of justice sometimes. Just as Manchester United equalised seconds after Alan Pardew’s hubris had spilled out across the Wembley technical area, Newcastle’s relegation – and the changes which it subsequently forced – act as a reminder that the sport’s Gods are always watching. Had Sunderland not battered Everton earlier this month and sent their local rivals tumbling into the Championship, next season in the north-east would have been the same as all of those which preceded it. Benitez, in spite of his CV, would not have had the leverage to enact change and the Newcastle boardroom would still be convinced that, really, they know better. He might have struggled on, perhaps trudging through to October or November before realising how little value there is in managing an organisation set on stasis, but would then have been replaced by whichever beard Ashley chose to pluck from the Everyman(ager) carousel. This, then, was one of those rare instances in which dramatic failure actually served the common interest: the world got to cackle as Ashley and Charnley were chastened, but the Newcastle supporters – simultaneously the most forgotten and most important body in this tragicomedy – were compensated with the change they desired. Everybody has won, except the people who deserved to lose. Welcome to a brave new world, one in which players are procured for their immediate footballing value rather than their appreciation potential. Today, anything is possible: twenty-eight year-old centre-halves, proper full-backs, maybe even veteran leadership in midfield. What an enticing prospect that must be. Big caveats still exist over what might happen once the club returns to the Premier League and Ashley is able to bathe in the liquid gold of the broadcasting contract, but for now – mercifully – this football club is once again in the business of winning football matches. In other parts of the country that’s a given, but under those brightening Newcastle skies it must seem like a precious luxury. Better? Edited May 26, 2016 by The Fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1245 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Would be better if we could see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) Fuck right off! Just when I thought I'd have a nice couple of nufc free years, the bastards have us hooked again. Typical Edited May 26, 2016 by Howay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/05/jamie-carragher-thinks-rafa-benitez-looking-ahead-newcastle-champions-league-newcastle-united/ Carragher on Rafa. In other news Carragher has just became a 'maggie cunt' within the massive boundaries of the ever expanding city of Sunderland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/05/jamie-carragher-thinks-rafa-benitez-looking-ahead-newcastle-champions-league-newcastle-united/ Carragher on Rafa. In other news Carragher has just became a 'maggie cunt' within the massive boundaries of the ever expanding city of Sunderland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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