Has Benitez got the boot yet?
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Pérez says: “We have had a board meeting and analysed the sporting situation atReal Madrid. Rafa has all our support and all our confidence.”
According to sources on Twitter, unofficially he has been sacked. It will be disclosed at some point during the season or even at the end of the season.
I think that is the status of every manager who signs up for Real Madrid. Even on the day they sign the contract.
Always thought it was a strange appointment.
Why all this hate for Benitez.. ??
He is amongst some of the best things that has happend to this club, since the turn of century. I am thankful for that...
He should never of been replaced by Hodgson, who was the sign of our demise..
He is amongst some of the best things that has happend to this club, since the turn of century. I am thankful for that...
He should never of been replaced by Hodgson, who was the sign of our demise..
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Why was it a strange appointment? He's from Madrid, supported the club, played for the club at a lower level, knows the club inside out, knows the politics of it inside out, has always wanted to manage it, and he's won things at pretty much everywhere he's been. Given that, and the fact that they'd already sacked nearly all the other top managers around, and the fact that some insiders realised that the ageing stars in the team would soon need pushing out or smacking down, then it was surely a fairly logical and predictable appointment.
The current problems with that club have far more to do with the over-indulgence of Ronaldo, and the past mismanagement of the squad, than Benitez's work over a couple of months.
It was a strange appointment because he is a defensive minded manager. It was also strange that Napoli appointed him because the fans want the team to play excellent attacking football.
At Real he must play a system he don't want. He will be sacked if he don't play a very attacking system even if they win almost every game because the fans want excellent attacking football and players like Ronaldo and Bale will demand that he get sacked. If the manager demand that they must work their socks off then the very lazy Ronaldo will be pissed off.
Rafa is one of the best managers in the world. He isn't a manager that the fans that support a top club want because his system is to boring to watch.
At Real he must play a system he don't want. He will be sacked if he don't play a very attacking system even if they win almost every game because the fans want excellent attacking football and players like Ronaldo and Bale will demand that he get sacked. If the manager demand that they must work their socks off then the very lazy Ronaldo will be pissed off.
Rafa is one of the best managers in the world. He isn't a manager that the fans that support a top club want because his system is to boring to watch.
Ronaldo 'very lazy'? Did you stop watching footy in 2007 by any chance?
Rafa's a good manger, but he's not in the 'best managers in the world' echelon anymore ... That being said, managing Madrid where not winning La Liga and Champions League is considered failure, is a lose lose for all managers (unless they want 2-3 years and that's it) ...
Rafa's a good manger, but he's not in the 'best managers in the world' echelon anymore ... That being said, managing Madrid where not winning La Liga and Champions League is considered failure, is a lose lose for all managers (unless they want 2-3 years and that's it) ...
He's a manager who builds from a disciplined defence. At what clubs has he had not only a good defence but also an abundance of attacking flair? Not at Liverpool (who couldn't afford to buy it); not at Chelski. His Valencia (who weren't 'boring' at all) played some of the most stylish and elegant football Anfield had seen from a visiting team in years. If someone wanted Real to get stronger at the back, then he was a logical choice, while what he did with the exceptional attacking players was something that was more a matter for speculation, but it wasn't a 'strange' appointment, that's more down to subjective views of the man than objective views of the manager. Anyway, he's doomed there, as is any manager, good, bad or mediocre.
Not this discussion again. Very good manager and he did a lot of great things for our club. But it was the right thing to let him go. We were going backwards.
Of course most hope he does well but Real have had 12 manager in the last 12 years. Its an awful job to take on.
He'll be gone pretty quickly if they dont go on some spectacular run. He's already lost loads of the fans.
I thought it was a strange appointment, to be honest. He did nothing in charge of Napoli to suggest he is ready to manage one of the biggest clubs in the world. I don't think any of his teams after LFC were even good defensively, which is supposedly his big strength. I think he lost his way big time after that season when we came second and never really recovered; at this point he is simply not a top-class coach and Real players can sense that and therefore give him no respect.
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As Gkmacca has said, it isn't particularly strange. Perez knows (or at least knew) that the dressing room held too much power under Ancelotti, who indulged the squad and especially Ronaldo. He knew he needed, essentially, a manage who wouldn't pander to the egos and who would start the process of managing Ronaldo out the door, and who could build an actual team rather than a squad of 'superstars'. When you look at it that way, Rafa is a fairly obvious choice, especially when you consider his Madrid background and the other available options. The only real question is how well Perez can keep his resolve.
I love Rafa - yes he can be stuborn but he made us feared and great in Europe. As for being defensively minded all i can say is that we have won more cups as a club with more disciplined defences than without. It was not a strange appointment by real at all. I think i am right in thinking that he has only lost that one game since taking charge of Real.
A club that don't want to hold onto Ancelotti (Here you can actually put in a lot of names but I use Ancelotti as an example) is a stupid club. At least as Ancelotti did well for them!
There's some totally batshit cunt on the Official Forums who claims that Benitez was employed by Madrid because Perez wanted Barca to win La Liga again, foment unrest in the dressing room, upset Ronaldo, allowing Real to sell Ronaldo to PSG without damaging their own brand and losing face.
That's some high-level tinfoil hattery
Sounds like a tad bit convoluted, esp considering just repeatedly stealing his hair gel would do the same thing.
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