United deserve more than one trophy this season. They are simply excellent. Only Bayern is better this season, and possibly Juve is on the same level.
He barely comes around to post and when he does you try to scare him off with 2010 meme trolling? For shame, sir!
I would love to come in here more often, thread moves incredibly fast though :0
Woah Fady, you may disagree with them, but that's no reason to call them "Bumheads"
His username is BumHead btw
Fans being pricks and not getting behind the manager.
Being given the title interim manager and not just manager.
That the home atmosphere is poisonous and might contribute to lack of CL qualification.
Benitez for the most part is bang on. Only his constant masturbation over his own record was a bit dumb because his recent record doesn't really speak for him.
A lot of fans were pricks by the way. Very inpatient. I don't disagree with this. I know a lot of fans who were very patient with him. I understand the irony when I say we are being patient and yet in a short period we are ranting but the reaction from my end is due to his poorly timed rant IMO.
Also, interim manager was the job offer from the start. He wasn't forced to take it. He chose to take it. And he specifically said he knew of the challenges at such a club. He knows he was replacing RDM anyway. And he mentioned time and time again that he is here because he wants to win trophies and games. Forget the trophies, at least win us a decent amount of games. At least give us a bit of fight like many Chelsea managers did before you. Etc. Surely he knew that if he kicked a lot of ass as a manager they would have decided to keep him. He rightfully earns the title interim manager, and after the past few months I think he proved to be a great fit for nothing but an interim manager. Know that I was actually looking forward to him as a manager after feeling horrible about RDM's sacking.
As for the home atmosphere being poisonous - I don't know if poisonous is the word anymore. The fans are reacting to dreadful results and dreadful performances and dreadful tactics. They pay a lot of money to go watch these games live and they have every right to voice their frustration. This goes for every single football club in my opinion.
He took the job and he knew it would be difficult. He barely did anything right for the club IMO. In fact, he took it backwards in many ways. He should expect nothing less. In fact, for doing so much damage in such a short period, he should have expected worse working for a guy like Abramovich who, dare I say it, would easily fire an interim manager too.
Just my thoughts really.
I agree with that totally.
I don't really agree the fans have had to go through a lot, if we end up with Europa League for a season its not that bad at the end of the day, the positives far outweigh the negatives and Roman will sort us out with someone the fans like soon enough.
The thing that annoys me most is people believing what Rafa is saying about the bad results being down to the atmosphere at Stamford Bridge, its really not that bad at all. I thought it would be far worse when he was appointed and have been very surprised at how little abuse he actually gets. I was at the Etihad on Sunday, when he made those dreadful substitutions the reaction in the crowd was really not as bad as it should have been.
I agree with you Billy, I'm ok with another season at the Europa (thankful even, as a lot of clubs don't get the chance to play at a cup competition outside the Capital One Cup and the FA Cup). I just wish we can see some consistency, some decent tactics, some more victories, etc. I hope you are right about Roman bringing in someone we can all like, it is just that he was too harsh with RDM - it was such a bad decision. He was losing Champions League qualification to the next round this season anyway, so why not keep him till the end of the season? They were four points behind the top -_-
And yes - I highly agree with you. "I thought it would be far worse when he was appointed and have been very surprised at how little abuse he actually gets" SO TRUE. He is exaggerating so much. I guess when he is doing this badly at a club he'll want to point fingers elsewhere.