rocky29 wrote:am sorry but rafa has had 6 years to build a formidible squad. you can have all the money in china but it comes down to rafas negative tactics. he will never change his style hes to stubborn. we should rebuild our team around aquilani. quick one touch football rafa would never play that style..when we get new owners theres only one man i would trust to get us out of this mess and thats fabio the great capello. like hes done with england he can do for us simple.
Exactly.
Fans on here aren't "impatient", Rafa has had a long time, spent a lot of money and we're struggling to finish where we've finished the last TEN seasons on the bounce - top five. It goes deeper than just signings or results, it is the 'style', the lack of ability to defend, the weakness he has in substitutions and a lot of other things including media relations (he comes across as a spoiled child not getting his way, that's life Rafa, you don't always get what you're "promised") and these are things that aren't going to change - people don't very often change. So it's not about changing the money, he might even change tactics, but WYSIWYG with Rafa and if people are impressed and want patience then I'd say they're happy with less than they should be.
I don't believe MON or Hodgson would be better managers. MON could well be killing villa, too stuck in poor tactics like Rafa and Hodgson is getting way too much praise, the calls for manager of the year make me laugh based on the Euro Disney League and that's about it - Fulham are 13th, three games to go but that is usually about the mark sides set themselves to avoid relegation. Half their form is at home, 10 wins at home and just the one away from Craven Cottage. I've nothing against Hodgson, but he's nothing special. McLaren reached a UEFA Cup final, he was nothing special either.
Yet 'arry has spudz as serious contenders, not only taking them from a struggling position, but already they've broken their own Premiership record of points. He has a good track record at every club he's managed and somehow doesn't get the same credit other managers do for doing something quaint or nothing worth mentioning. Stoke and brum are ABOVE Fulham ffs and yet noone's shedding cumloads in buckets over them as manager, although with their styles of play that isn't surprising. But in terms of resources, experienced Premiership players etc their starting point is way behind Fulham's
I don't advocate Rafa leaving to be replaced by half the candidates that get touted all the time, but I seriously cannot see him winning the league if you gave him TWENTY YEARS. He is too defensive in mindset, to put this season into perspective it isn't just having a 'bad season', we've lost ONE IN THREE GAMES - not even to top sides, there are pompey, Wigan, Reading, Lille, Sunderland, not to mention lame draws against Stoke, Blackburn, brum and Wolves. We can't beat them with the players we have?!?!?! End of excuses please, the cobblers about 'patience' is just icing on the cake, I guess you'd sit there for 24 hours waiting for a TV to work when it was obvious after 10-15 mins to most it wasn't gonna....................................
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off to Kenny to take over as manager. None of the current premier league managers impresses me. God help us all if the likes of oneil or hodgens become our manager. Another candidate that would be suitable IMO would be hiddink. He is good with working with what he has. I still can't believe though that this season's performances are being labeled as typical of rafa on here. We had two very good seasons in the league under rafa, third and last season. We were considered making progress until last season even by the anti's. And now after this season, these things were all forgotten. And I still can't believe it. But fair enough, rafa had had enough time, but I don't necessarily agree that he had had enough backing, so if he has to go, he has to go. What i would be more concerned now would be who we're getting. If we go for veterans, then the above would be my options. Either that or go with a new face with fresh ideas, who knows a new face might be able to pull off what guardiola did for barca.
probably not.
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