Do manager pay-outs count towards FFP? If so I think they might actually be unable to sack him.
Rafa Benitez | Sacked (Fachts)
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Is there any big name manager from the early 00s who is still successful? Deschanps maybe. Jose and Rafa seem to be out of touch the last 5-6 years.
Don’t know why he keeps taking jobs under ridiculous conditions. Loves setting himself up for failure. Mind I still think they’ll have a strong second half of the season if he lasts beyond Christmas.
The weekend game against Brentford really is massive for him and us. If we lose then we are in real danger. Liverpool next after that and I can't see us beating them. I'm genuinely worried about a relegation battle at this point because if we sack him I do not know who we would turn to. 
Ole??The weekend game against Brentford really is massive for him and us. If we lose then we are in real danger. Liverpool next after that and I can't see us beating them. I'm genuinely worried about a relegation battle at this point because if we sack him I do not know who we would turn to.
The only thing missing is Liverpool trashing them 4-0, 5-0 midweek and that's it for him. Job done.
In big trouble aren't they?
Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea coming up very soon.
Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea coming up very soon.
Why has their form gone off a cliff?
Our injuries are disgustingly bad but Rafa isn’t helping himself recently. Read today we have a 21% win record without DCL compared to 50% with him too. Also starting Rondon is like playing with one less player every game.
KRAE
I think if we aren’t careful we are going to go down.
Oh ok, when is DCL due back?
Back in training so hopefully soon.
Opened the thread just after looking at the table and thinking with the form you're in it's a possibility. Think Rafa's gotta go.
This may have dropped to top 6.
5 losses and a draw in last 6 PL games. Went out of EFL Cup against QPR as well. Some of their main players are injured of course but if things don't improve quickly Benitez will be gone before Christmas surely.
You'll be fine once hes back
Needed an everton draw for £70 so watched the last half hour. Honestly Everton were so poor
They are the easiest game in the division right now and that’s not a good place to be in.
Rafa obviously hasn’t got the players to buy into his ideas. It looks like a bad fit.
Rafa obviously hasn’t got the players to buy into his ideas. It looks like a bad fit.
Sacked tomorrow night surely?
He'll probably still land a decent job somewhere else mind... most overrated manager of the last 10/15 years.
He'll probably still land a decent job somewhere else mind... most overrated manager of the last 10/15 years.
Definitely. Atmosphere is going to be much worse than Nuno and Ole's last games.
I imagine he'll go to Newcastle United next. They still revere him and Eddie Howe probably won't last that long.
Hope so, they'll see what a shite job he'll do with all those players they'll buy and then wonder why the feck they all hero worshipped him.
At this point, he's the Spanish Sam Allardyce.
Definitely this week I reckon. A decent performance despite losing might see him through but feels like a Moyes at Goodison grim reaper moment.
Are they all set for their annual Liverpool dicking tonight?
Yep, think he may be sacked after tonight. Liverpool fans singing his name at 3-0 will probably be too much for the Everton fans.
I can sense you're just holding back the tears!
Disastrous, nonsensical appointment.
They have a shite squad and he’s an outdated manager. Fans were never going to take to him and rightfully so, which meant pressure and hostility at the first sign of bad form which Everton fans are well within their rights to act on.
I thought they’d get relegated at the start of the season after hiring him and if they don’t sack him they will.
They have a shite squad and he’s an outdated manager. Fans were never going to take to him and rightfully so, which meant pressure and hostility at the first sign of bad form which Everton fans are well within their rights to act on.
I thought they’d get relegated at the start of the season after hiring him and if they don’t sack him they will.
Won in Anfield last season but with Rafa in charge of Everton I'd expect them to roll over and be beaten by half time tonight
We are no position to mock teams for bending over and getting a dicking from Liverpool.
Expect Everton to lose 9-1 or something crazy like that. Was brainless to hire him. Ignoring his Liverpool history, the game has passed him by.
I loved watching Everton under Ancelotti, they should have went after a more progressive, attack minded manager.
I loved watching Everton under Ancelotti, they should have went after a more progressive, attack minded manager.
They were absolutely awful to watch last season as were we in Ancelotti's second season.
Carlo is onto something when he says he gets hired for his relaxed nature and fired for it aswell. The novelty of such an approach seems to benefit teams in the short term (especially when it's combined with muscle memory from the likes of Pep and peak Mou) but then the lack of intensity to sessions really start to show on the pitch, Bayern players allegedly did their own sessions because of it.
They need to get rid asap and no other PL club should ever hire him again. Him and Slippy in the league means an automatic 12 point head start to every season for Pool. These two YAWN twats will always end up showing their true colors.
If Everton get a hammering tonight and play awful, i could see him being under real pressure
Everton were very good at start of last season, they were even top but after that they were not that great. We beat them comfortably at Goodison in November and dominated at Old Trafford as well, just fecked it up with bad defending. 59 points with -1 goal difference is nothing special, don't think Everton would be much better this season with Ancelotti in charge, maybe I'm wrong.
I doubt it.
Rafa has picked up results (all be it draws) against Liverpool quite a few times and he came within minutes of ending their title bid in 2019.
Gerrard won't roll over for them if nothing else because he will be auditioning to eventually get that job. Getting hammered multiple times infront of his wannabe future employers (and potential getting relegated as a consequence) will only serve to take his name out of the hat.
Bit like Poch at PSG, a manager that doesn't want to be there for a fan base that doesn't really want him. I'm sure with the developments at Newcastle, he probably in hindsight regrets taking the Everton job.