Rafa Seems Very Unhappy – Have Our Worst Fears Been Realised?

Jake Swinburn

As reported by the Chronicle, Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez seems to be very unhappy with those above him, following a disappointing draw at home to QPR.

After the game, Benitez was asked about Newcastle’s lack of action in the January transfer window, and the Spaniard said: “I can’t change things now so I have to concentrate on bringing the best from my players.”

“We knew what we needed and we knew what we have so we have to bring the best from the players we have.

However, Benitez did stop to say that he was happy with his current players, adding: “I am happy with them.

“We have to try to maintain the same level we had in the second half.”

Then when he was asked if could give a reason as to why the club did not sign anyone, he simply said: “No, because I don’t know.”

“I said before I am disappointed but I have to concentrate on the players we have and try to improve them.”

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  3. Shearer and Rafa both have toon relegations on their CV’s.
    Rafa has the chance to put it right, big Al didn’t.

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  4. kimtoon bonny lass, the huffy one is being a keyboard warrior hoying his weight abooot. ??

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  6. Big Al had no time to save us and in truth neither did Rafa, but as you say at least Rafa gets a second bite of the cherry.
    Thought he was very smart in his presser yesterday, he won’t quit but we cannot make the same mistakes. Warning shot deservedly so from Rafa but will the club listen ?

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  7. there were a few boos v QPR …. I HATE IT!

    a stupid own goal and Rafa & the team get booed.. Cringe!!

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  8. Kim, I have always said that the next window is the make or break one.. Lee pretty much handed Rafa a squad to get out of the championship with a number of incoming players that could handle the division well. He will need to do the same if we are promoted although it will be more about survival and competing in the PL. Time will tell.

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  9. Aussie:
    Kim, I have always said that the next window is the make or break one.. Lee pretty much handed Rafa a squad to get out of the championship with a number of incoming players that could handle the division well. He will need to do the same if we are promoted although it will be more about survival and competing in the PL. Time will tell.

    Agree, still hoping if we go up that Ashley will sell up, I don’t see how he can derive any pleasure in owning us when the vast majority of fans can’t stand him. It must be soul destroying , that’s if he has a soul 👿

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  11. I’ve never once boo’d the team as I think it’s totally counter productive. In my opinion that’s why blogs like this are good. People can let their anger out here instead of the game.

    Anyway, Jawdee, if you’ve only just sussed me out then you’re slower than I thought.

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  12. Kimtoon, dead right, always a steady lass.
    The huffy one skirted over my statement that we should be eternally grateful to toot and ploot for getting Rafa in. I can also understand his frustration that I have him sussed…
    Now…what Rafa does next is his business. ffs only clubs like Arsenal and Man United have managers who reign longer than 10 years, the majority of managers last 5 years…look at Ranieri, probably gonna get fired havin won the league last year.
    football is transient, and there are loads of radgie owners about..

    Only Charnley and Ashley know what really happened in the transfer negotiations, everything else is pure speculation. Rafa actually came out and made a statement to reassure the fans.
    If we need to get used to a life after Rafa so be it. Time will show.

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  13. Stuart79, I can understand your frustration at toot and ploot, and also me sussing you out.

    We need to batten down the hatches and hope our lucratively paid Champions League winning manager can get our listless group of millionaires promoted into the big league.

    Everything else toon wise is irrelevant, promotion at all costs. Signing 6 diddy’s in January who won’t strengthen the first team won’t help anyone.

    Rafa needs to start earning his salary, though he seems to have done a canny job so far.
    Pity the home fans can’t get behind the team, bunch of whingeing wasters.

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  14. 1-3 today, with the grinning one grinning even more.
    Can’t imagine the toon fans booing McLaren though. Dislike yes, but Parewesque booing…no..

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  15. Surprised how shaky our defending has come, very un-Rafa like.
    Lascelles struggling to handle the pressure, does Rafa pull him out briefly out of the spotlight to allow him to recover, or leave him in there to work his own way through it ? At the same time i don’t rate Lascelles.

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  16. Stuart79, just to get things straight between us, when I mentioned toot and ploot earlier I wasn’t talking about Aussiemag and Brisvegas.

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  18. without Gayle and our front line looking powder-puff. I’m also going for a 2-1 defeat.

    Derby are flying under SM

    We should never of hired SM, hated him from the off…

    Funny though, when SM was here everything the club did was blamed on SM.. poor transfer windows…SM’s fault, defeats SM’s fault..

    Rafas team play poorly and its the teams fault, Rafa isnt on the pitch… funny that.. 🙂

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  19. Stuart79:
    How very negative to predict a defeat! I thought negative thoughts were banned from this blog?

    Stu stop biting man, youve been on a right chomp the last few days

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  21. Gash stop picking on Stuart79, he’s entitled to his opinion.
    He realises that he won’t have things all his own way on this blog, but at the end of the day it’s good to have him back, albeit seldomly.
    Wouldn’t say I was being negative, more realistic. I saw nothing in midweek to convince me that we will beat Derby today.

    I thought we looked more dangerous when Gouffron moved up front v QPR, curious to see which team Rafa puts out.

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  24. so this whole shitty article written regarding Rafas future is becoming clearer everyday

    Fat Sam said “Never. Not ever,’ said Allardyce, when asked at if Townsend came close to leaving in January.

    ‘The only interest was a loan from Newcastle which was never going to happen. His long term future is with Palace.’

    So we never did try and buy him, So Ashley never baulked at the fee of 14mil, we offered a loan which was rejected.. pmsl talk about an over-reaction..

    Rafa will not be happy but i’m sure Charnley tried all day to get him on loan which Sam didnt want..

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  26. Gashley:
    so this whole shitty article written regarding Rafas future is becoming clearer everyday

    Fat Sam said “Never. Not ever,’ said Allardyce, when asked at if Townsendcame close to leaving in January.

    ‘The only interest was a loan from Newcastle which was never going to happen. His long term future is with Palace.’

    So we never did try and buy him, So Ashley never baulked at the fee of 14mil, we offered a loan which was rejected.. pmsltalk about an over-reaction..

    Rafa will not be happy but i’m sure Charnley tried all day to get him on loan which Sam didnt want..

    Well if Fat sam is correct then it begs the question , why did we **** around all window up to deadline day trying to loan a player that they had no intention of loaning or letting go !?
    That’s quite damning on Charnley & co if true and shouldn’t Rafa of been made aware of these facts.

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  27. after all the doom and gloom lets have a laugh before the game.
    when i was young things were real hard so my dad told me to save my pocket money and put it in a tin under the stairs,i was fifteen before i twigged is was the gas meter.

    murphy told paddy to set the clock for five in the morning,why says paddy theres only two of us.

    now has that cheered you up 😆 😆

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  28. I was just thinking about my contribution to this blog over the years and I genuinely can’t think of one single time that I have been proved wrong when it has come to the direction of this club under Jabba. That’s quite a gift. ??

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  29. It’s as clear as mud, yesterday it was down to Andros’s wage demands and on deadline day Keith Downie @Sky sports reported that he was all set to announce the move at 4pm when he was informed the ‘ goalpost had been moved ‘ ! So what exactly is the truth here. We don’t know and Rafa certainly doesn’t appear to know 🙄 Shambolic carry on.

    For what it’s worth, this could just be Sam keeping a player happy and not thinking he wasn’t wanted. Happy ship and all that like. If Sam hadn’t been back with incomings I am pretty sure Andros would be gone to raise funds. That he was able to stick the middle finger at us and Rafa must of made the sad ****s day.

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  30. icedog:
    after all the doom and gloom lets have a laugh before the game.
    when i was young things were real hard so my dad told me to save my pocket money and put it in a tin under the stairs,i was fifteen before i twigged is was the gas meter.

    murphy told paddy to set the clock for five in the morning,why says paddy theres only two of us.

    now has that cheered you up

    😆 love the meter bit

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  31. Tight game today, but Rafa and the lads have something to prove and this whole business made just of galvanised them enough to get the win.

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  32. The Colback to West Ham meltdown comes to mind Stuart. You had your knickers (or were they Georgios ?) in a right twist when you thought W/ham were hijacking the deal.. oh how I laughed at your naivety and all round wrongness. . ???

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  34. kimtoon:
    Tight game today, but Rafa and the lads have something to prove and this whole business made just of galvanised them enough to get the win.

    aye i wonder how this shambles is going to effect the players wondering if Rafa will be here next yr

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  35. Stuart79:
    I was just thinking about my contribution to this blog over the years and I genuinely can’t think of one single time that I have been proved wrong when it has come to the direction of this club under Jabba. That’s quite a gift.

    did you not think we could of avoided relegation? saying Sunderland arent going to leep winning??

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  36. Colback or Sunderland have had no link to the direction the club has gone under Mike Ashley whatsoever! Can you lot not read my posts?

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  37. icedog:
    short vid of the kid we just signed

    http://nothingbutnewcastle.com/2017/02/blogs/number-1/video-newcastle-uniteds-latest-under-the-radar-signing-should-get-fans-excited-despite-benitez-rumours/

    Ice – looks a tidy finisher, but will he get developed properly – and then the chance in the first team squad. That’s always been the problem with our ‘promising’ youngsters – seems to be the case with Armstrong at the moment as well.

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  38. kimtoon:
    Tight game today, but Rafa and the lads have something to prove and this whole business made just of galvanised them enough to get the win.

    hope so. its got to be better than the qpr performance..

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  39. Stuart79, thats why we need you’re erudite insight on here, there are too many other divvy’s on here trying to rock Rafa’s boat.???

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  40. Icedog, brilliant stuff mate !

    Play football with a smile on your face…now that would be nice… playing footy for the toon at the cathedral on the hill, getting paid 40 grand a week for the privelige.. you couldn’t stop me smiling mate… things should be put into perspective.. I remember winning the cup one year with the football pink 1972 edition down my socks as shin pads…

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  41. Stuart79:
    Colback or Sunderland have had no link to the direction the club has gone under Mike Ashley whatsoever! Can you lot not read my posts?

    of course they do!! the direction of the club heading to the Championship?? you got it wrong, Sunderland won and we headed down.. 1-0 to Gash… 😛

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  42. On NewsNow there are so many sites now that use misleading click-bait headlines. It used to be the odd one but it’s virtually all of the top rated articles now. The one quoting Freddy Shepherd for example. I go on there less these days as most of the headlines are deliberately misquoting people for clicks. NewsNow could do with having a good purge of some of the serial offenders. They will start to lose credibility the longer it goes on, although I understand that they are only a search engine.

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  44. paddy & murphy heading off on holiday flying to America
    The pilot comes over the tannoy to warn one of the engines have blown so the landing will be delayed by 30 minutes.
    20 mins later the 2nd engine blows, and the pilot tells the passengers it will be an hour to landing.
    40 mins later the 3rd engine fails, resulting in a 2 hr delay

    Paddy turns around to Murphy and says ” **** me, I hope that last engine doesnt go, we’ll be up here all night” 😛 😯

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  45. Delusional Jawdee:
    Icedog, brilliant stuff mate !

    Play football with a smile on your face…now that would be nice… playing footy for the toon at the cathedral on the hill, getting paid 40 grand a week for the privelige..you couldn’t stop me smiling mate…things should be put into perspective.. I remember winning the cup one year with the football pink 1972 edition down my socks as shin pads…

    God the football pink,you have made me wish we still had it,don’t miss standing outside Thomson house waiting for it coming out,I had just left the ground half a hour earlier,what a gluten for punishment I must have been. You wore shin pads I hated them never ever wore them,but God how I suffer for it now

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  46. DJG. I had to stop going on newsnow as it seemed every link I clicked on would freeze and take for ever to load, it also effected my pc’s performance. Since avoiding the site things are much better apart from the odd hiccup on this site. I blame the ads.

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  47. Gashley:
    paddy & murphy heading off on holiday flying to America
    The pilot comes over the tannoy to warn one of the engines have blown so the landing will be delayed by 30 minutes.
    20 mins later the 2nd engine blows, and the pilot tells the passengers it will be an hour to landing.
    40 mins later the 3rd engine fails, resulting in a 2 hr delay

    Paddy turns around to Murphy and says ” **** me, I hope that last engine doesnt go, we’ll be up here all night”

    Love it nowt better than a laugh when things look ****

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  48. Stuart79:
    That wasn’t down to Ashley was it? Rafa was in charge

    yes, due to the lack of signings … Rafa said as much yesterday when he said mistakes were made…

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  49. Icedog, we can rely on Stuart79 to keep us giggling with his comments

    aye, football pink, then dickmans pie and chips at the top of Pink Lane then away home for a night of Noel Edmonds and a can of Kestrel .. happy days…

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  50. Right I’m off out. Enjoyed a laugh over the last couple of days on the blog. Like the good old days when I was always right.

    Going for a 1-1 today.

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  51. Ice/DJ – when I was around 13yrs around ’93, my best mates uncle had the local newsagents and me & my mate got the job as the pink delivery lads. Not only was it the best paid delivery round but it was also the most profitable.
    We always made sure we delivered to the blokes without kids first. In return they would give us the glossy posters of the players from inside the paper – which we then went on to sell to our mates at school ?.
    We always made a tidy packet on Xmas tips too (which generally went towards a new pair of puma kings).

    When we were old enough to start drinking in Winlaton (the following year ?), we’d go out with a fiver and come back shitfaced. Every bar we’d go in would be ‘alright young un, here John, get this lad whatever he’s drinking, he delivers my Pink’.
    We got **** off nobody ?.

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  53. Sharpy17, great story mate, laird of Winlaton for a couple of years, brilliant.

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  54. Delusional Jawdee:
    Sharpy17, great story mate, laird of Winlaton for a couple of years, brilliant.

    Yeah mate, not the most reputable gaffs – even the locals call it the asylum on the hill ? – but we were kings ??

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  57. Mitro has to do just two things today
    1. Take his chance and score
    2. Keep a cool head and stay on the pitch

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  62. Lee Ryder ‏@lee_ryder · 59m59 minutes ago

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    Jamaal Lascelles on the bench today due to a groin injury. #nufc

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  64. kimtoon:
    Lee Ryder ‏@lee_ryder· 59m59 minutes ago

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    Jamaal Lascelles on the bench today due to a groin injury. #nufc

    Kim – you don’t get put on the bench if your injured. He took the **** against QPR – too lacklustre & I think he’s been taken out for that reason personally.

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