We read the interview Achraf Lazaar gave to the Italian media recently where he seemed to slam Rafa Benitez for pleading with him to sign for Newcastle last summer and then when [...]
It will be a test of the coaching staff and our players today at Swansea since Rafa has decided not the take the helicopter trip down to Swansea today as he tries [...]
The Republic of Ireland will play Serbia in Dublin tonight in World Cup qualifying, and it looks like Ciaran Clark could even be marking hisNewcastle team-mate Aleksandar Mitrovic. Mitro is in the [...]
Mike Ashley has not taken too long to put a wedge between himself and his latest manager, Rafa Benitez, and he still doesn't like spending money as an owner. While it seemed [...]
Rafa Benitez was asked after the game if that performance was perfect from Newcastle, so perfectionist Rafa said nothing is ever perfect but that it was a great display from his Newcastle [...]
There was news today that Newcastle could be close to a transfer breakthrough and that some of our players could be close to finally leaving Newcastle. But Rafa doesn;t exactly agree and [...]
New signing Joselu seems delighted to be at Newcastle under Spanish manager Rafa Benitez, and he has been given the number 21 shirt at the club. The 27-year-old has been interviewed on [...]
News today in the Chronicle that the signing of Chelsea's 21-year-oldwinger/defender Kenedy on a season-long loan deal is close and Lee Ryder of the Chronicle had tweeted a few days ago that [...]
During his press commence this afternoon Rafa Benitez has confirmed that Jamaal Lascelles will remain the club captain for the season. Jamaal has been injured and not played too many games and [...]
Rafa Benitez gave an extended interview on Sky Sports yesterday morning, and the Newcastle manager went into great detail about the situation at Newcastle. Rafa sees Newcastle as a challenge for him [...]
Finishing position: First (Championship) Total points: 94 Top league scorer: Dwight Gayle (23)
Newcastle United have done well to secure promotion to the Premier League and the hard work has only just begun.
Rafa Benitez will be expected to establish the Magpies as a Premier League force once again and the Spaniard has been working tirelessly to improve his squad for the upcoming season.
Rafa Benitez was interviewed by the Chronicle's Lee Ryder in Germany today after the excellent 3-1 win at Wolfsburg where the team played well, and it was a vast improvement on last [...]
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez has just named his side for the fourth pre-season friendly of pre-season against Mainz 04 in Germany this afternoon. We now have three friendlies coming up in a [...]
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez has named his side for the second pre-season friendlyofthis preseason against Preston atDeepdale this afternoon who have former Norwich manager Alex Neil (shown above) in charge. Here is [...]
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez needs to bring in a striker and a playmaker this summer and those could be big money buys, but Rafa is still keen to bring up to eight [...]
Christian Atsu had a decent enough game in the first half but he will be hard pressed in the coming season to pin down a first team starting position.'s confirmation as a [...]
We find it difficult to know exactly how things will turn out when the UK leaves the European Union in a couple of yearxs, but it seems that Rafa Benitez at Newcastle [...]
The Mirror is reporting tonight that Graham Carr the Chief Scout has left Newcastle by mutual consent and that leaves Rafa Benitez in charge of all decisions relating to transfers [...]
There's a report in Sky Sports today that Newcastle are interested in signing Jota (full name Jose Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo), who is a Spanish attacking midfielder who plays for Brentford in the [...]
Newcastle United have been told that it will cost the club £15M to sign 27 year-old Kieran Gibbs and the news is that Rafa Benitez is willing to meet that figure. The [...]
We haven't heard much from Rafa Benitez for the last couple of weeks but we are not complaining there is a massive amount of work to do with the help of [...]
Former Leicester and Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri knows Rafa Benitez very well and that was obvious during Rafa's debut as the Newcastle manager last year at the King Power stadium on Monday, [...]
Former Arsenal striker and BBC pundit Ian Wright believes that Rafa Benitez at Newcastle needs as much as £150M to spend this summer and we don't think that's too unreasonable. That's if you include in that £150M the money we can get for some players Rafa will want to sell this summer who no longer [.
We are hoping that Rafa Benitez gets a new long term contract this summer at Newcastle and it looks like Rafa has been thinking along those same lines as well, but of course it's entirely up to Mike Ashley if he gets one. But if Ashley was willing to give Alan Pardew and staff an [...]
It was fairly obvious before the start of the Newcastle vs Crystal Palace game on April 30th last year that Rafa Benitez and Alan Pardew were friends and that was probably due to Alan having called the top Spanish manager a few times for guidance in his own management career. When you are a top [..
For Rafa Benitez to stay on at Newcastle not only meant he would visit very small grounds with facilities he hadn't confronted since his early days as a manager, but he would literally disappear from view on thew world scene because everything in English football is about the Premier League everything.
Newcastle were reportedly after Manchester City midfielder Fabian Delph last January and there's a report in the Guardian that Rafa Benitez may still want to sign him this summer. It would not be surprising if the media report every single player Newcastle were after in January, because it would be a decent enough supposition that [.
Rafa Benitez will be welcomedback to Newcastle a week on Sunday with open arms for the final game of what has turned out to be a very successful promotionby the adoring Newcastle fans. This man is not only a world-class manager but he was made to manage a club as proud as Newcastle United. Newcastle [.
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitezhas just named his side for the second last game of the Championship season at Cardiff City tonight, after the lads magnificently gained an automatic promotion spot on Monday night by easily defeating Preston North End on a memorable night at St. James' Park. That's only the secondtime any club has been [.
From the quotes coming out of Rafa Benitez' press conference this morning it looks very much like he's calmed everybody down as he revealed the HMRC investigation is for things that were done four or five years ago when players likeSylvanMarveaux were at the club. Sylvain is one of four people arrested in France yesterday [.
Rafa Benitezwill give his press conference tomorrow afternoon for our second last game of an extremely grueling Championship season at Cardiff City. The performance on Monday night at home was good against Preston, especially in second half when Newcastle started to look in compete control. What we need is another win on Friday to get [.
Whenever Matt Ritchie plays we know he gives his all for Newcastle 100% because that's the kind of character he is. This lad took a step down to the Championship to sign for Rafa Benitez and he said at the time he wanted to come because of the size of the club and [...]
Newcastle United are back in the big time after the Magpiessecured their place in next season's Premier League courtesy of aresounding 4-1 win at home to Preston.
Ayoze Perez opened the scoring for the hosts on seven minutes from a corner.
However, just seven minutes later Preston drew level, courtesy of Jordan Hugill.
Newcastle United manager Rafa Benitez was obviously disappointed with a sloppy performance from his team today at Hillsborough, which didn't measure up to what's required in our promotion drive back to the Premier League. We were well beaten today and as Rafa quickly points out, this Newcastle side made far too many mistakes and certainly [.
It was not a classic game at St. James' Park this afternoon but our lads ground out their 25th win of the season by a score of 2-1 against Wigan Athletic. Wigan seem much improved from earlier in the season and they still have a fighting chance to survive in the Championship with seven games [...]
The Chronicle has conducted an exclusive question and answer with Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez today where the journalists submitted questions to the manager. Rafa has responded with written answers so in some cases he goes into some detail with his answers. The Newcastle fans have been magnificent this season in support of the team and [.
Liverpool should be entering this season on a high.
Liverpool took 76 points last season, 16 more than the season before, their second-highest points total since the Rafa Benitez era.
Liverpool finished fourth last season, in an incredibly difficult league, and will be in the Champions League proper this season if they get past Hoffenheim in the playoffs later this month.
