Rafa wouldn't work here now, namely in terms of the league. Two of the reasons we didn't win the league under him, and why we started looking like we could miss out on CL football is because we weren't 'attack minded' enough (causing us to drop too many points against 'smaller' teams) and because he wasn't backed by the cowboys.
He would now have to compete with teams such as Man City, and we are currently seeing (City have just gone ahead against WBA) what happens if you drop points in just a few games. That would be bad enough, but with FSG in charge he'd possibly have even less to spend, and he'd yet again end up relying on a very small group of players.
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