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Benitez: Resignation? We must wait

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Rafa Benitez says he is uncertain about his future at Liverpool. Speaking to Premium Calcio, the Reds boss stated:

“The future? I just think about the next week, only of the sale of the club. I’m interested in who buys Liverpool. Resignation? I will have to wait for next week. I will talk to who will buy the club. We must wait.”

Certainly it is only sensible for a manager to wait and see whether the new owners will want him to stay on, but with Italian club Juventus circling the Spaniard, speculation is growing as to whether Rafa will stay on at the Anfield club. Many of Italy’s top sports newspapers, including the Gazzetta Dello Sport, believe Benitez will take over at Juve, armed with a hefty transfer war chest and lucrative long term contract. It has also been rumoured that the “Old Lady” are already attempting to recruit backroom staff for the Spaniard if he decides to leave Liverpool.

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  • samuel charles says:

    david , after the 3 year spell working under rubbish owners, and working under 2 people who try and recruit a manager like klinsmann who is just crap, would you stick around, also the english press are to blame, making his life a mess heap here, every little thing he has said gets picked at, its a joke here rafa is hated by most and picked at all the time.

  • Sam Wanjere says:

    Rafa Benitez, the quintessence of class, has only stayed at Anfield because of Kop suppoort. If he were to rely on the crassness and clasnesness of the English media, even disregarding media ignorance, he’d have left already. Unfortunately, sections of Reds “fans” have bought into the lies!

    Just a section of the lies:

    1) Why isn’t there true acknowledgement of unavailability of funds at Anfield? Is the media saying Rafa has had access to the same funding and support as Wenger, Chelsea or SAF?
    2) Why is there failure to acknowledge Rafa’s actual achievements in soccer?
    3) Why is Rafa singled out for his comments, rotation policy or playing style? You mean other managers have none of these?
    4) Why is Rafa stereotyped as defensive-minded even when his teams have topped the scoring charts for over half of his time in England?
    5) Why won’t no one acknowledge decimation of Rafa’s squad has negatively impacted his efforts at LFC?
    6) Why are Rafa’s buying failures like Torres, Reina, Mascherano, Insua, N’gog, Kuyt, Benayoun, GJ, Kyrgiakos, Agger, Skrtel, etc, not cited in such articles?
    7) Why has Rafa’s identical record in the PL and Europe not been cited when claiming he favors the latter?
    8) How about Rafa’s improvement of players – Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Lucas, etc, not been highlighted more?

    Rafa IS class. Like prophets, his true value might only be realized when he’s no longer there! Shame on you gullible fans and self-serving media ignoramuses!

  • Jimmy says:

    I wholeheartedly agree with both comments here.

    To add to your list, Sam, why is there constant scrutiny over his use of zonal marking despite us having one of the best defensive records in the league for most of his time at Anfield? And Reina holding 3 out of the last 5 golden glove awards?

    Personaly, I’m sick of the same old points being dragged up agin and again about Rafa and Liverpool every time we don’t win a match. Yes we’ve had a poor season, but Arsenal have had a few, and I don’t see the same lynch mob knocking at his door.

    Let the man do his job. He has the talent and ability. He just hasn’t had the backing.

    With regards to transfer “failures”, I agree again. The only transfer I’d have called an out and out failure would be Josemi who simply failed to do anything close to looking like football, let alone fit in with the squad!

  • samuel charles says:

    rafa has faults but after one year when things at the club, in just one huge bad summer, then followed by a bad season, do we really need the man being forced out, think about it liverpool fans, i think he has made some mistakes, but hey hasnt even the english press darling sir red drunk boy fergie! ask your self how many verons can they cover up, how many hargreves can they buy that are a joke of a waste of cash, what about 32 mill on that waste of space berbatov, what about the two kids that cost 12 mill each never to be seen in 1st team and are being sold back to a no mark club in russia, what about nani’s 3 years and only now is he looking half decent, what about selling pique and forlan, both of which would walk into their team now, forlan has been spains most free scoring hitman for over 3 years, and pique is up their with the better centre backs, but yet we do not hear any of these things, all we here is rafa is that and rafa is that, they way the english press and even lfc write about him is a disgrace,,,, ask yourself for 3 years why we have been selling to buy, just why,, what top manager is going to put up with this shite, not many, oh yer but then their are sum fans wanting bloody oneil,,,, just do not come back to me if rafa goes and say, we should have kept rafa,,,,,

  • Jack says:

    Its unbelievable guys (Sam, Jimmy, Samuel). The mind boggles how some of our own fans can be played so easily by the lying media. So easily. There is not much I can add to all the brilliant points you guys have put. All I can say is I would like to see how their desired manager namely Mourinho does with a NET transfer of £4 million over the summer. The amount Rafa was given this summer gone when we went out to win the premier League. These so called fans will understand when this man has gone what they have lost. Act in haste, repent at leisure.

  • pf says:

    brilliant comments from fans here… couldn’t agree more with points (1 – 5)….

  • m kop says:

    I dont belive any of the players would folow Benitez if he leaves, not to Juventus, maybe to Real, but I dont think the audience in Spain would tolarate Benitez’s overly cautius tactical aproach.

    As far as I can understand this, Real would like to get Mourinho, Morinho would like to return to Premiership, and Liverpool would be his destination but only if he can be given the founds to compete.
    Benitez most likely wants to stay, or to go to Real Madrid, but he is open to a posible move to Juventus, if the new owners sack him and Real doesn’ want him.
    As simple as that..(?)…

    Liverpool’s future is in the hands of new owner/s, who might he/she/them be!

  • Greg says:

    Remember when you read ‘interviews’ like this one, that in most cases the person being interviewed didn’t actually say the questions (eg “Resignation?”) They’re put in there by the reporter to show what the interviewee is responding to, but they may be worded differently in the article than when they were originally asked. This is probably an example of that, so I don’t think anyone should read anything into it.

  • Egg says:

    No7 you spout a media lead myth about Rafa and say that Real would not want a overly cautious manager in Benitez but say that they want Mourinhio, who even with all the money he had at Chelsea played a mainly defensive style. It really grates me that the media in this country covet Mourinho not because he is a decent manager but because he is an easy story for them. Ignoring the fact that the actual football his teams play is no more exiting than we have seen from Liverpool this season.

  • Lfc4life says:

    And the list goes on and on…..

    In rafa i trust!

  • m kop says:

    I dont think that Benitez is just overly cautius but his style si very frustrating, he likes to change more than Mourinho, he is constanly rotating…
    I can see way an Italian team would want him, but it wouldn’t work in Madrid.

    And Morinho has a reputation in media, he likes to be contreversal and take the spot-light.
    I think Real cares a lot about their popularity. They bought Beckham, when Ronaldinho was available for the same price, that’s the best proof of that.

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