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“Liverpool is my home and I will come back”

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Former Reds boss, Rafa Benitez has illustrated that he would have no problem taking the Anfield hotseat again in the future, should the opportunity arise. The new Inter Milan boss, who was sacked by Liverpool during the summer was speaking to Irish newspaper, the Sunday Independent, in his most candid interview yet since leaving Merseyside.

Benitez, who still owns a house on Merseyside, says that Liverpool is where his family call home and when his career in Italy is over, he will certainly return to the city:

“I am monitoring carefully everything that’s going on there. I have a lot of friends there and I received a ‘Justice’ scarf from the Hillsborough families group that is in my office at home. Again out of respect I think it is important that I talk a little bit about the past but especially about the future. For me, at this moment, that is Inter Milan. I keep my house there, we are based in Liverpool and in the future we will be there again.”

During the interview with highly-respected football journalist, Dion Fanning, Benitez defended his tenure at Anfield, saying that he won four trophies during his time and amassed points totals that would have won the title in other seasons.

Despite issuing a strong defence of his record at Liverpool, Benitez, often criticised for being too stubborn, admits that he did make mistakes while he was Liverpool manager. However, he does lay the blame for a lot of his failings at the two ownership crews who oversaw the club during the Spaniard’s reign. Speaking about the David Moores and Rick Parry partnership who held the reins for the first three years of the Benitez stewardship, he says:

“I had a very good relationship with David Moores and Rick Parry but the only thing I wanted to do was to do things quicker because we didn’t have too much money. To be fair, sometimes we were doing good business without big money and sometimes we lost players.”

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  • tinydino says:

    O’neil is a good candidate..rafa…he had his time but not roy..give him a chance…

    Wat i like most bout roy is his communication with fans and reporters..he speaks frankly & answers questions openly so all fans know exactly wat’s going on..

    Unlike rafa, with alonso, he handed in a transfer request in may & we cud have all de time in de world to sign Barry, but he keeos insisting Xabi is staying until like 2 weeks before transfer deadline..and by then everyone knows we’re desperate for Barry & City snap him up with ease & bit of money..he made barry thinks liverpool’s not serious in getting him..tat was my most disappointed rafa moment. Along with Owen sale to RM & Nunez coming in. Tat suck..cud’ve sold owen for much better price

  • Bruce Baxter says:

    I cant believe you guys, Rafa is history between him and G&H they stuffed this club up, for more than a year you watched Rafa dish up one dismal performance after the other now within a couple of months you want Roy out ….what that tells me is that you are not Liverpool supporters you are Rafararians and there is a big differance so why dont you do everyone a favour and support Inter as LFC have nothing for you.

  • skippy says:

    never wanted to see him go has done so much for the club and only needed the right backing and wouldve won the title
    if not him, king kenny would be my choice who i did want instead of roy

  • Mike Oxbig says:

    Rafa was awful. Take off those rose tinted glasses and look at the ‘facts’: Spent a fortune on 90% garbage, obnoxious, arrogant and bad decision make. Babel, Kuyt, Aurelio, Degen, Kronkamp, Ngog, Lucas, Arbeloa, Sissoko, Morientes, Riera….. the list goes on. Not good enough. The only decent players we had he sold: Bellamy, chimp but good footballer, Crouch, unorthodox but good goal scorer, Alonso, burnt his bridges trying to sell him for Barry?!. It wasn’t the yanks’ fault that Benitez spent his fortune on rubbish. I’m not a G+H fan at all, but Benitez must take the blame too. Very poor in the transfer market, lucky to win the CL thanks to Gerrard(Olympiacos and final) with Houlliers team. Lucky to win FA Cup thanks to Gerrard. Dismantled a CL winning team and replaced them with mediocrity. Thanks Rafa, but no thanks. Give Roy time, stop sulking, and pull together like proper LFC fans. YNWA

  • George says:

    Rafa, come home to Anfield now! Poor Lucas has been waiting for you to change his diapers.

  • daboy says:

    Rafa bought some great players to the club Torres and Alonso ring a bell, Aurelio was free and when fit is great value Arbeloa was cheap good value Mash was an excellent buy.
    If you are going to look at it most of Rafas buys went for a profit or will be sold at a profit.
    I for one miss Rafa and some of you who are glad he was run out of town have a look at the EPL ladder.

  • Eric says:

    Bring back Rafa! At least we wouldn’t be lingering in the relegation zone after 7 games!

  • Casper says:

    I’d rather have a 9 point deduction each year than have Rafa back. About the same anyway, due to his overcausious lineups at home.

    Someone said: Rafa was the best manager since King Kenny…….what a comparison. He might be better than Souness, Evans, and Houlier but that doesn’t really said anything about quality, does it?

    Rafa is arrogant, narrowminded, and predictive in his approuch to games. The worst about him is he’s letting business become personal. Thats proberbly why so many players were signed and sold.

    Rafa better stay in Inter. They will not question 9 defenders in the lineup!!!!

  • gabriel slovakia says:

    bring back rafa as soon as possible.With some money cominig to the team by new owners we need manager players woud have respect for

  • smarts says:

    Rafa was good in his time, lost the plot near the end of his time though! We need to look forward and not back. Red Roy needs our support as does the team. We should give him a chance, but we cant take too much more of this bottom half stuff! We need wins, good wins and soon!

  • Lfc4life says:

    wow it’s amazing how people just remember the last season Rafa was at the club, but forget the 4 four seasons prior to that…

    one bad injury hit season and you guys must have been the ones acting like hyenas wanting Rafas head…
    well you must be happy now at our position as you have contributed to it!

    The season before, when we finished 2nd and were scoring for fun demolishing every team, notably mancs 4-1 and Real 4-0…

    Boring Rafa below:

    Sunderland Away  W  1-0
    Middlesbrough Home  W  2-1
    Aston Villa Away  D  0-0
    Manchester United Home  W  2-1
    Stoke City Home  D  0-0
    Everton Away  W  2-0 
    Manchester City. Away  W  3-2
    Wigan Athletic Home  W  3-2
    Chelsea Away  W  1-0
    Portsmouth Home W  1-0
    Tottenham Hotspur Away  L  1-2
    West Brom Home  W  3-0
    Bolton Wanderers Away  W  2-0
    Fulham Home  D  0-0 
    West Ham United Home  D  0-0 
    Blackburn Rovers Away  W  3-1
    Hull City Home  D  2-2 
    Arsenal Away  D  1-1
    Bolton Wanderers Home W. 3-0
    Newcastle United Away  W  5-1
    Stoke City Away  D  0-0 
    Everton Home  D  1-1 
    Wigan Away  D  1-1
    Chelsea Home  W  2-0
    Portsmouth Away  W  3-2
    Manchester City Home  D  1-1
    Middlesbrough Away  L  0-2
    Sunderland Home  W  2-0
    Manchester United Away W  4-1
    Aston Villa Home  W  5-0
    Fulham Away  W  1-0
    Blackburn Rovers Home  W. 5-0
    Arsenal. Home  D  4-4
    Hull City Away  W  3-1 
    Newcastle Home  W  3-0 
    West Ham United Away  W  3-0
    West Bromwich Albion Away  W  2-0
    Tottenham Hotspur Home  Home W  3-1 

    If you think Rafa was too boring then you must be a Manc , because you be a Liverpool fan!

  • lfc 4 life says:

    rafa is certainly a better option than roy. rafa had to sell players to buy new ones so the club was just staying in one position. And it you noticed, aquilani is going to be a star at juventus and roy threw him away. And if you noticed even when rafa was at the helm, nobody beat liverpool at anfield and lowly blackpool do just that. Majority of roy’s signings have not really produced, and to can notice that attacking flare when liverpool attack but under Roy i see a mess.

  • tinydino says:

    At Valencia rafa asked for a table & was given a lamp instead..

    At LFC he probably needed a dining table but was only given funds enough to get a coffee table.

    To be in Rafa’s defense, ever since G&H tried to bring in Klinsmann to replace him, the relationship has nvr been the same..G&H has been trying to get rid of him for good couple of years, funds was limited..

    I dun blame him for all the flops he signed, cos some of them were real world class players, garcia, alonso, masch, torres, agger, kuyt, johnson.

    As the case of some flops like kewel, morientes, riera, aquilani, babel, gonzalez, these players are world class players too and were so promising in their previous clubs..just somehow they couldnt perform up to expectation when finally arrived at LFC.

    I still remember how rafa tried for a couple of years to sign mark gonzalez, after he finally did, he scored 2 goals in an CL qualfier that take them thru to group stage, and that’s about all of gonzalez’ contrbution..who wud’ve known?

    Well, rafa did all he could under tight funds, lousy direction & empty promises under G&H disastratous regime, the guy signed new contracts after the Klinsmann incident and said no to Juve & even Real cos he wants to stay in LFC..when he said he love the club i truly believe him.

  • trev says:

    short memories rafa was too defensive and far too stubborn and made big mistake wanting barry when hes not half the player alonso is also sticking by lucas time and time again when everyone can see hes not good enough to be in the team with investment i can see the team vastly improving rafa squandered money on players just not good enough

  • Lfc4life says:

    Trev mate you ovbviously haven’t payed attention…
    how defensive could we have been in the season before last we scored we over 100 goals!!

    Last season there were times where it appeared we wre too defensive, but you have to look at the players that were available to him… most were not available through injury!!

    so most of last season the team picked itself and if that meant playing 2 defensive midfielders then that what happend! if your real problem is him playing Lucas then you only have to look to that season we finished 2nd….. Lucas played in 28 of those Prem games!! we were still scoring for fun!!

    Then you say we have small memories… made me laugh till I realized your possibly a Liverpool fan :S

  • Akash says:

    Dont take this stupid manager again and again… there is alot of manager good then him… Appoint van gaal or rijkard……

  • Larsen says:

    Roy cannot attract world class players even if LFC has loads of money, but Rafa can. Blaming Rafa for playing Lucas? What about blaming Roy for buying Poulsen? Why was Meireles purchased when Roy could not decide where to play him? The problem with defense is both CB’s are not comfortable in air. Carra atleast has the edge of thinking a step ahead of opponents. We have kyrgiakos who is good in air but not used. Cole is not good in playing behind Torres. We badly need established wingers, and a Forword who is very good in the air. I suggest Kenwyn Jones. We dont have to sell N’gog who can substitute Jones but definetly not a first choice. Even after the take over if the new owners are no good than G&H, we can afford to buy players by selling Babel(not selected as first choice by Roy or Rafa), Maxi(does not fit in both flanks), Lucas(not even close to be a player who can create chances or provide cover for defense), and even if we still short of money then our last resort should be Kuyt(hard working,has passion for LFC, but still playing all those years in LFC as an winger did not learn to provide crosses)

  • Larsen says:

    One more thing Sami was good but need a coach who can bring some speed with style. Always cannot expect Gerrard for the killer pass.

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