Good or bad? Agent: Benitez likely to stay at Liverpool
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Agent: Benitez likely to stay at Liverpool
According the Spaniards agent, Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is more likely to stay at Anfield than take over at Juventus this summer.
Benitez has been repeatedly linked with a move to Italy throughout the course of a disappointing season when the Reds have again failed to win a trophy and have not qualified for the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League.
On-field disappointments, boardroom unrest and mountains of debt have led to co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks putting the club up for sale and Martin Broughton has been appointed as a new chairman to facilitate any deal.
However, the 50-year-old's representative, Manuel Garcai Quilon, does not believe his client is ready to leave, telling calciomercato.it: "At the moment it is more likely that Rafa will remain in England.
"I do not know if he has met, or will meet in the next few days, with the new chairman."
Quilon, though, has reiterated that Benitez's mind may be made up by the amount of money that is made available in the close-season.
"The aspect of investment on the team is important because Liverpool need reinforcements," added Quilon.
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he should back to RM if pelligrini is ever sacked and the job is offered to him. he is already outlived his welcome at liverpool.
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Benitez is a good manager , he himself is trying to figure out other option gameplay for liverpool and have fail, but remember he do improve liverpool when he handle liverpool from the pervious manager.
we dont just fail a man when he fail to prove himself in a season. surly i hope liverpool will do better in the next season
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i think Gerrard, not Houllier but Steven Gerrard won the UCL trophy for LFC...
and at that time, it was the sheer force of will of Gerrard who kept LFC in the top four...
Benitez "won" the UCL with the players he inherited from Houllier.. and after that, he started the construction of a sub-mediocre team
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I believe Benitez did a poor job this season. Halfway through the season, he came out to guarantee 4th place, but failed to live up to his promises. Of course, we all know he has not been given a lot of financial support, and he had always been forced to resort to cheap players from cash converters. Even when he bought expensive players, it was using money from players sold.
Under such circumstances, it's true that it's unrealistic to expect Liverpool to win the title, especially with many other teams gaining wealth. But a promise is a promise. If he fails to deliver, he has to take responsibility. He should leave Liverpool.
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no money?
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If Ah Ben is doing a good job, we will be back to square one on relying only one striker.
It is his ego at play and not the interest of the club that he let go of Bellamy and Crouch.
It is not a fact that Liverpool did not have any good players.
It is the management of the players under Ah Ben that screwed up the whole future of Liverpool.
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bad
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did you guys see the pundits last night on the pre-match show?
wah lau eh.. they never give chance... say Rafa is terrible, should have gone, is useless at management with his handling of Alonso, "destroys players" like Carragher, mismanagement of Torres, disillusionment of Gerrard... and "like his ex-wife" being greedy and buying more and more players which are useless...
p.s. i concur.. he's terrible
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its definitely bad.
compare him to teams that have lesser or no funds he signed a lot of sub-standard players.
these players are either no good or he was unable to bring the best out of them.
either way he has to take the blame.
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Although Rafa did buy a lot of sub-standard players, he did explain that he had no choice because of the lack of transfer funds. His transfer strategy was to buy a huge pile of cash converter players, then hopefully uncover a few gems. And meanwhile, do some sideline business and sell those players 1-2 seasons on for a small profit.
I think his failure is not in the transfer market, but a failure to guide the team to success. He had maybe lost the respect of the players.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
no money?
surely you need to read beyond the headlines.....
if you go thru' the entire list, how many >20m pound players did rafa managed to sign during his entire tenure? his ability to sign proven players is marginalized greatly by the unavailability of funds (blame the yanks, we all know that story). in fact, he has to be astute and sign players of unknown qualities and hope to integrate them into the team and hopefully bring out the best in them.
in that department, he hasn't done too badly. there will be hit and miss; but alonso, reina, maschy and some others are really good buys in my book.
and there are others which are not his picks; most notable is robbie keane. and that lucas guy, for all his lack of ability, is only loose change in man city's books.
man u, on the other hand, in one broad stroke, took in a certain rooney in for 25m pounds in 2004. why, 2 years back, man u, despite a 700m pound debts, even could afford 30m pounds for berbatov. the likes of chelski with laundered rubles have even more buying power. liverpool were never in that league of buyer. not then, not now.
the liverpool squad today pales in comparison i to the top 4 teams in terms of back-ups. take away liverpool spine of reina, carragher, maschy, gerrard and torres, you have a very ordinary team. the fact remains that rafa's track record @ liverpool based on his win/loss records is one of the best. a forumer here has pointed out that fact.
you single out rafa and take pot shots here without substantiating. rafa, like many others, may not got have got his tactics rights, maybe more so this season, but it is irrefutable that he is a UCL winner, fa cup winner and came close last season. how many managers in the last 5 years can claim that credit? only a handful, and the great arsene wenger is not one of them.
btw, which is your team or are you one of those who likes to sit on the side and growl?