El Real llama a Benitez

Dr. Nick

Here we go again....

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Chucky

I can actually imagine him going. He has won the European Cup with Liverpool and if he ends up with nothing this season he might feel a bit disappointed. Plus, he might want to return to his homeland.

What do you think yourself?

mchurl

i cant see leaving at this early stage. The Madrid job is a bit of a poisoned chalice, but in saying that it is still one of the biggest jobs around. But Rafa is starting something special at Liverpool and i reckon he will hang around long enough to see it through.

Guy:Incognito

Big job it might be but as said, he'll want to finish what he started at liverpool. Anyway, it's not like the job doesnt come up every six months.

PiE

He's too smart to do something that silly.

HashSlinging

ahh yeah HAHA as IF! he'll be at the pool for a while longer.

Ruskie4Rent

Liverpool is to good a job to leave IMO, and that's hard to say for a manu fan. He's brought in alot of players and has built up a far better team than the one he arrived to, with a world class striker probably being the main thing that could take them to the next level. There is no way he'll have the same freedom at any club in Spain with the Real job being particularly being unstable.

Hydromonkey

Article from PA Sport:

Rafael Benitez's agent insists the Liverpool manager has no intention of leaving the club at the end of the season despite being linked with the Real Madrid job.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro has been given the job as Real coach until the end of the campaign and the Spanish giants are in the process of assessing potential candidates to take over in the summer.

But despite a story in Spanish newspaper Marca on Saturday linking Benitez with the job, his agent Manuel Garcia Quilon insists he has yet to be approached.

"Yes, I have seen Marca's front page," he said.

"I'm not sure if Real Madrid are interested in Benitez but I do know that they haven't made an offer."

Benitez is a former Real youth coach and does hope to one day return to the Bernabeu, but his agent confirmed the 45-year-old is happy to stay at Anfield for the foreseeable future.

"He has three years left on his contract," added Garcia Quilon.

"He's very happy at Liverpool because he has received very good treatment from the club and the fans, and his intention is to continue to improve on the project he started when he joined them."

Benitez guided Liverpool to European glory last year in his first season in charge, becoming the first coach to win the UEFA Cup and Champions League in successive seasons with different clubs.

The former Valencia coach began his coaching career with Madrid in 1986, progressing through the youth ranks and briefly working as the first-team's assistant coach before leaving for Real Valladolid in 1995.

MonkeyTennis

so is the Llama coming or what?

*sorry*

Chucky

If he's not going the best thing to do is not to respond to the media. In fact, best thing to do in every case is never respond to the media. I find it distinctly disturbing that the tabloids in the UK have actually admitted to fabricating stories about sports stars.


The sports stars I like best are the ones that keep to themselves: Ryan Giggs & Paul Scholes are the best examples that I can think of.


Why the "*sorry*" MonkeyTennis?

Lemlin

Can't see him leaving Liverpool until he's won the Premiership with them.

Necronomicon

He'd be crazy to leave, he's got a good thing going. The managerial turnover in Madrid is crazy. I don't know who in their right mind would work under Fiorentino Perez.

KdjaCL

He only needs to buy 4 strikers and Pool could challenge for the league, being in massive debt (75m?) isnt going to help that cause. He will take the real job one day just not this season.


Would expect Capello to take the job at the end of the season, till at least october


kdjac

The Muppet

I wouldn't be surprised to see him go. As said above he may be able to bring in the strikers he wants/needs to topple Chelsea and may choose to move if he gets the opportunity.

TheMonster

Madrid fans won't put up with 1-0 results taking off forwards towards then end of games to hold onto draws against 10 men. More than any club they want exciting football.

mike65

Tsk, Gerrard will leave before Rafa does! Seriously why would anyone give any creedence to such stories, this season he has been linked with Real on three seperate ocassions. He's going nowhere until he's won and retained the Prem title and even then Real Madrid would still look like a poor option (if Perez is still alive!) compared to running the Spanish side.

Mike.

anonymous_joe

A love of Real doesn't mean he'd manage them - seen as the manager's role there is undermined by Perez.

Seaneh

Not anymore it's not!

gary the great

I think people who talk of the fact that Real are not a good team are totally missing the point. To tell the truth, if your lifetimes ambition is to manage real Madrid there can have been few better times over the last twenty years to take over the helm. They are a mile behind Barcelona and the fans are not stupid, they know that. Someone taking over now could rip the team to pieces and build his own dynasty and my guess is that the fans and board would stand back and let the right man get on with it. If they think that the right man is Benitez then obviously he is going to be very tempted to write his name in the Real history books as the man who made them great again.
Our best hope in my view is that their board set their sights on somebody else, though why they would I don't know because for what they need, benitez would appear to be the perfect candidate.