So Benitez wants back at Liverpool? If you were a Liverpool fan, would you want him back?
Benitez said it would be his "dream" to manage Liverpool again. He was fairly successful considering he won a FA cup and the champions league with a team that should not even have gotten to the quarters when considering the caliber of player that came from 3-0 down to lift the trophy for the 5th time.
Personally, i think he is a clown. He always had plenty to say and his Liverpool team were worse to watch than redneck incest (i would imagine that to be disturbing).
It has been reported by Wesley Sneijder that Benitez tells his assistants to talk to the players and express how he wants the team to play. So maybe it was a serious case of broken telephone that lead to his demise as Liverpool's manager, and then Inter's?
It has been reported by Wesley Sneijder that Benitez tells his assistants to talk to the players and express how he wants the team to play. So maybe it was a serious case of broken telephone that lead to his demise as Liverpool's manager, and then Inter's?
I say it was his stubbornness, his lack of people skills and his arrogance that lead to him wasting money and not winning anything.
Jose Mourinho won a treble with the same inter team that Benitez inherited, but Benitez was quick to make him self look a little foolish and an inferior manager by saying he needs to sign new players if he was going to have success with Inter.
How long did he last? 5, maybe 6 months? Maybe the Inter board realised they hired a comedian in stead of a Manager.
Jose Mourinho won a treble with the same inter team that Benitez inherited, but Benitez was quick to make him self look a little foolish and an inferior manager by saying he needs to sign new players if he was going to have success with Inter.
How long did he last? 5, maybe 6 months? Maybe the Inter board realised they hired a comedian in stead of a Manager.
As a Man United fan I would be delighted to see him hack there. Watching his rants about Fergi seriously made me laugh. The press were talking about his expenditure with Liverpool and he freaked out saying that Fergi has spent more (when they hadn't) without considering the fact that Fergi had been successful after spending a lot of money. Needless to say he finished 2nd behind United that season. He also picked fights with Robbie Keane, the player he signed for 19 million, only to loan him out 6 months later. That situation is seriously bizarre, and also sums up the end of his spell at Liverpool.So strange how he wasted so much money, and a good 6 months of a good player's career. He was at it again trying to replace Alonso (you know, the player he angered by trying to sell so that he could sign Gareth Barry publically after a mediocre season. Alonso became the heart beat of the team that finished 2nd the following season) by signing an injured Aquilani for £20m. After waiting 4 months of rehab etc, he was ready to play, and started to adjust to the English game before Benitez felt that the team could do with the extra creativity and unpredictability of Lucus Leiva, so the £20m sat on the bench.
In my mind, he is the reason that Liverpool ended up with a second rate team that plays without width.
In my mind, he is the reason that Liverpool ended up with a second rate team that plays without width.
Benitez's spent £229m on 76 players during his Liverpool. He sold Owen. Bought and sold Crouch. He bought Babel (hugely talented player in from Holland) and didn’t play him. He bought and sold the creative Luis Garcia (a player that can play across the midfield). An injured Alberto Aquilani for £20m (Benitez didn’t play him when he was fit again and finding form) Lucas and Andriy Voronin (nuff said, and brings joy to my Red United heart).
He did sign quality players however (surely when you spend £229m and buy 76 players you have to get a couple right). Players like Xabi Alonso (great passer of the ball world cup winner with Spain), Torres £20m (could have been a legend & World Cup Winner), Javier Mascherano (a rock in midfield), Dirk Kuyt (hard working forward), Alvaro Arbeloa (world cup winning wing back), Reina (great world class keeper. Better than Casillas in my opinion). But only 2 of these are still at the club...
Here is the list of players that cost Liverpool £229m, and a world of frustration. Please have a look at this amazing list and pick out the players that are still there… Good work Rafa !
2004
Josemi - Cost: £2m (Malaga, July 2004)
Xabi Alonso Cost: £10.5m (Real Sociedad, August 2004)Antonio Nunez - Cost: £1.5m - part of the Michael Owen deal (Real Madrid, August 2004)
Luis Garcia - Cost: £6m (Barcelona, August 2004)
2005
Fernando Morientes - Cost: £6.3m (Real Madrid, January 2005)Scott Carson - Cost: £1m (Leeds United, January 2005)
Peter Crouch - Cost: £7m (Southampton, June 2005)
Pepe Reina - Cost: £6m (Villarreal, June 2005)
Mohamed Sissoko - Cost: £5.6m (Auxerre, June 2005)
Antonio Barragan - Cost: Free (Sevilla, July 2005)
Bolo Zenden - Cost: Free (Middlesbrough, July 2005)
Godwin Antwi - Cost: Free (Real Zaragoza, August 2005)
Besian Idrizaj - Cost: Free (LASK Linz, August 2005)
Jack Hobbs - Cost: £750,000 (Lincoln City, August 2005)
Miki Roque - Cost: Free (Lleida, August 2005)
Paul Anderson - Cost: Swap deal with John Welsh (Hull City, November 2005)
2006
Robbie Fowler - Cost: Free (Manchester City, January 2006)Jan Kromkamp - Cost: Swap deal with Josemi (Villarreal, January 2006)
Ryan Crowther - Cost: Free (Stockport County, January 2006)
Daniel Agger - Cost: £5.8m (Brondby, January 2006)
Craig Bellamy - Cost: £6m (Blackburn, June 2006)
Mark Gonzalez - Cost: £1.5m (Albacete, July 2006)
Gabriel Paletta - Cost: £2m (Banfield, July 2006)
Fabio Aurelio - Cost: Free (Valencia, July 2006)
Martin Hansen - Cost: Free (Brondby, August 2006)
Dirk Kuyt - Cost: £9m (Feyenoord, August 2006)
Nabil El Zhar - Cost: Free (Saint-Etienne, October 2006)
Astrit AjdarevicCost: Free (Falkensberg, December 2006)
2007
Alex Cooper - Cost: £100,000 (Ross County, January 2007)
Jordy Brouwer - Cost: Undisclosed (Ajax, January 2007)
Ronald Huth - Cost: Undisclosed (Tacuary, January 2007)
Daniele Padelli - Cost: Loan (Sampdoria, January 2007)
Javier Mascherano - Cost: £18m (Unattached, February 2007)
Jermaine Pennant - Cost: £6.7m (Birmingham, June 2007)
Yossi Benayoun - Cost: £5m (West Ham, June 2007)
Lucas - Cost: £6m (Gremio, June 2007)
Andras Simon - Cost: Undisclosed (MTK Hungeria, June 2007)
Dean Bouzanis - Cost: Undisclosed (New South Wales, June 2007)
Krisztian Nemeth - Cost: Undisclosed (MTK Hungeria, June 2007)
Ryan Babel - Cost: £11.5m (Ajax, July 2007)
Daniel Pacheco - Cost: Undisclosed (Barcelona, June 2007)
Fernando Torres - Cost: £20m (Atletico Madrid, July 2007)
Andriy Voronin - Cost: Free (Bayer Leverkusen, July 2007)
Sebastian Leto - Cost: £1.85m (Lanus, August 2007)
Gary Stevens - Cost: Free (Ross County, August 2007)
Mikel San Jose Dominguez - Cost: Undisclosed (Athletic Bilbao, August 2007)
Daniel Sanchez Ayala - Cost: Free (Sevilla Atletico, August 2007)
Gerardo Bruna - Cost: Free (Real Madrid, August 2007)
David Amoo - Cost: Free (Millwall, August 2007)
Damien Plessis - Cost: Free (Lyon, August 2007)
Emiliano Insua - Cost: Swap deal with Palletta (Boca Juniors, August 2007)
Charles Itandje - Cost: Free (RC Lens, August 2007)
Lauri Dalla Valle - Cost: Free (JIPPO, November 2007)
2008
Andrea Dossena - Cost: £7m (Udiense, June 2008)
Vincent Weijl - Cost: Free (AZ Alkmaar, June 2008)
Vitor Coutinho Flora - Cost: Free (June, 2008)
Robbie Keane - Cost: £19m (Tottenham, July 2008)
Diego Cavalieri - Cost: £3m (Palmeiras, July 2008)
Nikola Saric - Cost: £500,000 (Herfolge, July 2008)
Emmanuel Mendy - Cost: Free (Murcia, July 2008)
David Ngog - Cost: £1.5m (Paris St Germain, July 2008)
Philipp Degen - Cost: Free (Borussia Dortmund, July 2008)
Peter Gulacsi - Cost: Free (MTK Hungaria, August 2008)
Zsolt Poloskei - Cost: Loan (MTK Hungaria, August 2008)
Albert Riera - Cost: £8m (Espanyol, August 2008)
Christopher Buchtmann - Cost: Free (Borussia Dortmund, August 2008)
2009
Glen Johnson - Cost: £18m (Portsmouth, June 2009)
Chris Mavinga -Cost: Undisclosed (Paris St Germain, July 2009)
Sotirios Kyrgiakos - Cost: £2m (AEK Athens, August 2009)
Alberto Aquilani - Cost: £20m (Roma, August 2009)
Here's a thought…when he was at Valencia he played under a director of football who signed the players for Benitez to manage. Maybe he should not have had as much control as he did?
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