Rafa Came Close to Quitting!

[Kev_81]

Benitez has come out and said he never came close to quitting on radio city news. Guillem B has issued an apology and retracted his comments. What a tit he is i thought he was a red.

[MindGuerrillas]

Response to Benitez quit report

Just after the story about Rafa Benitez thinking of quitting was published on our website on Friday evening, I got a call from the Spanish manager. It was a frank exchange of words and one thing became very clear: Rafa's commitment to Liverpool Football Club is absolute.

Rafa said “I am not thinking of leaving. My commitment with the club, the fans and the players is so big that just because I can be disappointed about different things, I won’t stop trying my best to achieve all of the targets that we have established as a team."

" My family and myself are very thankful to the club, the fans and the city and we will never give up fighting to get the best for Liverpool,” he added

From those words every one of you can come to their own conclusions. I think it is quite obvious that there are conflicts at the club and also that it was probably not good idea to come out with that kind of story just before the beginning of the season.

However, as I see it, that fact,coupled with Rafa’s words, does not change the content of what I wrote on Friday - and I stand by it completely.


It seems to me that there are two different forces working at the club that are sometimes pulling in different directions: something that the owners choose to ignore.

It is only normal that the manager despairs some times and even thinks about quitting. In periods of bonanza (when the team wins titles or outside the transfer market periods) there exists a creative relationship between manager and key members of the board; but there are other times, like in recent weeks, where the tension grows and it appears as if they are working against each other.

There remain questions that need to be answered. If Rafa was happy to let Xabi Alonso go to Juventus, why hasn’t he gone? If Rafa wanted the arrival of Gareth Barry prior to Robbie Keane, why hasn’t he come - and how is it that it has taken months for Liverpool to tell Aston Villa that their valuation of the player is too high? Whatever the manager wants is not always what he gets. Is that good for the club?

http://www.guillembalague.com/interview_desp.php?id=19

[Sarb]

Benitez has come out and said he never came close to quitting on radio city news. Guillem B has issued an apology and retracted his comments. What a tit he is i thought he was a red.

So Balague does talk **** then?

[El Jefecito]

Benitez has come out and said he never came close to quitting on radio city news. Guillem B has issued an apology and retracted his comments. What a tit he is i thought he was a red.

Linky, because he says the complete opposite on his website.

[Kev_81]

Linky, because he says the complete opposite on his website.

I was just paraphrasing what radio city said at 12.00, Not sure whether they just read Ballague's site update or had contact with Benitez. Clearly there was and is something in it and Ballague is still pretty sure about his info as is Oliver Kay.