Rafa Watch

[Fredo]

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#LFC RT @SiClancy Interview with Rafa Benitez will be on @saturdaylive on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning between 9-10am.

[Pablo]

I'd be gutted if he ended up at a club like Stoke. He deserves much, much better.

[Glenn Hysen]

Just had a look. It's ****ing amazing. Stoke fans...STOKE FANS responding in depressed disbelief..."tell me its not true" etc. They're having a ****ing laugh. **** me. Can't get over how far removed his reputation in this country is from MY reality.

fixed.

[Shaggy]

fixed.

No, 'Glenn'. No. Reality.

2 La Liga titles
1 UEFA Cup
1 Champions League
1 FA Cup
1 Community Shield
1 UEFA Super Cup
1 Italian Super Cup
1 World Club Championship
Twice UEFA manager of the year


That kind of reality.

[Fredo]

I'd be gutted if he ended up at a club like Stoke. He deserves much, much better.

I guess for all the stick he got lately, he probably thinks he needs to do something significant but not at a high pressure club. Maybe it's what he's thinking who knows.

[Pablo]

Where's the potential to improve there though? Stoke are already overachieving.

If he wants a "project" he'd be better off picking an underachieving club with lots of unfulfilled potential. (This actually sounds like Liverpool )

Anyway it would be a travesty if Stoke sacked Tony Pulis. The guy's done an excellent job there.

Surely this story is just nonsense anyway.

[Shaggy]

Stoke fans are majorly on Pulis' case. He has done well but he's reached a point now where he can't develop them any more. Tried signing players like Tuncay, Gudjohnsen, never dared use them. Pure hoofball all the time. Leaves out players like Etherington, Fuller etc in favour of workhorses like Whitehead and the abject Walters.

But yeah it's nonsense, no way would a manager as decorated as Rafa go to ****ing Stoke

[Glenn Hysen]

No, 'Glenn'. No. Reality.

2 La Liga titles
1 UEFA Cup
1 Champions League
1 FA Cup
1 Community Shield
1 UEFA Super Cup
1 Italian Super Cup
1 World Club Championship
Twice UEFA manager of the year


That kind of reality.

0 premiership titles
50 fallouts with boards, staff and players

[Shaggy]

[Rudo]

I'd be gutted if he ended up at a club like Stoke. He deserves much, much better.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Stoke City boss Tony Pulis says building a team at his club is a bit like running a rescue centre for stray animals. 'We don't deal at Crufts," he says. "We deal with Battersea Dogs Home."

[Shaggy]

Rafa was on Fee Glover's Saturday Live show on radio 4 this morning playing chess

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgj4

The interviewer got thrashed but said I'd beat you at snakes and ladders and Rafa said, ah yes snakes, we know a snake....

Very funny, you can get it on iplayer.

[Vermilion]

Quote:
Rafa was on Fee Glover's Saturday Live show on radio 4 this morning playing chess

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgj4

The interviewer got thrashed but said I'd beat you at snakes and ladders and Rafa said, ah yes snakes, we know a snake....

Very funny, you can get it on iplayer.

haha, nice one, just had a listen, he's a very contented man these days, one day Rafa, one day.

[Arn]

Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has revealed that he has received five jobs offers since he left Inter, but is determined to take his time over his next move, and would welcome the opportunity to return to the dugout at Anfield in the future.

Asked about opportunities that had arisen since he has left Inter, the Spanish coach said: "There have been five offers, two teams and three teams", Benitez told Gol TV.

"Of course, they all come out of Europe and in some cases out of England. We have been in Germany, Turkey and a couple of other solutions, but I think now is the time to be quiet, to reconsider, to look at the good or bad things we do and try to correct them to be prepared for the next challenge."

And Benitez readily admitted that he would return to coach Liverpool again in the future, having been extremely proud to manage the English giants.

"I am proud to have been at Liverpool and I would return in the future. The future may be in a year or five years, I do not know. Liverpool is my home and the people treated me very well. I have a very good relationship with Liverpool and the fans. It [returning] would be an honour, but at the right time."

Clicky

[Fredo]

Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has revealed that he has received five jobs offers since he left Inter, but is determined to take his time over his next move, and would welcome the opportunity to return to the dugout at Anfield in the future.

Asked about opportunities that had arisen since he has left Inter, the Spanish coach said: "There have been five offers, two teams and three teams", Benitez told Gol TV.

"Of course, they all come out of Europe and in some cases out of England. We have been in Germany, Turkey and a couple of other solutions, but I think now is the time to be quiet, to reconsider, to look at the good or bad things we do and try to correct them to be prepared for the next challenge."

And Benitez readily admitted that he would return to coach Liverpool again in the future, having been extremely proud to manage the English giants.

"I am proud to have been at Liverpool and I would return in the future. The future may be in a year or five years, I do not know. Liverpool is my home and the people treated me very well. I have a very good relationship with Liverpool and the fans. It [returning] would be an honour, but at the right time."

Clicky