Rafa Watch

[Sarb]

Exactly. Glad it's not just me who thinks it's pretty disrespectful of him.

FWIW I hope Brendan's here for as long as drunken bacon face has been at United as it'll mean he's guided us to a new golden era.

Yeah pretty disrespectful. The comments do nothing of benefit for us

[baitman]

He'll end up as Moyesey's replacement when he goes off to Arsenal.

this will really test the depth of rafa love from some of the lads

[Reece]

I know if Xabi Alonso came out and said he thought he'd definitely be back at Liverpool one day, most people would be absolutely over-joyed. Even though it'd be disrespectful to Joe Allen.

[Sarb]

I know if Xabi Alonso came out and said he thought he'd definitely be back at Liverpool one day, most people would be absolutely over-joyed. Even though it'd be disrespectful to Joe Allen.

It's all speculative as to who would get dropped if a player returns. There's only one person being dropped if a manager comes back.

[Shackanory]

Just saw this. Nail. Head. Bang.
"@CalvLyfeson 28m
Not saying Rodgers out. However, Rafa's ****ty final season looks better with hindsight."

[Alex]

Id dont get how they are both linked? Its like comparing a season 30 years ago to this one. Comparing Shanks or something to Hodgson.

[Eric Swindler]

Id dont get how they are both linked? Its like comparing a season 30 years ago to this one. Comparing Shanks or something to Hodgson.

They aren't. It's a shallow association at best

[Sarb]

Id dont get how they are both linked? Its like comparing a season 30 years ago to this one. Comparing Shanks or something to Hodgson.

Not really linked. The squad, the team are different, the circumstances and situation are different. But it's all quotes like that do. Galvanise the Rafa fans to start making ridiculous comparisons and pining for him to come back

[Neil Young]

Benitez expects to return to Liverpool
April 9, 2013

By Dermot Corrigan, Spain Correspondent

Rafa Benitez has told Marca he will "almost certainly" manage his former club Liverpool again at some stage.

Current interim Chelsea boss Benitez became Reds manager in 2004, winning the Champions League in 2005 and FA Cup the following year. He left in 2010 after falling out with the club's then owners and finishing seventh in the Premier League.

Asked if he thought he would again manage the club at some point in his career, he replied: "I will return, almost certainly. What I do not know is when. My daughters and wife still live there."

The former Valencia and Inter Milan coach has guided Chelsea to the FA Cup and Europa League semi-finals, and kept the side on track to qualify for next season's Champions League, although he has had to contend with significant protests from Blues fans.

He said he did not know yet where he would work next season, but suggested it could be somewhere in England.

"My idea is to train a competitive team. Why not in England?" he said, echoing comments he made last week. "We will have to wait and see. Everything will be worked out."

A return to his former club Real Madrid was also possible, he suggested.

"Obviously I know the place very well - I was there from 13 years old as a player and coach," he said. "I am a Madrid fan. It is nice to be linked in one manner or another, but that does not make me lose my current concentration on Chelsea. I have a good relationship with [Madrid president] Florentino Perez. Whenever I have talked with him, he has always been polite."

Should Benitez replace Jose Mourinho as boss at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, he would rejoin former midfielder Xabi Alonso, whom he controversially sold to Madrid when at Anfield. Any past disagreements would not affect their potential future working relationship, he suggested.

"At Liverpool I had to take some decisions and [Alonso] reacted in his own way," Benitez said. "Each person has their own way of behaving. He is a great player, very important for any team. I cannot say we had a good or bad relationship. It was professional."

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1405496?cc=5739

I don't believe he said anything about managing LFC.

I'm willing to bet he was being asked about returning to Liverpool to live, unless of course his wife and daughters live in LFC which is nonsense.

Asked if he thought he would again manage the club at some point in his career, he replied: "I will return, almost certainly. What I do not know is when. My daughters and wife still live there."

The spin on the comments is a load of b*ll*cks.

[Norbs]

I know if Xabi Alonso came out and said he thought he'd definitely be back at Liverpool one day, most people would be absolutely over-joyed. Even though it'd be disrespectful to Joe Allen.

Get out of it!

There's alway room for more players but there's only room for one manaher

[Lee]

I don't believe he said anything about managing LFC.

I'm willing to bet he was being asked about returning to Liverpool to live, unless of course his wife and daughters live in LFC which is nonsense.

The spin on the comments is a load of b*ll*cks.

But it gives the Rafa lovers and the Rafa bashers something to get their knickers in a twist about.

[Chris]

I don't believe he said anything about managing LFC.

I'm willing to bet he was being asked about returning to Liverpool to live, unless of course his wife and daughters live in LFC which is nonsense.


The spin on the comments is a load of b*ll*cks.

You're wrong.

http://www.marca.com/2013/04/08/futbol/futbol_internacional/premier_league/1365425130.html

[Neil Young]

Pah, you're relying on Marca? What a bastion of truth that is.

Get the video or I won't believe it.

[Reece]

Get out of it!

There's alway room for more players but there's only room for one manaher

Wasn't entirely serious.

[RichC]

Reading it properly it does read like bits have been fused together and others conveniently left out, age old dirty trick from the rags.