Rafa Watch

[Norbs]

This made me lol

http://www1.skysports.com/football/c...e-a/table/2013

[peekay]

Looks like with wins against Roma and Fiorentina, Napoli are third and the pressure on him has eased a lot.

Good for him. Hope he wins the Europa League with Napoli this season.

[Roboklopp]

Yup; always wish him the best (cept vs lfc of course).

[Zapater]

Definitely, those are not easy games to win back to back, they are both very good teams. Will have to see how it goes though, pretty tough season for them particularly after a fairly horrible start.

[peekay]

He just cant help it can he A little bit of success, some stability and boom he goes.

Benitez throws Napoli future in to doubt

Rafael Benitez has refused to confirm that he will be in charge of Napoli at the start of next season, but insisted that if he isn't it won't be down "to money or signings".

The Spaniard's current contract expires at the end of the campaign and the former Liverpool manager is seemingly in no rush to sign a new deal.

"Experience tells me we have to work on the current project," Benitez told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

"I often speak with (sporting director) Riccardo Bigon, and I always say to (owner, Aurelio) De Laurentiis that he must ensure the future of the club regardless of myself.

"The problem isn't the renewal, but sharing the same vision, it's not a question of money or signings.

"We need to work to see if we can win together going forward or not, and then we'll see.

"My family are away from me, my wife and two daughters live in Liverpool. It's the first time I haven't had them with me, it's not easy.

"De Laurentiis knows how important my family values are to me."

Napoli made a poor start to the season losing two of their opening three Serie A games but are unbeaten since and find themselves in third, seven points off leaders Juventus.

"I don't want to be boring, but I'm taking it one game at a time," Benitez added.

"Otherwise you run the risk of not doing on the park what you say you'll do off it and then everything becomes more difficult.

"At the moment we're third, and looking ahead I'm not saying we can't do more, but we have to do it week-by-week."

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2014-11-17/benitez-throws-napoli-future-in-to-doubt/

[Yozza]

Boom he goes? Hardly.....

Obviously looking for a job back over here & not going to commit to any longer in the madcap Italian league

[Norbs]

Booooooom !

[Kenneth]

Brendan's having a poor run, and now he's homesick He'll be hanging around the gates at Melwood in the summer if we don't get top four.

[RichC]

I don't want Rafa back he's the past.

[Shaggy]

If it were a clean slate (should Brendan go obviously) Rafa would be one of my top candidates. There are very few - if any - realistic candidates out there with a CV as good as his. But there's just too much division and he'd be starting from square one with roughly 40-50% of the fanbase immediately against him, and it wouldn't be pleasant. I love the guy, but probably best swerved.

[Kenneth]

Over to you, Nige

[Liverpool]

Just looking at the odds for our next manager and Rafa is the fav

[Liverpool]

its a real **** list

[Shaggy]

It will be. That's the one big problem. If we could hope to get someone like Simeone, Rudi Garcia or Klopp or whatever, Rafa wouldn't come into my mind. But if he's up against **** then he will always prevail.

[RichC]

If it were a clean slate (should Brendan go obviously) Rafa would be one of my top candidates. There are very few - if any - realistic candidates out there with a CV as good as his. But there's just too much division and he'd be starting from square one with roughly 40-50% of the fanbase immediately against him, and it wouldn't be pleasant. I love the guy, but probably best swerved.

I don't want BR gone btw but if he were to go I think taking Rafa back would be a mistake he's too divisive with our fan base and there'd be little to no slack given from the press over here.