Rafa Benitez, Football Manager

You'd think the last one must be a wind up, but you just can't be sure.

yeah, I keep it in a shrine in the living room

you'd kinda think but then you'd think

I honestly cannot sleep, constantly tossing and turning. Every time I close my eyes, I see his (Benitez) cheery smile and polite wave.

http://i.imgur.com/9zTtD.jpg

http://cdn.whoscored.com/img/blog/2012%2f11%2fBenitez-Progress.jpg

That we never saw the real Liverpool 09/10 team breaks my heart

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/04/article-2242919-1658B912000005DC-269_634x367.jpg

may have been misquoted, but seems to think he will definitely manage liverpool again

would ye take him over brendan rogers today

I'd let him do the cups

oh man, he'd be so good at Celtic

he'd do a better job than Neil Lennon imo

every team and their fans should get the opportunity to experience rafa as manager.

He's a multiple European trophy winner, I'd expect him to do a better job than Neil Lennon!

as long as he could bring in 4 or 5 players he'd do fine

i think it seems clear he was riffing on a stupid journalist question- will u ever return to liverpool rafa- i'd better the wife n kids is there innit *BOING* bdumdumdumtcch classic

he has a great chance to fuck over mourinho by taking chelsea out of next year's champions league

Manager of the month for April>>>

Can't dent he's been doing well recently

oops I meant to say deny

4th european final for rafa

More special than you-know-who?

well in rafa lad

Piggybackin previous managers for most of em

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01683/rafa_1683915a.jpg

pedigree

4 European trophies to Jose's 3.

http://i.imgur.com/mmQ6EQW.jpg

More likely to go in than if Torres had hit it tbh.

"I prefer to remember only the positive things from my time at Inter," the 53-year-old stressed to Minuto 116.

"For example, the fact we won the Italian Super Cup and Club World Cup.

"However, many people pass judgment without knowing what really happened. The truth is that the club and technical staff sat down together to plan a renewal of the squad, including the names of new players, but these suggestions were never followed.

"The way I see it, this was the cause of everything that happened at Inter that year and possibly even in the following campaigns."

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Napoli have agreed a fee of €37m (£32m) with Real Madrid for striker Gonzalo Higuain according to reports in Italy but the deal is still far from done.

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thats about 48m to madrid for higuain, albiol and callejon if it goes through

idk if higuain is going to be as enthusiastic about napoli as madrid are

idk, cl qualified with apparent ambition and wherewithal... i'd be persuadable

gotta be some resonance there for an argentine no?

just re albiol and callejon, curious how badly spanish players tend to do in italy. mendieta the best ever?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Su%C3%A1rez_Miramontes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Su%C3%A1rez_Miramontes

there has never been great success transferring between the two, at least since luis suarez the elder at inter, or vieri at atletico

napoli just doesnt seem quite....there, as a cl team

they have had a good side for 4/5 years but somehow between di laurentiis, the regular robberies/burglaries of players, suggestions of camorra nonsense

this year is ddl going big tho, between rafa and his declamations of a '€125.5m' transfer fund

feel like higuain would choose inter above them (or arsenal) cl or no cl

http://www.footballitaliano.co.uk/images/articles/dossenarafa.jpg

"The pillow suggested the line up to me," Benitez smiled the following day. "It's very intelligent."

Rehabilitation continues, the bomdas double negative multiplication move to chelsea was genius

Napoli's Spanish manager had reached an agreement in principle with West Ham United for next season, but this morning scenarios changed quickly: Benitez has had a direct contact with Hammer's chairman and he has declined the offer of the English club because... because Real Madrid is strongly interested in him.

Looking frwd to seeing Ronaldo/Bale track back like Kuyt.

If it didn't happen in Spain, it didn't happen.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/10585048/rafa-benitez-wants-united-front-from-newcastle

"We need to realise we're now the head of the mouse, and not the tail of the lion. It's a Spanish expression," the Newcastle manager said.

was reading joey barton's book at work today. apparently he'd agreed a deal to come to lfc the summer houilllier was sacked but thought it would still go through until rafa insisted xabi was bought instead.

book is p funny btw. goes on and on about footballers lacking self awareness at the same time as stating that he was the best midfielder in england outside gerrard/lampard and claiming that should have gone to the world cup ahead of owen hargreaves amongst others. oh and if he'd have discovered sports psychology earlier in his career he would have been england captain.

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