KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Benitez has now been contacted

Won't like to see Rafa back, have people forgotten his last 2 seasons with us, not in the race to win the premiership as early as mid Jan, out of the Cups by very small clubs, qualifying for Champions league only just (we did not qualify in his last season) and signings like Dossena, Aquilani who hardly played and nobody wants...I had very high hopes in his first couple of seasons which died out slowly but surely after the 3rd. Now, being realistic, we do not have a lot of options. If Capello, Bielsa (Pep's teacher by his own saying) and maybe Deschamps reject, then probably the best option would be Rafa for me as Jose, Pep, Klopp, Lowe are not interested. All this situation is completely crap in any case for me, this is why I wanted KK to be given at least 6 additionnal months and get Pep ready after his 1 year sabatical. Anyway what is done cannot be undone and unfortunately I an am not cofident at all on the future, would love to be proven wrong.

may i know what joke?

are we not being laugh now?

Tell me pls, when are we being laughed when Rafa is in charge?

we also lost to swansea my friend!

we are lucky in CL?

Did you watch the wrong game?

we beat barca and real by last minute goal?

You guys are amazing!!!

Winning the Carling is a progress while winning CL is lucky?

I thought we are lucky to beat Cardiff???

i think what flames meant is Carling Cup is progress

but CL is luck..

We need someone with a winning mentality and Deschamps certainly has that in abundance. He had a rough first season as a manager, but since then (except for this year) he has been a winner. He even get Monaco of all teams into the CL final!!

He is a dark horse, but he certainly ticks every box, even more so than AVB, and he might be available after this season.

Thought vampires could not be seen in the mirror....??

This bloke sucked the life out of the team once and I truly hope he is not given a second bite of the cherry. However, it could be worse, I guess;is Souness still around??

Rafa Rafael Rafa Rafael Rafa Rafael Rafael Benitez - one of my favourite memories.

The situation is a strange one. I love Rafa Benitez but I'm still uncertain whether he's the right candidate. I would love to see him with proper backing and I do think that the majority of fans would have taken Benitez next year over Kenny staying on. But a lot of Rafa's excellence was also about his back room staff (we all remember Paco's influence on the team etc) and I suspect he would have less say in setting up a 'Spanish Armada' at the club.

Villa Boas - YES he was terrific for Porto, but quite simply Kenny would have done better than him last season with the same set of players.

Klopp and Pep are out. Pep might be in after 12 months - If we want Pep then we really should only offer someone else a 1-yr deal (and if the appointment is exceptional we keep them otherwise we do EVERYTHING to get Pep for the 2013/14 season).

Capello - I would doubt his motivation now. He is getting on and he loves London not Liverpool

Hiddink - One of the steadiest managers in the world but not 'magical' for me.

Martinez - I like Martinez, but his squad is no worse than Swansea's or Norwich's and he has struggled for most of the season. YES he seems to have found the magic formula for his last 9 games but he needs to show that with lowly Wigan for the season and THEN I would be screaming for him. I think Villa would be the right step up for him personally.

In short I think that if the man we want isn't available we should probably offer a 1 yr contract, probably to Benitez, because I have more faith in him getting us to 4th spot. If it doesn't work out or there are problems lets bring that fella from Barcelona in (or if Borussia Dortmund continue their dominance go after Klopp again).

There are some other managers: Low, Rijkard; Lambert et all that probably should get a mention . . . it's gonna be an interesting week or two.

Rafa on a rolling 1 year contract. He made some mistakes last time round so he doesn't deserve a 6 year bumper contarct or anything like that.

They also need to ask him at interview what mistakes he made last time and what he's learned from them. If he says he didn't make any then perhaps he's not the right guy. But if he admits to them and explains how he might do certain things differently, then what better candidate can there be? A proven winner, a fighter, EPL experience at the top, CL experienec, someone with an affection for the club and a committment to the city and people of Liverpool.

There should be room for romance and sentiment in football. Hence why it was good that Kenny was given a chance . If he'd pulled it off, how fanatastic would that have been? Same in Rafa's case I think.

And apart from Pep, there are no other outstanding candidates that I can see.