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Rafael Benítez will hold further talks with the Liverpool hierarchy to resolve his future after both parties exchanged "issues of concern" at a meeting in London yesterday.

The Liverpool manager met the club's chairman, Martin Broughton, and managing director, Christian Purslow, as he ponders whether to accept an offer from Juventus. Benítez has been seeking assurances over Liverpool's search for new investment and spending power this summer, while Anfield officials wanted confirmation of the manager's intentions.

A club statement said: "We are pleased that the first of what is intended to be a series of meetings took place between the chairman, managing director and the manager Rafael Benítez. The meeting was constructive.

"The chairman shared his views about plans for the future of the club. There was an exchange of views and issues of concern to both the board and the manager which will either be addressed or be picked up on in future meetings."

Benítez met his lawyers in London and also Purslow and Broughton, the British Airways chairman who was installed at Anfield on 16 April to oversee the sale of the club by co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Two meetings between Benítez and Broughton, before recent games, had to be cancelled for logistical reasons. Broughton is expected to report the details of his meeting with Benítez to fellow board members. Benítez, who is under increasing pressure to give an answer on his future to the new Juventus president, Andrea Agnelli, will consider whether to continue as Liverpool manager. Benítez will not be able to divulge details of the meeting tomorrow as his customary Friday press conference has been postponed.

The Liverpool centre-back Jamie Carragher has said talks over a contract extension will not take place until he enters the final year of his existing deal, which expires in 2011. The Liverpool vice-captain He said: "I've spoken to the manager about it and we both agreed that it would be better if we talked about it at the start of next season."He said: "I've spoken to the manager about it and we both agreed that it would be better if we talked about it at the start of next season."

"There was an interview with a national newspaper and the headline was a bit misleading, saying that I would be prepared to leave Liverpool. Really, I said that if Liverpool didn't want me, I'd be forced to sign for someone else because I'd have no other option. I don't want to retire yet. I understand at my age, you can only make decisions season by season. But I want to finish my career at Liverpool. I don't want to play for anyone else."

Clear as mud then!!!

Mmmh..its quite worrying that our future lies in the hands of a Chelsea fan :(,i suppose the good thing is he can detach himself from any emotions and look at the whole situation with a balanced view,even though he has been brought in, in a non executive role according to the government commissioned Higgs report "non executive directors are where necessary responsible for removing senior management",so not just to oversee the sale of the club as purslow told us.

this is silly the issues need to be done now not weeks in the future.

agreed. there's no time for more silly games in the press by rafa and his agent. if rafa has any respect at all for the fans then he'll just make up his mind.

the problem is that the new Chairman (apart from being a Chelski supporter), is a Hicks/Gillit apointment.
As such he is there to serve their interests and not that of LFC, its many loyal (and frustrated) supporters, staff etc.

I dont; think Hicks and Gillett had alot to do with his appointment. As I understand it, Barclays Capital were the ones that put him there.

that may be so SA_Red, but again the long suffering fans stand at the back of the queue.

Too true!