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[ian rush 68]

Liverpool : Benitez rêve de revenir à Anfield

Le 23 décembre dernier, Rafael Benitez a été viré par les décisionnaires de l'Inter Milan. Aujourd'hui, le technicien espagnol est libre de tout contrat et il espère bien sûr rebondir dans un nouveau club l'été prochain.

Au cours d'une entrevue relayée par Sky Sports, l'ex-coach des Nerazzurri a fait savoir qu'il aimerait bien... revenir sur le banc de Liverpool dans quelques années. "Je suis vraiment fier d'avoir été le manager de Liverpool (entre 2004 et 2010). J'aimerai bien revenir là-bas dans le futur. Je ne sais pas quand parce que Kenny (Dalglish) fait vraiment un bon travail. C'est une question de temps. On ne sait jamais comment va se passer l'avenir. En tout cas, les fans de Liverpool savent que je n'entraînerai pas un club rival (cf Everton ou encore Manchester United)", a promis Rafael Benitez.

pour cette fois ci remporter la premier league

[Gian]

Rafael Benitez répond à Houllier, en disant que l'équipe championne à Istanbul était la sienne, et non celle de Houllier.

Vous pouvez retrouver la vidéo de l'interview entre Rafael Benitez et Skysports.

Rafa hits back at Houllier

Benitez says 'a different team' claimed glory in Istanbul

Last updated: 29th March 2011

Rafael Benitez says Gerard Houllier should stop trying to claim credit for Liverpool's 2005 Champions League win.

The Spaniard took over at Anfield in the summer of 2004, ending Houllier's six-year spell in charge, and his appointment paid instant dividends as he led the Reds to European glory in his very first season

Earlier this year, the Frenchman argued that he had played a decisive role in the club's triumph success because "apart from two players, they had been signed or developed under me".

But speaking exclusively to Sky Sports' Guillem Balague, Benitez dismissed his predecessor's claims, arguing that Liverpool adopted a totally different tactical and mental approach under his leadership.

He said that his signings, Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia, made a significant difference to the squad and that the team had moved on from the one that finished fourth in the Premier League in Houllier's final season.

"The last two years of Houllier were not the best," Benitez said.

"I was in charge because they decided to change, so that is one crucial point for me too.

"But the way we arrived at the final, we had a lot of good games and there were a lot of top sides that we beat.

"Key players for us, Alonso and Luis Garcia, were not in the squad (under Houllier) and also the approach of the game changed.

"At Valencia, I tried to play higher and press higher, so you can see the tactics were different, the commitment was different and the passion of the players was different.

"It was a different team."

Skysports

[ZeZapatiste]

A la commémoration d'Hillsborough d'aujourd'hui (vidéo que j'ai trouvée sur le facebook de Dani Pacheco) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXge4Ar_Dyw

C'est vraiment magnifique

[Pierre]

A la commémoration d'Hillsborough d'aujourd'hui (vidéo que j'ai trouvée sur le facebook de Dani Pacheco) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXge4Ar_Dyw

C'est vraiment magnifique

J'ai pas compris tout ce qu'a dit "la speakeuse" mais en tout rien que de voir l'emotion, les pleurs des supporteurs et de Rafa fais que cette video est magnifique

YNWA

[ZeZapatiste]

En gros, elle dit merci à Rafa d'être venu, et elle souligne son soutien aux personnes concernées lors de son passage en temps que coach.

Sur une autre note, il a été proposé à la Reine d'anoblir King Kenny. Je vous raconte pas sa tronche lorsqu'il a entendu ça !

[Pierre]

En gros, elle dit merci à Rafa d'être venu, et elle souligne son soutien aux personnes concernées lors de son passage en temps que coach.

Sur une autre note, il a été proposé à la Reine d'anoblir King Kenny. Je vous raconte pas sa tronche lorsqu'il a entendu ça !

Ok merci pour la traduction !

YNWA

[redman]

Chapeau à Rafa pour sa présence.

On pense ce qu'on veut de l'entraîneur, mais ce geste n'était en rien obligatoire et il a choisi d'être là.

Merci à lui.

[rodofromparis]

Media Muppet of the Month, April 2011

This old chestnut is revived thanks to David Anderson of the Daily Mirror, who wrote a peach of a piece this week; taking nonsense to new heights. After all, wasn’t it about time someone wrote a piece criticing Rafa Benítez, for no apparent reason?

Here he tells us of the folly of playing Dirk Kuyt out on the wing, after he scored a great goal playing … out on the wing.

When Dalglish returned to the Liverpool dug-out in January and was faced with the dilemma of who to play up front with Luis Suarez while Andy Carroll was injured, he did the obvious thing.

He didn’t try and play 4-5-1 or push Steven Gerrard into the hole.

The sheer craziness of putting Gerrard in the hole. After all, in 2008/09 he won the Footballer of the Year playing there, and scored a whopping 24 goals. Crazy!

And when Liverpool won 4-1 at Old Trafford, where was Gerrard playing?

Dalglish believes in the simplicity of putting round pegs in round holes and so he moved Dirk Kuyt in from the right, where Rafa Benitez had spent most of his reign trying to turn him into a winger, to his natural position up front.

The transformation in Kuyt happened almost overnight and he went from a game, hard-working, but slow right winger, to a striker who scored goals again.

Kuyt has never once failed to make double figures in five seasons. He is versatile, and happy to play anywhere. He has duly been rewarded with a contract extension, and given his phenomenal fitness, rightly so.

Well done to Kenny for getting things back on track at the club. But it was the mess of Hodgson, not Benítez, that he was trying to undo. Under Benítez, Liverpool had fewer problems, as did Dirk Kuyt, who was a big fan of the Spaniard (and who also remarked that Hodgson’s methods didn’t work.)

The Dutch international netted in Dalglish’s first home game back in the Merseyside derby against Everton and hasn’t looked back.

Any striker will tell you that goals breed confidence and with each strike, Kuyt has grown in stature.

His hat-trick against Manchester United showed that and he would never have made it into the penalty area, let alone the six-yard box, under Benitez.

Eh? How did he score 14, 11, 15 and 11 goals under Benítez, then?

Let’s also remember that Benítez bought Kuyt, but also Torres.

Torres was the best striker in the world during Rafa’s time at Liverpool. Why would you want Kuyt up front when you have Torres? And why would you want Kuyt up front with Torres when Gerrard was outstanding in the hole, and when the pair of them had an almost telepathic understanding?

Where Dalglish has really worked his magic is that he has kept Kuyt scoring after moving him back out wide to accommodate Carroll.

What, putting a square peg in a round hole? I thought Dalglish didn’t do that?

Against City, central midfielder Raul Meireles was on the left-wing. What craziness! So on the right wing was a centre-forward and the left-winger was really a central midfielder. And two holding midfielders, in Lucas and Spearing, who never get into the box. Madness!

This is no criticism of Kenny, because his methods have worked wonders. But surely this undermines the whole point of the (rather pointless) article, which was to have a dig at Benítez for being crazy and foreign?

He has given Kuyt the confidence to come inside and try his luck whenever he sees fit and he just would not have done that under Benitez.

What baseless nonsense. Kuyt scored a hell of a lot of important goals under Benítez from the right wing, often in really big games.

Suddenly in the space of three short months, Liverpool, who spent most of the last two seasons relying too heavily on Fernando Torres, have three potent goalscorers in Kuyt, Suarez and Carroll.

In 2008/09, six Liverpool players got into double figures, Kuyt included. In 2008/09, Gerrard got 24 goals from that silly ‘hole’ position. In 2008/09, Liverpool were the top scorers in the Premier League, and had the best goal difference, at +50.

What Dalglish has done is get Liverpool back closer to where they were a couple of years ago; without yet matching Rafa’s best figures (or his own great ones from the ’80s), he is exactly matching the Spaniard’s averages.

Liverpool always had a healthy goal difference under Benítez, and have one again under Dalglish: +10 from his 12 games, or +32 pro rata over a full season; coincidentally, the precise average of all of Benítez’s seasons.

Under Hodgson it was -3 after 20 games; perhaps the most damning statistic of his tenure. The side Hodgson inherited had finished with +26, and not since the +11 of the Spaniard’s first season (where most of the outstanding displays were in the energy-sapping Champions League) had it been below +25. Hodgson was on course for -5.

Kenny’s current win % in the league is 58%, a fraction above Benítez’s, but miles ahead of Hodgson’s 35%.

Then there are the points averages. Per game, over his six seasons, Benítez averaged 1.89 points. Right now, Dalglish is averaging 1.92: almost identical to the Spaniard. (If reducing it to one decimal place, they’d both be 1.9.)

In between, Hodgson managed only 1.25 points per game, along with the awful goal difference. Now that was the problem.

Hopefully Kuyt will continue in his current vein of scoring, wherever he plays. He’s also notched six goals for Holland this season.

Liverpool have more striking options now, but only due to getting £50m for Torres. Then again, who bought Torres?

L'article dont il fait référence est celui-ci.

[aurel]

Rafa à Anfield pour le Memorial Service

ça se passe de commentaires, autant sur l'amour que porte Rafa au LFC et à ses supporters que l'estime qu'il garde là-bas...

[REDDINGUE]

Rafa à Anfield pour le Memorial Service

ça se passe de commentaires, autant sur l'amour que porte Rafa au LFC et à ses supporters que l'estime qu'il garde là-bas...

Je pense même qu'il sera à nouveau entraîneur de LFC un jour !! YNWA

[Jibung]

A la commémoration d'Hillsborough d'aujourd'hui (vidéo que j'ai trouvée sur le facebook de Dani Pacheco) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXge4Ar_Dyw

C'est vraiment magnifique

WOW my god R'b

Bon j'étais venu sur le sujet pour poster ça :/ :

sofoot.com:

Chelsea : Benitez postule

Chelsea terminera sans doute la saison sans le moindre titre. Et c’est sans doute ce qui va coûter la place de Carlo Ancelotti à la tête des Blues.

Roman Abramovich ne devrait pourtant pas avoir trop de mal à le remplacer. Selon les informations du très sérieux Guardian, Rafael Benitez aurait fait part de son intérêt pour le poste. Une candidature spontanée qui n’a rien de surprenant puisque l’ancien big boss de Liverpool est au chômage depuis son licenciement de l’Inter de Milan l’hiver dernier.

Pas sur que les fans des Reds apprécient.

[REDDINGUE]

Benitez à Chelsea peu probable ....Il aime trop LFC pour nous faire celà ...à moins que lui aussi succombe aux" Soviet milliards " !

[Invité]

Benitez à Chelsea peu probable ....Il aime trop LFC pour nous faire celà ...à moins que lui aussi succombe aux" Soviet milliards " !

je n'ai aucun doute là-dessus, si chelsky lui fait une offre il l'acceptera, j'en suis sûr à 100%.

il a d'ailleurs déclaré qu'il voulait revenir en PL, alors si c'est un top team ce sera encore mieux pour lui.

[Jibung]

Liverpool : Benitez rêve de revenir à Anfield

Le 23 décembre dernier, Rafael Benitez a été viré par les décisionnaires de l'Inter Milan. Aujourd'hui, le technicien espagnol est libre de tout contrat et il espère bien sûr rebondir dans un nouveau club l'été prochain.

Au cours d'une entrevue relayée par Sky Sports, l'ex-coach des Nerazzurri a fait savoir qu'il aimerait bien... revenir sur le banc de Liverpool dans quelques années. "Je suis vraiment fier d'avoir été le manager de Liverpool (entre 2004 et 2010). J'aimerai bien revenir là-bas dans le futur. Je ne sais pas quand parce que Kenny (Dalglish) fait vraiment un bon travail. C'est une question de temps. On ne sait jamais comment va se passer l'avenir. En tout cas, les fans de Liverpool savent que je n'entraînerai pas un club rival (cf Everton ou encore Manchester United)", a promis Rafael Benitez.

C'est assez bizarre quand on lit ça sur la page précédente. D'ailleurs El Zahr t'as pas mis la source de l'article

Modifié le 25 avril 2011 par Jibung

[ZeZapatiste]

Chelsea n'est pas à proprement parler un rival. On n'a pas de différent historique, si ce n'est la bataille Rafa/Mourinho. C'est juste qu'on joue dans les mêmes eaux en ce moment.

Rival sportif oui, rival historique non. Et Rafa ne va pas finir à Wolverhampton... S'il réentraîne en PL ce sera forcément chez un de nos concurrents.

[Pierre]

Perso, je trouve sa normal qui postule pour un poste a Chelsea. Vous croyez qu'il va attendre que LFC lui demande de reprendre le poste d'entraineur ?

Il va pas arreter son boulot a cause de LFC qui veut pas le reprendre.

[rodofromparis]

‘When I became Mr Alex Ferguson’s rival we were no longer friends’

Restless Rafa Benitez talks exclusively about the Champions League, Kenny Dalglish and his desire to manage in England again.

Cruising through West Kirby is a cream Mini Cooper, Union Jack roof, Union Jack wing mirrors. Behind the wheel, smiling beatifically, is Rafa Benitez. When he parks on the promenade, two young mums stop, delve into prams and hand him their babies for photographs. Peeping above trees on the cliffside is a mansion. Mail from everywhere arrives, some addressed: “Rafa Benitez, The Big House, Caldy”. Benitez is royalty in west Wirral.

He was king of Europe not long ago. Only Mr. Ferguson, with an English club, has enjoyed the concentrated Champions League success Benitez had when he won with Liverpool, went to another final and lost semi-finals and quarter-finals from 2005-09. In 2007, he beat Barcelona when they were favourites. He is fascinating on how Manchester United could do the same.

He was unimpressed by the negative strategy of Jose Mourinho in defending, then defending some more when he tackled Barça. “It’s really important to have confidence in your own game,” Benitez says, “and a plan. But also know Barcelona can score and be ready to change your plan.” In 2007 he alternated approaches. “In the Nou Camp we used pace. We were waiting, then playing counterattack. At Anfield they expected similar but we pressed them really high from the beginning.”

Where Mourinho paid obsessive attention to Barça’s threats, Ferguson says he will focus on United’s strengths. Benitez nods. “How you play Barcelona depends on your own team,” he says. “If you’re in good condition and have players who do good pressing, you can press high and with intensity. If your team is more technical and a lot of players are not best defending, you have to attack.” United have in their corner, “Premier League pace and style”.

Over lunch, Benitez marshals condiment pots to demonstrate dealing with Lionel Messi. “He plays as a ‘false’ striker. He starts here [between the centre-backs], moves here [midfield] but you can’t be thinking too much about him. If you mark him man to man, he can beat your player. You have to reduce the space for him. It’ll be difficult for him if he cannot receive the ball because you’ve too many bodies in that area.

“But you also have to control [David] Villa, [Andres] Iniesta, Pedro, Xavi, [Dani] Alves. That’s the strength of Barcelona. They have many good players and can move the ball until they create the right situation for the right player.” He smiles. “But I stop [praising Barcelona]. I’m from Madrid!”

It had been Benitez’s idea to model Liverpool like Barça; perhaps with different playing ideas but the same principle of a common style from youth team to first team. He installed at Liverpool’s academy Pep Segura and Rodolfo Borrell, who were formerly key men in Barça’s youth programme, to work alongside director Frank McParland. Benitez believes his vision of a home-grown talent stream flowing into Liverpool’s first team is being realised by Kenny Dalglish promoting Jay Spearing and John Flanagan.

He approves of Dalglish’s permanent appointment at Anfield. “I brought Kenny back to Liverpool because he knows the soul of the club. I thought he could be the key, I wanted him more involved in football things but the people in charge put him as ambassador.” Those people, Tom Hicks and George Gillett (“they talked about not transfers but ‘the draft’,” Benitez snorts) contrasted with Liverpool’s current owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG).

“The difference with these Americans is that they listen to people who know about football. They analyse things with statistics but in the end they know that football’s a different sport. They’re 100% supportive. The whole club sticks together, something we didn’t have.”

Does Benitez wish he’d worked under FSG? “Yeah. It’s a pity. But I cannot think about that,” he says. “Kenny’s doing a fantastic job, I’m happy the club’s moving forward. I’m thinking about the future with another Premier League club.”

He’s a world, European and Spanish champion, FA Cup, Uefa Cup-winning coach for hire. Since leaving Inter Milan in December he has been working at home in Caldy, preparing for his next role. He has pored over the tactical notes and training session diaries kept since he began coaching in 1986. He has studied videos of his old games. He watches matches from around the world on television, monitoring players he’d like to sign.

He has a staff researching technical and sports science questions. “Yesterday, one of my assistants gave me information about how Barcelona train different things. It was interesting. I thought, ‘Maybe we use this and that’,” he beams.

The idea is that whatever club appoint him, he’ll be ready. He’d go abroad but with his family settled on the Wirral, a Premier League return would be ideal. “It has to be the right job. It is not a question of trophies now. If you analyse the trophies you can win at club level, we’ve won everything. Except the Carling Cup ... and we were 11 minutes away [in 2005]. It is more a question, ‘Can I teach? Can I improve players and clubs like before?’

“Valencia was a good club but needed a winning mentality. Liverpool, too. The fans tell me that they were really proud because we played the most important teams in Europe — Chelsea, Real Madrid, Milan, Barcelona — and said, ‘We are Liverpool, we can beat you’.” Despite his enduring association with Anfield, “I’ve been in different clubs, some big, some small, and adapted to their philosophies. I feel I can work anywhere,” he says. “You have to listen to the people in charge, they know how their clubs work.”

That is at odds with perceptions, after his boardroom wars at Anfield, that he clashes with authority. “I was always trying to do my best for Liverpool, the club and the city, and if I go to another club it will be the same. At most of my clubs I’ve been improving players, winning trophies and didn’t have problems.”

Improving players is his passion (he tells a hilarious story, moving the condiments again, about the challenges of teaching Ryan Babel) and I ask him to name his biggest successes at Liverpool. “Maybe people will disagree but I think [steven] Gerrard and Carra [Jamie Carragher]. Gerrard was scoring 24, 21, 20 goals every single year. Carra was playing left-back when I arrived and became one of the best centre-backs around.

“I remember taking Gerrard off against Everton away. 1-1, 11 against 10. We had the extra man but were playing with too much passion. I put Lucas [Leiva] on, he won a penalty, and we won 2-1. When you put so much passion on the pitch, sometimes it’s difficult to choose the right option. You have to keep your passion but be thinking, too, and Gerrard has the balance now.

“[Pepe] Reina was a good player who improved a lot, [Fernando] Torres the same. People can see, now, Lucas is a good player. [Dirk] Kuyt, people criticised him, but now he plays right-wing, target man, second striker. Kenny is showing the squad I left was [contrary to Roy Hodgson’s claims] not so bad.”

Regrets? “People talk about my last year at Liverpool but it was one bad season. We had injuries and had to fight for the club. With transfers — because you were always trying to sign the right players, sometimes you were signing too many and trying to improve your squad too quickly. Maybe next time I try and sign less players and go for more quality.

“But it wasn’t always easy. Because of the economic crisis the most important thing for every club is young players now but at Liverpool the most we spent on a young player was £250,000. We signed one for £10,000. Arsenal bought [Theo] Walcott for £12m, [Aaron] Ramsey for £5m, players I’d been watching. Overall, the signings people criticised were the cheapest: [Andriy] Voronin, [Philipp] Degen. When you look at Torres, Reina, [Xabi] Alonso, Kuyt, [Javier] Mascherano, you can see when we spent money we signed good players.”

When Benitez won in Istanbul, Ferguson sent a congratulatory letter. Should Ferguson win at Wembley, Benitez will applaud but perhaps not leap upright for a standing ovation. What happened to their relationship? “It’s exactly what Arsène Wenger was saying one day. When we were rivals, we were no longer friends. When we were 20 points behind Manchester United, he liked me.”

It’s a wry line. Benitez is smiling and, as ever, sticking up for himself. The Premier League is less interesting without him.

Source: The Sunday Times (il faut être abonné)

[ZeZapatiste]

Improving players is his passion (he tells a hilarious story, moving the condiments again, about the challenges of teaching Ryan Babel)

On voit qu'il travaille toujours énormément malgré qu'il soit sans emploi et semble avoir tiré des leçons de son passage chez nous, il ne pourra revenir qu'encore plus fort !

Mais s'il cherche un club dans le Nord-Ouest, où il est basé, il y en aura peu dans le top. Ne chercherait-il pas à prendre la succession d'Alex ?

Modifié le 16 mai 2011 par ZeZapatiste

[ian rush 68]

Rafa à Anfield pour le Memorial Service

ça se passe de commentaires, autant sur l'amour que porte Rafa au LFC et à ses supporters que l'estime qu'il garde là-bas...

Respect Mister RAFA

[Redman85]

Je pense encore que si il à du quitté Liverpool c'est à cause des deux autre guguss américains; si ont lui avait donné les moyen de renforcer l'équipe après les départ de cadre comme Mascherano/Alonso je pense que Rafa serait toujours entraineur des Reds; m'enfin avec des si on referais le monde....

[ian rush 68]

Les dirigeants d’Aston Villa auraient pris contact avec Rafael Benitez. L’Espagnol est désormais le favori pour succéder à Gérard Houllier au poste de manager.

Selon Sky Sports, les dirigeants d’Aston Villa ont contacté Rafael Benitez pour devenir le nouveau manager du club et ainsi remplacer Gérard Houllier, contraint à partir pour des raisons médicales.

L’Espagnol, libre depuis son limogeage de l’Inter Milan en décembre dernier, pourrait bénéficier d’un budget très conséquent pour les transferts.

P.G (Rédaction Football365.fr)

[Redman85]

Ya Paris qui le veut aussi, si il virre Kombouaré (ce qui serait une énorme connerie).

[Invité scouser#9]

Non c'est pas Paris qui le veut, c'est lui meme qui a pris l'initiative

[rikku]

Non c'est pas Paris qui le veut, c'est lui meme qui a pris l'initiative

T'as une déclaration officielle de Benitez à me montrer ?

[redman]

T'as une déclaration officielle de Benitez à me montrer ?

Non pas de déclarations officielles (en même temps, ça arrive rarement dans ce genre de situations..).

C'est la Gazzetta qui a sorti l'info hier et ça a été repris par l'Equipe aujourd'hui.

Modifié le 19 juin 2011 par redman