EXCLUSIVE! Rafa Benitez admits Everton job was difficult because of Liverpool past
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2022
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In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports, Rafael Benitez reflects on his time as manager at Everton and admits it was 'difficult' to manage the club the way he wanted to due to his ties with rivals Liverpool.
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Nice to see that Rafa has settled in well at Buckingham Palace
Settled in pretty well
Wonder if agent Andrew is around.
Thats his House in Liverpool Somewhere.
I bet he's been playing alot of chess 🙂
@@Lionsraws66 Really ? I thought it was Buckingham Palace
@@lodersracing Pretty sure
Someone wants the Leceister job 👀
Hahaha.
Nah Ole needs a wheel
@@BigSmokeMUFC 😂
I get the impression that he's been passed over for certain jobs for younger, more forward thinking managers and he's using this interview to tell potential clubs, that his experience is still worth something in today's football.
No!!! Really????
no matter what i think he’s a good guy
Agent Rafa was actually a real thing no way 😂
Everton football cloob is dear to my *HeArT*
Agent Carlo was sent to madrid to win the ucl from Liverpool
@@rory_3421 I thought Everton fans hate Carlo tho? Like who in the right mind wouldn't bin off Everton for Real Madrid 😂
@@DerThinker na we don't hate Carlo for doing that, surprised he ever managed us to be honest😂the fat Spanish waiter tho wow what a blurt
rafas leicester city job interview went rather well i think .
The Spanish waiter the king power he will talk about facts as they are important.
Leicester City Football Cloob
Always do these interviews when a Premier league team is about too sack a manager. Leicester city
his impression of darren farley is spot on
he isn't doing a scouse accent and 47 fools liked this!!!!!
Liam Strain everybody!!!! 👏👏👏
😂
@@grahamrobb9773 the piggery??????? Arsenal fan having a go at someone when we all know by end of January you will be sitting mid table! 🤣
@@ScotsmanGamer It LIVES 🤡
This interview is damage control. He's doing it to get back in the spotlight to give him a decent chance of getting another Premier League job
His tactics are outdated, that’s the main issue injuries didn’t help at all but his tactics are old and tbf he had next to no budget. only Unsworth is worse as far as managers go for Everton in the past 10 years.
His tactics seemed fine when you had no injuries and were flying, injuries cost him, and the fact that he got 0 money
For comparison, he got 0 signings other than Gray (who has been great value) and then had injuries to almost every key player while having to lose Rodriguez
Stats wise, Rafa has a better points per game than lampard for Everton, and Lampard had had way more backing with players and less injuries
@@Pjj878 his tactics are outdated and he isn’t a good man manager, Lampard got the best of players like Iwobi and Gordon while Rafa had them both on the bench.
@@Pjj878 Everton are a small club and the fans think they deserve better. Wel now they got Lampard 😂😊
@@williamo121 Lampard is doing a decent job, but nothing he's done has come close to how Rafa started, and Lampard had had backing with signings
5 players,£1.7M spent.The Directors sacrificed him to save themselves.
Rafa was always gonna have a hard time at goodison. As a reds fan it was clear to see that not all the blues were gonna get behind him and rightly so. He had to deal with injuries and the pressure from the fans and sadly didnt deliver. He's still a great manager, i just think he underestimated the job he had on his hands
As aggressive and angry as a lot of fans were when Rafa was appointed, make no mistake - fans gave him enough time and support. His appalling tactics and his total inability to adapt to the situation let him down. It certainly wasn't an easy job and the injury crisis made his life so much harder, but when you have a manager getting rid of key players like James Rodriguez and Lucas Digne, fans were always going to turn on him. Most fans aren't angry at Rafa anymore, they're angry at Moshiri for thinking he knows better and appointing Benitez.
Yeah the attitude after he was appointed was very much "look he's here now let's crack on". The team put out a lot of pre-season footage and player interviews and they were all likeable and motivating. He was a poor appointment, it showed distain/disregard from the board/chairman for fans, and with the club being in such a mess internally (by all reports) it was just an awful choice.
I really don't know what the board thought the fans were supposed to think about it all, or how they were supposed to feel good about the future of the club during is tenure.
James was an expensive liability regularly injured and deservedly move on,. Everton had to sell Digne for £30 million to buy Vitalii Mykolenko (£21m) and Nathan Patterson (£12m). Rafa bought 5 players four of them have been very good buys. Your focus should be on how the owners allowed the management to spend £600m on complete dross.
Absolute rubbish, you guys love Lampard because he is essentially not Rafa. He has spent more than Rafa and is near the botton, yet you sing his name like a hero. Your team is going down and I can't wait for it
@@sulaak Farhad Moshiri has had a lot of verbal abuse thrown over the years and rightly so. As I said fans are still angry at him, but we’ve just had an exceptional transfer window given the FFP constraints. You are also mistaken. We didn’t sell Lucas Digne to get Mykolenko - We got Mykolenko because Rafa and Lucas Digne fell out badly and essentially forced him out the club. James Rodrigues was removed from the club for reasons which I understand, but we didn’t replace him at all for an entire year. This idea that you can do a couple things right like get Patterson and Mykolenko in and suddenly we can just forget about the terrible form and style of play is not something Evertonians are going to subscribe to.
@@dozz87 10th place, 2nd best defense in the league. I think Everton are actually playing very well, especially just Beating hammers who have a superior team. Frank Lampard is the man for the job.
As a Newcastle Fan, I can't lie that I loved having Rafa as our manager. We took to him as we had clowns in charge for years, Like Pards, Caver and Wally Brolly. I never understood why he took the Everton job considering his Liverpool past and the fact that he called Everton in his own words a "small club" That is never going to wash.
Don't get me wrong, Rafa made mistakes at Newcastle and the football was defensive however the thing is prior to Rafa being manager, we never could defend or had a game plan. His best days are behind him but he should never have got the Everton job, It was never going to work.
Massive mistakes in the transfer window. Selling Toney, Armstrong and Mbabu for peanuts and moving Mitro on. Then buying players who he didn't even trust enough to pick them. I don't understand why he's remembered so fondly after such terrible decisions that damaged the club financially not to mention the squad.
@@Buckblacket rafa's not negotiating fees for players 🤡, and the budget for players was low under the previous regime at that time
@@DeterminedFC are you saying he didn't even chose the players who were brought in under his management and he had no control? If that's true, how is it he was able to insist to Ashley he didn't want Joelinton because he thought he wasn't worth the money even though Ashley agreed to cover the cost of the transfer independently of the agreed budget? Look at the money he wasted on players he wouldn't even use like Lazaar, Sels, Gamez and Muto to mention but a few? You clearly have no clue about the club have you?
@@Buckblacket am i saying something completely different to what i typed ?...what kinda of stupid question is that ..are you dumb ,slow or stupid ....
you said he sold players for" peanuts" ...the amount players are sold for is nothing to do with him or any manger in the prem 🤡
the ability to read is paramount before writing your emotional essays soyboy
His family still live on the Wirral so close 2 home for him hopefully comes 2 us at Tranmere next time we will have him😂
Was a sad day when Rafa left Newcastle. Good luck to him in the future.
As a Liverpool fan though, he did do a great job there
Would love to see him back at your club
Agent Rafa!
I think so too
@@malcolmpayne8211 Agent Carlo
Idk what Everton fans expected with that garbage squad of theirs. They should’ve been relegated.
No manager survives 1 win in 14
Precisely 👌🏿
But he has experience
No manager survives with a trash squad and trash club like Everton
Steve Bruce said hello 👋
Tell the wolves board that!
This seems like a job interview.
Im not an Everton fan.
But this guy got rid of a couple of guys he didn't like(IMO) that could have helped the team. Also tactically he wasn't flexible.
The Rafa for Leicester PA machine in full swing here..
it wasn't because of his liverpool past, it was his dire tactics
Fitted perfectly at everton football clooob
And the fact he only had £2 million to spend
Tic tacs*
You'd be begging for Rafa soon with the way Lamps is going
@@adityarangarajan3948 all everton fans I know are really happy with him, I'm personally more than happy to give him time because we finally have a direction
Football is such fine margins, Everton were flying and doing well under Rafa before the massive catastrophic injuries
After that sure he didn't recover at all but the fans had already turned on him and the important players were slow to recover. It's not like Rafa has gone and they're amazing all of a sudden is it, and Mykolenko looks good too
This man sold James & Digne and signed Rondon. His downfall was of his own making.
Rafa's job interview for the Bournemouth or Leicester City job went well😁
I'm shocked he lasted as long as he did, I thought he had for sure blown his cover when he signed Rondon😭😭
This man will forever be a Liverpool icon for what he achieved in Istanbul
He did nothing in Istanbul
Absolutely nothing laa
Not bigger than Klopp
No, it was difficult because he's useless.
Binned off James & Digne, signed El Ghazi but didn't play him, created a toxic atmosphere with the players, insisted on constantly playing Rondon (despite his terrible form), refused to change his tactics even when they weren't working & constantly played defensively despite doing nothing to fix the appalling defence.
Richardlinson and DCL were both injured he had no choice but to play Rondon. would you rather have Digne in place of Vitalii Mykolenko (£21m) and Nathan Patterson (12.4m)
He literally just coherently explained that a deep analysis is undertaken of players and injury history and team selection reflefts this in depth analysis so why dont you fathom in your small brain that rafa the champions league winning manager (who was actually managing the team!!!) might of known something you didnt or have a reason behind his team selection that isnt obvious to the layman
@@Smilejustsmilebby He was obviously mistaken in his "deep analysis".
He insisted on using outdated tactics & refused to adapt when they failed to produce results.
It's no coincidence that results improved massively under Lampard.
@@mrtom2854 well everton look like sh*t this season from where im standing 1 win. So i dont know where this dramatic change of form is. Didnt rafa start off well then taper off for reasons he just explained..how dense do you have to be. Outdated tactics they say, as if theres just one set of tactics to be used at all times. You probably dont even know or understand his philosophy or what he is intending to create on the pitch and just parrot that its outdated. They are only outdated when you lose but when you won they werent. But ok whatever you say tom beattie im sure you know much better and more about football than rafa.
He did his job well. Thank you Agent Rafa.
As an Everton fan I never blamed Rafa. He had good intentions but the board just got loads wrong. For example, it was known he and Digne had a falling out. Now the board sold Digne and it was a sign of standing by the manager but then they sacked Rafa about 2 weeks later. Makes no sense. Lampard is building a strong team now though so the past is the past.
he was to blame too
He couldn't organise a defence. How is that not his fault? We also conceded so many from set pieces. If he made our defence as solid as he did Newcastle's then we'd be eeeking out 0 0s and 1 0 wins, that would've been fine.
As an Evertonian, if the fans don’t like a manager neither will the players, that emotion filters through, it’s instantaneous with EFC other teams take longer like Man U fans and Van Gaal, LFC and Roy Hodgson these teams took ages to realise how crap the managers were, took blues fans 5 seconds after hearing Rafa was being considered….Rafa out!!
Rafa peaked at Valencia and Liverpool.
didnt do bad at Chelsea and Napoli either
@@jamdonut4021 or Newcastle
Nice chess set Rafa.
He definitely sits on the other side of that table when he plays chess
agent rafa:
- leave them in the relegation zone
- sell their best defender
- get a massive payout from being sacked
Absolute boss
digne couldnt defend
Digne was crap and had been for a while. He bought his replacement in mykelenko and a new rb in Patterson for the money he got and they have both been great so far 🤷🏻♂️
@@Dannyboyefc and lamps made them good
@@ifeeldeadinsideD2 no he never, Patterson was good anyway and so was mykelenko 🙄
The man’s a disgrace, he destroyed what spirit we had, forced out the few decent players we had, I’m so much happier with super Frank than agent Rafa.
Your feelings are different from the rest of us. You DON'T like him😆
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He'll be Nottingham Forest Manager in January.
Nice to see Farley settle in at the palace.
he makes sense
Talk about trying to put yourself in the shop window 😂
Anyone else notice the chess board is the wrong way round? It needs rotating 90 degrees so that the left hand corner is a black square.
I wonder if Mr Farley is going to do his take
That is Darren Farley sat there 😊
Agent Rafa is legendary when are they building a statue in his name at Anfield
He almost destroyed my club, with his negative tactics and poor man management skills. The board should never have hired him. So glad, we have Super Frankie Lampard 👌🏿
Everton are going down to Championship with Frank Lampard
600m spent before Rafael even looked at Everton. Everton problem lies with its owner and board not rafa. Everton had alladyce before now. Look at silva and martinet both doing boss jobs at the minute. Everton is a poisonous club
@@elmimohamedelmi goin down on yea mar
Everton clearly didn’t work for both parties for a lot of reasons, but Everton in general have a lot problems, pre and post Rafa, let’s be serious. He may not be one of the best managers anymore but he would still do a good job for a club, just needs to be the right fit for him and the club
We’re in much better knick now. Granted we still have problems but we’re 5 games undefeated and having brought some very smart signings we will for sure be much better than last season. So post Rafa I think we’re fine and we have the right man in charge for what we are right now. Rafa Benitez was never the right person for this club and was a mistake bringing him in
He was doomed to fail at Everton from the start because of his ties to LFC, people forget he won a trophy with Chelsea as interim manager
🔥
It wasn't the fans fault, he was given more than enough time. Injuries and stubbornness killed him.
One thing I'll thank him for is Patterson, mykolenko, and gray. Oh and getting rid of that lazy man digne.
He had a brilliant start to life at Everton but injuries damaged that great start, I have no doubt if he didn't have a Liverpool past he would have got them going again! However it was always going to be a case of any bad form would kill his Everton Career straight away the fans was never going to give him time, in reality he should of never been given the job! I do think he is a fantastic manager though!
Well said 👏
When current form is 5 points out of 12 games including a 5-2 loss at home to Watford and a loss to bottom Norwich it isn’t good enough to stay in any job, nothing was changing and game plan stayed the same with 0 creativity.
@@1KHC to be fair to him he didnt have a lot to play with
He should replace Brendan and Brendan should replace Steven
He should take the Leicester city job
Rafa doing interviews, so he's looking for a job again lol
Leicester, Forest or Wolves
Leicester city, maybe, Lol
Man is checking market sentiment 😅
Of course.
Bravo Sherlock 👏🏼
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE! Water is wet
That's a nice chess set
Rafa is a top guy I just wish he never took the Everton job. It ruined his Liverpool legacy a tiny bit.
Tiny bit?
IMO, his time at Chelsea ruined his reputation more than this. At this point Rafa was just remembered for the good things no real affection anymore. His time at the blues was funny from my point of view.
@@Danfazza-ey6mx but jose went from chelsea to utd
This man sold James & Digne and signed Rondon. His downfall was of his own making.
No he didn’t, he was well gone before digne left
@@New-ye2fl but rafa is the reason why digne left
@@New-ye2fl he got sacked a few days after 👍🏻
@@New-ye2fl he sold Digne then got sacked a couple of days later
Everyone knew that the day you took the everton job
He did a great job at Everton. Everton fans are so entitled. Fighting relegation is about right for them
He didn't though did he. 1 win in 14 mate.
Ya mar
And because of that, Everton now have Frank Lampard as their manager 😂😭
He is doing a good job?
@@aspiepilled1505 ye good job fighting relegation. Ur manager is another Tim Sherwood.
Leicester next 🤔
Facts
Football’s a game of chess, fact
We’ve learnt Rafa thinks he can analyse
As soon as you got it tactically wrong you threw the players under the bus and then proceed to blame anything and everything but yourself. Lampard's biggest challenge last season was undoing the mental damage you did to the group. Staying up last season felt like it was in spite of you, the media and what seemed like every other fan base in the country who couldn't believe their messiah had been betrayed. Stats alone can't show just how good a job Frank Lampard has done at Everton in removing the poison you left behind.
So true 👍🏻
FACTS
In other news, the sky is blue! 🙄
Majority of Everton fans gave Rafa Benitez more than enough time to settle in and backed him for as long as possible. Persisting with Salomon Rondon upfront, his stubbornness and inept tactics were his downfall. That isn't even mentioning that he pushed out 2 key players from the previous season in Lucas Digne and James Rodriguez because they didn't agree with him. An appointment that just never was going to work
Sky should hire me. I would have asked alot more interesting questions like the James Rodriguez and Lucas Digne scenario. Such a boring interview sky smh.
this man lost almost every game there. He was finished
I DESTROYED THE RED NOSE DREAMS RAFA FAILED
Rafa made a mistake of coaching Everton but I hear he called them a small club
He wanted to take them down
welcome back to Newcastle at some point youre love for them is amazing we welcome you with open arms..
Why would u want him? U have the great Eddie!
didnt want him as a manager he love Newcastle and thats enough for me
@@JimmyZhang783 Eddie Howe is better
Next week, join us when we examine how water is wet.
AGENT RAFA
he did one hell of a job
What a man
Bournemouths new manager?
Sky sports and context...? Emmm.. that sounds like a stretch
He must be looking for a new job when he’s playing the whole ‘woe is me’ charade. The worst manager in Everton history who loves to blame all the other factors around him instead of himself. Rips up the medical department and we have unprecedented injuries all season, sells James Rodriguez and Lucas Digne out of pure personal spite, nothing else. Takes over the transfers because he’s a dinosaur who is incapable of working with a director of football who eventually resigns. Also, this notion that because he was a red it wasn’t going to work out is utter garbage, it’s the fact you won 1 game of football out of 14 between September and January. No manager on Earth survives a run of form like that. Have a look in the mirror Rafa.
Lampard deserves serious credit for picking that squad up off the canvas and keeping them in the league.
I bet that chess set would cost more than I make in a week. That’s why I play cards
The dude won 1 in 14 and he's saying its because he was a red....? Maybe to some extent that played a part, but it's nice to know he's not taking any accountability for his actions.
Well said mate 👌🏿
Did you see the injury list? Did you see how well they were doing before that, did you mention he had 1 signing for money which was gray (which is a great signing)
This is a job interview lol
does he have liverpool and everton chess pieces 😭😭😭
So glad to hear a manager finally calling out how small the gains are from "pLaYiNg OuT fRoM tHe BaCk". So over-rated
Just let it go Rafa, obviously wants a new job so a PR exercise.
Am a Evertonian and the club is so poorly run, hopefully they have learned lessons.
Look at clubs like Brighton etc you don’t need to spend a fortune.
Both Rafa and Everton , both should have known better. How could it work?
I just see FarleyTV 🤣🤣
Spains version of Sam Allardyce
What happened to digne. Raf should answer that question
Digne questioned his tactics and Rafa didnt like it. Allan I think questioned it too but backed down.
Digne is good going forward but it seems he wasnt allowed to cross the half way line. Same for Coleman, many games they seemed to stay back.
Useless manager got fired.
He's actually a very good manager but should never have been appointed Everton manger.
He's too good for Everton
Yesterdays man. The game has moved on and he hasn’t, that’s even before you get to his, at best, questionable man management skills. Shocking to think he picked up £10mio+ from us ……
Agent Rafa goat
Who
Fancy tarnishing your legacy just so you can walk to work. What a mercenary!
no matter how good he did with us (everton) the fans wouldn't of give him a good time due to his liverpool past and rightly so, your not going to see alex ferguson going to man city or liverpool, just shouldn't happen
To be fair he sold digne but he’s been crap for a while if Everton fans are being honest and he bought mykelenko and patterson with the money who have both become firm favourites and seem to be bargains in todays market
Digne was our best player
@@wEstEgg8899 no he wasn’t at all, he’d been well off it and was only getting a game because there was no replacement on the bench
Digne has been poor since he joined villa. That was a good bit of buisness by everton
anyone who brings Rondon in needs sacking
Deploying his tictacs on a game of chess I see
Agent Rafa😁
Not very professional saying that is it that he couldn't do a job because he once managed liverpool think it's just an excuse to be honest because he won't admit he's finished as a manager
Rafa, I hear you've been on Wikipedia. Tell us more...
LFCCCCC❤❤❤❤❤
Next Leicester manager
That would make total sense
Must be difficult for any managers to take a job and from day 1 most of the fans are already against them
Next leicester manager ?!
I think Sean Dyche should go for the Leicester job.