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101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more: Benitez is back on the brink at Liverpool, as Alan Hansen argues “there is no doubt that Arsenal now have a realistic chance [of the title] this season”
Pitch Invasion: The Sweeper: Rafa Will Not Leave. This is a Fact, No?
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Telegraph >> Rafael Benítez is running out of luck at Liverpool http://bit.ly/pj35P 24 days ago |
Benitez is back on the brink at Liverpool, as Alan Hansen argues “there is no doubt that Arsenal now have a realistic chance [of the title] this season”
101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more —
... makes the case that “Benitez’s job is understood to be secure as Liverpool’s owners acknowledge that the manager is battling a debilitating injury list that has been a significant contributing factor to his five Premier League defeats this season.” A competing analysis of why Rafa is safe (for now) is delivered by Rory Smith. “Liverpool have neither the mechanism nor the means to effect a dismissal, requiring as it would a majority vote in a boardroom fractured beyond repair and up to £20 million to pay off Benítez and ...
The Sweeper: Rafa Will Not Leave. This is a Fact, No?
Pitch Invasion —
... But the most pertinent and balanced piece comes from Rory Smith in the Telegraph, getting to the heart of the issue: money, which Liverpool do not have to throw away. “Liverpool have neither the mechanism nor the means to effect a dismissal, requiring as it would a majority vote in a boardroom fractured beyond repair and up to £20 million to pay off Benítez and his staff (if they were not to be re-employed elsewhere),” Smith writes. “That money, it is fair to say, would be better spent backing Benítez in the January bring-and-buy sale.” ...
