“Football always continues to change and since I left Everton in 2022 I continue to study the changes.I am ready for new challenges, wherever they take me”.
Thus Rafa Benitez speak on the specialized site 'The Coaches Voice' of his possibility of returning to a bench, in a period in which his name is also being mentioned for a possible return to Napoli in the list of coaches he's thinking of De Laurentiis after the probable farewell of Spalletti.
Benitez tells the site its story since it came to Italy from young to “study the football of Arrigo Sacchi, Fabio Capello and Claudio Ranieri”, he says. In the story of his career, Benitez talks about the final of Champions League of the 2005 when he came back in the second half to 3-0 of the Milan in the first half and then won on penalties and the victory of theEuropa League Chelsea, before talking about his time at Napoli.
“The president of the club - he tells - he wanted to rebuild the team after selling Cavani to PSG.
It was a big challenge. We took Higuain, Albiol, Mertens, Callejon, Queen, footings and then in January Jorginho e Ghoulam.
Those were years in which the Juventus he won everything but we managed to conquer the Coppa Italia since 2014 and then we also won the Super Cup. The successes also brought strong results in the growth of the players, we took Koulibaly, for 7 million from Genk, who then years later the Napoli sold at a very high price.
But the whole team at that time had grown: Higuain It had cost 40 million and was sold for 90 million. Juventus, many players went up in price in the sale”.
Article published on May 23, 2023 - 14:25 pm
