Liverpool Anger At Ridiculous Rumors

As rumors fly about Rafael Benitez leaving the club, Liverpool denies any such allocations. Liverpool would of not place Benitez in the position of Premier League manger with top money to send him on his way out the door.
The ridiculous rumors state Benitez would be gone by Middlesbrough on Saturday. l is aware of the rumors in Madrid since the manager and team arrived.
Both team and manager are aware of the rumors and not affected by the rumors. The team is gearing up for a great game against Madrid on Saturday.
Benitez had no comment when approached by reporters on the issue. Benitez has talked with a few different clubs however has not signed or even suggested a change in teams to this point.
Fans and the team are happy with Benitez and would be a big blow to the club, team and fans if Benitez would leave.

Benitez Mystified By Rumor Of New Falling Out At Anfield

Benitez new contract brings owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks to collide with Rafael Benitez manager of Liverpool team.
Reports come on Tuesday with Benitez challenging have power over transfers, with Chief Executive Rick Parry being removed from the procedure and having a superior involvement how the club’s Academy is operated.
Liverpool manager is not in high spirits with the signing of the new deal. The signing has not yet been doing Benitez claims that his agent was irritated since the contract has not been signed. Benitez is ok with not having yet signed the contract.
Benitez has been reported to say he his agent only received the papers on his contract late evening and was surprised that some of the newspapers are reporting problems when Benitez himself has not had a chance to read the new deal himself.
The salary for the next 4 years till 2013 he will stay as Liverpool’s club manager has been agreed upon. With been manager for awhile now, Benitez wants more responsibilities and position. At this time there is no agreement on this part of the contract.
Benitez has been reported to say he is ok with the American owners. As of yet have not had the time to sit down and have talks about the contract and his role the next 4 years in the Academy.
Now that the report is out Benitez see someone might have inside information about the contract making a great mess out of the signing of the contract.
With some time left sure Benitez will get to bottom of the mess and find time to talk with the owners of the London team. Not only talk however find his position and more responsibility he is looking for.

We have to start winning: Benitez

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has called upon his players to return to winning ways against Wigan, as they look to keep their title hopes alive.

The Reds have drawn their last 3 games, and have conceded the advantage to Manchester United, who are now top of the table.

“Clearly we have to win games,” Benitez told the media today.

“Not just now, always – when you are towards the top of the table every single game is important. But I think we showed the other day against Everton that we were much better.

“We had a lot of confidence, we had a lot of possession and we had control of the game. If we keep playing this way then I am sure that we will win games.

“This is an opportunity for us. We are playing away with the same confidence we had the other day and now we just have to make sure we take the chances that we create.”

He remains confident that his team are capable of turning their fortunes around and winning the Premier League this season: “You can see in training sessions that the players are very confident that we can do important things this year.”

Wenger agrees with Benitez on fixtures issue

In the past one month we have seen war of words between Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson and Liverpool boss, Rafael Benitez on several issues. United and Liverpool are recognized for sharing the most bitter relation in Premier League. Benitez accused United of favorable fixtures this year.

He accused him last year too but no one supported his claim. This year finally Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager has stood up to supports the Reds boss claim. He has said that it is quite apparent if you see the next ten matches United is facing from next week. It is unfair to the rest of the title contenders but we can’t do anything. The people to be blamed are those who make the schedule. We can’t accuse the Red Devils for it but issue should certainly be raised. Although Mourinho would not agree on this with the Reds boss but Rafa would be satisfied with Wenger’s comments.

Rafa says Gerrard is unaffected!

Steven Gerrard who appeared in court on Friday for the bar brawl has full support of the club manager Rafael Benitez.

The manager has said that he is unaffected by the incident as he is innocent. He said that you can see his performance which is consistent before and after the incident. If he really did something wrong he would have lost the momentum. Besides what players do off the pitch is not of their concern when they come on the field. Gerrard is in superb form.

He has scored 9 goals for the team in the premieqr league season and more goals are still to come from the Reds skipper. He struck a ferocious strike at Anfield last weekend and his class is permanent. Gerrard has denied the charges and he is out on bail. The team is supporting the Reds starlet and so are the fans. All he needs to do is to focus on the game.

Benitez calls for return to form

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has called on his players to return to their earlier form, when they were top of the table. Consecutive draws against Stoke and Everton mean Liverpool are now behind Manchester United on goal difference, having played a game extra. Before these games, Liverpool had been in fine form, brushing aside Newcastle United 5-1.

“On that day [versus Newcastle] we scored a lot of goals, created a lot of chances and played some good football so clearly we are looking for this kind of performance in every kind of game,” he told the club’s official website. If we can play as well as we did against Newcastle then I am sure that we can win a lot of games.”

He continued: “I think that game was really good because we passed the ball well and kept the ball well, there were a lot of positives. That is the idea of how we want to play.”

He also spoke about the return of star striker Fernando Torres: “I was impressed with him on Monday. It is not easy to play in a derby when it is so intense. He was exhausted at the end, but he did well.

“He is very close to full fitness, so now it’s just about getting match fitness. To do that, he needs to play games and be in front of the goal a few times. That’s the key.

“The more chances you get, the more likely you are to start scoring goals. Hopefully he can score this weekend and get that confidence.”

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