If Rafa wants the job back he needs to find a club where he can succeed for the 3-8 coming years first, and I doubt this club can be a top EPL side, after making clear any club other than Liverpool would be a second choice for him (would, say, Chelsea fans like that ?), and considering his reputation out of Merseyside and the pressure english media would put on any team he leads. If he wants his family to stay and be close, I don't see a lot of good opportunities for him out of championship/just promoted sides. Perhaps one of the two scottish giants, one of the united kingdom national sides, or a rich wanabee team like Blackburn.
My advice would be pack your bags, go back to the continent (not Italy obviously, so Spain ideally, or any country where some reasonably big clubs may be happy to offer you a new start, Germany, Turkey and France being the most likely), concentrate on your new team and avoid the word "Liverpool" for at least 3 years. Get results there, then look if there is an opportunity to either take back Liverpool, or return in PL first.
My fear for Rafa actually, is he is likely to do just the contrary : manage to get the job in a big PL side where he will be hated by the fans knowing him as the fat spanish waiter and a Liverpool man, and of course the press, have difficulties with big ego stars having fond memories of their previous managers, have his team explode under maximum mediatic pressure, fail to get fast results, enter new battles with the press, other managers, his players and owners, get fired another time in less than a year, and end definitively out of big club management (including losing any chance of a Liverpool return) even if with time and less pressure he would be one of the best managers in Europe.
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