Rafa Benitez leaving Napoli at the end of the season... is former Liverpool and Chelsea boss returning to the Premier League?
Rafa Benitez has been linked with a return to the Premier League
Newcastle currently without a manager after Alan Pardew's departure
Benitez is out of contract with Napoli at the end of the season
Former Liverpool and Chelsea boss has turned down role with Peru
By MATT MORLIDGE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:49, 9 January 2015 | UPDATED: 11:11, 9 January 2015
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Napoli manager Rafa Benitez will be in charge of a new team next season.
Benitez, 54, has had spells with Liverpool and Chelsea in the Premier League and has most recently been linked with the vacant role at Newcastle with his contract in Serie A expiring at the end of the season.
Benitez could be on his way back to England after it was confirmed he turned down the chance to lead the Peru national team to focus on club management.
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Rafa Benitez has been linked with a return to the Premier League and his agent says he is leaving Napoli
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The Spaniard lifts the Champions League with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard in Istanbul 2005
The South American country wanted Benitez to lead them to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
'In Peru, they can forget about Benitez,' his agent Manuel Garcia Quilon was quoted as saying in the Mirror. 'He will not be a national coach but will coach at another club.'
Benitez will be out of contract in the summer, despite winning the Italian Super Cup with Napoli last month.
The former Real Madrid and Valencia boss is well respected in England, having won the Champions League with Liverpool in 2005.
Benitez was an unpopular appointment among Chelsea fans but won the Europa League in 2013 at the end of his short spell with the club.
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Benitez was criticised in his last spell in England with Chelsea but still claimed the Europa League
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