Rafa Benitez has reached seven major European semi finals in 12 years with four different clubs. Ridiculous record.
Not bad.
There is another ridiculous record of course.
Rafael Benitez has now gone 11 years without a domestic league championship. This despite a who's who of world class footballers to call upon at 4 massive football clubs, and armed with Euros, Dollars, Pounds, Shillings, and Pence to aid the quest to end his league-winning famine.
Today, he stands 20 points down the table with 21 points still to play for, out of the European Cup spots, and dumped out of the Italian Cup at home, to go alongside his complete failure to get past the European Cup playoffs. The consequences are Napoli looking to find someone else to turn the "not bad" into the "holy grail".
Bayern Munich are a financially doped super squad.
He may not finish 3rd in Italy but Napoli will probably still be in the CL and Rafa would have planned for that.
He probably won't finish third in Italy and may not make it past Fiorentina or Seville as well as Dnipropetrovsk.
Even if he does, there's another qualifier for someone else to negotiate.
Bayern Munich do not have a "financially doped" squad. Bayern Munich are the best run club in the world, and the model for everyone else to follow. Those who don't end up suffering the consequences sooner or later.
If only teams could have 2 managers
We had 2 in 1998. The less said, the better.
Logged