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Clowncrete wrote:I don't get why so many fans dislike Benitez. He is a proven winner and I can't think of a better cup expert than him apart from maybe Ancellotti.

His main weakness is that his transfers are often poor, but he won't have full control over transfers here anyway.

Cocacolajojo wrote:Same type of manager as Mancini but without the charm. Good at winning cups with other people's teams. Terrible at assembling his own teams.

Cheeky Sampdoria president Massimo Ferrero says former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is too fat to coach his team.

The Spaniard who steered the Reds to their last European Cup triumph 10 years ago next month is expected to leave his current role at Napoli at the end of this season but is unlikely to be heading to the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.

The outspoken chief of the Genoa-based club made his unflattering remarks about Benitez’s girth in a typically zany interview on Radio Crc.

Reacting to reports that current coach Sinisa Mihajlovic will be departing Sampdoria this summer, Ferrero said: “As far as I am concerned, he’s staying. If he were to leave, I’d know who to replace him with.

“Paulo Sousa’s not going to be Sampdoria’s next coach, it will be [Italian comedy actor] Lino Banfi.”

“I could take Benitez, but I’d have to take him to see a dietitian first.”

“Anyway, if Mihajlovic does leave, I’ve already got a replacement. You all say he’s leaving, even if I don’t know anything about it.”

Film producer Ferrero is no stranger to courting controversy with his outbursts and so far this season he apologised for referring to Inter’s Indonesian owner Erick Thohir as “that Filipino” and saying that he should have been kicked out by the club while he claimed that his Palermo counterpart, Maurizio Zamparini, threatened to kill him in a row over the Paraguay midfielder Édgar Barreto.

Benitez, who still owns his house in Wirral, is expected back on Merseyside on May 25 for a Reds reunion a decade on from their penalty shoot-out triumph over Milan in Istanbul.

Since departing Anfield in 2010, the 55-year-old had a short-lived spell at Inter and returned to the Premier League as Chelsea’s interim manager during the 2012/13 season, leading the Londoners to Europa League glory before embarking on his current role in Naples in 2013.

nottsblue wrote:Who took the order, then ate all the paella