Liverpool Coach Rafa Benitez’s Bosses Are Pricks

It finally happened. Liverpool head coach Rafa Benitez was kicked in the teeth, left bloodied and bruised for all to see, and all at the expense of his two-timin’, American bosses. Tom Hicks, co-owner of Liverpool FC, admitted to meeting– and almost hiring– recently signed Bayern Munich head coach Jurgen Klinsman in November. Problem: Rafa Benitez was sitting at the top of the coaching totem pole and, well, it’s a bit of a scandal when you confess that the meetings were “secret.” Yet, Rafa refuses to budge.

As Anfield chief executive Rick Parry set up a meeting with Benitez to try to reassure him over his future, it emerged that the one-time Valencia coach may even have a case for constructive dismissal over the way Klinsmann was sounded out about replacing him…
His agent, Manuel Garcia Quillon, underlined his defiant response by saying: ‘Rafa wants to stay at Liverpool. He is happy with the club, the fans and the city. He does not want to leave.’
A parting of the ways still seems probable at the end of the season, though, according to Anfield insiders, but Benitez will dig his heels in for now and make the most of the public support and sympathy that is sure to follow the latest threat to his three-and-a-half year reign.

It news to us that Rafa wears heels, but whatever: dig those suckers into the nether regions of your bosses. Dig em’ in! Wait, why don’t them American blokes just fire his ass? This saga has been going on far too long.

Defiant Benitez will not resign after Hicks comes clean on Klinsmann [Daily Mail]
Image [BBC]