Juventus want Rafa and co from Liverpool
Juventus are rumoured to be interested in poaching Rafael Benitez from Liverpool, even though the Spaniard has repeatedly stated his desire to stay for a long time at Anfield if the owners give him the requisite backing.
My view is that the Juventus management made a mistake in hiring Ranieri when they should have kept Deschamps for another season and waited for the likes of Mourinho to get free. The manager who thrives on being hated coupled with the most hated club in Italy would have been an irresistable combination.
As things stand, Juve now have Ranieri who as a tactician will be hard-pressed to outclass the Milan teams.
Will they get Rafa? If G & H royally cock it up, anything’s possible, although Rafa would have a host of suitors, including Madrid.
Plus wherever Rafa goes, he’s bound to take a couple of players with him. Liverpool could stand losing, say, Babel or Pennant and maybe even without Alonso, but can they do so without Torres or, god forbid, Gerrard?
More proof, as if any were needed, that Liverpool need owners who aren’t reliant on banks to help the club reach it’s potential.
Rafa has invested too much of his time in building Liverpool to just ditch it and leave just when the 2 yankees are warming up to him. If his own country’s giant Real Madrid cant seem to get his signature i don’t think Juventus are going to get their hands on him anytime soon. Rafa is no fool. The Italian league is really in a turmoil now. With attendence at a all time low he knows this is not the time to start making long time plans with any Italian club at the moment. You will never know when a fresh match fixing charge is going to surface and all of a sudden find himself with a Juventus team in the C3 division.