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Rafael Benitez will leave Liverpool today after the club’s board made it clear he was no longer wanted as manager.

The Anfield hierarchy has blinked first in the Mexican stand-off by offering their 50-year-old manager a compromise compensation deal to quit the club.

The offer was made in a conference call to Benitez, who is in Sardinia. It is believed Sammy Lee has been put in temporary charge of team matters.

The Spaniard believed for some time he had the whip hand in his dealings with the board, but the negotiations about his future became a vicious circle – although he did not realise just how vicious it was to become.

In a vote of no confidence, the Liverpool board approved a proposal which would see Benitez depart with a lucrative pay-off worth in the region of £4million.

Liverpool, ultimately, have decided it is time to move on and progress. The Dallas-style soap opera that has blighted the famous club’s name over recent months had to stop and Benitez will be the cast member to depart.

That was inevitable after a disastrous season in which Liverpool finished seventh in the Barclays Premier League and Benitez blamed a dwindling transfer budget for his squad’s inane performance.

That did not sit well with owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who, despite declaring their intention to sell the club, knew action had to be taken swiftly for the Anfield outfit to move forward or risk implosion. With every penny counting, doing nothing was too big a risk to take.

Benitez has spent more than £220m on more than 70 players in his colourful six years at Anfield.

Yet, as Sportsmail revealed last week, his budget was severely restricted and he wanted written assurances from the club’s board that money from every player sold could be re-directed into the coffers enabling him the funds to bring in new ones.

Confidence in his ability to wheel and deal, particularly on the back of last season’s £17million acquisition of Alberto Aquilani, was evidently not there.

Instead Benitez was allowed to grow increasingly frustrated. Despiteoffers for his players he did not want to sell for fear of his squad being further weakened.

Had Benitez received the guarantees he had been looking for during talks with chairman Martin Broughton then the current situation would not have arisen but with both parties unable to envisage a way of working together a parting of the ways was and is inevitable.

When Juventus came knocking, Liverpool believed an easy exit was apparent for the Spaniard but he did not have enough faith in the Juventus project and harboured hopes that Liverpool’s fortunes would change with new ownership.

However, with annual losses of £55m, debts totalling £351m and the club out of the Champions League, Liverpool is not an easy or, more importantly quick, sell.

Benitez was always going to find it difficult after winning the Champions League famously in his first season as that dramatic Istanbul victory over AC Milan raised the roof on expectation. He and his wife Montse have fallen in love with the area and embraced the history of the club.

When the Kop sang You’ll Never Walk Alone to him they meant it and he reciprocated. He danced with them and drank with them establishing himself as a man of the people but, ultimately, the team’s demise has even weakened that bond. While he enjoys the majority of support, some fans have brought his credentials into question this season.

Transfers, team selection and substitutions have all raised eyebrows – even among the stars of his team. The Americans will always take the brunt of the blame but now Benitez will be forced to walk away and into the arms of Inter Milan.

Following in the footsteps of his great adversary Jose Mourinho will not be easy but already the Inter fans are calling for the man ‘who stole the Champions League away from Milan’. That one night in Istanbul could yet serve Benitez well. (source)

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Rafa Benitez is set to Liverpool with a £3m pay-off.

Inter Milan’s Marco Branca said: “I would really love to see Rafa as our coach.”

Romours already started that Rafa will bring with himself Torres (nonsense – as Inter has plenty of strikers right now) and Gerrard as Inter has €100m transfer budget for new season plus money from the players who will probably leave like Maicon Douglas for €40m, Sulley Muntari €15m, Quaresma €10m, that’s €65m more. Probably, that will be enough for Benitez (€165m).

Daily Mail:
Rafael Benitez’s six-year reign as Liverpool manager looked to be over after the club discussed offering him a £3million compensation package to quit with immediate effect.

The Spaniard’s position has been in doubt since November but the club’s American owners were reluctant to pay up his contract to the tune of £16m.

Liverpool are now likely to draw up a wishlist including Fulham’s Roy Hodgson, former Manchester City boss Mark Hughes.

Benitez’s relationship with the Anfield hierarchy has grown increasingly uncomfortable as he demanded assurances over the summer transfer budget. Those have not been forthcoming and Benitez has privately voiced his frustration, despite spending well in excess of £200m during his tenure. (source)

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Jose Mourinho was presented today as new Real Madrid manager, this is what he told media’s about transfer romours:

“A club’s identity has nothing to do with nationality. The club’s identity is never going to change and the footballing identity is something I will develop with my players. I don’t want to speak of players because when Real Madrid’s coach speaks about a player, that player’s price goes up €10 million more. I am happy with the basic squad from last year and we don’t need dramatic changes, just three or four players to make a team with better chances of adapting to an ideal style of play. It will not be a summer to write about new signings at Real Madrid; I think it will be a bit more calm.”

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- Man City join the race for Kun Aguero
- Ribery extended contract with Bayern, official
- Rummenigge: Inter deserved this title, they were outstanding
- Nigerian billioner Dangote, one of the richest persons in Africa is looking to buy 16% of Arsenal FC – estimated: £160m
- Kuffour: Inter deserved to win with that performance, and I’m happy for Eto’o and Muntari

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Football transfer news – Calcio news (notizie): The 23-year-old Uruguayan centre-forward looked as if he might leave Sicily in January after Palermo fans attacked his car.

Inter, Lazio and Juventus were all interested, but Cavani has settled down again and now looks set to commit to a long-term deal with the Rosanero.

“There are no difficulties,” Palermo director of sport Walter Sabatini explained. “Cavani is a very serious lad and he will respect the agreement made with us.”

When asked about reports suggesting that Inter are lining up an €18m bid that would include Rene Krhin, Sabatini replied: “I haven’t heard anything about it.”

Cavani has built on the progress he made last season, scoring 10 goals in 24 starting appearances for the Rosanero in 2009-10.

His goals have been instrumental in helping Palermo rise to fourth place in Serie A.

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Which club is better, Chelsea FC or FC Barcelona?

We’re giving you some stats written by Spain journalist:

Barcelona and the Chelsea only can be a brief history of the games among them in the last years old, but they have been boisterous, controversial and very important for both clubs. Having itself reunited for the first time in the Glass of Fairs of the city in the middle of the decade of 1960 it was not until the blue ones got to be one of the elite of Europe that both clubs began to meet on one more a more regular base. As well as the action in the field and the objectives that have seeded in abundance the encounter between the Blues and the Blaugrana, the personages that participated have turned into heroes and villains. The behavior of Jose Mourinho after its return to the Camp Nou with the Club of London saw labellings like ” enemy of soccer ‘ by the UEFA as he forced a high qualification referee to resign after some impertinent commentaries. The Portuguese head also criticized what he considered ‘ teatro’ , when Lionel Messi and Asier Of the Furnace faced in another tie, whereas Victor Buckets affirmed that he received the lack of a main target that he brought about controversy in Catalonia. 1999-2000 Whereas Mourinho could have used the stage of great effect, the histrionismo outside field is not required when the parts were matched in the final trimester of Champions 1999-2000 of the league. Both clubs already had played 12 parties to arrive at the quarters of end of the competition that appear two stages of the group when they were matched in a drawing that the Chelsea plays in house in the away game. There was much controversy, but it was not going to be a great surprise that the hosts were not still in the level with whom they are associate at present and their mean efficiency in Stamford high Bridge the level expectations. Gianfranco Zola put the blue ones ahead before a double of Tor Andre Flo before the rest put the equipment of London in the control and it does not seem to have any way from return to Barcelona. But a goal of Luis Figo saw the Blaugrana revive the hope and in the Camp Nou that was used like source of inspiration like Rivaldo, Figo and Dani all put grates on to take in time extra game after Flo has returned to find the network for the Chelsea. The hosts had the impetus with them and Rivaldo marked from the point before Patrick Kluivert added a fifth creation of semi ties end that the Catalan club would lose against the Valencia. 2004-05 Five years later and the things saw very different as the Chelsea de Mourinho had risen with the title of the Premier League and now it has determined his interest to taking to the club to the European glory. A year after to have made its name gain Liga de Campeones with the Oporto, the abrupt trainer era to return to a club where it had enjoyed a learning by virtue of Sir Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal. Received in the airport in Catalonia with fans to reprimand it with shouts of ” traductor” , the paper that thinks that he is better, was not unexpected, when trying to on- turn the heat into the accumulation by being indicated the possibilities of victory of the Chelsea. Barcelona was beginning to leave a period of six years without gaining a trophy and was of return in Liga de Campeones after one season happened trying to be successful in the Glass of the UEFA. Frank Rijkaard was quite the opposite of the trainer Blues and preferred to stay to the margin of the interchange of insults that have been derived had responded to some of the commentaries of Mourinho. However, the head of the Chelsea returned his attention towards the referee day and accused the Anders Frisk highly valued to speak with Rijkaard in the interval of the going defeat of the Chelsea in the Camp Nou. That accusation has enormous consequences in the Daily Day received threats of death of people who claim to be fans of the Chelsea and, only months after arriving was struck by an object in a party of Rome, decided to leave of arbitration. Chelsea lost 2-1 with goals of Maxi Lopez and Samuel Eto’ or, after to have lead through an own objective Juliano Belletti, but this almost was forgotten in the middle of the scandal. Didier Drogba was expelled in that encounter and the scene seemed established at the top for the Blaugrana to London through the facility, with Eto’ or, that indicates that if its equipment wrote down in the tie next, all would have finished. Mourinho did not agree and the word of Stamford Bridge was that its equipment ‘ aplastar’ Barça, but very few really is hoped much less that happens and thought Chelsea would be of three goals of advantage with less than 20 minutes of the missing person. Eidur Gudjohnsen, Frank Lampard and Damien Duff all to be compensated like the rampante Chelsea, but its mood changed quickly when Ronaldinho produced one of the objectives of the season, foot-it put since them to house from the edge of the area after to have reduced the delays of the pain in situ. If Barcelona wrote down the encounter again would have been of more, but there was time for a great turn in the tail of Buckets was blocked by a defender of the Chelsea in the line and John Terry lost the ball in a corner shot reason why he turned out to be the goal of the victory. If the Catalan doorman received a lack or it is not a question that was triggered, but rather the holders were realised after Rijkaard and several players of the Barça had to be contained after pitido final like frustrations boiling. Whereas the blue ones arrived at the semifinal of that season and was eliminated by the Liverpool with a goal of Luis Garci’a, who Mourinho still became infuriated to point today, the Barça did not have to wait for long time to take revenge its loss. 2005-06 If the Blaugrana has been irritated by the Chelsea, and his manager, in particular, next, in the round of the eighth of end 2005-06 first of all, Londoners she was apoplexy head after a defeat of going in Stamford Bridge. It was not as much the defeat that had irritated to Mourinho like a red card that Of the Furnace in first half after it entered Messi, with a returned challenge that left the Argentinean giving in the field. The game was going to be a story of two goals in own; Thiago Motta overcame Cech in an end, before Terry agreed with the head the ball Buckets happened in second half in the other. Eto’ or it showed the great joy that the equipment of all Barcelona felt to the blow on the head the goal of the triumph in the going, and Mourinho went to the press and it complained bitterly. To ask how ” is said; engañar” in Catalan, it pointed his poison at Messi and famous it added: ” Messi can be suspended by the action? Barcelona is a cultural city with many great theaters and this boy has learned very well. ” has learned comedy;. Messi responded that he not ” to do teatro” , but it was clear that Argentina is pleased of to have had an effect on Mourinho, and is not good in that. In the return match, the things were a little calmer and Mourinho were few complaints of Ronaldinho after produced a mammoth effort to put above to its side two in the global one. After trying to do the same in his party of the previous league, the director maintained his players in clothes during several minutes later the Barça had gone to the field, but the trick did not work. A pain the time of discount of Frank Lampard was not sufficient so that the Blues and while they were going to gain the title of the Premier League, the Barça arrived at Paris, where it defeated to Arsenal to raise the Glass of Europe for the second time in his history.

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Season ended for Michael Owen who must thus abandon also the last hopes to participate to the world-wide shipment. The forward of Manchester United is itself injured person in the course of the end of Alloy Goblet slid Sunday, accusing a muscular problem. The examinations orchestrate them to which he is subordinate in the successive days have evidenced a lesion to the level of the flessori will force that it to remain firm for next the three months. Owen, 30 years, closes thus the season with 9 goals in 31 presences, three 19 left goals in of League Prime Minister. “It is an ugly news for the square and Michael – the comment of Alex Ferguson -. Creed that the hard Prato of Wembely is a possible cause of the accident. We augur to recover soon in form”.

BOSINGWA OUT – After Michael Owen World-wide the forgiveness also the Portuguese Josè Bosingwa. The terzino of the Chelsea, adversary of the Inter in Champions, has brought back also he a new accident to the ginocchio. Like for the English forward of Manchester United pure for Bosingwa ended season and Sudafrica goodbye the national Portuguese, outside from half October, is itself newly injured person in training and will have to return under irons after the November operation. Acquired in summer 2008, in this Bosingwa season he has only totaled eight presences in League Prime Minister. Meantime physical problems also for Ricardo Carvalho, re-entered from the engagements with the national one with an annoyance to the adducent ones. In doubt its presence in the quarters of end of Goblet of England, Sunday to the Stamford Bridge against the Stoke.

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“I have spoken with Javier Mascherano and its agent for I renew. The conversations have gone to good aim, all knew of the interest of other clubs for the soccer player, but Javier is found well here”. With these words the technician of the Liverpool, Rafa Benitez, has revealed of the negotiation with the Argentine centrocampista for renews of the contract. Similar speech for the porter Reina Pepper: “It will remain with we to 100% – it has continued Benitez -. The negotiation is much neighbor to the conclusion”.

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The chip in the football, the television cameras to watch the additional line of door and wills on the bottom line. The arguments are these that the Ifab, the organ caretaker of the regulations of soccer, will discuss tomorrow in the center of the Fifa to Zurigo. The International Board will discuss the possible solutions, technological or human, in order to guarantee an aid to the wills. The Fifa is traditionally contrary to the use of modern equipment but it seems at least disposed to examine the argument. Joseph Blatter, president of the federcalcio world-wide, extension a partial opening: “To pact – it has said recently – that the system functions to 100% and gives turned out expresses”. The Ifab, created in 1886, comprises the federations of England, Scozia, Galle s and Ireland. The Fifa is represented also, that it has 4 ballots in the assembly. In order to approve of a norm, it serves a majority of three quarters: 6 ballots on 8. The prescribed innovationes generally enter in vigor from 1° the July: obviously, they would not regard the World-wide ones in program in Sudafrica between june and July.

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