Broken promises forcing me out, says RafaJonathan Northcroft, Football Correspondent
RAFAEL BENITEZ has prepared the way for an exit to Juventus by telling Liverpool fans why he feels he can no longer work at Anfield. He suggests that broken promises over the budget and alterations to the club’s power structure have made his job impossible.
“I decided to sign an extension because the squad was good and the money could be there,” Benitez said. “At the end, things changed. We’ve had a bad season and hopefully things will be different in the future, but at the moment I can’t talk about the future because I don’t know what’s going on.
“It’s not a question of money,” he added, referring to his Pounds 5m-a-year salary, which Juventus are willing to match. “I said no to massive offers. I decided to stay under some conditions which have changed.”
Benitez was speaking ahead of this afternoon’s crunch game against Chelsea, which could be his final game in charge at Anfield. Juventus are favourites but AC Milan could join the race for his services.
Similar issues six years ago were what caused Benitez to quit Valencia for Anfield. “I left Valencia because the conditions changed,” he recalled.
He has flirted with other clubs several times since joining Liverpool in 2004 but never gone so far down the road towards joining one. But his superiors at Anfield are understood to have grown tired of his continual complaints and stories linking him with other jobs.
His complaints are about transfer spending — despite paying Pounds 40m for Glen Johnson, Alberto Aquilani and Sotirios Kyrgiakos last summer — and the command chain at Anfield. When he signed his deal last year, its terms effectively made Benitez Liverpool’s biggest power-broker after the club’s owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, but he has seen his influence diluted by the arrivals of chief executive Christian Purslow and Martin Broughton, appointed chairman a fortnight ago.
Roy Hodgson and Martin O’Neill would be targets to succeed him.
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Purslow is a liar along with his sidekicks, he blatently lied about the transfer kity in the Echo and to SOS the money that was available went on contract extentions and not new players. He said all the money went on new players when it clearly did NOT !!!!
Do you trust this man or our CEO who is a Chelsea fan? Why is a Chelsea fan running our club? You couldnt make it up whats happened to my beloved club

A gang of liars and deceitfull people are now running Liverpool F.C.