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Dalglish in sensational Liverpool return
Published 21:08 04/05/10
By David Maddock
Kenny Dalglish could make a dramatic return to Liverpool if Rafa Benitez quits the club this week.
The Spaniard will hold showdown talks with chairman Martin Broughton within the next 48 hours, after it emerged Benitez twice cancelled scheduled meetings with the new Anfield chief.
There are fears Benitez will walk out to join Juventus, who have given him a weekend deadline to decide if he will accept their £5million-a-year offer.
There is a breakdown of communications between both parties which suggests a parting of the ways is becoming a possibility.
And if that happens, Dalglish looks likely to step into the breach on a temporary basis, with fellow Liverpool legend Ian Rush, to provide stability and breathing space in the search for a permanent successor.
Broughton is leading the search for new owners, an issue he hopes will be resolved before the end of the summer. Until the identity of the prospective investors is known, the club has no real idea of the package they can offer to any managerial candidate.
It would leave them in limbo, but Dalglish is prepared to offer his services to the club he still passionately supports, to ensure that an experienced hand is at the rudder, during the planning stage of the summer months.
The former Scotland international is revered as the greatest player to have pulled on the red shirt, and is idolised for his work as manager at Anfield when he retired from the team.
He returned to the club last season in an ambassadorial role, and Rush too, is now back at Anfield in a part -time capacity, and the pair will extend their roles to ensure decisions can be made.
Dalglish though, has no desire to take the position on a permanent basis, and he will cover temporarily, in the belief that the takeover issue can be resolved sufficiently to attract a top class manager.
Ideally, Liverpool would want Jose Mourinho should Benitez leave, but they know that the former Chelsea boss would only be interested if there were new owners ready to invest substantial funds in player investment, and to get the construction of a new stadium under way.
Other candidates include Bayern manager Louis Van Gaal, the highly-regarded Fiorentina coach Cesare Prandelli, and Fulham boss Roy Hodgson, while the Benfica coach Jorge Jesus is also on the radar.
The club know that Benitez is close to joining Juve, though he could still be persuaded to stay should Broughton meet his demands in their heart to heart this week.
It emerged in Italy last night that Juventus officials now want to change the role they originally offered Benitez, from that of a traditional English-style manager, to a more Italian-based coach working with a director of football.
While they are still happy to take him on that basis, they have made it clear they are not prepared to compensate Liverpool and are looking for a decision preferably by the end of the week, after feeling they have been messed around for too long.
Benitez will stay if he gets guarantees that managing director Christian Purslow finds his power base reduced, and also that he is allowed to sell whichever player he wants in the summer to raise funds he can use exclusively on transfers.
That is a controversial route, because the Liverpool boss is convinced star striker Fernando Torres wants to leave along with skipper Steven Gerrard, and he will not stand in their way, potentially allowing him upwards of £100million to rebuild his squad.
There has been some suggestion from both players’ camps that the pair are more likely to stay if Benitez leaves, which will leave Broughton with a massive decision so early in his tenure.
There is friction already between the pair, after it emerged yesterday that Benitez has twice cancelled meetings with the chairman, while at the same time protesting loudly that he had received no contact from the executive.
If Benitez feels he can’t act as he wishes in determining whether to raise money through sensitive sales, then the Hull game at the weekend could be his last, though the Juventus option becomes far less attractive for him, if he is not allowed the control he enjoys at Liverpool.
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nice one Igor 
Reading that article just about sums things up for me.
Juventus have cooled on signing Rafa since the changes at the top. No longer being offered a managers job but a coach's. No compensation from Juve. Suddenly Rafa has never received any offers (yet last week he was bragging about all the offers he has received) A quick shuffle, adjustment of the feet and change of face and now Rafa wants to stay
I think the choice has become stark and clear.
We can either keep Benitez and put up with his constant manipulating of the press, the club, the players for HIS benefit, or we can say enough is enough, you have made your fecking bed ..... lie on it.
I think it would be absolutely stupid to lose Gerrard and Torres for the sake of such a manager. Besides which who would trust him not to waste the money that they brought in?
If it comes to a choice between Rafa or Gerrard and Torres, Rafa should be out the door and up the street before his feet touch the fecking ground
Dalglish will do a great job to steady the ship, patch the holes in the sides and get the ship moving in the right direction once more.
Rafa may be a good coach, he may even be a great coach, but he is not a manager. We know it, the players know it even fecking Juventus know it.
Rafa DEMANDS urgent meetings with the Chairman in interviews while failing to mention that he has already cancelled meetings twice. Making it sound as if the manager is desperately trying to reach some accomodation while Liverpool are doing their utmost to avoid him. WHAT A LOAD OF CR@P. He expected to be in a strong position once we had reached another final ......sadly that didn't quite work out, but now Juve are sick of waiting and won't hang around much longer it becomes URGENT
We are Liverpool football club we expect and deserve better than a self serving, conniving, manipulating manager that has failed for 4 years now to win any the trophies ,who has made mediocrity as much as we can hope for, who's made effort and control as much as we can aim for and completely forgotten that Liverpool is all about winning games trophies titles and respect..
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