Sir Alex Ferguson: Lucky Rafael Benitez could have two World Club Cups on CV
Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that Rafael Benitez is ‘very lucky’ to be hired just before Chelsea’s trip to Japan to compete in the World Club Cup.
Rafael Benitez was hired as Inter Milan boss, the season following on from Jose Mourinho’s treble winning exploits, and won the World Club Cup with Inter. He now has the opportunity to win a second with another squad he had no say in assembling.
Ferguson said: “On his CV he could have two world championships and nothing to do with the construction of the teams.
“Rafael Benitez is very lucky. Jose Mourinho won the treble at Inter; Rafa took over and they won the world title without having to do anything.”
He then went on to talk about Roberto Di Matteo´s sacking, saying:
“Everyone feels for Roberto Di Matteo, and quite rightly, It’s quite amazing that you win the FA Cup and the Champions League and lose your job.”
Rafael Benitez takes over his first game in charge at Chelsea this weekend, a home game against Manchester City, and Sir Alex said on the subject: “I hope he is lucky on Sunday too, It happens time and time again when a new manager comes in that a team win their first few games.
“It is strange how it happens and sometimes you wonder if it encourages chairmen at football clubs to make changes because they think: ‘if we get a new manager we’ll win the next two or three games’.”
Well all i can say is that I hope Chelsea DO win their next few games, but why couldn’t we win them with Di Matteo in charge????
Abromavich is stupid and with his reckeless spending and massive losses in revenue each year, we will eventually plunge into debt as per say Portsmouth, or Rangers. 9 managers in 10 years is unacceptable. It’s not even like they were bad. We had frickin Mourinho and he messed that up. Di Matteo didn’t deserve to get sacked by a long shot.
““Everyone feels for Roberto Di Matteo, and quite rightly, It’s quite amazing that you win the FA Cup and the Champions League and lose your job.””
TAKE HIM AS YOUR SECOND THEN, AND NAME HIM AS SUCCESSOR AT MAN UTD, HOW ABOUT THAT?
Possibly RAFA could win his second world club cup and that shouldn’t border you, Old Man. Ofcourse Man U would support Chelsea to beat Man City because they want to stay top.