Rafa Benitez says his Real Madrid side wasn’t allowed to win
Former Real Madrid manager Rafa Benitez has released a brief review of his short spell at Los Blancos.
Benitez went on to defend himself and said that the club didn’t give him enough time to prove himself. He also stated that the reports published against him were false.
Words of Rafa Benitez
“During my time in Real Madrid, we weren’t allowed to win. We were first in the Champions League. Real Madrid won the Champions League title that year and we did our job. We were knocked out of the Copa del Rey because of an administrative error with Cheryshev. Then it looked as it was my fault because I wasn’t there anymore. Our team was way better than the other teams physically. When I left, we were just two points behind Barcelona with a game at hand. Two months later, that gap increased to 12 points,” said Benitez.
Benitez was candid about the doubts the club and the players had about his style of play. also tackled some of the rumors about his coaching method.
“One time I told Modric that for a short pass, you don’t hit the ball with the outside of the boot so that the teammate receives the ball without spin, that’s just a comment in a training session, but people wanted to make a big deal out of it. And the only thing I told Cristiano Ronaldo about his free-kicks was that he studied the way he took them in Manchester United, we saw if we could make some adjustments but we forgot about it, that was my only conversation with him. The rest are just lies. When I left, his stats taking free-kicks became worse. I was surprised seeing that some journalists who knew me were reporting this,” he explains.
He continued, as he explained why he had a tough time establishing his authority over the squad.
He stated: “When we got to Madrid Ancelotti had just left, and he had a really good relationship with the players. It looked as if we got there with a whip for the players. The atmosphere was against us. Casillas had just left, Navas, Benzema’s arrest, tough things happened. When all goes wrong, who’s paying? I did. I knew how Cristiano was, so I had to guide him. The issue comes when you’re guiding seven more players and some of them are playing often, so they go and leak stuff to the press.”
The Spaniard wasn’t ready to accept that he was at fault anyhow. The team was filled with World Class players as well since Real Madrid won 3 consecutive Champions Leagues with the same core of players.
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