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Official. Rafa Benitez is not Inter coach anymore. For him a €3 million compensation plus a one way ticket - to Anfield?
Under the Spaniard Inter won the Italian Supercup, lost the Uefa Supercup and won the Fifa Club World Cup. Benitez left the team placed 7th in the league, 13 points behind AC Milan [with two games in hand to cut the deficit].
Inter president Massimo Moratti explained the sacking [described by the club as a mutually satisfactory agreement for the early termination of his contract ] and his feelings: "I'm sorry but we couldn't do anything else. I was not very happy with him at the helm until the Club World Cup. And after he spoke the way he spoke in Abu Dhabi, there was in me no will or any patience left to keep him here". And now? "And now we start from zero again". Leonardo? "He is one of the coaches we are thinking of".
Moratti's words clarify that Benitez had no chance to save his job. The former Liverpool and Valencia coach had realised it earlier than anyone and decided to speak so openly against the club and some players to get at least two results: 1. leaving as a winner; 2. exposing Inter problems and broken promises; 3. ending the scapegoat agony.
Today Inter and Benitez are both happy for different reasons. Money aside, none of them should be. An end like this it's a mutual admission of failure and misjudgement.
 
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Posted by Zaid on 12/24/2010
Thank you Mr. President for taking this action as soon as possible.
I'm glad that the FSW is out.
Now we have to start all over again in the middle of the season and might not be as successful as we wanted to be, but having him stay is a sure road to failure.
Inter under the new coach should focus all energy to win the Seria A. Hopefully, in a way that have been nurtured by JM. Beautiful football can wait.
I don't mind if we can't defend the CL this season. This season, only the Scudetti matters.
Inter should win it for the 6th straight time and create Seria A history. Then this side can be called the 'Grande Inter II'.
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Posted by Mike on 12/24/2010
I'm surprised, that was a pretty apt description, all other Inter supporters I read are being downright offensive.. the move was good for both sides, 3 months in Rafa realized he did not want the job anymore, Moratti was losing interest, but both didn't want to screw up the Club World Cup. It's a good clean(ish) break
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Posted by Scorose on 12/24/2010
Sometimes the crap that some of these chaps post is appalling.Benitez might not have delivered but some of these morons calling themselves fans do not know apeshit about soccer.InterMilan have had a bad season.Rafa cannot be absolved from part of the blame but hey were new players bought? Who did Gareth Bale roast in the Champions League? Maicon or Rafa? rafa's tactics might have been wrong cos he wanted to change the Inter style of play but he did not have the right players to do that.Lets see what Leonardo does and let those idiots who cannot tell the difference from a beachball go stick their heads in sand for insulting a damn good coach.Morons!
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Posted by David Furtado on 12/25/2010
Forca Inter!!
After what Benitez did to Liverpool i dont even know how or why he got the job at Inter...His ego is way to big and training methods suck...He should of just listened to Mourihno and left Inter the way it was... I feel for Liverpool supports, the way he messed up the whole style of play by buying players who have no cemeistry with english football. Torres was the only thing he did right at Liverpool... After Inter winning the World CLub Cup and for Benitez to say such harsh words about Inter shows us (the fans) that he has no heart and NO place at Inter... Praise the board members for sacking him and fixing it asap!!!
Inter Milan fan 4 life!!! str8 from BERMUDA!!!
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Posted by Varun on 12/26/2010
I think its best that Inter have parted company with Rafa. I am not up for bashing him but he has turned on his words one too many time. At the start of the season he said he was happy being 'coach' and not 'manager'. Then he claims he wants total control. Before the Bremen game he says 'we must and have to win to secure top spot' after the 3-0 humbling which cost Inter first place: "this wasn't a game that we had to win". Get a grip Rafa, don't turn on your words so soon it makes you look like an idiot in front of everyone. His request for new faces is justified but his manner was appalling. Inter are trying to adjust to the FFP and it makes sense spendings are cut esp with your track record where only 3 or 4 out of 10 signings are successful. He lost the dressing room within months, all of Inter may have been hung up on Mou but instead of nurturing them, Rafa decided to play the 'my way or highway' card. He talked himself out of this job. FACT.
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Posted by cantona7 on 12/28/2010
some people calling some others 'know nothing about football' while they themselves dont look so bright.
Rafa loves facts. So the facts are:
Inter bought nobody. They added nobody to the team that won the treble last season.
Inter has been the Italian champions for several seasons running. This season, midway through, they are seventh, with 13 points behind. If they win their two games in hand, they are 7 points behind.
Let us not compare him with Mourinho, as Mourinho is so much better than him. Lets compare him with Mancini. Mancini inherited a champions team, and he left as Scudetto champions. Maybe Rafa is not even as good as Mancini?
But anyway, appointing Leonardo is quite a good decision. He has not been such a successful as a manager, so the pressure will not be that great on him.
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Posted by Gideon on 12/28/2010
This inter scenario will serve as a lesson to the whole world.they should forget about scudeto and be ready to face humiliation for reasons,(1)for allowing jose mourinho who left the job to be passing comments that unstable the team is unfair,Mourinho should have waited to win the club world cup which he has never for once won in his carrer but was throwing a jibe to rafa to 'thank him for winning'the club world cup.Mourinho's arrival at inter in 2008 he was reinfoced to buy players like,sneider,motta,eto'o etc, now before benitez agree to coach inter a similer agreement was made to buy his own players to mix with the existing once to form his own set pieces but the president was dragging leg on the matter,and considering the fact that inter players have been in top flight wining the scudeto b4 muorinho came are now match rusty if the truth must be told of course subsequent matches will expose more of this.Mourinho is found of unstabling the club he has coached b4 bcos (2 be cont'd)
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Posted by Gideon on 12/28/2010
This inter scenario will serve as a lesson to the whole world.they should forget about scudeto and be ready to face humiliation for reasons,(1)for allowing jose mourinho who left the job to be passing comments that unstable the team is unfair,Mourinho should have waited to win the club world cup which he has never for once won in his carrer but was throwing a jibe to rafa to 'thank him for winning'the club world cup.Mourinho's arrival at inter in 2008 he was reinfoced to buy players like,sneider,motta,eto'o etc, now before benitez agree to coach inter a similer agreement was made to buy his own players to mix with the existing once to form his own set pieces but the president was dragging leg on the matter,and considering the fact that inter players have been in top flight wining the scudeto b4 muorinho came are now match rusty if the truth must be told of course subsequent matches will expose more of this.Mourinho is found of unstabling the club he has coached b4 bcos (2 be cont'd).
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Posted by Gideon on 12/28/2010
(2)Mourinho is not comfortable with the chages rafa will make to the inter team if reinforced,note that benitez has stopped murinho twice in the champions league and even won the champions league at the expence of mourinho,and that as it is now mourinho knows the in and out of the whole inter and his ploy is to pave way for his new team to beat inter in the champions league just the way he beat cheasea home and away in the cl bcos chelsea continue to follow his parttern and chealsea coaches afterwards didnothing to change Mourinhos pattern which he created and enslave them with up till today,now inter will know whow if their enemy was either rafa or mourinho who has just succeeded in unsetling the team,Both mourinho and Alex ferguson cannot forget the danger posed by benitez to their teams when they meet in champ league,Alex quickly pointed at rafa for liverpool woes to confuse people,especially the impatient ones,the new owners are responsible for the woes by changing everything.
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Posted by Gideon on 12/28/2010
the owners of liverpool were chased out of liverpool and now liverpool is breathing a new life now to justify benitez as not the one responsible and the liverpool's fans till today loved benitez,Tom and Hikcs who are just businessmen knew nothing about football,the players bought by benitez are good,yes they are good i repeat but the atmosphere in liverpool from the board to the dressing room is never good for players to adapt or blend to the existing system,for example the sport director,stewards,trainers etc were changed with the arrival of Tom and hicks,then afterwards effective communication with players seized,the total control is lost,the owners have to grant permission for certain things to be done thereby causing delay,but note That MOURINHO LEFT CHELSEA IN NOS 7 on the table when he left chelsea and was complaining of intervention even worse than rafa,he failed to win the champions league with chelsea and now he callously having aknowldge the facts above still mock rafa,shame
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Posted by Gideon on 12/28/2010
And now if the liverpool scenario is what president moratti holds on to back down on his promise to rafa to buy players well,i congratulate rafa escaping being a scape goat at least winnig a cup that Mourinho has not won in his entire carrer in few months is an achievement,that may be the last cup for inter,they have walked themselves into their enemies trap and will be made to suffer,while rafa will get a good offer soon,inter should pls wait for mourinho's HYPOCRICY AT PLAY when they eventually meet real madrid in the knockout,i dont think morrati and inter fans will enjoy how they will be humiliated,because they could not see or have been blinded by mourinho who has just succeeded in paving way for himself in beating inter in cl for sure,if they dont know as a lawyer,i can tell you that when someone leaves your party like mourinho left inter,he ceases to be a friend to that party,and is bound to use knowledge accrued during the course to cause havoc on the former, PLS QUOTE ME LATER
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Posted by Fowler4 life on 12/29/2010
I believe Rafa is not bad...
He is just very hard headed with his methods and tactics, this could sometime work to his advantage and sometimes work to his disandvantage.
One thing i really hate about him is that he never gave youngsters to prove a point.
Hodgson is the man for the Job!!!!
Give him some time and he will take Liverpool back to the top where they belong!
LIVERPOOL FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by ademola omotunde on 12/29/2010
benitez deserve to be ban due to his poor parformance at lnter.
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Posted by emmanuel on 12/29/2010
thank you so much mr president,l think the only solution inter need,is to tell mr benitez live.
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Posted by Steve on 12/29/2010
Rafa Benitez is at best a second rate coach or manager. His rotation of players destroyed Liverpool his tactics to play one striker during important games or against good teams such as Man u or Chelsea showed his lack of strategy. He played for a tie most of the time. He took over at Liverpool and won the Champions League with a team built by Houllier.He then did nothing but mess up the team. He took over at Inter won two cups with a team built by someone else. He moans about not being able to buy players but a good manager should be able to motive any team especially a team such as Inter.
He has made a fortune from both Liverpool and Inter for being a shitty manager and I hope he never shows his fat face in Liverpool ever again.
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Posted by CantonaisKING on 12/30/2010
I think Cantona 7 hit it right on the head. I realize that football is not a game that can be predicted on logic, but the FACTS are that the same team that won the treble last year...the exact same team, has won squat this year. Yes, yes, the club world cup...but lets be honest, that pretty much means s.hyte. Rafa is a terrible manager/coach, and while what he did with Valencia is nothing short of amazing and something I do always give him credit for, overall his managerial career runs to a similar tune everywhere. Kinda like how Tevez is 'treated unfairly' at every club he has ever been. When something like that happens, one can put their head in the sand and claim that everything/everyone else is to blame or one can look at the only common denominator and come to the logical conclusion that it must be that one constant factor creating the problem and not the world conspiring against FSW or Tevez
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Posted by dave on 01/21/2011
Fowler4life,
You are wrong, he gave youngsters like Biabiany, Coutinho, Davide Santon and Chukwuma chances to prove themselves.
steve,
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL. THAT IS IS THE DUMBEST COMMENT I'VE READ IN A WHILE. YOU SEEM TO FORGET THAT HE ROUTINELY BEAT LIVERPOOL AND CHELSEA WHILE PLAYING A 4-2-3-1 FORMATION (THAT INCLUDES BEATING REAL MADRID 4-0 ).
ALSO, IF HOULLIER WAS THAT GOOD WHY DIDN'T HE WIN WITH THOSE PLAYERS UHN? YOU SEEM TO FORGET THAT THE PLAYERS THAT RAFA LEFT LIVERPOOL WITH ARE MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT HOULLIER LEFT AT LIVERPOOL. BUT HEY YOU DON'T KNOW THIS THINGS AS YOU ARE NEW TO FOOTBALL.
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Gianni Serra is a European football journalist. He currently writes for lechampions.it, covering international club competitions such as the UEFA Champions League, the Copa Libertadores, the CAF Champions League, the O-League. You can follow him on twitter: @gianniserra20
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