Speculation regarding the futures of Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho are plastered all over the Sunday papers, with the former tipped to walk out on Liverpool and the latter expected to leave Inter Milan in the summer.

Benitez is linked with Juventus and Real Madrid, while Mourinho can take his pick from Los Blancos or a return to the Premier League to replace Benitez or Roberto Mancini at Manchester City.

Even Match Of the Day's Mr Clean, Gary Lineker, is confident enough Mourinho will return to England to broach the subject in his column in the Mail On Sunday.

"I like Mourinho and life in the Premier League has been duller without him. I expect to see him back in August, probably at Manchester City or Liverpool, and I?d welcome it.

That arrogance that made him a 'character' in England has earned him contempt in Italy and that has probably puzzled him.

Assuming Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola aren?t going anywhere soon, I think Mourinho will end up at one of three clubs - Liverpool, Manchester City or Real Madrid.

I am not sure the way things are at Real that Madrid will suit him. And I wouldn't see any point in him going back to Chelsea under Abramovich, so that leaves City and Liverpool, who may have vacancies at the end of the season. Either way, we'll be talking about Mourinho this week and beyond."

Sticking with the subject of the managerial merry-go-round Paul Wilson uses his column in The Guardian to ask: Will Real Madrid ever realise that managerial stability brings trophies?

And let's not forget that Rafa and Jose have been linked with the job - replacing Manuel Pellegrini after just one season.

"Adios Pellegrini is the current rallying cry. Real Madrid were a disgrace, so the manager will have to go. Yet when Real Madrid are not a disgrace, the manager usually still has to go. Manchester United have had the same manager for the past 24 years. In that time, Real Madrid have had 24 managers. Not 24 different ones, granted. Leo Beenhakker, John Toshack, Fabio Capello and Vicente del Bosque have all been there more than once in that period, yet it has to be significant that while United (and to a lesser extent Arsenal) have reached unprecedented heights through managerial stability, Real have made, on average, a managerial change every year for the past 24

Nothing more need be said, really, except perhaps that some of the departing managers, Beenhakker, Toshack, Capello and Del Bosque among them, left after winning La Liga. Del Bosque, in fact, in his last period in charge, picked up two league titles, two Spanish Cups and won the Champions League twice, yet still had to make way for Carlos Queiroz.

The former United assistant stayed one season and is now in charge of his native Portugal, while Del Bosque is coach of Spain. Capello is taking England to the World Cup, Toshack is staying at home with Wales, and Beenhakker is back in Holland as technical director at Feyenoord, but only after periods in charge of Holland, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad & Tobago at the last World Cup and then Poland. It is fair to say there is enormous managerial experience and ability within the aforementioned group, yet hardly any of it was properly tapped by Real Madrid."