Rafa Benitez was coach of Everton for six months. She reached the toffees in summer 2021 and he was fired last January after leaving the team in the sixteenth position.
The Spanish coach has now spoken in an interview for The Athletic about his time at Everton and about the financial situation of the club. “At first it was an amazing project with the potential to spend money, but everything changed when we couldn’t sell players“, he explained.
Benitez blames the big contracts of the Toffee situation: “It’s very difficult when people have big contracts and nobody wants to buy them, so we didn’t have that option to sell them.“Consequently, the whole of Liverpool had to sign”five players for less than two million pounds“and Benítez worked”with what i had“.
The former Madrid coach valued his time at Everton as “quite difficult“, despite the fact that as a professional he was “fully concentrated“and tried”to do my best“.
“I knew it was impossible to change the situation, so you have to deal with it“, concluded a Benítez who wants the club, now in the hands of Frank Lampardachieve salvation.
Everton is seventeenth, one square above relegationand is currently at a point of the Burnleyalthough with less party.