I'm not really sure I understand the clamour for Benitez, or why indeed he has such a high opinion of himself.
He's achieved great things in the game but it was quite some time ago, and has spent the last 7 years fucking around at Newcastle spending a season in the Championship, before disappearing off to the backwaters of China where he made an arse of it. He's an absolute mercenary who has had more clubs than hot dinners and has been largely irrelevant since he won the Europa League with Chelsea who, the year before, had won the Champions League.
I'll never forget in January 2013 when Chelsea were playing Swansea away in the semi final of the league cup. Swansea had won the first leg 2 nil and Chelsea were therefore chasing the tie. Its nil nil in the second leg and his solution after 68 minutes was subbing Ivanovic for David Luiz, then deciding to replace Ashley Cole at left back with Ryan Bertrand on 80 minutes. Some of his decisions in changing matches or general team selection were really fucking weird.
There were some honking displays during his time with Chelsea and this was during a time when I would go to matches regularly - I was at Reading away late January 2013 on a fucking Monday night and had to watch as Adam Le Fondre scored a 95th minute equaliser. Grim stuff
He pulled it together and managed to get Chelsea top 4 - i was there for Villa away at the end of the season where lampard broke bobby tambling's goal scoring record but chelsea had toiled badly in that match against a dreadful villa side, which was pretty pish as it was a Chelsea team that had won the CL the previous year - the only significant outgoing player from the CL winning team was Didier Drogba, but that summer in 2012 had seen incomings including Eden Hazard, Oscar, Victor Moses, Azpilicueta and Andreas Christensen with Demba ba signing in the winter window as additional striking cover. He froze john terry out and said that he was finished at the top level as a centre back - two seasons later JT is lifting the premier league trophy having played 38 matches. I think Terry and Lampard have both spoken quite openly about how Benitez is a cunt
He also has more than a few managerial clusterfucks on his CV after his Inter and Real Madrid debacles. Strange cunt who seems to think of himself as a managerial elite yet i'd be surprised if any club with genuine ambition went for him now as there was next to no clamour for him when he left Newcastle a couple of seasons back.
sorry for long post. just think he's a bit shit really.