Football seems to be the only game of sport where even the key officials’ job is not stable; they can be fired at any time without giving an opportunity to be heard. There have been many cases in the past where managers of top clubs are fired overnight citing their nonperformance or under estimated results. Chelsea is one team which is always optimistic to perform well in any league they play at; at least this is what their millions of fans think. Last time, Chelsea fired its manager coz of his shoddy performance, there was no one who agreed to take over the job on a permanent basis; hence Chelsea had to appoint a new manager on a temporary basis with a promise to make his job permanent if he proves his ability. For some time, Chelsea showed some magnificent victories but since last few matches; they are almost back to the place where their ex-manager left them. They have given up any hope to triumph back at EPL or in any other major league this season for that matter, and this is not in liking of Chelsea’s biggest fan clubs and they are blaming only one person for it: Rafael Benitez.
Now, even Benitez has dashed out any hope to be appointed as a permanent manager, however, he is still confident to make a decisive change in club’s stand if he is given with a chance. He recently gave a detailed interview to a new agency where he talked about his life at the club and how applauded reception he received at the time of failures. He told about recent losses, “I cannot change the perception people have of me because I was successful at Liverpool against Chelsea. I thought when I came that if I carried on winning games here, it would get easier, but if you cannot win all the time. I understand that sometimes the fans get a little bit frustrated and I am frustrated too, but at any club, whatever its circumstances, there are always going to be people who do not agree with you.”
He also somewhere seems to be blaming impatient fans for not offering him much freedom to take crucial decisions. He said, “In football in England, you have 60 million managers. In Spain, there are 40 million managers. Everyone has an opinion. You have to accept that this is normal. Especially now, in this society, everything is so quick. If people stop you on the street and they ask you questions, you can give them your answer or have a conversation with them, but when you are in the stadium, you cannot be thinking too much about what they say.”
His words clearly suggest that he could be next man to go from Stamford Bridge.