– A problematic employment – VG

Benítez has signed a three-year contract with The Toffees, and will take over from Real Madrid-ready Carlo Ancelotti.

– I’m delighted to join Everton. Through this hiring process, I have been very impressed with the ambition the leaders have shown, says Benítez.

– I think this club is on its way places, and is determined to play a big part in helping this club reach its ambitions, he adds.

Benítez will start working with the Everton squad on July 5. Then the season run-up for The Toffees begins. His first Premier League game as manager will be against Southampton in August.

Nowhere in the press releases something is written about Benítez’s past in Liverpool, but in another interview the Spaniard talks about the past in Everton’s arch-rival.

– In all the clubs I have been to, I have fought for the club. Now I’m here and I want to fight for my club. I will try to win every single match. It does not matter who the opponent or rival is, he says.

And how Benítez will be received at Goodison Park remains to be seen.

When the reports that he was on his way to the club came, a banner was hung outside Everton’s stadium, with the message: “Benítez: Not welcome”. A banner was also hung near his home in Merseyside with the message “We know where you live. Do not sign », a threat being investigated by the police in Merseyside.

In 2007, as Liverpool manager, he called Everton “a small club” after a goalless Merseyside derby at Anfield. Later, however, he claimed that it was not the club he was aiming for, but David Moyes’ style of play in the match.

– In such cases, it is two-sided: You have the sporting and the cultural part. Sportingly, I think he can be a very good manager for Everton. I think he as a person and his football can be stabilizing for the club. He is good at organizing his teams defensively, while the offensive players get to do their part. And the potential Everton has in the player pool and financially is quite large, says TV 2 commentator Kasper Wikestad to VG, but adds:

– It is a problematic employment.

– Requires a lot from many

He will be the first manager in 129 years to lead the two Merseyside rivals Liverpool and Everton. Benítez was Liverpool manager between 2004 and 2010, and led the red shirts to an incredible Champions League triumph in 2005.

The first manager to lead both teams was William Edvard Barclay, Liverpool’s very first manager. He was first Everton’s very first manager. We have to go back to the end of the 19th century to find someone who led both Merseyside clubs.

Barclay was Everton’s manager from 1888 to 1889, before he was manager of Liverpool from 1892 to 1896.

The Toffees recently lost their manager, when Carlo Ancelotti was brought back to Real Madrid after the departure of Zinedine Zidane. Since then, the club has been on a manager hunt and landed on Rafa Benitez, who is back in English football after two years in China. Everton become Benítez’s fourth Premier League club, after stays in Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle.

– It is an employment that requires a lot from many. The danger of hiring him at Everton is that you can never lower your shoulders on all sides of the table. No matter how he does it, there are large parts who will not be happy. And with a bad start or in bad periods, he will get everyone on their necks, says Wikestad.

Stability?

After David Moyes’ time at the club, there have been a lot of hires at Goodison Park. Moyes led The Toffees from 2002 to 2013, and since the Scot took the trip to Old Trafford, Everton have had seven different managers, including two with temporary responsibilities.

Now Everton hope that it is Benítez who will take the club to the next level and challenge the top six clubs. In recent seasons, they have been Mediterranean sailors.

– He also does not play a type of football that Everton fans necessarily want. They want fast, explosive attacking football with lots of goals. That is not what Benítez is best known for, says the TV 2 commentator, and emphasizes:

– He is at least dependent on good results – fast.

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