Liverpool police opened an investigation on Monday after a threatening banner targeting former Reds coach Rafeal Benitez and in advanced contact with the city’s other club, Everton, was hung near his former home .
“Around 7:00 am, we were reported to a banner made of bed sheets that had been placed on a wall and bushes in a residential driveway, with an inscription deemed threatening to Rafa Benitez,” said Liverpool Metropolitan Police.
On the sheet, in front of the gates of a house in Caldy, Merseyside, where the 61-year-old Spaniard kept a house after leaving Liverpool FC in 2010, it was written ‘we know where you live. Don’t sign ”.
“This message caused, understandably, a certain disturbance and concern among residents of the neighborhood,” said detective-inspector Darren Taylor.
“Given the football-related vocabulary that is used, we assume it was aimed at Rafa Benitez, but whoever or those who left this message put it in front of the wrong house,” he added.
Winner of the Champions League with the Reds in 2005 and finalist in 2007, Benitez would be the favorite to replace, at the head of the Toffees, Carlo Ancelotti, who left for Real at the start of the summer break.
But Everton fans are firmly against this recruitment.
Banners had already appeared a few days ago in front of the Goodison Park stadium on which we could read “Benitez (is) not welcome” or “Rafa, go f …, you fat + kopite + (member of the famous Anfield Road Kop) ”.
Also a coach of Newcastle, Real Madrid, Naples and Inter Milan, Benitez had become an “enemy” of Everton after treating the other Liverpool club as a “small team” after a derby in 2007.
He then tried to explain that he was talking about a small team mentality, not to say that the Toffees were a small club.
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