So Rafa Benítez has gone to Inter Milan. That’s Inter without a trophy this year, then.
Sure enough, they started by losing the European Super Cup to Atlético de Madrid (2-0) and drawing their first league game 0-0 away at Bologna. Counting the Italian Super Cup as a major trophy is the sort of straw that Rafa and his followers cling to on a regular basis. A bit like the 2006 Community Shield, the last trophy that Liverpool won.
Benítez took a huge club like Liverpool, highly successful in Europe and famous the world over as a standard to aspire to, and turned it into a series of mediocre teams which could only dream of Champions’ League football this season.
Inter have won the last five Scudetti; last season they won the domestic double and their third European Cup/Champions’ League trophy. This season, with Rafa in charge, they will be lucky to stay in the top three. When he joined Liverpool, Rafa took Houllier's team to CL success; Mourinho's team without Mourinho won't be as lucky for Rafa or for Inter.
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