Betting Is Suspended On Benitez Leaving Liverpool!

• zocoss

  25 Feb 09, 22:22

  ODDS PLUNGE ON BENITEZ EXIT

  

  
  

  Bookmakers have been deluged with bets on Rafa Benitez leaving Liverpool.

   

  The odds on Benitez not being Liverpool's manager at the start of the 2009/10 season have been slashed to just 2/5 by Sky Bet.

   

  Sky Bet's Dale Tempest said: "Discussions between Benitez and the club on a new contract seem to have been going on for ages and, if the money we've seen this morning is correct, it would seem that those negotiations have broken down."

   

  The bookies also list former manager Kenny Dalglish as the 3/1 favourite to be Liverpool manager at the start of next season.

   

  Meanwhile, William Hill report that they have been 'forced to suspend their betting on the next Premiership manager to go after Rafa Benitez was backed off the boards by Hill's customers to be the ninth manager to go.'

   

  "We would be very surprised if Rafa is still the Liverpool boss by midnight on Sunday," said Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.

• charlize

  25 Feb 09, 22:29

  Told you he is determined to leave.

   

  Whether after the Madrid-Liverpool game (when Liverpool loses) or at the end of the season.

• zocoss

  25 Feb 09, 23:13

  Tom Hicks camp denies Rafael Benitez is on the brink of leaving Liverpool

  

   

  Gillett and Hicks have been locked in talks with Benitez over a new contract

   

  Sources close to Tom Hicks, the Liverpool co-owner, have responded with dismay to suggestions that Rafael Benitez is on the brink of leaving the club.

  The Spaniard's future as manager appeared more uncertain than ever this morning, as rumours swept Madrid and Liverpool suggesting he was about to leave Anfield.

  Leading bookmakers suspended all bets on his future at the club, however the Hicks camp has moved swiftly to play down the reports, with sources claiming that despite the antagonism between the owners and Benitez, they will not allow the manager to walk away.

  Benitez has been locked in talks over a new contract in recent months and surprised the club’s hierarchy by rejecting a fifth draft of the deal over the weekend. The Liverpool manager has less than 18 months left on his contract at Anfield and believes that if he reaches the end of the season without a commitment from Hicks and George Gillett, he would be forced to look for a new job.

• limpper

  26 Feb 09, 00:57

  pls leave