Rafael Benitez Players Quotations

I would prefer to work with the players I have at the moment and it's difficult to talk about hypotheses.

If we have new faces all the players think we need to work harder because they want to play,

I am happy with the performance of the team but we should have scored more goals and their goalkeeper played very well. I told the players at halftime to finish the game off but we couldn't get the third goal.

But we have another game on Friday, and this is the time to use the squad to give players some rest and to field a side which will still be strong and do the job for us.

I have a lot of confidence in the team, maybe Milan are favorites -- they have a lot of good players -- but we have confidence and we can win.

If we win, we will be closer and we can fight for more things, but I don't want to worry the players by saying too much about this. I want them to be focused on what they need to do to win the game. Afterwards we can think about the table.

It is not easy to produce performances like this when we have so many players who are tired after so many games.

It is important for the manager to be able to say to players they want to sign that they will be playing in the Champions League.

Suspending the players for two games and leaving them available for the final would be enough because it was not a serious incident.

Sure, why not? He is a good player and good players are always interesting to other clubs.

My idea is to have two players for each position. If you have a strong squad you can play all the games with a good team. I am convinced we already have a better team than last season. Yes, we want to fight for the Premiership, but we want to go for all of the trophies. We will not say one trophy is more important than the other, because we now have a squad that can challenge in all competitions.

My idea is to have two players for each position, ... If you have a strong squad you can play all the games with a good team. I am convinced we already have a better team than last season. Yes, we want to fight for the Premiership, but we want to go for all of the trophies. We will not say one trophy is more important than the other, because we now have a squad that can challenge in all competitions.

We have some options for this match. We have a lot of competitions to play for and this year we have more players in the first team squad. We will go to Crystal Palace with a strong team, that is the idea.

We are in the final and my players have done a fantastic job. We have shown the people that we can beat them. They are a good team with some good players but our players were amazing.

The players said to me afterwards 'yes, it was clear',

People can talk about having a lot of money to buy players but we've just signed a player with a passion and a heart for this club that no amount of money can buy. We are close to a very high level right now but with Robbie we can go even higher.

Any medals and awards our players might receive for last season are fully merited, because they all did a fantastic job.

At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just as much but all must realize they are important to the team, and it is the team that is important.

It was important he has said that he wants to play for us. We have talked to lots of players and agents but the first time we spoke to Danny he said it was a dream to play for us.

It's very difficult to play here. Players diving all the time, pushing - they have another set of rules.

If you look at the players they have in their team, it's clear that they are not a bad team. They have a lot of quality to choose from and they attack with pace.