{"id":522783,"date":"2025-10-23T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:19:10","slug":"rafael-benitez-set-for-unexpected-career-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522783\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Benitez set for unexpected career move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Benitez has not managed in the Premier League since his short spell with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/football\/everton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> during the 2021\/22 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite coaching Everton, Benitez is synonymous with their Merseyside rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/football\/liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>, with whom he won the Champions League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benitez also coached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/football\/chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> on an interim basis, where he won the Europa League. However, supporters at Stamford Bridge never took to the ex-Reds boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish manager was popular at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/football\/newcastle-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle United<\/a>, where he won the Championship. This was during the Mike Ashley era at Newcastle, where fans were often disgruntled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His last job in football was at Celta Vigo, but he lost his job after a 4-0 loss to his former club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/football\/real-madrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Benitez&#8217;s days managing top European teams are over, but there are still clubs that will take a chance on him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf2\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sn-now.com\/WhatsApp\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MailSport\/status\/1981356732413518189\">Daily Mail Sport <\/a>has reported that &#8220;Benitez is set to become the new Panathinaikos boss on a two-year deal.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is Rafa Benitez a good fit for Panathinaikos?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Panathinaikos is currently seventh in the Super League Greece. This is not good enough as the club is expected to compete with the biggest clubs in the country: PAOK, Olympiakos, and AEK Athens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are also competing in the Europa League this season and face Feyenoord tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Greek giants do not have the most noteworthy squad, but Renato Sanchez is at the club on loan from Paris Saint-Germain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Panathinaikos need a top manager who can steady the ship as they have already had two managers this year:\u00a0Rui Vitoria and\u00a0Christos Kontis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More football news and related links\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Benitez has not managed in the Premier League since his short spell with Everton during the 2021\/22&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-522783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115424864812944633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}