LIVERPOOL – Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has denied he is to blame for the club’s current problems, rejecting suggestions that successor Roy Hodgson inherited a mediocre squad.
Benitez, who left last summer after a disappointing league campaign which saw the Reds finish seventh and out of the Champions League reckoning, admitted not all his signings were a success.
But he insisted that his overall record during his six years at Anfield stood up to scrutiny. “I agree, so we know we made some mistakes,” he told BBC radio.
“Sometimes, maybe one player is a good player and after he doesn’t settle down, but if you see, we have a net spending of between 10, 12 million. “So I think that this, for a top side…it’s not big money.”
