{"id":9638,"date":"2026-11-05T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/benitez-eyes-premier-league-return\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:01:44","slug":"benitez-eyes-premier-league-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/benitez-eyes-premier-league-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Benitez Eyes Premier League Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Benitez admits he wants a Premier League return, with four managers under pressure heading into the international break.<\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool manager has not managed in England since he was sacked by Everton in 2022 after only six months in charge.<\/p>\n<p>He has extensive experience of taking charge of English clubs including his time at Newcastle, Chelsea, and Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Across his spells in England he won the FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League, and the EFL Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Benitez was last managing in Greece at Panathinaikos on a 2.5 year contract before moving on seven months later in May.<\/p>\n<p>Since, he has become a member of the UEFA Technical Observer Group for the current season to help the organisation to analyse matches, study tactical trends, and contribute to reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/benitez-iraola-has-slight-edge-over-alonso-in-premier-league\/\">Benitez: Iraola Has Slight Edge Over Alonso In Premier League<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, he spoke to talkSPORT on Tuesday evening about his desire to return to the dugout.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about a potential return on talkSPORT Drive, Benitez said: \u201cYou know that I\u2019m working now for UEFA, but I\u2019m watching games all the time, and especially the Premier League, because I want to know the players, I want to know their style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see the other day when I was watching Juventus vs Napoli, then I was watching Liverpool vs Arsenal, and you can see the difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I like the Premier League because of the intensity. Every game, every ball is a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d I think it\u2019s fantastic. The problem is that you need to find the right project. Talking about projects in football now is quite complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Goldstein then asked: \u201cWould that project be in the Premier League, Rafa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benitez responded: \u201cYeah, yeah, I would be happy with that, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Benitez admits he wants a Premier League return, with four managers under pressure heading into the international break. The former Liverpool manager has not managed in England since he&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}