{"id":417642,"date":"2011-05-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/rafael-benitez-has-not-been-contacted-by-chelsea-and-will-not-coach-roma-next-season-%e2%80%93-agent\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:00:00","slug":"rafael-benitez-has-not-been-contacted-by-chelsea-and-will-not-coach-roma-next-season-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/rafael-benitez-has-not-been-contacted-by-chelsea-and-will-not-coach-roma-next-season-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Benitez has not been contacted by Chelsea and will not coach Roma next season \u2013 agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>4 May 2011 23:00:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"83.3183174224\">\n<div readability=\"15.0168539326\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rafael Benitez, Liverpool (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/126900\/126906_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rafael Benitez, Liverpool (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/9478\/rafael-ben%C3%ADtez\">Rafael Benitez<\/a> has not been approached by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/59\/carlo-ancelotti\">Carlo Ancelotti<\/a> according to his agent Manuel Garcia Quilon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 51-year-old&#8217;s representative also confirmed that he will not return to Italy next season to become the new Roma coach, despite reports linking him with the Stadio Olimpico outfit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Spanish tactician has been without a coaching job since December when he was relieved of his duties as the Inter boss despite leading them to the Club World Cup trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former Valencia and Liverpool manager has since been linked with a number of clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some media outlets have suggested that he could replace Carlo Ancelotti as the Chelsea manager in the summer while some reports claim that he could take over from Vincenzo Montella as the Roma tactician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, Quilon has moved to quash those reports and told <em>Calciomercato.it<\/em>: \u201cHe\u2019d Benitez certainly prefer England. I have never received a call from the Giallorossi Roma, but as I already said, he would like to manage a British club again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHave Chelsea called us? No, there is no news there,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ancelotti has been heavily linked with a move to coach Roma for next season under the American ownership of Thomas DiBenedetto and reports in England suggest that Blues owner Roman Abramovich is looking for options to replace the Italian at Stamford Bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Follow Goal.com on<span>\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goal_intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>. Get the latest football news direct&#8230; Check out Goal.com&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Goal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0page; be part of the best football fan community in the world!<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/3276\/serie-a\/2011\/05\/04\/2471782\/rafael-benitez-has-not-been-contacted-by-chelsea-and-will\" title=\"Rafael Benitez has not been contacted by Chelsea and will not coach Roma next season \u2013 agent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafael Benitez has not been contacted by Chelsea and will not coach Roma next season \u2013 agent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 4 May 2011 23:00:00 Rafael Benitez, Liverpool (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Rafael Benitez has not been approached by Chelsea to replace Carlo Ancelotti according to his agent Manuel Garcia Quilon. The 51-year-old&#8217;s representative also confirmed that he will not return to Italy next season to become the new Roma coach, despite reports linking him with the Stadio Olimpico outfit. The Spanish tactician has been without a coaching job since December when he was relieved of his duties as the Inter boss despite leading them to the Club World Cup trophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rafael Benitez has not been contacted by Chelsea and will not coach Roma next season \u2013 agent - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/rafael-benitez-has-not-been-contacted-by-chelsea-and-will-not-coach-roma-next-season-agent\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rafael Benitez has not been contacted by Chelsea and will not coach Roma next season \u2013 agent - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"4 May 2011 23:00:00 Rafael Benitez, Liverpool (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Rafael Benitez has not been approached by Chelsea to replace Carlo Ancelotti according to his agent Manuel Garcia Quilon. 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