Rafa Benitez hopes he'll be here for twenty years.

By Redsfan
May 5 2005

Rafa Benitez would love to stay at Anfield for the next twenty years. Rafa, already loved before Tuesday night has now reached near icon status for Reds supporters, and the feeling is reciprocated.

He said:

"As a manager I'm young and if I'm at Liverpool for another 20 years, I hope to reach many more finals and win many more trophies," says the popular Spaniard who has become a firm favourite of the Liverpool fans since arrival from Valencia last summer.

"I don't know if I'll be here that long, but I hope so. When you're happy here, you're winning and you see the supporters, why wouldn't you want to stay for so long?

"I was expecting the club to be like this when I joined, but only when I experienced nights like the Arsenal and Olympiakos matches did I realise how good it was.

"On Tuesday people spoke about the St Etienne match in 1977, but for us this is more important because it's about now and the future. I've never seen supporters like those against Chelsea. It was fantastic."