{"id":10334,"date":"2021-06-30T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=118541"},"modified":"2021-06-30T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:47:25","slug":"everton-appoints-rafael-benitez-as-their-new-manager-until-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/everton-appoints-rafael-benitez-as-their-new-manager-until-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton appoints Rafael Benitez as their new manager until June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Benitez joins Everton as their new manager on a three-year deal until June 2024 after two weeks of negotiations. He had been approached by Italian clubs but his priority was to manage the Premier League club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can confirm Rafael Benitez has been appointed as our new manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1410240970264920070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old succeeds Carlo Ancelotti, who resigned in early June to manage Spanish giant club Real Madrid for the second time. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI am delighted to be joining Everton. I believe this is the club that is going places. I am determined to play a big part in helping this great club achieve its ambitions,\u201d said Benitez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The last time the Spaniard managed any Premier League was at Newcastle United. He spent six years at Everton\u2019s Merseyside rivals Liverpool and won Champions League and FA Cup with them.<\/p>\n<p>Everton started their 2021-22 season at home to Southampton on August 14. The club will be confirming the staff who aim to connect Duncan Ferguson and Alan Kelly as segments of Benitez\u2019s backroom team in upcoming days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We will confirm the staff who will join Duncan Ferguson and Alan Kelly as part of Rafael Benitez\u2019s backroom team in the coming days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eqcOOl4vxl\">pic.twitter.com\/eqcOOl4vxl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1410251881272729608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The newly appointed Everton manager experienced assorted reactions from the club\u2019s fanbase. A threatening banner that seemingly targeted Benitez, read \u201cwe know where you live, don\u2019t sign\u201d, was positioned near his Wirral home on Monday to which Merseyside Police is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Everton\u2019s shareholders explained the decision and process behind appointing the club\u2019s new manager, Rafael Benitez. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cHe\u2019s a proven winner. We are confident his winning mentality will bring success to us at Everton,\u201d said the club via Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3 | Our Majority Shareholder explains the decision and process behind appointing the Club's new manager, Rafael Benitez.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1410251937866465287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Benitez joins Everton as their new manager on a three-year deal until June 2024 after two weeks of negotiations\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":32842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2026,1100,1141,219,218,1896],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-carlo-ancelotti","tag-everton","tag-everton-fc","tag-liverpool","tag-premier-league","tag-rafa-benitez"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}