Benitez plots summer recruitment drive

RAFAEL BENITEZ knows he will have to be “cute and clever” in the market this summer but would not rule out breaking the club’s transfer record again.

In the last two summers, the Liverpool boss has spent £20m (€22.7m) plus on first Fernando Torres and then Robbie Keane.

And although Benitez is believed to have been given only £20m (€22.7m) by the club’s American owners for a transfer spree the Spaniard is planning purchases at both ends of the financial scale.