Quillon: finances key to Rafa future

MANAGER Rafael Benitez intends to see out the remaining four years of his contract at Liverpool but his future could be decided by the club’s financial position, according to the Spaniard’s agent Manuel Garcia Quillon.

Quillon also claimed an unnamed Chinese investor was interested in buying out co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett and keeping Benitez on as manager.

But if that did not happen then Quillon said the two Americans would have to find a solution to the club’s current financial restrictions – Liverpool are currently trying to slice £100m (€114m) off their £237m (€270.4m) debt – to prevent Benitez considering his future.