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Torres: “Rafa is obsessed with details!”

Published by fiz on April 28, 2008

Fernando Torres labeled Benitez as an obsessive manager, but it was the gaffer’s obsessiveness that has propelled him into a better player.

“Rafa Benitez is obsessed with details. He calculates everything, including runs and flights of the ball, and studies it on his computer.

“And if he tells you to stand five feet from the penalty spot, it’s not in your best interests to be six feet from it. He’ll show you that the extra distance makes the difference between a goal and a missed chance – and it has worked for me.

“The proof for me is that I had never scored a club hat-trick in my life before joining Liverpool. But I’ve since got three, against Reading, Middlesbrough and West Ham.

“Rafa explained everything to me before I even signed – how we would play, and what our aims were. He even gave me a work schedule in advance.

“He has great powers of seduction and he makes crazy demands on us. At the end of training, when we are all tired, he can still make us repeat routines 20 or 30 times”