Rafa Benitez wants Sammy Lee as Liverpool assistant manager
May 9 2008
by Tony Barrett & David Prentice, Liverpool Echo
RAFA BENITEZ wants to make Sammy Lee his new assistant manager.
The Reds boss is looking to move quickly to add to his backroom staff after first team coach Alex Miller quit the club to take the manager’s job at Japanese side JEF United Chiba.
Lee, who served Liverpool with distinction as a player and a coach, is at the top of Benitez’s wish list and an approach could be imminent if approved by both Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
Publicly, Benitez says there are several names under consideration for the role but privately he has already decided Lee is his best man.
And having not had an assistant since Pako Ayesteran left Anfield under a cloud earlier this season, he will take the opportunity to fill that position rather than making a direct replacement for Miller.
Should Lee be appointed it will go down well with senior members of the Liverpool playing staff who are known to have enjoyed working with him in his spell as a coach during Gerard Houllier’s tenure.
In an eight-year playing career at Anfield Lee amassed a glittering array of honours that included three League titles, two European Cups and four League Cups.
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