No simple answers


Paying the price: Rafael Benitez feels that Ronaldo was the reason he was sacked from Real Madrid.

ULTIMATELY, a single wrong answer cost Rafael Benitez his job, the one he had coveted for most of his working life.

The slight downturn in results, the disaffection of the players, the sudden loss of trust from those who had chosen to employ him – all of it, he believed, could be traced back to that single, relatively harmless, misstep.

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