OPINION
Rafa Benitez has reportedly issued West Ham with three demands if they wish for him to be their new manager and the club must meet them.
The Daily Express reported that the Newcastle United manager wanted a £6million-a-year contract, a £100million transfer budget and full control of transfers in order to arrive at the London Stadium anytime soon.
All three demands are stunningly ambitious with two of them needing Hammers co-chairman David Sullivan and David Gold to dig way down deep into their pockets in order to meet them.
Yet despite these remarkably asking conditions reportedly laid out by Benitez, Gold and Sullivan must meet them in order to bring the fantastic manager to the Hammers.
Benitez is clearly the best option for the club to take as he performed miracles to guide the Magpies to a 10th-place finish in the Premier League in the recently concluded season.
The Spaniard did that despite Mike Ashley hardly dropping any cash in the transfer market, so it’s insane to think what the manager could do with a £100million budget to use at his leisure.
The Hammers should be pushing for a top-10 finish, at least, in the Premier League themselves next season, even though they spent the majority of their latest campaign battling relegation, and Benitez is the only man in sight, who can truly guarantee getting the club where they need to be.
Also given the stature of West Ham and their currently desperately depleted squad, there would be a few managers screaming that they need more than a £100million to get the job done.
Also Sullivan and Gold’s current recruitment set up hasn’t exactly seen the most useful players arrive at the London Stadium, see Jordan Hugill for more information, so it’s not like Benitez will recruit worse players than that.
This is why despite the current Magpies manager’s huge demands of the Hammers’ hierarchy, Gold and Sullivan must deliver them to Benitez as it will be in the best interests of the club to do so.
