I would not want Benitez. The reason he was so successful at Liverpool was because he had a spine of massively determined passionate players in Hyppia, Carragher, Kuyt & Gerrard plus others who fight for everything. We have had a terrible season because our squad is riddled with players who can not motivate themselves and another manager who plays hardball and causes a collision of ego's will not be good. That's why we were so effective under a motivator like MON and we should look for a similar kind of manager if GH decides to hang up his beret.
Unless we gut our squad of the likes of Warnock, Ireland, Beye, Salifou, Osbourne and any other player who can not motivate themselves to fight for our club we should not be looking at manager's with big ego's, otherwise this season will repeat itself again next year.
Moyes would be my preference as manager, followed by Hughes and Coyle. If we are to be the BIG club Randy wants us to be we should not be afraid to poach a manager from another team. Any other club in the top 10 would do exactly that.