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My future is with Liverpool - Benitez

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Rafael Benitez claims he will see out the remaining four years of his Liverpool contract despite being expected to leave Anfield this summer.

Benitez has been linked with jobs at Juventus, Inter Milan and Real Madrid as failure to secure Champions League football looked set to end his six-year reign. However, Benitez has revealed that he sees his future at Liverpool.

"My future is with Liverpool," he said. "I have four more years of contract and I want to succeed. I have no offer [from another club]. I hope to make a competitive team."

Speaking about the ongoing uncertainty at boardroom level following Tom Hicks and George Gillett's decision to put the club up for sale last month, Benitez was confident about the future, although claimed that money would make a difference.

"I have had a couple of meetings with the new chairman [Martin Broughton] to clarify the situation,'' he added. ''We need to know how much money we have and that also depends on [player] sales."

Benitez has also cast doubt over whether Jose Mourinho would be the right man to coach Real Madrid, despite his former rival making constant overtures to the Spanish club.

Mourinho has made no secret of the fact that he would love to work at the Bernabeu and ahead of Saturday's Champions League final has reiterated that belief.

"I want to go to Real Madrid, 100%. If I didn't get there, I would leave football with a void in my career," Mourinho told Madrid-based newspaper Marca on Thursday.

"To get me to leave this club after two years of incredible work, only Real Madrid could achieve that. If I go, I will move with a clear conscience having changed the club."

Benitez has been touted as a possible candidate to replace Mourinho at Inter but the Liverpool manager, who worked with Real's youth and reserve teams earlier in his career, is unconvinced the Portuguese would be a good fit in the Spanish capital.

"I know Mourinho has dreamed a lot of coaching Real Madrid but I do not know if he is the right person to train Madrid," Benitez said.

"[Manuel] Pellegrini has done a great job and deserves great respect because he's still coach and it's not pleasant to hear talk about who's going to replace you."

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