Rafa BenÃtezâs arrival is a step in the right direction for stepping-stone club Everton Sunday, 4 July, 2021 We don't often see articles about Everton in The Observer. This one by Jonathan Wilson concludes in a condescending manner that Rafa Benitez might be a good fit: âHe distrusts individual inspiration, which can bring conflict with bigger egos, but that's an approach that seems more logically suited to a club of Everton's status than Ancelotti's ever did. BenÃtez's biggest successes have come with clubs on the fringes of the elite — Valencia, Liverpool (as they were) and Napoli — where the organisation he attempts to instil, uninhibited by the egos of stars, elevates players to compete with more obvious starry names.â