Gary Neville has spoken about what Rafael Benitez did when he played against him as Valencia’s manager.

Gary Neville is so settled in punditry now that it’s easy to forget he once had a very brief foray into management.

Back in December 2015, Neville was appointed as Valencia’s manager, and spent a very short few months in charge of the club.

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It’s fair to say Neville’s time at Valencia was far from a succes, and he didn’t really show he was cut out for the life of a manager.



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Despite only being at Valencia for such a short amount of time, Neville was still able to rub shoulders and take on some real managerial juggernauts.

That includes former Liverpool legend, Rafael Benitez, who was in charge of Real Madrid that season.

We played Real Madrid and he was under pressure at the time and after the time we had a chat, he had been at Valencia, and he was actually very good with me.